Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers, avec un traité des orangers et des reflexions sur l'agriculture by La Quintinye, Jean-Baptiste - 1692

London: Printed by T.H. and are to bee sold by Nathaniell Butter., 1640. Hardcover. Good. Octavo contemporary sheep with later gilt label & ornamentation of spine, front board detached. Small scarlet embossed bookplate of cat with motto and modern ownership label John Lawson. Philip Bliss' copy, with his "P" mark and date of purchase (1840) on B1, edges slightly browned and occasional spotting, 213pp. *The second edition, first published posthumously in 1607, of a work by the classical scholar Henry Cuffe, professor of Greek at Oxford and later adviser to the Earl of Essex, after whose fall he was executed for treason in 1601. Bacon calls him a great scholar, and "a notable traitor by the book, being otherwise a turbulent and mutinous spirit against all superiors". In this work he "shows wide reading in the writings of the Greek philosophers; a belief in astrology, and faith in a divine providence" (DNB). This copy belonged to Philip Bliss (1787-1857) antiquary and book collector, whose library was… Read More

VENETIA : APPRESSO GIO. GUERIGLI, 1626. In 8. Dim. 24x18 cm. Pp. (62)+453+(1), (8)+164+(8), (4)+36. Rara raccolta di tre opere scritte dal letterato, poeta e drammaturgo italiano Gabriele Zinano (Reggio nell'Emilia 1557-1635) autore di dialoghi, trattati, rime e poemi eroici. Zinano è stato uno dei rappresentanti della poesia barocca e del movimento artistico e letterario del marinismo. Le tre opere di Zinano sono tutte state pubblicate nel 1626 e 1625 da "Giovanni Gueriglio". La prima opera del 1626 è politica "Della ragione de gli stati" nel quale tratta l'argomento della gestione degli Stati (diversi tipi di Stato, cambaimenti degli stati, cambiamento delle monarchie e repubbliche, corruzioni interne ed esterne degli stati, il principe, difesa dello Stato da pericoli interni ed esterni ecc...). La seconda del 1625 "Il segretario" sulla gestione degli affari e del mestiere sia privato che statale (l'abito, il trattare, i fatti segreti, il… Read More

London. Good+. 1728. First Edition. Hardcover. Title continued: whereby estates may be greatly improved. Offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of Great-Britain. By Batty Langly of Twickenham. Printed for Francis Clay at the Bible, and Daniel Brown at the Black-Swan, without Temple-Bar. Original binding in leather. Spine with raised bands and gilt label. Both hinges are cracked with covers firmly attached. Fold out engraved frontispiece. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact without foxing. Title in red and black ink. Decorative head and tail pieces. United Kingdom; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 274 pages .

London:: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,, 1853.. First edition. Near Fine. Near Fine Condition. Folio (11.5 x 14 inches). Original publisher's cloth with floral blind embossed decoration and gilt lettering to cover. Faint owner's signature dated 1854 on ff. Skillfully rebacked with gilt-lettered cloth spine. Lower corners slightly bumped, otherwise a very nice copy. Pp. 96, fully illustrated with colored wood engravings. Each leaf has two separate colored wood-engraved botanical illustrations on the top third of the page, with the accompanying text below. Anne Pratt (1806-1893), a grocer's daughter from Kent and author of Common Things of the Seaside and Our Native Songsters, illustrated all of her botanical books in the spirit of the Victorian Naturalists and successfully merged the study of botany with romantic flower-lore. Wild Flowers is Miss Pratt's first botanical work. In 1855, she produced her hallmark work on British Flora: The Flowering Plants and… Read More

Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana Apud Balthasarem Moretum et Viduam Ioannis Moreti et Io. Meursium, first edition., 1623. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine engraved title with globe, cherubs & gods, second engraved showing angry men with torches & axes and a hydra monsteer by Cornelis Galle (1576-1650) after Rubens + 44 full-page copperplates by Collart and others + 55 nice initials with figural & anima. Three Volumes in Two folios. Full vellum with yapp edges and old ink titles to spines (Vol.I-II with vellum repair to split front hinge of spine, both Vols lack ties, some marks but mostly well-preserved, clean vellum). Vol.I half title + 1st engraved title +[32]pp prelims +409(recte 411)pp +[1]p blank; Vol.II half title +415-707 +[1]p cherubim & motto +[113]pp index with privilege at end + colophon dated 1623 + Plantin printer's device to last leaf. Vol.III half title + 2nd engraved title +[4]pp prelims +678pp + [107]pp index + colophon dated 1623 + printer's device to last leaf. Some page mis-numbering,… Read More

London: Printed by T.H. and are to bee sold by Nathaniell Butter., 1640. Hardcover. Good. Octavo contemporary sheep with later gilt label & ornamentation of spine, front board detached. Small scarlet embossed bookplate of cat with motto and modern ownership label John Lawson. Philip Bliss' copy, with his "P" mark and date of purchase (1840) on B1, edges slightly browned and occasional spotting, 213pp. *The second edition, first published posthumously in 1607, of a work by the classical scholar Henry Cuffe, professor of Greek at Oxford and later adviser to the Earl of Essex, after whose fall he was executed for treason in 1601. Bacon calls him a great scholar, and "a notable traitor by the book, being otherwise a turbulent and mutinous spirit against all superiors". In this work he "shows wide reading in the writings of the Greek philosophers; a belief in astrology, and faith in a divine providence" (DNB). This copy belonged to Philip Bliss (1787-1857) antiquary and book collector, whose library was… Read More

VENETIA : APPRESSO GIO. GUERIGLI, 1626. In 8. Dim. 24x18 cm. Pp. (62)+453+(1), (8)+164+(8), (4)+36. Rara raccolta di tre opere scritte dal letterato, poeta e drammaturgo italiano Gabriele Zinano (Reggio nell'Emilia 1557-1635) autore di dialoghi, trattati, rime e poemi eroici. Zinano è stato uno dei rappresentanti della poesia barocca e del movimento artistico e letterario del marinismo. Le tre opere di Zinano sono tutte state pubblicate nel 1626 e 1625 da "Giovanni Gueriglio". La prima opera del 1626 è politica "Della ragione de gli stati" nel quale tratta l'argomento della gestione degli Stati (diversi tipi di Stato, cambaimenti degli stati, cambiamento delle monarchie e repubbliche, corruzioni interne ed esterne degli stati, il principe, difesa dello Stato da pericoli interni ed esterni ecc...). La seconda del 1625 "Il segretario" sulla gestione degli affari e del mestiere sia privato che statale (l'abito, il trattare, i fatti segreti, il… Read More

London. Good+. 1728. First Edition. Hardcover. Title continued: whereby estates may be greatly improved. Offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of Great-Britain. By Batty Langly of Twickenham. Printed for Francis Clay at the Bible, and Daniel Brown at the Black-Swan, without Temple-Bar. Original binding in leather. Spine with raised bands and gilt label. Both hinges are cracked with covers firmly attached. Fold out engraved frontispiece. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact without foxing. Title in red and black ink. Decorative head and tail pieces. United Kingdom; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 274 pages .

London:: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,, 1853.. First edition. Near Fine. Near Fine Condition. Folio (11.5 x 14 inches). Original publisher's cloth with floral blind embossed decoration and gilt lettering to cover. Faint owner's signature dated 1854 on ff. Skillfully rebacked with gilt-lettered cloth spine. Lower corners slightly bumped, otherwise a very nice copy. Pp. 96, fully illustrated with colored wood engravings. Each leaf has two separate colored wood-engraved botanical illustrations on the top third of the page, with the accompanying text below. Anne Pratt (1806-1893), a grocer's daughter from Kent and author of Common Things of the Seaside and Our Native Songsters, illustrated all of her botanical books in the spirit of the Victorian Naturalists and successfully merged the study of botany with romantic flower-lore. Wild Flowers is Miss Pratt's first botanical work. In 1855, she produced her hallmark work on British Flora: The Flowering Plants and… Read More

Antwerp: ex Officina Plantiniana Apud Balthasarem Moretum et Viduam Ioannis Moreti et Io. Meursium, first edition., 1623. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine engraved title with globe, cherubs & gods, second engraved showing angry men with torches & axes and a hydra monsteer by Cornelis Galle (1576-1650) after Rubens + 44 full-page copperplates by Collart and others + 55 nice initials with figural & anima. Three Volumes in Two folios. Full vellum with yapp edges and old ink titles to spines (Vol.I-II with vellum repair to split front hinge of spine, both Vols lack ties, some marks but mostly well-preserved, clean vellum). Vol.I half title + 1st engraved title +[32]pp prelims +409(recte 411)pp +[1]p blank; Vol.II half title +415-707 +[1]p cherubim & motto +[113]pp index with privilege at end + colophon dated 1623 + Plantin printer's device to last leaf. Vol.III half title + 2nd engraved title +[4]pp prelims +678pp + [107]pp index + colophon dated 1623 + printer's device to last leaf. Some page mis-numbering,… Read More