Agriculture.- Estienne (Charles) & Jean Liebault. Maison Rustique, or the Countrey Farme, translated by Richard Surflet, edited and augmented by Gervase Markham, third edition in English, the first edited by Gervase Markham, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut illustrations and diagrams, woodcut decorative initials and head- and tail-pieces, lacking initial and final blanks and Z3&4 (woodcuts of knots, supplied in facsimile), a few marginal repairs, occasional ink pen trials or smudges, some marginal water-staining (mostly at start), occasional spotting or staining, lightly browned, antique style blind-ruled brown morocco, spine in compartments and with gilt title, [Bitting p.146-147; British Bee Books 16 (first English edition); Fussell p.13; Goldsmiths' 451; Hunt 202; Kress 353; Poynter 31.1.; Schwerdt I, 166 (first English edition); Simon, BG, 610 (note); STC 10549], folio, Printed by Adam Islip for John Bill, 1616.

⁂ The first edition to be edited by Markham. Includes chapters on bees, herbs, vegetables, bread, distillation, wines, cider, falconry and hunting.