Hungers prevention: . or, The whole art of fovvling by water and land. Containing all the secrets belonging to that art, and brought into a true forme or method, by which the most ignorant may know how to take any kind of fowle, either by land or water. Also, exceeding necessary and profitable for all such as travell by sea, and come into uninhabited places: especially, all those that have anything to doe with new plantations. By Gervase Markham.
Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637)
Category
Books
Date
1655
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3103161
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],285,[1]p. . ill.. . 8vo.. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: The Right Honble. John Lord Hervey Created Baron of Ickworth ... 1702 [i.e. John Hervey, later 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751)]; manuscript inscription: Tho: & Isabella [i.e. Sir Thomas Hervey (1625-1694) and his wife Isabella (1625-1686)]. Binding: Twentieth-century gold-tooled single panel red morocco binding, gold-tooled spine.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637)