<< YCBA Home Yale Center for British Art Yale Center for British Art << YCBA Home

YCBA Collections Search

Search Constraints

Start Over
You searched for:

Period 18th century

Remove constraint Period: 18th century

Subject Terms Hunting -- Early works to 1800.

Remove constraint Subject Terms: Hunting -- Early works to 1800.

Search Results

1. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
[8], 292, [4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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 ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744
Date:
1718
Physical Description:
6 p.l., 152, [4] p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
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

4. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Blome, Richard, 1635-1705
Date:
1709-1710
Physical Description:
3 v. in 1 : ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Gardiner, John Smallman
Date:
MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:
viii, 56 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
[1705?]
Physical Description:
1 p.l., 140 p. : front. ; 7 x 5 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.

No cover image available
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. 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.

No cover image available
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

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Gosden, Thomas, 1780-1843
Date:
MDCCXXXIII [1733]
Physical Description:
92 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
Date:
1975
Physical Description:
lxix, 195 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
[1705?]
Physical Description:
[4], 140 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustration ; 70 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts