THE EPITOME OF THE ART OF HUSBANDRY. Comprizing all necessary directions for the improvement of it, viz. plowing, sowing, grafting, gardening, ordering of flowers, herbs; directions for the use of the angle; ordering of bees:
BLAGRAVE, Joseph.
Published by 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
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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, error in pagination in all copies, no duplication. Second Part: 1-136, followed by 16 pages of index, last page publisher's advert, rebound in full modern speckled calf, gilt lettered label, gilt rules and date to spine, new cream endpapers. First engraved title laid down on old paper, tips of corners rounded, old ink name on blank side, small neat repairs to tips of 2 lower corners and 1 outer margin, not near text, pale age-browning throughout with occasional small brown spot, occasional nick to edges, light creasing to a few corners, old ink name to top of first letterpress title page, second name scribbled out, a good copy. A large part of New Additions (pages 51-136) is on singing birds, in the first part there are several brief mentions of bees and angling. The author's character appears to have been a curious mixture of earnest piety with a profound belief in the virtues of astrology, he also performed a curious healing of a deaf and dumb girl (Dictionary of National Biography). See: Agricultural Writers by Donald McDonald, page 124 with images of title pages; Mary Aslin, Catalogue of Printed Books on Agriculture, page 17; Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel Hunt, Volume 1, No. 336, pages 359-360; The Library of John Gerrard Heckscher of New York, No. 205, page 32; Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Medical Library, Volume 2, page 174; British Bee Books A Bibliograpy 1500-1976, page 53, No. 41; ESTC R4466. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. Seller Inventory # 49144
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Title: THE EPITOME OF THE ART OF HUSBANDRY. ...
Publisher: 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
Publication Date: 1675
Binding: Hardcover
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The epitome of the art of husbandry. Comprizing all necessary directions for the improvement of it, viz. plowing, sowing, grafting, gardening, ordering of flowers, herbs; directions for the use of the angle; ordering of bees:
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Full-Leather. Condition: Good. Pp. (iv) (viii) 160 159-246; 136 [8], 2 additional engraved titles, contemporary sprinkled calf (worn to edges, corners bumped), red morocco spine label, front board only attached by one cord and almost detached, a few pages are lightly foxed with signatures G and H in the appendix heavily so, there are small ink burn holes in O1, P2 and Q8 of the main work with the loss of a few letters, modern woodcut bookplate by Andy Englsh and small oval ownership label (Alan John Jarvis) on the front pastedown, 8v, ESTC R35346, Goldsmiths' 2580 The 136pp appendix has it's own title page headed "New Additions" The main title continues "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". Seller Inventory # 13298
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The epitome of the art of husbandry : comprizing all necessary directions for the improvement of it, viz. : plowing, sowing, grafting, gardening, ordering of flowers, herbs, directions for the use of the angle, ordering of bees, 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, liquorish, hemp, etc. : to which is annexed by way of appendix a new method of planting fruit trees and improving of an orchard
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Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd . 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. Seller Inventory # 1605300030
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THE EPITOME OF THE ART OF HUSBANDRY. Comprizing all necessary directions for the improvement of it, viz. plowing, sowing, grafting, gardening, ordering of flowers, herbs; directions for the use of the angle; ordering of bees:
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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 Corn-Hill, 1675
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Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
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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, error in pagination in all copies, no duplication. Second Part: 1-136, followed by 16 pages of index, last page publisher's advert, rebound in full modern speckled calf, gilt lettered label, gilt rules and date to spine, new cream endpapers. First engraved title laid down on old paper, tips of corners rounded, old ink name on blank side, small neat repairs to tips of 2 lower corners and 1 outer margin, not near text, pale age-browning throughout with occasional small brown spot, occasional nick to edges, light creasing to a few corners, old ink name to top of first letterpress title page, second name scribbled out, a good copy. A large part of New Additions (pages 51-136) is on singing birds, in the first part there are several brief mentions of bees and angling. The author's character appears to have been a curious mixture of earnest piety with a profound belief in the virtues of astrology, he also performed a curious healing of a deaf and dumb girl (Dictionary of National Biography). See: Agricultural Writers by Donald McDonald, page 124 with images of title pages; Mary Aslin, Catalogue of Printed Books on Agriculture, page 17; Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel Hunt, Volume 1, No. 336, pages 359-360; The Library of John Gerrard Heckscher of New York, No. 205, page 32; Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Medical Library, Volume 2, page 174; British Bee Books A Bibliograpy 1500-1976, page 53, No. 41; ESTC R4466. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. Seller Inventory # 50552
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