The whole art of husbandry contained in foure bookes. . Viz: I. Of the farme or manssion house, offices and accommodations of earable ground, pasture and medowe. II. Of gardens, orchards, and woods. III. Of breeding, feeding, and curing of all manner of cattell. IIII. Of poultrie, fowle, fish, and bees, with the whole art (according to these last times) of breeding and dyeting the fighting cock, and the art of angling; first written by Conrade Heresbatch, a learned nobleman, then translated by Barnaby Googe Esquire, and now renewed, corrected, enlarged, and adorned with all the experiments and practises of our English nation, which were wanting in the former editions. By Captaine Garvase Markham. ...
Conrad Heresbach (1496-1576)
Category
Books
Date
1631
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3127020
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],64,61-104,103-385,[1]p. . 4to.. Not indigenous. Provenance: Early twentieth-century (?) armorial bookplate: Sion College Library. With the Sion College Library stamp on title page verso, with added stamp: Sold by order of the President and Governors 1938. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Inscribed on flyleaf in Norris's hand: 'H. [i.e. Hodgson's] 27/5 '38. Lot 578. Đ2. Some leaves at end slightly wormed.'. Binding: Seventeenth-century full sheep over boards; blind quarter-fillets and fillets to form a border; lower board detached.
Makers and roles
Conrad Heresbach (1496-1576) Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637)