Lot 20
Mascall (Leonard) A Booke of Engines and traps to take Polecats, Buzardes, Rattes, Mice and all other kindes of Vermine, part 2 only, first edition, Printed by John Wolfe, and are to be sold by Edward White, 1590.
Hammer Price: £750
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Mascall (Leonard) A Booke of Engines and traps to take Polecats, Buzardes, Rattes, Mice and all other kindes of Vermine, part 2 only, first edition, largely printed in black letter, title with woodcut vignette, other woodcut illustrations and diagrams, folding woodcut plate signed "L4" and numbered "87," collates from G2-M2 i.e. bound without all of part 1 and leaf G1, a few headlines shaved, later red half roan over marbled boards, worn, [STC 17572; Litchfield 1; Schwerdt 2:17], 4to, Printed by John Wolfe, and are to be sold by Edward White, 1590.
⁂ First edition of the second half of Mascall's treatise entitled A Booke of Fishing with Hooke & Line. While his fishing text is freely adapted from Dame Juliana Berners' Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle (1496), his discourse on hunting and trapping is largely original, and, in Schwerdt's opinion, "the earliest special treatise of its kind."
Description
Mascall (Leonard) A Booke of Engines and traps to take Polecats, Buzardes, Rattes, Mice and all other kindes of Vermine, part 2 only, first edition, largely printed in black letter, title with woodcut vignette, other woodcut illustrations and diagrams, folding woodcut plate signed "L4" and numbered "87," collates from G2-M2 i.e. bound without all of part 1 and leaf G1, a few headlines shaved, later red half roan over marbled boards, worn, [STC 17572; Litchfield 1; Schwerdt 2:17], 4to, Printed by John Wolfe, and are to be sold by Edward White, 1590.
⁂ First edition of the second half of Mascall's treatise entitled A Booke of Fishing with Hooke & Line. While his fishing text is freely adapted from Dame Juliana Berners' Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle (1496), his discourse on hunting and trapping is largely original, and, in Schwerdt's opinion, "the earliest special treatise of its kind."
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