Fovre Books of Husbandry (The English Experience: Its Records in Early Printed Books Published in Facsimile Number 323) by Conrad Heresbach - 1971

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd., and Da Capo Press., 1971. Fac. Ed.. pp.[xxiv], 193, [iii]. 8vo. Hardback. Light dust-marking to fore-edges of text-block, o/w. a fine copy. Red cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine. A faithful facsimile of the first edition (1577) copy held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

[Leiden] Lugduni Batavorum: Samuelem Luchtmans, 1715. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio, 32 x 21 cm. Bound in modern calf with contemporary vellum mounted on front cover with arms of Nijmegen. Good binding and cover. Printed in parallel Greek & Latin text. Collated: [20] (of [22]), 554, [2], 555-1000, [55] pages. Lacks the half-title. Includes additional engraved allegorical title, dated 1716, incorporating map of Greece. Minor winkling to some of the margins. Generally in very good shape. Brunet III, 122.

Lyons, 1538. Used - Very Good. . Lugduni, Anno domini. M.D. XXXVIII (1538). The title page includes the engraved printer's device of Iacobus (Giacomo) Giunta, heir of the Florentine family of printers, who founded a printing house at Lyon under their name. Recent three quarter calf over marbled boards. Folio, 277 leaves. Minor insect damage in margins of a few leaves. Old dampstain in margins of about the second two third of the text block. Binding in very good condition. Divo's translation of the Iliad is uncommon at best. (Subject: Medieval, Early Printed Books & Cartography.)

London, printed for John Wright, 1578.. TITLE CONTINUED: with the antiquitie, and commendations thereof. Newely English, and increased, by Barnabe Googe, Esquire. SECOND ENGLISH EDITION 1578, translated by Barnabe Googe, first published in 1577. 8vo, approximately 190 x 130 mm, 7½ x 5 inches. LACKS ALL 11 leaves of PRELIMS, TEXT STARTS ON PAGE 1, TITLE PAGE AND FINAL 2 LEAVES IN FACSIMILE, GATHERING F (8 LEAVES i.e. pages 41-48) INSERTED FROM A SMALLER BLACK LETTER COPY. Full page woodcut armorial coat of arms on verso title page, small text illustration on verso page 130, and a few pictorial initials, mostly printed in black letter. Leaves: 1-193 [1], some mispagination, collation and all catchwords correct, printed side notes, the last 2 leaves in facsimile: 1 on bees, the other on Olde English Rules for Purchasing Land, Colophon on verso, rebound in pale brown buckram at sometime, gilt title and date to spine, new cream endpapers, edges stained red. First leaf damaged at head and repaired with… Read More

London: for John Wight,, 1586. Early beekeeping in England Third edition of Googe's English translation of an extensive manual of husbandry. Googe's version, first printed in 1577 and based on the original German of 1570, is among the most important contributions to early English farming literature and contributed to the advancement of farming technology in the country. The work is composed of four books, each written in the form of a Socratic dialogue between different characters, usually country gentlemen and city dwellers. Drawing from the classical precedents of Columella, Xenophon, and numerous other ancient authors (listed on leaf *** verso), the treatise deals with all aspects of farming and agriculture, with sections on the location of the farm, the tasks of the farmer, manager and servants, climate, soil, crops, harvesting, gardening, and the care of animals. Googe's translation "introduced the more advanced farming techniques of the Lowlands to England, and it is memorable for its… Read More