Rare Books

The gentlemans recreation. : In two parts. The first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences. To wit, an abridgment thereof, which (in a clear method) treats of the doctrine, and general parts of each art, with eliptical tables, comprehending a summary and general division thereof; being a translation from the most authentick authors, by persons well experienced therein. To which divers sculptures, and schemes, are added for the better illustration, and demonstration thereof. The second part, treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture. With a short treatise of cock-fighting; for the breeding, dyeting, ordering, matching, and fighting them. All which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements, made by those well experienced in the said recreations. And for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking