30th Sep, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
The Glaisdale Agricultural Library: The Private Collection of a Yorkshire Agriculturalist
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MASCAL (Leonard)
The Countreyman’s Jewel: or, the government of Cattel . . . Also Directions for Gardening, . . . much enlarged by Rich. Ruscam, sm. 8vo, first part only, add. pictorial title cropped, plate at p. 87 with substantial loss, other faults, half calf, L., 1680;
LAMBERT (James)
The Countryman’s Treasure: shewing the Nature, Causes, and Cure of all Diseases Incident to Cattle, 12mo, woodcut frontis, pp. [2] (3)-138 [4], later full calf, 4th Edn., L., [ca. 1710];
and a similar work, a/f, Glasgow, 1750 (3)
Sold for £850
Estimated at £150 - £250
MASCAL - pp. [16], 130, with an additional title page after front free end paper with ownership inscriptions on reverse; pencil annotations to front end papers; annotations in pen throughout; margins trimmed with partial loss to some page numbers; water damage to p.1; foxing and holes pp.69-71; edge chips and occasional corner tear/loss; bindings worn with rubbed corners, chip to back panel left edge, and crack running diagonally across back panel from top right to left edge (see additional images)
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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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