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 3127021
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],64,61-104,103-385,[1]p. . 4to.. Not indigenous. Provenance: Eighteenth-century (?) manuscript shelfmarks inside upper board: 1. (also on title page): F. 7-13-. 2. N6. 3. W.4.22. Late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century bookplate lettered William Charles De Meuron. Earl Fitzwilliam. [i.e. William Charles de Meuron Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943)]. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Binding: Seventeenth-century full calf over boards; double blind fillet to form a border; blind spine fillets; no pastedowns; upper board loose.
Makers and roles
Conrad Heresbach (1496-1576) Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637)