Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 237

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AGRICULTURE.) Group of 9 volumes. Various formats, various contemporary bindings, overall condition varies. Vp, 1674-1783

Additional Details

Goes, editor. Rei agrariae auctores legesque variae. 3 plates. [20], 360, [120]; 328 pages, including engraved additional title. Spine ends chipped, joints cracked; some gatherings browned, wormtrail through outer margin of approximately 50 leaves affecting some sidenotes. Amsterdam: Joannes Janssonius à Waesberge, 1674.

Duhamel Du Monceau, Henri-Louis. A Practical Treatise of Husbandry. 6 engraved plates; folding table. xxiv, 491, [9] pages. London: J. Whiston et al., 1759.

Modo di nuova sorprendevole invenzione con cui deesi tener conto del bestiame buino acciocche. 80; 58, [1] pages, including half-title. Backstrip defective. Bologna: San Tommaso d'Aquino, 1765.

Plinius Secundus, Gaius. Histoire de l'Agriculture Ancienne, extradite de l'Histoire Naturelle. xliv, [4], 358 pages. Paris: G. Desprez, 1765.

[Young, Arthur.] A Course of Experimental Agriculture. 4 plates in Volume 4. Half-titles. 4 volumes. Varying browning or foxing and marginal dampstaining. Dublin: J. Exshaw et al., 1771.

Jung, Johann Heinrich. Versuch eines Lehrbuchs der Landwirtschaft der gantzen bekannten Welt. [8], 456 pages. Contents browned, dampstaining in outer margin of opening leaves. Leipzig: Weygand'sche Buchhandlung, 1783.