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Hungers prevention: or, The whole art of fovvling by water and land. Containing all the secrets belonging to that art, 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. Also, exceeding necessary and profitable for all such as travell by sea, and come into uninhabited places: especially, all those that have anything to doe with new plantations. By Gervase Markham.

  • Author

    Markham, Gervase

  • Date published

    1655

  • Publisher

    London : printed for Francis Grove, and are to be sold by Martha Harrison at the signe of the Lambe at the east end of St. Paules Church, 1655.

  • Subject

    Fowling Early works to 1800

  • Accession number

    83377409

  • Class

    SR - 93.02/

  • Language

    English

  • Physical description

    [16], 285, [1] p. : ill. ; 8°.

  • Credit line

    CC-BY-NC-ND Image Courtesy of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

General note: Frontis. = ill. Variant: title has "fovving". Signatures: A-T8; -T8 (blank?); some leaves closely trimmed, affecting marginalia UK-SuSCL Cited in: Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), M657 Format of surrogate: Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. University Microfilms International, 1979. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 945:8). Ownership and custodial history: Purchased from Lawson cat. 294 March 2000 UK-SuSCL Binding Information: Full leather, early 19th C.?, gilt ornament on spine UK-SuSCL