30th Sep, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
The Glaisdale Agricultural Library: The Private Collection of a Yorkshire Agriculturalist
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MARKHAM (Gervase)
The English Husbandman [Part 1], sm. 4to, pp. [76], 132, woodcut illus., L., T.S. for Iohn Browne, 1613 [STC (2nd ed.) 17355]; bound with: HARTLIB (Samuel) The Compleat Husband-man [A reissue, with cancel title page, of: Samuel Hartlib his legacie, 1652], pp. [8], 118, [28], L., 1659 [Wing H980]; bound with: [MARKHAM (Gervase)] Cheape and Good Husbandry . . . The Third Edition, pp. [22, i.e. lacks initial blank], 179 (1), L., 1623 [STC (2nd Edn) 17338]; BOUND WITH: [HERESBACH (Conrad)] [Foure bookes of husbandrie], lacks title & 2 other prelim ff., 193 irregularly numbered ff. of which 192 present, 1 f. unnumbered, with colophon: London, Imprinted for Iohn Wight, 1586. STC (2nd ed.), 13198. Bound in later panel style calf. (4 vols in 1, w.a.f)
The first title in this collection, Markham’s English Husbandman, includes the first layout of an English house to appear in print. (cf. Cooper; Fussell I).
Sold for £1,000
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500
Auction: The Glaisdale Agricultural Library: The Private Collection of a Yorkshire Agriculturalist, 30th Sep, 2022
Over the course of several decades, Yorkshire agriculturalist Martin Burtt assembled an extraordinary library of antiquarian agricultural books, which he carefully and sympathetically cared for and had repaired. The collection focuses on books from the 16th to 18th centuries, spanning the transition from an era when it was considered dubious to attempt to improve on God’s Creation to the advent of the Age of Reason with its huge rise in literacy, invention, experimentation, and applied rationality. The great agricultural writers all appear in the collection, which covers the obvious subjects connected with farming and husbandry, such as breeding of livestock, improvements in land use, crops, developments in technology and veterinary practices as well as other niche subjects from falconry, brewing, gardening, botany, beekeeping and dogs to rat catching and cheese making.
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