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Subject Terms Fishing -- Early works to 1800.

1. The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing. Wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore. Whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation. With an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.

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Creator:: Cox, Nicholas, fl. 1673–1721
Date:: 1686
Physical Description:: [10], 158, [10], 187, [5], 78; [2], 98 p., [5] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Business and diversion inoffensive to God, and necessary for the comfort and support of human society. : A discourse utter'd in part at Ammauskeeg-Falls, in the fishing-season. 1739.

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Creator:: Seccombe, Joseph, 1706–1760
Date:: MDCCXLIII [1743]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, 5-21, [3] p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The pleasures of princes, or, Good mens recreations : containing a discourse of the generall art of fishing with the angle, or otherwise, and of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto. Together with the choyce, ordering, breeding, and dyetting of the fighting cocke. Being a worke neuer in that nature handled by any former author.

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Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1614
Physical Description:: [2], 51, [1] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.

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Creator:: Cox, Nicholas, active 1673–1721
Date:: 1677
Physical Description:: [12], 158, [2], 159-254, [4], 78, 89-95, [3], 78, [12] pages, [4] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The compleat sportsman ... Part I. Containing the nature and various kinds of game ... Part II. Of the ... erecting and management of parks, warrens, &c. of hunting the buck, doe, &c., ... Part III. Of fish and fishing ...

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Creator:: Jacob, Giles, 1686–1744
Date:: 1718
Physical Description:: 6 p.l., 152, [4] p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The young sportman's instructor in angling, fowling, hawking ... / by G.M.

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Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: [1705?]
Physical Description:: 1 p.l., 140 p. : front. ; 7 x 5 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The young sportman's instructor : in angling, fowling, hawking, hunting, ordering singing birds, hawks, poultry, coneys, hares and dogs, and how to cure them / by G.M.

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Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: [1705?]
Physical Description:: [4], 140 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustration ; 70 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts