Lot 179
Markham, Gervase
Hungers Prevention: or, the whole Art of Fowling by Water and Land
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
London: for Francis Grove, and are to be sold by Martha Harrison, 1655. Small 8vo (13 x 8cm), [16] 285 [1] pp., 20th-century calf by Riviere & Son, all edges gilt, woodcut frontispiece, woodcut illustrations throughout the text, closely trimmed along top and fore edges, many side-notes and a few headlines shaved, spotting to first and last few leaves, without final blank T8 (mentioned in Schwerdt but not in ESTC), custom slipcase [ESTC R12445; Schwerdt II p. 12; Wing M657]
Footnote
Note: Second edition of the earliest English work on wildfowling, intended by the author especially for use by colonists in 'the blessed plantation of Virginia', and dedicated to Sir Edwin Sandys, founder of the Virginia Company. 'Like so many booklets which were easily portable and therefore exposed to wear, this work is not often met with' (Schwerdt). The first edition was published in 1621.