Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases : Containing the natures, breeding, choice, vse, feeding, and curing of the diseases of all manner of cattell, as horse, oxe, cow, sheepe, goats, swine, and tame conies. Shewing further, the whole art of riding great horses, with the breaking and ordering of them, and the dieting of the running, hunting, and ambling horse, and the manner how to use them in their travaile. Also, approved rules for the cramming and fatting of all sorts of poultry and fowles [...] Together with the use and profit of bees, the making of fish-ponds, and the taking of all sorts of fish. Gathered together for the generall good and profit of this whole realme [...] differing from all former and forraine experiments, which either agreed not with our clime, or were too hard to come by, or over-costly, and to little purpose: all which herein are avoyded.
| Author/creator | Markham, Gervase |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Newly corrected and inlarged with many excellent additions, as may appeare by this marke. The sixt edition. |
| Publication Info | Printed at London : By Ann Griffin, for Iohn Harison, and are to be sold at his shop in Pater-noster-row, 1631 [i.e. 1637?] |
| Description | [26], 132, 135-188 p. |
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| Variant title | Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases |
| Variant title | Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases. |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | Dedication signed: G.M., i.e. Gervase Markham. |
| General note | Also issued as part 12 of STC 17397, "A way to get wealth," 1638--cf. STC. |
| General note | Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. |
| General note | Actual publication date conjectured by STC. |
| References | STC (2nd ed.) 17340. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1318:04) |
| Stock number | CL0036000036 ProQuest. 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-3218 |