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De Medusa in de wateren van Japan, in 1863 en 1864.The Hague, Gebroeders Van Cleef, 1865. 8vo. With hand coloured, lithographed wrappers, and 5 folding tinted lithographed maps by S. Lankhout. Early 20th-century gold- and blind-tooled calf by Pieter Adam Happel, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a green morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, a central ornament on both boards, green head edge, decorative endpapers.
De Medusa in de wateren van Japan, in 1863 en 1864.The Hague, Gebroeders Van Cleef, 1865. 8vo. With hand coloured, lithographed wrappers, and 5 folding tinted lithographed maps by S. Lankhout. Early 20th-century gold- and blind-tooled calf by Pieter Adam Happel, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a green morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, a central ornament on both boards, green head edge, decorative endpapers.
CASEMBROOT, François de. · 1817 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)
XII, [2], 150 pp.First edition of an account of the battle that nearly ended the voyage of the Dutch corvette Medusa on its way to Yokohama, written by the commander of the ship François de Casembroot (1817-1895), captain-lieutenant in the Royal Dutch Navy. On 11 July 1863, the …
[Afbeeldinge der voornaemste gezichten van Duinrel].[Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, 1702]. Oblong album (ca. 18.5 x 25.5 cm). With an engraved dedication, and 16 numbered engraved numbered views (ca. 170 x 205mm) of the manor house and gardens of Duinrel in Wassenaar, near The Hague. The 16 plates each show an engraved caption in Dutch and Latin beneath the view. The dedication leaf and the 16 views (each ca. 17 x 20.5 cm) are mounted (attached only at the top of each leaf) on blank leaves (ca. 18.5 x 25.5 cm). Later half vellum, marbled paper sides.
[Afbeeldinge der voornaemste gezichten van Duinrel].[Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, 1702]. Oblong album (ca. 18.5 x 25.5 cm). With an engraved dedication, and 16 numbered engraved numbered views (ca. 170 x 205mm) of the manor house and gardens of Duinrel in Wassenaar, near The Hague. The 16 plates each show an engraved caption in Dutch and Latin beneath the view. The dedication leaf and the 16 views (each ca. 17 x 20.5 cm) are mounted (attached only at the top of each leaf) on blank leaves (ca. 18.5 x 25.5 cm). Later half vellum, marbled paper sides.
SCHENK, Pieter. · 1646 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[17] ll.Beautiful complete print series with an engraved dedication leaf to the owner of the depicted estate, Mr. Cornelis de Jonge van Ellemeet (1646-1721). The 16 numbered engraved plates show the beautiful manor house, which is located in Wassenaar, near The Hague. De Jonge v…
An account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli.Glasgow, printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis for Edward & Charles Dilly London, 1768. 8vo (ca. 21 x 13 cm). With an engraved vignette on the title page incorporating the crowned coat of arms of the Republic of Corsica, and a large folding map (plate size 27.5 x 45 cm) of Corsica engraved in Edinburgh by Thomas Phinn in 1768. Contemporary calf, rebacked with the original backstrip, with the red morocco title label lettered in gold, laid down.
An account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli.Glasgow, printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis for Edward & Charles Dilly London, 1768. 8vo (ca. 21 x 13 cm). With an engraved vignette on the title page incorporating the crowned coat of arms of the Republic of Corsica, and a large folding map (plate size 27.5 x 45 cm) of Corsica engraved in Edinburgh by Thomas Phinn in 1768. Contemporary calf, rebacked with the original backstrip, with the red morocco title label lettered in gold, laid down.
BOSWELL, James. · 1740 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)
XXI, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 382 pp.First edition of a delightful and important travel book by James Boswell (1740-1795), best known as the friend and biographer of Samuel Johnson. His first major publication, it includes a journal of his 1765 visit to the new Republic of Cor…
[Engraved title:] Solitudo sive vitae patrum eremicolarum ...[Paris], Thomas de Leu, 1606. Small oblong folio (19 x 25.5 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page, and 29 engraved prints. Gold-tooled blue goatskin morocco (ca. 1890?) bound by Bernard David (or his son Salvador David) in Paris.
[Engraved title:] Solitudo sive vitae patrum eremicolarum ...[Paris], Thomas de Leu, 1606. Small oblong folio (19 x 25.5 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page, and 29 engraved prints. Gold-tooled blue goatskin morocco (ca. 1890?) bound by Bernard David (or his son Salvador David) in Paris.
LEU, Thomas de (or de LEEUW) [drawn by Marten de VOS]. · 1560 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[1], 29 engraved ll.Finely engraved title page and prints depicting the lives of hermits living in the desert as described by Hieronymus in his famous Vitae patrum. The engraved title page and prints were printed and published by Thomas de Leu or de Leeuw (1560-1612), a Flemish …
Occulta naturae miracula, ac varia rerum documenta, probabili ratione atque artifici coniectura explicata.Antwerp, Guillaume Simon (colophon:) printed by Christophe Plantin, 1567. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, an oval woodcut portrait of the author, and 6 decorated woodcut initials. 17th-century gold- and blind-tooled brown calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, the supralibros of The Society of Writers to the Signet as a central ornament on both boards.
Occulta naturae miracula, ac varia rerum documenta, probabili ratione atque artifici coniectura explicata.Antwerp, Guillaume Simon (colophon:) printed by Christophe Plantin, 1567. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, an oval woodcut portrait of the author, and 6 decorated woodcut initials. 17th-century gold- and blind-tooled brown calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, the supralibros of The Society of Writers to the Signet as a central ornament on both boards.
LEMNIUS, Levinus. · 1850 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)
[16], 473, [22], [1 blank] pp.Enlarged, first Plantin edition of a very popular work of the secrets of nature, considering physiological, physical, medical, religious and moral topics. Guided by the Hippocratic Corpus, Aristotle, natural philosophy, Christianity, and the four hu…
Fables.London, printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1727 (volume 1); printed for J. and P. Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738 (volume 2). 2 volumes. 4to. Volume 1 with an engraved illustration on the title page, and 51 engraved illustrations (1 for each fable) engraved by Gerard Vandergucht, Paul Fourdrinier, Bernard Baron and Andrew Motte. Volume 2 with an engraved frontispiece, showing Gay's memorial monument, a small engraved author's portrait on title page, and 16 engraved plates (one for each fable), engraved by Gérard Scotin after drawings by Hubert-François Gravelot. Green morocco (ca. 1900), richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, gold fillets on boards and board-edges, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (Riviere & son).
Fables.London, printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1727 (volume 1); printed for J. and P. Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738 (volume 2). 2 volumes. 4to. Volume 1 with an engraved illustration on the title page, and 51 engraved illustrations (1 for each fable) engraved by Gerard Vandergucht, Paul Fourdrinier, Bernard Baron and Andrew Motte. Volume 2 with an engraved frontispiece, showing Gay's memorial monument, a small engraved author's portrait on title page, and 16 engraved plates (one for each fable), engraved by Gérard Scotin after drawings by Hubert-François Gravelot. Green morocco (ca. 1900), richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, gold fillets on boards and board-edges, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (Riviere & son).
GAY, John. · 1685 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[14], 173, [1 blank]; [12], 155, [1 blank] pp.Attractively bound first editions of the two series of fables written by the celebrated English poet and dramatist John Gay (1685-1732). Gay became famous with the present publication of Fables and the opera The beggar's opera, first…
Manejo, e Governo da Cavallaria.Lisbon, Miguel Manescal, 1707. Small 8vo (14.5 x 9 x 1.5 cm). With a richly engraved frontispiece showing a cavalry battle before a castle, with one cavalryman on his rearing horse in the foreground, and the title in an elaborate cartouche incorporating military attributes. Gold-tooled red goatskin morocco (ca. 1892/99) by Marcellin II Lortic in Paris (signed “M LORTIC” in the tooled foot of the front turn-in), each board with the crowned arms of José Pinto Leite in a double oval and a triple-filet rectangular frame, richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, headbands, silk ribbon marker.
Manejo, e Governo da Cavallaria.Lisbon, Miguel Manescal, 1707. Small 8vo (14.5 x 9 x 1.5 cm). With a richly engraved frontispiece showing a cavalry battle before a castle, with one cavalryman on his rearing horse in the foreground, and the title in an elaborate cartouche incorporating military attributes. Gold-tooled red goatskin morocco (ca. 1892/99) by Marcellin II Lortic in Paris (signed “M LORTIC” in the tooled foot of the front turn-in), each board with the crowned arms of José Pinto Leite in a double oval and a triple-filet rectangular frame, richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, headbands, silk ribbon marker.
GUALDO PRIORATO, Galeazzo. · 1606 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[12], 198 pp.Very rare first Portuguese edition of a treatise on the management and governance of cavalry by Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato (1606-1678), a Venetian military officer, tactician, diplomat and author best known for his numerous works on contemporary history, the present t…
Il mondo festeggiante balletto a cav allo fatto nel teatro congiunto al palazzo del sereniss. gran duca, per le reali nozze de' serenissimi principi Cosimo terzo di Toscana, e Margherita Luisa d'Orleans.Florence, Nella stamperia di S.A.S., 1661. 4to. With 3 fold-out engravings, 1 woodcut initial, and 2 woodcut headpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum.
Il mondo festeggiante balletto a cav allo fatto nel teatro congiunto al palazzo del sereniss. gran duca, per le reali nozze de' serenissimi principi Cosimo terzo di Toscana, e Margherita Luisa d'Orleans.Florence, Nella stamperia di S.A.S., 1661. 4to. With 3 fold-out engravings, 1 woodcut initial, and 2 woodcut headpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum.
[CARDUCCI, Alessandro, Giovanni Andrea MONIGLIA, and Stefano DELLA BELLA]. · 1610 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€22,500.00 ($24,799.10 | £18,770.98 | ¥3,960,095)
[1], [1 blank], 7-66, [2 blank] pp.First and only edition of a Florentine festival book, magnificently illustrated with three large folding copper engravings by Stefano della Bella (1610-1664), produced to commemorate the sumptuous equestrian ballet staged for the marriage of Co…
Droomboek, met deszelfs uytlegging, waer in, uyt natuerlyke oorzaeken der oude philosoophen en waerzeggers, verklaert en uyt geleyd worden alle droomen oft nagt-gezigten, die den mensch (als hy slaept) voor-komen mogen. Waer uyt dat men zyn geluk of ongeluk vernemen kan, zonder eenige vermindering der kragt Gods.Amsterdam, the widow of Gysbert de Groot, [ca. 1695] Small 8vo. With a popular woodcut illustration of a sleeping man on the title page, and a woodcut headpiece on the first text page. Preserved in modern orange wrappers, with a print of the title page mounted on the front wrapper.
Droomboek, met deszelfs uytlegging, waer in, uyt natuerlyke oorzaeken der oude philosoophen en waerzeggers, verklaert en uyt geleyd worden alle droomen oft nagt-gezigten, die den mensch (als hy slaept) voor-komen mogen. Waer uyt dat men zyn geluk of ongeluk vernemen kan, zonder eenige vermindering der kragt Gods.Amsterdam, the widow of Gysbert de Groot, [ca. 1695] Small 8vo. With a popular woodcut illustration of a sleeping man on the title page, and a woodcut headpiece on the first text page. Preserved in modern orange wrappers, with a print of the title page mounted on the front wrapper.
[CHAPBOOK - PROGNOSTICATIONS - Daldanius ARTEMIDORUS]. · 1645 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)
36 pp.Unrecorded edition of a Dutch chapbook on the prophetic meaning of various symbols and situations encountered in dreams. For example, according to the text, dreaming about fishing nets means that it is going to rain, and dreaming about walking in a forest means the dreamer…
Het vermaaklyk buitenleven, of de zingende en speelende boerenvreugd. Met zangkunst verrykt, en tot gemak der speelers op de G sleutel gesteld.Haarlem, Weduwe van Hermanus van Hulkenroy, 1716. 4to. With an etched frontispiece, an etching of a mermaid on the title, 2 folding etchings, 2 full-page etchings, and 21 etchings in the text, all after Adriaen van Ostade. Further with musical annotation to all songs. Early 19th-century marbled boards.
Het vermaaklyk buitenleven, of de zingende en speelende boerenvreugd. Met zangkunst verrykt, en tot gemak der speelers op de G sleutel gesteld.Haarlem, Weduwe van Hermanus van Hulkenroy, 1716. 4to. With an etched frontispiece, an etching of a mermaid on the title, 2 folding etchings, 2 full-page etchings, and 21 etchings in the text, all after Adriaen van Ostade. Further with musical annotation to all songs. Early 19th-century marbled boards.
[GIJSEN, Jan van or Aaron van HULKENROY]. · 1610 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)
[8], 63, [1] pp.First edition of a rare Dutch songbook with songs for farmer's festivals, all with musical annotation. The work has been beautifully illustrated with etchings after the famous Dutch painter of country life, Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685). The fine etchings, newly…
Nouvelle iconologie historique, ou Attributs hieroglyphiques, compées & arrangées de maniere qu' ils peuvent servir à toutes sortes de décoration, ...puisqu'on est le maitre de les appliquer egalement à des fontaines, pyramides, cheminées, dessus de portes, bordures, medaillons, trophées, vases, frises, tombeaux, pendules, etc. = Nieuwe historische beeldspraak, of hieroglyphische merkbeelden, betreklyk op verscheide natien, hunne geschiedenissen en godsdiensten, gelyk ook op verschillende zaaken, tot de wysbegeerte, fabel- en dichtkunde behoorende: alles in die orde geschikt, dat men dezelve kan gebruiken tot bouwkunstige vercierzelen, fontynen, pronknaalden en schoorsteenen, ornamenten, medaillons, tropheën, vazen, tombes, pendules, enz.Amsterdam, C.S. Roos; A. Fokke, [ca. 1780]. 2 volumes bound as 1. Folio. With 2 finely engraved allegorical part-titles and 103 engraved plates with allegorical ornaments, devices and attributes by J. de Witt Jansz.. 20th-century half parchment, marbled sides (Turkish spot pattern).
Nouvelle iconologie historique, ou Attributs hieroglyphiques, compées & arrangées de maniere qu' ils peuvent servir à toutes sortes de décoration, ...puisqu'on est le maitre de les appliquer egalement à des fontaines, pyramides, cheminées, dessus de portes, bordures, medaillons, trophées, vases, frises, tombeaux, pendules, etc. = Nieuwe historische beeldspraak, of hieroglyphische merkbeelden, betreklyk op verscheide natien, hunne geschiedenissen en godsdiensten, gelyk ook op verschillende zaaken, tot de wysbegeerte, fabel- en dichtkunde behoorende: alles in die orde geschikt, dat men dezelve kan gebruiken tot bouwkunstige vercierzelen, fontynen, pronknaalden en schoorsteenen, ornamenten, medaillons, tropheën, vazen, tombes, pendules, enz.Amsterdam, C.S. Roos; A. Fokke, [ca. 1780]. 2 volumes bound as 1. Folio. With 2 finely engraved allegorical part-titles and 103 engraved plates with allegorical ornaments, devices and attributes by J. de Witt Jansz.. 20th-century half parchment, marbled sides (Turkish spot pattern).
FOSSE, Jean Charles de la (DELAFOSSE). · 1734 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[4], 39, [1] pp. plus plates.First Netherlands edition (in the original French with a parallel Dutch translation, in 2 columns) of a richly engraved artists' model book offering a fine collection of architectural ornaments and devices by the Paris architect Jean Charles de la Fo…
COLLECTION OF 47 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS, 16 ANNOTATED ON THE VERSOS BY PARKER
COLLECTION OF 47 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS, 16 ANNOTATED ON THE VERSOS BY PARKER
(PARKER, Dorothy and CAMPBELL, Alan) · 0 · Charles Agvent
$43,750.00 (€39,693.99 | £33,115.35 | ¥6,986,310)
A collection of 47 original photographs, nearly all by Jacob Lofman, of Fox House, the Bucks County home of Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, 33 approximately 8" x 10" with 14 smaller images. Sixteen of the 8" x 10" photographs, some featuring Parker and Cambell, are ANNOTATED b…
ARCHIVE of 3 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs) and 1 AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to critic Selden Rodman
ARCHIVE of 3 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs) and 1 AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to critic Selden Rodman
LEWIS, Sinclair · 1930 · Charles Agvent
$2,500.00 (€2,268.23 | £1,892.31 | ¥399,218)
Fine group of letters from Lewis SIGNED in full to critic Selden Rodman. Two of the letters are brief social exchanges. Another is a two-page typed letter dated 22 October 1930 from Vermont. In part: "I'm delighted by the HARKNESS HOOT [Yale University campus magazine co-founded…
LETTERS UPON SUBJECTS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM JOHN RUSKIN TO VARIOUS CORRESPONDENTS with FOUR AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED by Ruskin tipped in
LETTERS UPON SUBJECTS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM JOHN RUSKIN TO VARIOUS CORRESPONDENTS with FOUR AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED by Ruskin tipped in
RUSKIN, John · 1892 · Charles Agvent
$9,375.00 (€8,505.85 | £7,096.15 | ¥1,497,066)
London. Privately printed (Not for Sale). First Edition. Full gilt-decorated dark blue morocco by Zaensdorf, gilt dentelles with silk endpapers, all edges gilt; recently and professionally rebacked with the original spine. With 4 Autograph Letters SIGNED by Ruskin tipped in at t…
Chinese Connoisseurship: The Ko Ku Yao Lun. The Essential Criteria of Antiquities a translation made and edited by Sir Percival David
David, Sir Percival · 1971 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda
€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)
Book Good Dust Jacket Included 1st Edition Faber and Faber Limited, London English text.; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket).; 22 x 29 cm.; 1.9 kg.; 351 pages with black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The dust jacket is worn and s…
Japanese Swordguard Artists
Murtha, Gary D. · 1982 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda
€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)
Book Good No Jacket R&M Enterprises, Kansas City, Missouri English text.; Paperback (stapled).; 21.5 x 28 cm.; 0.3 kg.; 80 pages with a few black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The exterior shows edge wear and some wear marks on t…
Chinese Snuff Bottles 6. Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection of the Rt. Hon. The Marquess of Exeter, K.C.M.G.
Compiled by: Moss, Hugh M.; and Thurlow, Kate · 1974 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda
€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)
Book Good No Jacket 1st Edition Hugh Moss (Publications) Limited English text; Hardcover (cloth without dust jacket - as issued. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine); 17 x 23.5 cm; 0.850 Kg; 162 pages with black and white and colour illustrations.; Used book with signs of we…
THE PENNY PICKWICK.
THE PENNY PICKWICK.
Bos. [Prest, Thomas Peckett]. · 18378 · Francis Edwards Booksellers
£1,500.00 (€1,797.99 | $1,981.71 | ¥316,453)
Edward Lloyd N.d. c.[1837-8]. Issues 1-111 [only of 112 Issues in total]. 432pp. + 450pp. Each issue headed with a woodcut and with some textual woodcuts. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with portrait of Wellington, 1822 maps of Glocestershire Herefordshire Dorsetshire, and Hampshire, engravi…
CANTERBURIES DOOME. Or The first part of a compleat history of the commitment, charge, tryall, condemnation, execution of William Laud, late Arch-bishop of Canterbury. Containing the severall orders, articles, proceedings in Parliament against him, from his first accusatio therein, till his tryall: together with the various evidences and proofs produced against him at the Lords Bar, in justification of the first branch of the Commons charge against him; ... with his severall answers to those evidences, proofs, and the Commons reply thereunto. Wherein this Arch-prelates manifold trayterous artifices to usher in popery by degrees, are cleerly detected, and the ecclesiasticall history of our church-affaires, during his pontificall domination, faithfully presented to the publike view of the world. By William Prynne, of Lincolns Inne, Esquire; specially deputed to this publike service, by the House of Commons order; dated 4 Martii. 1644.
CANTERBURIES DOOME. Or The first part of a compleat history of the commitment, charge, tryall, condemnation, execution of William Laud, late Arch-bishop of Canterbury. Containing the severall orders, articles, proceedings in Parliament against him, from his first accusatio therein, till his tryall: together with the various evidences and proofs produced against him at the Lords Bar, in justification of the first branch of the Commons charge against him; ... with his severall answers to those evidences, proofs, and the Commons reply thereunto. Wherein this Arch-prelates manifold trayterous artifices to usher in popery by degrees, are cleerly detected, and the ecclesiasticall history of our church-affaires, during his pontificall domination, faithfully presented to the publike view of the world. By William Prynne, of Lincolns Inne, Esquire; specially deputed to this publike service, by the House of Commons order; dated 4 Martii. 1644.
(Laud). Prynne, William. · 1646 · Francis Edwards Booksellers
£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)
Printed by John Macock for Michael Spark senior, at the sign of the Blue Bible in Green Arbour 1646. 1st Ed. Sm. folio. [4], 100, 89-128, 131-134, 141-142, 151-154, 147-488, 491-565, [13] p. Frontis. by Hollar (crudely repaired to verso), decorative/historiated initial letters, …
A Philosophical Treatise of Husbandry and Gardening : being a new method of cultivating and increasing all sorts of trees, shrubs, and flowers. A very curious work: containing many useful secrets in Nature, for helping the vegetation of trees and plants, and for fertilizing the most stubborn soils. By G. A. Agricola, M. D. and Doctor in Philosophy at Ratisbonne. Translated from the High-Dutch, with remarks: and adorn'd with cuts. The whole revised and compared with the original, together with a Preface, confirming this new method, by Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society. Printed for P. Vaillant in the Strand
A Philosophical Treatise of Husbandry and Gardening : being a new method of cultivating and increasing all sorts of trees, shrubs, and flowers. A very curious work: containing many useful secrets in Nature, for helping the vegetation of trees and plants, and for fertilizing the most stubborn soils. By G. A. Agricola, M. D. and Doctor in Philosophy at Ratisbonne. Translated from the High-Dutch, with remarks: and adorn'd with cuts. The whole revised and compared with the original, together with a Preface, confirming this new method, by Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society. Printed for P. Vaillant in the Strand
AGRICOLA, Georg Andreas (1672-1738); Richard Bradley (Introduces) · 1721 · Fine Editions Ltd
$1,399.00 (€1,269.30 | £1,058.93 | ¥223,402)
London printed for P. Vaillant in the Strand, and W. Mears and F. Clay without Temple-Bar First Edition in English of the "first treatise on cuttings and graftings." (Hunt) Demy 4to (276 x 214mm): [24],300,[4]pp, with 31 (i.e. 33: in the numbering of plates, XXIII and XXVIII are…