Markham, Gervase
£475
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
[A way to get wealth]. [London: Nicholas Okes for John Harrison, 1631]. 8vo, 6 parts in one volume, woodcuts, eighteenth-century half calf, lacks the general title page, occasional spotting, some early annotations, neatly rebacked
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire
Note: A reissue, with added general title page, of "Cheape and good husbandry", 5th ed., 1631; "Country contentments", 4th edition, 1631; "The English house-wife", 4th edition, 1631; "The inrichment of the weald of Kent .. revised, inlarged, and corrected", 1631; "Markhams farewell to husbandry", 3rd edition; all by or edited by Gervase Markham; and "A new orchard and garden", "2nd" edition, 1631, by William Lawson. [STC (2nd edition) 17396].