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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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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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28396.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 9, 2024.

Pages

Several sorts of PEARS.
For the Table.
  • The Summer Bon Christi∣en.
  • Burgomet de Buga.
  • The Great Burgomet.
  • The Summer Burgomet.
  • The Winter Burgomet.
  • The Orange Burgomet.
  • Brezid Heri.
  • Baeure de Roy.
  • The Green Baeure Pear.
  • The Violet Pear.
  • The Binfield.
  • The Greenfield.
  • The Great Musk Pear.
  • The Great Russet of Renes.
  • The Amodotte.
  • The Bloody Pear.
  • The Rousellet.
  • The Winter Bon Christi∣en.
  • The Pourtail.
  • The Dead Mans Pear.
  • The Winter Musk.
  • The Dionier.
  • The Double Flowered Pear.
  • The Dutate.
  • The Primating Pear.
  • The Red Geneting.
  • The Diego Pear.
  • The Green Chissel.
  • The King Katherine.
  • The Queen Katherine.
  • The Russet Katherine.
  • The Anthony Pear.
  • The Berry Pear.
  • The Morley Pear.
  • The Windsor Pear.
  • The Musk Pear.
  • The King Pear.
  • The Summer Poppering.
  • The Green Poppering.
  • The Royal Pear.
  • The Pinp Pear.
  • The Prick Pear.
  • The Whorwood Pear.
  • The Colveil Pear.
  • The Tradescans Pear.
  • The Slipper Pear.
  • The Twelve penny Pear.
  • The Inglefield Pear.
  • The Norwich Pear.
  • The Orang Pear.
  • The Swaie Pear.
  • The Nonsuch Pear.
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