The gentlemans recreation 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.

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Title: The gentlemans recreation 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.
Author: Blome, Richard, d. 1705.
Publication: London :: Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome ...,; 1686.
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Subject terms: Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.; Sports -- Great Britain.; Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.; Science -- Early works to 1800.; Hunting -- Early works to 1800.; Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Certain Rules to be observed to keep all Hawks in good health.

FIrst, Never give them a great Gorge, especi∣ally of gross Meat that is hard to be En∣dewed and put over, as Beef, and the like; but if in case you are constrained thereunto, then let it be first soaked, well in clean Water and well wrung out; and observe if it be in Sum∣mer the Water must be cold, but if in Winter then luke-warm.

Secondly, Do not feed them with the Flesh of any Beast lately gone to Rut, being dange∣rous.

Thirdly, Though washt Meat keeps them in health, yet it is not so hearty as that of Fowls newly killed, nor is it so grateful to them.