Markham Gervaise (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Vol II only. limited to 275 small paper copies.72pp. Spine chipped at head and a little grubby. A Bibliotheca Curiosa edition. Vellum binding.

64p. facsimile f 1639 edition. The next stage- small unit drill and manoeuvre for Horse & Foot.

65p. facsimile of 1639 ed. Larger unit excercises - third part of THE SOULDIERS EXERCISE.

8vo, (225x150mm), xvi,[75]p. some occasional slight spotting. Untrimmed in original parchment paper hardback boards, A facsimile of a black letter text printed in London in 1598. STC attributes the authorship to Gervaise Markham but a note on ESTC states 'not convinced we know Markham is author.' Please note that the advised postage is based on an average book, if necessary the postage will be reduced to the correct amount and you will be notified by email.

80p, Facsimile of Foot & Horse drill manual 1635.

200p. Facsimile of 1639 complete edition of this important ECW drill and manouevre manual (parts available separately).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. This edition published 1637. Printed by Anne Griffin for John Harisson. [10], 252, pp. Page 39-42 missing and replaced with facsimiles. All other pages present, but some in the wrong order and some missprinted page numbers. Part of upper right corner of page [6] torn off, no text missing. page 96 with lower margin cut. Page 167/168 with a small burn hole in outer margin. Page 167 also with a small ink note in outer margin, "quit". Later half leather with marbled boards, somewhat worn, but mainly at edges. Small light waterstain in lower margin of pages 101-110. Some minor sporadic light stains throughout. But overall the interior is very bright and clean. Gervase (or Jervis) Markham (ca. 1568 ż February 3, 1637) was an English poet and writer, best known for his work: A WAY TO GET WEALTH. , Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman first published in London in 1615.

TITLE CONTINUED: As her skill in Physick, Surgery, Cookery, Extraction of Oyles, Banquetting stuffe, Ordering of great Feasts, Preserving of all sorts of Wines, Conceited Secrets, Distilations, Perfumes, ordering of Wooll, Hempe, Flax, making Cloth, and Dying: : the knowledge of Dayries, Office of Malting, of Oates, their excellent uses in a Family, of Brewing, Baking and all other things belonging to an Houshold. A Worke generally approved, and now the fifth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this Kingdome. By G.M. Part of The Way to get Wealth first published in 1623, the first edition of the English House-Wife was published in 1615, and is very scarce. FIFTH EDITiON 1637. 8vo, approximately 190 x 130 mm, 7½ x 5 inches, printer's woodcut device on title, printed marginal notes and tiny printed pointing hands, a few decorated initials and headpieces, pages: [x] 1- 252, slight mispagination with correct numbers penciled in, all catch words correct, lacks A1 blank, bound in quarter modern calf over marbled boards, new endpapers. 3 inner margins repaired, not affecting text, page 175 has loss of 7 words at the beginning of sentences which have been replaced in ink on old paper and pasted in (see attached image), a few top edges are slightly chipped, not affecting text, age toning to top margins, occasional pale brown spot and stain, a 2 word ink note on last page, a good copy of an early edition. The Cookery section starts on page 62 and runs to page 140. See: A Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, Volume 1, page 216, No.4076; English Cookery Books to the Year 1850 by Arnold Whitaker Oxford, page 15; Andre L. Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica, A Catalogue of Books and Documents on Gastronomy, page 98; Gastronomic Bibliography by Katherine Bitting, page 309; F. N. L. Poynter, A Bibliography of Gervase Markham 1568-1637, page 162. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Limp vellum. Condition: Good +. 1st Edition. 4to., 18cm.; 346pp., missing blank front fly leaf and G1 and G4, G4 is the rear blank fly leaf with no loss of text; 7 text illustrations; Contemporary limp vellum binding with inked author, title and date to spine. Japanese tissue repair applied to several pages, including title. Front vellum cover lined. Contains a few small contemporary manuscript marginalia/notations on rear flyleaf, including a drawing of a rooster and previous owners name (Thomas Wellington). Vellum stiffened and pages show soiling, top-edge shows coal dust. Presented in a full-calf, blind-tooled clamshell with gilt lettering. The English Husbandman includes the first layout of an English house to appear in print. (Cooper) (Fussell I).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second Edition, first published the previous year, Small 8vo, engraved title page in facsimile, , some worm damage to the bottom margins, not affecting text, some light dampstaining throughout, C19th century calf, edges rubbed, Poynter 29.2, Wing M671.