Sport & Leisure

From sin-derived sicknesses, the dangers of dancing, and the divinity of tobacco to the arts of culinary carving and folding table linen, works in this category cover a plethora of topics relating to entertainment and lifestyle.

Below find instructions, from antiquity to the early 1700s, on themes such as food, diet, and nutrition, horticulture and viticulture, husbandry and horsemanship, falconry, make-up, and dancing.