30th Sep, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
The Glaisdale Agricultural Library: The Private Collection of a Yorkshire Agriculturalist
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[ESTIENNE (Charles) & LIEBAULT (Jean)
Maison Rustique , or the Countrey Farme, . . . translated by Richard Surflet, . . . edited and augmented by Gervase Markham, sm. folio, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, woodcut decorative initials and head-pieces, (lacking initial and final blanks, N4 and 2O1 short repaired tear at foot, within text but with only minor loss to part of the odd letter, some water-staining at head and foot, occasional staining or spotting), rebound in full period-style panel calf binding, new end-papers, London, Printed by Adam Islip for John Bull , 1616
STC 10549. Bitting p.146-147; Fussell p.13; Goldsmiths' 451; Hunt 202; Kress 353; Poynter 31.1.; Schwerdt I, 166 (first English edition); Simon, BG, 610 (note). The third English edition, but the first to be edited by Gervase Markham,
Provenance Edward ?Sayve (17th century ink inscription to title); 'Thomas Hartt owne this Booke 1625' (ink inscription to A5); 'John Glynn - purchased - 12 January 1822' (ink inscription to title).
Sold for £800
Estimated at £400 - £700
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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