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London: Printed for Benjamin Billingsley, at the sign of the Printing Press, in the piazza of the Royal Exchange, over against Popes-Head-Alley, in Cornhill, 1675. Two volumes bound as one; octavo (17 x 12 cm.), [8], 159, 158-246; 136, [16] pages; with errors in pagination as issued. Two engraved, illustrated additional titles. Publisher's advertisement on verso of the terminal leaf. Indexes. Second part has separate title page: New additions to the art of husbandry : comprizing a new way of enriching meadows, destroying of moles, making tulips of any colour : with an approved way for ordering of fish and fish-ponds, and destroying the hern... Third Edition. A scarce work on husbandry, attributed to Joseph Blagrave by Wing. Blagrave was a noted 17th century astrologer and authority on the practice of physic. It was edited by his nephew Obadiah Blagrave (DNB), a London bookseller, who along with Benjamin Billingsley originally published the first part of the work in 1669. The second part, titled New… Read More

London, printed for Benjamin Billingsley, at the sign of the Printing-Press, in the piazza of the Royal Exchange, over against Popes-Head-Alley, in Corn-Hill, 1675.. TITLE CONTINUED: together with the gentlemans heroick exercise discoursing of horses, their nature, and use, with their diseases and remedies: of oxen, cows, calves, sheep, hogs, with the manner of ordering them, their diseases and remedies. Of the nature of marle, the best way of planting clover-grass, hops, saffron, liquorice, hemp, &c. To which is annexed by way of appendix, a new method of planting fruit-trees, and improving of an orchard: with directions for taking, ordering, teaching, and curing of singing birds, and other useful additions. By J.B. Gent. THIRD EDITION WITH NEW ADDITIONS IN 2 PARTS, 1675. Small 8vo, approximately 170 x 100 mm, 6½ x 4 inches, 2 engraved pictorial title pages and 2 printed title pages, pages: [8], 1-159, 158-246, mistake in pagination as in all copies, no duplication. Second Part: 1-136, followed by… Read More

London : Printed for Benjamin Billingsley, 1670-01-01. 2nd . Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes bound as one. Bound with the 1670 New Additions to the Epitome of the Art of Husbandry. 306p, index; 59 p., ads. Rebound in mid-20th century brown leather. Moroccan leather spine label. Handsome binding and cover. When rebound, owner added 2 blank pages for notes between each original page, and several of these have pencil notation. Pages slightly toned. Head margins of last few pages of Epitomes and of the New Additions trimmed close. Wing B3118 & B3120a; (ESTC R35346; Goldsmiths 2580, in ref to 1685 edition) Epitomie. An important early English work in agriculture. Blagrave's art of husbandry was actively used in colonial New England.