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Countrey contentments, in two bookes: : the first, containing the whole art of riding great horses in very short time, with the breeding, breaking, dyeting and ordring of them, and of running, hunting and ambling horses, with the manner how to vse them in their trauell. Likewise in two newe treatises the arts of hunting, hawking, coursing of grey-hounds with the lawes of the leash, shooting, bowling, tennis, baloone &c

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1615.
Call number: 359966
Creator: Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (4to)
Associated people: Markham, Gervase, (1568?-1637.)
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