The Rothamsted Collection, Day 2: Rarities from the Lawes Agricultural Library
Wednesday 11th July 2018 | 10:30 am | Lots:
LOT 260
Coke (Sir Edward) The Compleate Copy-Holder, first edition, 1641.
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £850
LOT 261
Fens Drainage.- Vermuyden (Sir Cornelius) A Discourse touching the Drayning the Great Fennes...,...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £11,000
LOT 262
Herbal.- Theophrastus. De Historia plantarum libri decem, Amsterdam, H. Laurentius, 1644.
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £1,200
LOT 263
Herbal.- Dodoens (Rembert) Cruydt-Boeck, Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus, 1644.
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £1,600
LOT 264
The Quartermaster's Map.- Jenner (Thomas) The Kingdome of England & Principality of...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £1,200
LOT 265
Tanara (Vincenzo) L'Economia del Cittadino in Villa...libri VII, first edition, Bologna, Giacomo...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £800
LOT 266
Markham (Gervase) A Way to Get Wealth, seventh edition, 1648; and 5 others (6)
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £1,000
LOT 267
Husbandry.- Weston (Sir Richard) Sr Rich: Westons improvement of Husbandrie... coppied out by...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £8,500
LOT 268
Fens Drainage.- Act (An) for the Draining of the Great Level of the Fens..., by John Field for...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £450
LOT 269
Blith (Walter) The English Improover, or A new Survey of Husbandry, 1649.
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £650
LOT 270
Gardens.- Rhagor (Daniel) Pflantz-Gart darinn grundtlicher Bericht zu finden welcher...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £100
![Surveying.- [Leybourn (William)] Planometria: or the Whole Art of Surveying of Land: Shewing the Composition, and Use of All the Most Necessary Instruments the](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/c8e035e6-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/df009339-b391-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Surveying.- [Leybourn (William)] Planometria: or the Whole Art of Surveying of Land: Shewing the Composition, and Use of All the Most Necessary Instruments the")
LOT 271
Surveying.- [Leybourn (William)] Planometria: or the Whole Art of Surveying of Land: Shewing the...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £4,800
![Estienne (Charles) and Jean Liebault., L'Agriculture et Maison Rustique, Lyon, Chez Simon Rigaud, [c.1650]; and 16 others French (17)](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/4eeb35e6-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/db7fbe3c-b491-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Estienne (Charles) and Jean Liebault., L'Agriculture et Maison Rustique, Lyon, Chez Simon Rigaud, [c.1650]; and 16 others French (17)")
LOT 272
Estienne (Charles) and Jean Liebault., L'Agriculture et Maison Rustique, Lyon, Chez Simon...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £800
LOT 273
Law.- Coke (Sir Edward) The Compleat Copy-holder, wherein is Contained a Learned Discourse of...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £800
LOT 274
Hartlib (Samuel).- Weston (Sir Richard) A Discours of Husbandrie used in Brabant and Flanders,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £550
LOT 275
Hartlib (Samuel) Samuel Hartlib His Legacie: or an Enlargement of the Discourse of Husbandry,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £650
LOT 276
Education.- Benese (Richard) The Hidden Treasure Discovered by the Surveyor Schoolmaster... ,...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £4,800
LOT 277
Hill (Thomas) The Gardeners Labyrinth, or, A New Art of Gardning, Printed by Jane Bell,...
Estimate: £750 - £1,000
Hammer Price: £1,800
LOT 278
Hartlib (Samuel) A Designe for Plentie, By an Universall Planting of Fruit-Trees, first edition,...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,600
![Hartlib (Samuel).- Weston (Sir Richard) A Discours of Husbandrie used in Brabant and Flanders..., second edition, by William Du-Gard [for Samuel Hartlib], 165](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/ced535e6-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/522ce4cc-b191-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Hartlib (Samuel).- Weston (Sir Richard) A Discours of Husbandrie used in Brabant and Flanders..., second edition, by William Du-Gard [for Samuel Hartlib], 165")
LOT 279
Hartlib (Samuel).- Weston (Sir Richard) A Discours of Husbandrie used in Brabant and...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £180
LOT 280
Ireland.- Boate (Gerard) Irelands Naturall History. Being a true and ample description of its...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £4,800
![T[aylor] (S[ilvanus]) Common-Good: or, the Improvement of Commons, Forests, and Chases, 1652.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/97dc35e6-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/5ba81caf-b291-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "T[aylor] (S[ilvanus]) Common-Good: or, the Improvement of Commons, Forests, and Chases, 1652.")
LOT 281
T[aylor] (S[ilvanus]) Common-Good: or, the Improvement of Commons, Forests, and Chases,...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £1,800
LOT 282
Blith (Walter) The English Improver Improved or the Survey of Husbandry Surveyed, Discovering...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £100
LOT 283
Dalechamps (Jacques) Histoire Generale des Plantes, 2 vol., Lyon, Philip. Borde, Laur. Arnaud, &...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,200
LOT 284
Surveying.- Leybourn (William) The Compleat Surveyor: Containing the whole Art of Surveying of...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £1,100
LOT 285
Fruit-trees.- Austen (Ralph) A Treatise of Fruit-Trees, Shewing the Manner of Grafting, Setting,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £1,900
LOT 286
Poverty.- Moore (Adam) Bread for the Poor... Promised by Enclosure of the Wastes and Common...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £1,800
![Enclosures.- [Lee (Joseph)] Considerations concerning Common Fields and Inclosures, Dialoguewise, Digested into a Deliberative Discourse between two supposed f](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/05de35e6-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/105f5ee0-b291-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Enclosures.- [Lee (Joseph)] Considerations concerning Common Fields and Inclosures, Dialoguewise, Digested into a Deliberative Discourse between two supposed f")
LOT 287
Enclosures.- [Lee (Joseph)] Considerations concerning Common Fields and Inclosures,...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £320
![Plat (Sir Hugh) The Jewel House of Art and Nature: containing Divers Rare and Profitable Inventions, together with sundry new experiments in in [sic] the Art o](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/48e235e6-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/7f75e264-b391-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Plat (Sir Hugh) The Jewel House of Art and Nature: containing Divers Rare and Profitable Inventions, together with sundry new experiments in in [sic] the Art o")
LOT 288
Plat (Sir Hugh) The Jewel House of Art and Nature: containing Divers Rare and Profitable...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £1,000
LOT 289
Blith (Walter) The English Improver Improved or the Survey of Husbandry Surveyed, Discovering...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £220
LOT 290
Gardens.- Barker (Thomas) The Country-mans Recreation, by T.Mabb, for William Shears, 1654 & 2...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £1,000
LOT 291
Glauber (Johann Rudolf) Pharmacopaeae Spagyricae, Nuremberg, 1654-57; bound with other works by...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £3,800
LOT 292
Hartlib (Samuel) The Reformed Common-Wealth of Bees...with The Reformed Virginian Silk-Worm...,...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £3,500
LOT 293
Hartlib (Samuel) Samuel Hartlib His Legacy of Husbandry, by J.M. for Richard Wodenothe, 1655; and 4...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £550
LOT 294
Hartlib (Samuel) Samuel Hartlib His Legacy of Husbandry, by J.M. for Richard Wodenothe, 1655 & 8...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £7,000
LOT 295
Plat (Sir Hugh) The Garden of Eden: or, An accurate Description of all Flowers and Fruits now...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £1,600
LOT 296
Barclay (Alexander) The Shepheards Kalender Newly Augmented and Corrected, first edition,...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £7,000
LOT 297
Plattes (Gabriel) Practicall Husbandry Improved: or, a Discovery of Infinite Treasure, Hidden...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 298
West Indies.- Ligon (Richard) A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados, first edition,...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £6,500
LOT 299
Fruit-trees.- Austen (Ralph) Observations upon some part of Sr Francis Bacon's Naturall History...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £1,100
LOT 300
Fruit-trees.- Austen (Ralph) A Treatise of Fruit-Trees, second edition, Oxford, by Henry Hall,...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £800
![Orchards.- B[eale] (J[ohn]) Herefordshire Orchards, A Pattern for all England, first edition, 1657.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/d2d835e6-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/349bf629-b291-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Orchards.- B[eale] (J[ohn]) Herefordshire Orchards, A Pattern for all England, first edition, 1657.")
LOT 301
Orchards.- B[eale] (J[ohn]) Herefordshire Orchards, A Pattern for all England, first edition,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £2,200
LOT 302
Bees.- Purchas (Samuel) A Theatre of Politicall Flying-Insects. Wherein Especially the Nature,...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £4,000
LOT 303
Markham (Gervase) A Way to Get Wealth, 6 parts in 1 vol., ninth edition, 1657; and 5 others...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £900
LOT 304
Glauber (Johann Rudolf) Opera Chymica, 2 vol. in 1, Frankfurt am Main, Thomas Matthias Goetz,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 305
Speed (Adolphus) Adam out of Eden, or, an abstract of divers excellent Experiments touching the...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 306
Le Gendre (Antione) The Manner of Ordering Fruit-Trees..., Wherein is Treated of Nurseries,...
Estimate: £750 - £1,000
Hammer Price: £2,200
LOT 307
Somner (William) A Treatise of Gavelkind, Both Name and Thing. Shewing the True Etymologie and...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £380
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