22 Ancient Books. 



Spanish, Grilli in Italian, and other authors. And 

 the husbandrie of France, Italy, and Spaine, reconciled 

 and made to agree with ours here in England, by 

 Gervase Markham, the whole contents are in the page 

 following (see below). London, by Adam Islip for 

 John Bill, 1616. Illustrations. Folio. 



This is the FIRST EDITION edited by Gervase MarMam. 

 The following is a summary of the contents : " Whatsoever 

 can be required for the building, or good ordering, of a 

 Husbandman's House, or Countrey Farrne ; as, namely, to 

 foresee the changes and alterations of Times ; to know the 

 motions and powers of the Sunne and Moone, upon the things 

 about which Husbandry is occupied : as, to cure the sicke 

 labouring man, to cure Beasts and flying Fowles of all sorts ; 

 to DRESSE, PLANT, OR MAKE GARDENS, AS WELL AS FOR THE 

 KITCHIN, AND PHYSICKE USE, AS ALSO IN QUACTERS ; WITH 

 MANY PAIRE AND CUNNING PORTRAITURES, TO MAKE COM- 

 PARTMENTS OP DIVERS FASHIONS IN EYERIE QUARTER : WITH 

 A LARGE DESCRIPTION OF THE HEARBE NlCOTIANA (TOBACCO), 

 OR PETUM (with a woodcut of tlie plant), as also of the root 

 Mechoacan : TO PLANT, GRAFT, AND ORDER ORANGE-TREES, 

 Citron-trees, and such other strange trees : TO ORDER BEES : 

 TO MAKE CONSERVES : TO PRESERVE FRUITES, Flowers, Roots, 

 and Rindes : to make Honey and Wax : TO PLANT AND GRAFT 



ALL SORTS OF FRUIT TREES: TO MAKE CYDER. PERRIE, DRINKE 



OF CERVICES, AND OYLES : TO DISTIL WATERS AND OYLES, or 

 Quintessences, of whatsoever the Husbandman's store and 

 encrease, with manie patternes of Limbeckes for the distilling 

 of them : TO FEED AND PRESERVE SILKWORMS : to make and 

 maintaine Medow-groundes : FISHPONDS OF RUNNING OR 

 STANDING WATERS : TO TAKE FISHES : to measure and tyll 

 Corne-ground : TO BAKE BREAD : TO TRIMME VINES : TO 

 MAKE MEDICINABLE WINES ; WITH A VERRIE LARGE AND EX- 

 CELLENT DISCOURSE TOUCHING THE NATURE AND QUALITIE OF 



WINE IN GENERAL : AND AFTER THAT, ANOTHER SPECIAL AND 

 PARTICULAR ONE, OF ALL SUCH WINES as grow in Gasconie, 

 Languedoc, Tourainc, Orleans, Paris, and other countries of 

 France : to Plant Woods of Timber-trees and Under-growth : 

 to make a warren; TO BREED HERONS : AND TO IMPARKE WILD 

 BEASTS. As ALSO A LARGE DISCOURSE OF HUNTING THE 

 HART, WILD BOKE, HARE, Fox, GRAY CONIE, AND SUCH 



LIKE : WITH THE ORDERING OF HAWKES, AND ALL SORTS OF 



BIRDS, and lastly in the end thereof, is briefly shewed the 

 nature, manner of taking, and feeding of the NIGHTINGALE, 

 LINNET, GOLDFINCH, SISKIN, LARKE, AND OTHER SUCH SING- 

 ING MELODIOUS BIRDS." 



