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1. Cocking and its votaries.

Cocking and its votaries.
Creator:
Taylor, S. A
Date:
1885]
Physical Description:
36, i-iv p., [29] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The new complete sportsman, or, The town and country gentleman's recreation : containing among the various diversions which are made plain and easy to every capacity ...: together with many other equally curious articles, too numerous to mention here, and including many useful directions to horse-feeders, grooms and others ...

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Creator:
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq
Date:
1770
Physical Description:
iv, 302 [i.e. 202], [2] p, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Directions for breeding game cocks : including instructions for the choice of a cock and hens to breed from : with calculations for betting, etc. ; being the result of many years of experience.

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Date:
1818
Physical Description:
6-69 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Hoyle's games improved : consisting of practical treatises on whist, quadrille, piquet ..., with an essay on game cocks ; wherein are comprised calculations for betting upon equal or advantageous terms / revised and corrected by Charles Jones, Esq.

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Creator:
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672–1769
Date:
1800
Physical Description:
iv, 332 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The cocker : humbly inscribed to those gentlemen who are amateurs of the game cock, that prodigy of British valour / by a gentleman who has been in the habit of breeding these eight and twenty years.

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Creator:
Sketchley, William
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
45, [28] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. True narrative of what pass'd at the examination of the Marquis de Guiscard at the cock-pit : the 8th of March, 1710-1711, his stabbing by Mr. Harley and other precedent and subsequent facts relating to the life of the said Guiscard.

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Creator:
Manley, Mrs. (Mary de la Rivière), 1663–1724
Date:
1711
Physical Description:
23 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Hoyle's games improved : consisting of practical treatises on whist, quadrille, piquet ..., with an essay on game cocks and the rules, etc.: at horse races wherein are comprised calculations for betting upon equal or advantageous terms / revised and corrected by Charles Jones, Esq.

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Creator:
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672–1769
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
502 p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The royal pastime of cock-fighting, or, The Art of breeding, feeding, fighting, and curing cocks of the game : published purely for the good, and benefit of all such as take delight in that royal, and warlike sport: to which is prefixed, a short treatise, wherein cocking is proved not only ancient and honourable, but also useful, and profitable / by R. H., a lover of the sport, and a friend to such as delight in military discipline.

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Creator:
Howlett, Robert
Date:
1709
Physical Description:
[30], 92 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Impressions of a series of animals, birds, &c. illustratives of British field sports : from a set of silver buttons / drawn by A. Cooper ... and engraved by Mr. John Scott.

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Creator:
Cooper, Abraham, 1787–1868
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
[1] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts