30th Sep, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
The Glaisdale Agricultural Library: The Private Collection of a Yorkshire Agriculturalist
78
HERESBACH (Conrad)
Foure Bookes of Husbandry... Conteyning the Whole Arte and Trade of Husbandry, with the Antiquitie, and Commendation Thereof. Newely Englished, and Increased, by Barnabe Googe, sm. 4to, black letter, woodcut arms on verso of title, lacks final 2 leaves (supplied in facsimile), title soiled, occasional light dampstaining, bookplate of Maurice Frost, and Bibliotheca Tiliana (with very small stamp on verso of title), modern half morocco, Richard Watkins, 1577
First Edition in English. Westwood & Satchell, pp.116-117; STC 13196; Goldsmiths’ 193. Diverse subject matter besides agriculture, including forestry, bees, gardening, etc.
Sold for £2,400
Estimated at £700 - £1,200
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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