![M[ARKHAM], G[ervase] (1568?-1637). The Young Sportsman's Delight and Instructor in Angling, Fowling, Hawking, Hunting, ordering Singing Birds, Hawks, Poultry, Conies, Hares, Dogs, &c. and how to cure them. [London]: Sold at the Ring in Little Britain [for G. Conyers, 1712].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07300_0539_000(113237).jpg?w=1)
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M[ARKHAM], G[ervase] (1568?-1637). The Young Sportsman's Delight and Instructor in Angling, Fowling, Hawking, Hunting, ordering Singing Birds, Hawks, Poultry, Conies, Hares, Dogs, &c. and how to cure them. [London]: Sold at the Ring in Little Britain [for G. Conyers, 1712].
24° (110 x 48mm). Woodcut frontispiece and 8 small woodcuts of fish in the text. (Title extensively repaired but with no loss of text, some light discolouration and spotting.) Late 19th-century polished half calf, red and blue labels on spine. Provenance: Thomas Westwood, co-author of Bibliotheca Piscatoria (bookplate).
THE VERY RARE SECOND EDITION, but the first with this title, of an 18th-century compilation derived from Markham's original texts. This one consists of extracts from the section on angling in The Pleasures of Princes, bird-catching in Hungers Prevention, hunting, coursing and dogs in Countrey Contentments and poultry, &c. in Markhams Method. The section on fishing in the present work occupies pp.1-96 and the other sports are described on pp.97-138. Poynter *1.2; Schwerdt II, p.13; Westwood and Satchell p.147.
24° (110 x 48mm). Woodcut frontispiece and 8 small woodcuts of fish in the text. (Title extensively repaired but with no loss of text, some light discolouration and spotting.) Late 19th-century polished half calf, red and blue labels on spine. Provenance: Thomas Westwood, co-author of Bibliotheca Piscatoria (bookplate).
THE VERY RARE SECOND EDITION, but the first with this title, of an 18th-century compilation derived from Markham's original texts. This one consists of extracts from the section on angling in The Pleasures of Princes, bird-catching in Hungers Prevention, hunting, coursing and dogs in Countrey Contentments and poultry, &c. in Markhams Method. The section on fishing in the present work occupies pp.1-96 and the other sports are described on pp.97-138. Poynter *1.2; Schwerdt II, p.13; Westwood and Satchell p.147.
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