THE FOWLER: CONTAINING THE RULES FOR TAKING EVERY SPECIES OF LAND AND WATER FOWL... By Nicholas Coxe.

(1674) 1991 reset new edition. 8vo (140 x 212mm). Ppvii,102,ads. Unillustrated, pinkish-grey end-papers. Rust-coloured cloth, spine titled in gilt.

"...whether by fowling piece, net, engine, or otherwise. Such as woodcocks, felfares, pigeons, magpies, morepoots, snipes, gleads, crows, rooks, herns, partridges, pheasants, rails and quails. With an account of their seasons; descriptions of their haunts; and methods for making limes, limed twigs, springes, baits, etc. for taking them. Likewise, instructions for the choice and training of the dogs for fowling; remedies for their diseases, etc. etc. Also a concise essay on song birds, viz. the nightingale, canary bird, black bird, wood lark, linnet, chaffinch, robin, starling, tit lark, bull finch, thrush, sky lark, redstart, wren, green finch, gold finch, hedge sparrow. Clearly describing their seasons, and nests; the the best modes for taking and preserving them in health and good song. By Nicholas Coxe, Esq. author of The Huntsman". This is a reset new edition of part of Smeeton's c1815 edition of Coxe's "The nobleman and gentleman's recreation".