Markham, Gervase

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

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Description

Hungers prevention: or, The whole arte of fowling by water and land. Containing all the secrets belonging to that arte, and brought into a true forme or method, by which the most ignorant may know how to take any kind of fowle, either by land or water. London: by A[ugustine] Math[ewes] for Anne Helme and Thomas Langley, 1621
paper, ink, leather, wood

8vo (140 x 90 mm). Woodcut frontispiece and numerous woodcuts in text; small hole in frontispiece illustration with bottom edge slightly worn, some light staining to first few leaves. Diced gilt calf.

Literature

STC 17362

Catalogue Note

first edition. While Markham provides detailed plans for traps and snares, considerable information on hawking is also present.