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Blith (Walter) The English Improover, or A new Survey of Husbandry, Discovering to the kingdome, that some land, both arrable and pasture, may be advanced double or treeble; other land to a five or tenfold: and some to a twenty fold improvement: yea, some now not worth above one, or two shillings per acre, be made worth thirty, or forty, if not more, first edition, a few ff. trimmed close at head, 20th century calf, gilt, spine faded, [Fussell pp.51-52; McDonald pp.97-103; Wing B3193], small 4to, printed for I. Wright at the Kings Head in the Old-Bayley, 1649.
*** Robert Trow-Smith in his English Husbandry, 1951 calls Blith "the greatest of the mid-seventeenth century writers".](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/61db35e6-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/0a8b5b82-b291-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "269
Blith (Walter) The English Improover, or A new Survey of Husbandry, Discovering to the kingdome, that some land, both arrable and pasture, may be advanced double or treeble; other land to a five or tenfold: and some to a twenty fold improvement: yea, some now not worth above one, or two shillings per acre, be made worth thirty, or forty, if not more, first edition, a few ff. trimmed close at head, 20th century calf, gilt, spine faded, [Fussell pp.51-52; McDonald pp.97-103; Wing B3193], small 4to, printed for I. Wright at the Kings Head in the Old-Bayley, 1649.
*** Robert Trow-Smith in his English Husbandry, 1951 calls Blith \"the greatest of the mid-seventeenth century writers\".")
Description
Blith (Walter) The English Improover, or A new Survey of Husbandry, Discovering to the kingdome, that some land, both arrable and pasture, may be advanced double or treeble; other land to a five or tenfold: and some to a twenty fold improvement: yea, some now not worth above one, or two shillings per acre, be made worth thirty, or forty, if not more, first edition, a few ff. trimmed close at head, 20th century calf, gilt, spine faded, [Fussell pp.51-52; McDonald pp.97-103; Wing B3193], small 4to, printed for I. Wright at the Kings Head in the Old-Bayley, 1649.
⁂ Robert Trow-Smith in his English Husbandry, 1951 calls Blith "the greatest of the mid-seventeenth century writers".
Lot 269
Blith (Walter) The English Improover, or A new Survey of Husbandry, 1649.
Hammer Price: £650
Description
Blith (Walter) The English Improover, or A new Survey of Husbandry, Discovering to the kingdome, that some land, both arrable and pasture, may be advanced double or treeble; other land to a five or tenfold: and some to a twenty fold improvement: yea, some now not worth above one, or two shillings per acre, be made worth thirty, or forty, if not more, first edition, a few ff. trimmed close at head, 20th century calf, gilt, spine faded, [Fussell pp.51-52; McDonald pp.97-103; Wing B3193], small 4to, printed for I. Wright at the Kings Head in the Old-Bayley, 1649.
⁂ Robert Trow-Smith in his English Husbandry, 1951 calls Blith "the greatest of the mid-seventeenth century writers".
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