Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1905
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/197
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 20: bo i) ~I 208 210 Country Residences, 2 vol. finely engraved plates, half calf gilt, 1806—Forsyth (W.) Treatise on Fruit- Trees, folding plates, calf, 1802 ; and others (9) with 60 beautiful and accurately coloured plates, half calf, 1807—Columella, Husbandry, and concerning Trees, calf (rebacked) 1745—Agricola (G. A.) Treatise of Husbandry and Gardening, folding plates, calf, 1721 ; and others (14) contained in foure Bookes, black letter, woodcuts, a leaf imperfect, and some stained, calf, 1631—The English Husbandman, (imperfect) woodcuts, 1635; and another curious piece (¢mperfect) in 1 vol. calf (re- backed) ; the lot sold not subject to return (2) into two Bookes, ... . the first Husbandly Duties, the second Art of Planting, Grafting, Gardening etc. woodcuts, some leaves stained, half calf, 1635—Farewell to Husbandry, woodcuts, imperfect, 1620; the lot sold not subject to return (2) Wealth, containing sixe Principall Vocations or Callings : Cheape and good Husbandry, 1631-—Country Contentments, or the Husbandmans Recreations, 1633 —The English House-wife, 1637—The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent, 1636—Markham’s Farewell to Husbandry, 1638—A New Orchard and Garden: or the best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good for a rich Orchard, woodcuts, 1638; old calf | in 1 vol. to Plant and Grafte all sortes of trees, how to set stones, and sowe Pepins, to make wylde trees to Grafte on, as also remedies and medicines. With divers other newe practises, by one of the Abbey of Saint Vincent in Fraunce, practised with his owne handes, divided into seaven chapters, as hereafter more playnely shall appeare wyth an addition in the ende of this booke, of certain Dutch practises, set fourth and Englished, woodcut title and numerous woodcuts, some headlines cut into, sold not subject to return, calf extra, g. e. John Wright, 1575 English treatises on the subject. This edition was unknown to Lowndes, and there is no copy of it in the British Museum. The present copy contains the blank
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