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1. The noble arte of venerie or hunting : VVherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fiueteene sundrie chaces together, with the order and maner how to hunte and kill euery one of them. Translated and collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approued authors, which haue written any thing concerning the same: and reduced into such order and proper termes as are vsed here, in this noble realme of England. The contents vvhereof shall more playnely appeare in the page next followyng.

The noble arte of venerie or hunting : VVherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fiueteene sundrie chaces together, with the order and maner how to hunte and kill euery one of them. Translated and collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approued authors, which haue written any thing concerning the same: and reduced into such order and proper termes as are vsed here, in this noble realme of England. The contents vvhereof shall more playnely appeare in the page next followyng.

Creator:: Gascoigne, George, -1577
Date:: [1575]
Physical Description:: [10], 202, 359-362, 205-248, [4] p. : ill. (music) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Here in thys boke afore ar contenyt the bokys of haukyng and huntyng with other plesuris dyuerse as in the boke apperis and also of cootarmuris a nobull werke. ...

Here in thys boke afore ar contenyt the bokys of haukyng and huntyng with other plesuris dyuerse as in the boke apperis and also of cootarmuris a nobull werke. ...

Creator:: Berners, Juliana, 1388?-
Date:: [1486]
Physical Description:: [180] p. : ill. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing. Wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore. Whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation. With an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.

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Creator:: Cox, Nicholas, fl. 1673–1721
Date:: 1686
Physical Description:: [10], 158, [10], 187, [5], 78; [2], 98 p., [5] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Cynegetica, or, Essays on sporting : consisting of observations on hare hunting : containing, an account of the hare hunting and coursing of the ancients, from Xenophon and Arrian : a philosophical enquiry into the nature and properties of the scent : remarks on the different kinds of hounds, with the manner of training them : directions for the choice of a hunter : the qualifications requisite for a huntsman : and other general rule to be observed in every contingency incident to the chase : together with an account of the vizier's manner of hunting in the Mogul empire by William Blane, Esq. : to which is added The chace, a poem by William Somervile, Esq.

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Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: [8], 292, [4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The compleat sportsman ... Part I. Containing the nature and various kinds of game ... Part II. Of the ... erecting and management of parks, warrens, &c. of hunting the buck, doe, &c., ... Part III. Of fish and fishing ...

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Creator:: Jacob, Giles, 1686–1744
Date:: 1718
Physical Description:: 6 p.l., 152, [4] p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Thoughts upon hare and fox hunting in a series of letters to a friend : in which are given ample directions for erecting a kennel, the management of hounds, and the duties and qualifications necessary for the huntsman and whipper-in : also an account of the most celebrated dog kennels in England : illustrated with twenty beautiful engravings / by Peter Beckford, Esq.

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Creator:: Beckford, Peter, 1740–1811
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: xiv, [2] 340 pages, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The sportsman's companion; or, An essay on shooting : illustriously shewing in what manner to fire at birds of game ... and, directions to gentlemen for the treatment and breaking their own pointers and spaniels ... / By a gentleman, who has made shooting his favourite amusement upwards of twenty-six years, in Great-Britain, Ireland, and North-America.

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Creator:: Gentleman, who has made shooting his favorite amusement upwards of twenty-six years, in Great-Britain, Ireland, and North-America
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: viii, [9]-89, [2] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.

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Creator:: Cox, Nicholas, active 1673–1721
Date:: 1677
Physical Description:: [12], 158, [2], 159-254, [4], 78, 89-95, [3], 78, [12] pages, [4] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The art and the pleasures of hare-hunting : in six letters to a person of quality / by John Smallman Gardiner, gent.

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Creator:: Gardiner, John Smallman
Date:: MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:: viii, 56 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The young sportman's instructor in angling, fowling, hawking ... / by G.M.

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Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: [1705?]
Physical Description:: 1 p.l., 140 p. : front. ; 7 x 5 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Thoughts on hunting : in a series of familiar letters to a friend.

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Creator:: Beckford, Peter, 1740–1811
Date:: MDCCLXXXI [1781]
Physical Description:: [10], 334 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The sportsman's cabinet, or, A correct delineation of the various dogs used in the sports of the field ... : consisting of a series of engravings ... illustrated by a comprehensive ... description ... : to which is added, a scientific disquisition upon the distemper, canine madness, and the hydrophobia / By a veteran sportsman.

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Creator:: Taplin, William, 1740?-1807
Date:: 1803-04
Physical Description:: 2 v. : front., illus., plates ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The young sportman's instructor : in angling, fowling, hawking, hunting, ordering singing birds, hawks, poultry, coneys, hares and dogs, and how to cure them / by G.M.

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Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: [1705?]
Physical Description:: [4], 140 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustration ; 70 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. English hawking and hunting in the Boke of St. Albans : a facsimile edition of sigs. a2-f8 of the Boke of St. Albans (1486) / by Rachel Hands.

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Creator:: Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
Date:: 1975
Physical Description:: lxix, 195 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. An essay on hunting / by a country squire.

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Creator:: Gosden, Thomas, 1780–1843
Date:: MDCCXXXIII [1733]
Physical Description:: 92 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The art of hunting : 1327 / William Twiti ; ed. by Bror Danielsson.

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Creator:: Twiti, William, d. 1328
Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: 116 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The Middle English text of The Art of Hunting / by William Twiti ; edited from an uncatalogued manuscript in a private collection, Ashton-under-Lyne ; with a parallel text of The Anglo-Norman L'Art de venerie by William Twiti edited from Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 424/448 by David Scott-MacNab.

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Creator:: Twiti, William, d. 1328
Date:: c2009
Physical Description:: lxxxvii, 125 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The gentleman's recreations : in three parts : the first part contains a short and easie introduction to all the liberal arts and sciences, &c. : the second treats of horsemanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, agriculture, &c. : done from the most authentick authors, especially several lately printed at Paris, as may be seen in the preface; with great enlargements, made by those well experienced in the respective recreations. : the third is a complete body of all our forest, chace, and game-laws, as they are at this time. : the whole illustrated with near an hundred copper-cuts relating to the several subjects, particularly all sorts of nets, engines, traps, &c. are added for the taking of wild beasts, fowl, fish, &c. not hitherto publish'd by any.

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Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: 1709-1710
Physical Description:: 3 v. in 1 : ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts