Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The gentleman's recreation : in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing ; wherein those ... exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged ... : also the method of breeding and managing a hunting-horse: unto which is now annex'd an appendix of choice receipts for the cure of several maladies : whereto is added, a perfect abstract of all the forest-laws, and of every particular act of Parliament since Magna charta ... to which is prefix'd a large sculpture, giving easy directions for blowing the horn : and other sculptures proper to each recreation, / [Nicholas Cox].

Accession number
PML 150768
Creator
Cox, Nicholas, active 1673-1721.
Published
London : Printed for N.C. and sold by J. Wilcox, 1721.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
Four large folding plates, engraved frontispiece.
The "Forest laws" have special t.p.: An abridgment of Manwood's forest law and of all the acts of Parliament ... which related to hunting, hawking, fishing or fowling. London : Printed by H.P. for N.C., 1721.
Description
iv, 438, 115 p., [1] folded leaf : ill. ; 20 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Full polished mottled ("tortoise shell") calf binding by Tout.
Classification
Department