Lot 244
Vermuyden (Sir Cornelius) A Discourse touching the Drayning the Great Fennes, first edition, Printed by Thomas Fawcet, 1642.
Hammer Price: £900
Description
Vermuyden (Sir Cornelius) A Discourse touching the Drayning the Great Fennes, first edition, with the rare leaf A1 with large woodcut of Royal arms, title with typographic border, lacking the map, woodcut initials, later marbled wrappers, [Wing V241], 4to, Printed by Thomas Fawcet, 1642.
⁂ Vermuyden (1595-1677), a Dutch engineer, wrote this discourse for Charles I in 1637, although it was not published until 1642, and made two proposals: washes (areas of land permitted to flood in times of very wet weather) and a catchdrain at the eastern edge of the fen. The washes were constructed in the 1650s but the catchdrain not until the 1960s. Having been appointed as agent by Charles I in 1639 the Civil War interrupted the works and did not proceed again until 1649, being completed in 1652.
ESTC lists 7 UK locations, but the collation given (?BL) is lacking the first leaf. Only 3 copies have appeared at auction including, most recently, the Rothamsted copy with map, which sold in these rooms in July 2018 for £11,000.
Description
Vermuyden (Sir Cornelius) A Discourse touching the Drayning the Great Fennes, first edition, with the rare leaf A1 with large woodcut of Royal arms, title with typographic border, lacking the map, woodcut initials, later marbled wrappers, [Wing V241], 4to, Printed by Thomas Fawcet, 1642.
⁂ Vermuyden (1595-1677), a Dutch engineer, wrote this discourse for Charles I in 1637, although it was not published until 1642, and made two proposals: washes (areas of land permitted to flood in times of very wet weather) and a catchdrain at the eastern edge of the fen. The washes were constructed in the 1650s but the catchdrain not until the 1960s. Having been appointed as agent by Charles I in 1639 the Civil War interrupted the works and did not proceed again until 1649, being completed in 1652.
ESTC lists 7 UK locations, but the collation given (?BL) is lacking the first leaf. Only 3 copies have appeared at auction including, most recently, the Rothamsted copy with map, which sold in these rooms in July 2018 for £11,000.
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