Lot 377
Husbandry.- Nourse (Timothy) Campania Foelix. Or, a Discourse of the Benefits and Improvements of Husbandry...As also for the making of Cyder and Perry, first edition, for Tho. Bennet, [1700].
Estimate: £300 - 400
Description
Husbandry.- Nourse (Timothy) Campania Foelix. Or, a Discourse of the Benefits and Improvements of Husbandry: Containing Directions for all manner of Tillage, Pasturage, and Plantation; As also for the making of Cyder and Perry, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 6pp. advertisements at end, title imprint with date erased and corrected to 1705 in ink manuscript, foxed and browned, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked, corners worn, [Fussell p.85; McDonald pp.144-147; Wing N1416], 8vo, for Tho. Bennet, [1700].
⁂ Includes sections on enclosure, timber, inns and alehouses, servants and labourers, the poor and the fuel of London.
Provenance: Henry Streatfeild (armorial bookplate; ownership name to head of title)
Description
Husbandry.- Nourse (Timothy) Campania Foelix. Or, a Discourse of the Benefits and Improvements of Husbandry: Containing Directions for all manner of Tillage, Pasturage, and Plantation; As also for the making of Cyder and Perry, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 6pp. advertisements at end, title imprint with date erased and corrected to 1705 in ink manuscript, foxed and browned, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked, corners worn, [Fussell p.85; McDonald pp.144-147; Wing N1416], 8vo, for Tho. Bennet, [1700].
⁂ Includes sections on enclosure, timber, inns and alehouses, servants and labourers, the poor and the fuel of London.
Provenance: Henry Streatfeild (armorial bookplate; ownership name to head of title)
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