May 19, 2005 - Sale 2044

Sale 2044 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE.) Langley, Batty. A Sure Method of Improving Estates by Plantations of Oak, Elm, Ash, Beech, and other Timber-Trees, Coppice-Woods, & C. One folding engraved plate of timber girth. 8, [xxii], 274 pages. 8vo, rebound in early 20th century plain calf with red spine label, 3-inch stain to front cover, other areas of discoloration; title browned, faint dampstaining affecting first two signatures. first edition of one of the scarcest works by Langley. London: Francis Clay and Daniel Browne, 1728