Details
MARKHAM, Gervase (1568?-1637). Hungers Prevention: or, the Whole Art of Fowling by Water and Land. London: for Francis Grove, 1655.
8° (130 x 85mm). Woodcut frontispiece and 21 illustrations of varying sizes in the text. (Frontispiece mounted, top margins cut close at the beginning affecting a few headlines, rule border at foot of title cropped, occasional very light discolouration and soiling.) Early 19th-century calf, sides ruled in gilt (rebacked with original spine preserved, slightly rubbed).
Second edition of Markham's only work on wild-fowling (he had covered other sports in Countrey Contentments and The English Husbandman). Dedicated, as is the first edition of 1621, to the 'Noble favourers of the blessed Plantation of Virginia', it is an entirely original work dealing with every aspect of fowling with much information on the use of nets, springs, stalking-horses, liming, guns, bird-dogs, etc., and set out in such a clear manner that it 'must have commended it[self] to those who were anxious to learn', Poynter, loc. cit. Chute 423: 'very rare'; Poynter 25.2. Schwerdt II, p.12: 'not often met with'; Wing M-657.
8° (130 x 85mm). Woodcut frontispiece and 21 illustrations of varying sizes in the text. (Frontispiece mounted, top margins cut close at the beginning affecting a few headlines, rule border at foot of title cropped, occasional very light discolouration and soiling.) Early 19th-century calf, sides ruled in gilt (rebacked with original spine preserved, slightly rubbed).
Second edition of Markham's only work on wild-fowling (he had covered other sports in Countrey Contentments and The English Husbandman). Dedicated, as is the first edition of 1621, to the 'Noble favourers of the blessed Plantation of Virginia', it is an entirely original work dealing with every aspect of fowling with much information on the use of nets, springs, stalking-horses, liming, guns, bird-dogs, etc., and set out in such a clear manner that it 'must have commended it[self] to those who were anxious to learn', Poynter, loc. cit. Chute 423: 'very rare'; Poynter 25.2. Schwerdt II, p.12: 'not often met with'; Wing M-657.
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.