Sports - Early works to 1800
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Recreations for gentlemen and ladies being ingenious sports and pastimes: containing many curious inventions, pleasant tricks on cards and dice; Arithmetical Sports; new Games; Rules for assuredly winning at all Games, whether of Cards or Dice; Recreative Fire-Works; Tricks to promote Diversion in Company, and other curiosities. Translated from the French, of Monsieur Ozanam.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: 1790- E-journals
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A treatise on English shooting Under the following heads: of the knowledge of a good fowling-piece. The ordering and managing the fowling-piece. The appendages of the fowling-piece. The choice of powder, shot, and flints. Of partridge shooting, with the choice and ordering of pointers. Of pheasant shooting, with the ordering of spaniels. Of woodcock shooting. Of snipe shooting. Of water and fen-fowl shooting; and the use of proper dogs. Of upland winter shooting. With necessary observations for the young sportsman when out and on returning home. By George Edie, gent.
Edie, GeorgeDate: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- E-books
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The school of recreation or, a guide to the most ingenious exercises of hunting, riding, racing, Fireworks, Military Discipline, The Science of Defence. Hawking, Tennis, Bowling, Ringing, Singing, Cock-Fighting, Fowling, Angling. By R. H.
R. H. (Robert Howlett).Date: 1720- E-books
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A treatise on English shooting Under the following heads: of the knowledge of a good fowling-piece. The ordering and managing the fowling-piece. The appendages of the fowling-piece. The choice of powder, shot, and flints. Of partridge shooting, with the choice and ordering of pointers. Of pheasant shooting, with the ordering of spaniels. Of woodcock shooting. Of snipe shooting. Of water, and fen-fowl shooting; and the use of proper dogs. Of upland winter shooting. With necessary observations for the young sportsman, when out, and on returning home. By George Edie, gent.
Edie, GeorgeDate: 1774- E-books
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A letter to the Honourable George Townshend, Esq Knight of the Shire for the county of Norfolk during the last Parliament, in answer to "The Norfolk farmer's sentiments on a bill to be brought into Parlaiment for doubling the qualification of sportsmen. With a hint upon compromises, &c. By Richard Gardiner, Esq;.
Gardiner, Richard, 1723-1781.Date: M.DCC.LIV. [1754]