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Record Nr.

UNISA996385622303316

Autore

Blome Richard <1635-1705.>

Titolo

The gentlemans recreation [[electronic resource] ] : in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome ..., 1686

Descrizione fisica

2 pts. ([16], 236, [1], 280, [4] p., [103] leaves of plates : ill., charts, coats of arms, plans

Soggetti

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Sports - Great Britain

Agriculture

Science

Hunting

Veterinary medicine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Added engraved t.p.

Dedication signed: Richard Blome.

Part 2 has special t.p. and separate paging with imprint: London : Printed for the Undertaker Richard Blome, 1686.

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Approbation of Charles II, "given ... the 14th day of February 1682/3," first preliminary leaf; engraved coats of arms of the "Benefactors to this work," f. 1-10.



Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113