£688
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 659
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Being instructions for The Raising, Planting, and Cultivating all sorts of Fruit-Trees. London: Henry Brome, at the Gun in St Paul's Churchyard, 1675. First English edition, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, free endpapers and endpapers dust-soiled, bookplate, small label to endpaper, ink inscription to title page, edges darkened, restoration label, contemporary calf neatly rebacked, worm to front board, corners bumped
Note: English translation of Instructions pour les Arbres Fruitiers by R. Triquel, Paris,1653.