May 11, 2010 - Sale 2214
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Sale 2214 - Lot 113

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
COLER, JOHANNES. Oeconomia ruralis et domestica. Darin[n] das gantz Ampt aller trewen Hauss-Vätter, Hauss-Mütter, beständiges und allgemeines Hauss-Buch. 12 text engravings depicting seasonal occupations; 12 of biblical subjects after Matthias Merian; over 100 text woodcuts of plants, animals, and miscellaneous subjects. [8], 128, [12]; 732, [36]; 358, [10]; 57, [3] pages, including engraved additional title (mounted). 4 parts in 2 volumes, bound in one. Folio, modern 1/4 buckram; contents heavily browned with some marginal soiling and stains, split between 2 gatherings toward end. Mainz: Nicolaus Heyl, 1645-51
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Encyclopedia of country household management and related subjects originally published in 6 parts from 1593 to 1605. The first volume includes sections on cookery, agriculture and gardening, viticulture and wine-making, forestry, animal husbandry, hunting, fishing, and miscellaneous skills; the second is a home medical guide containing sections on distilling, remedies, plague, obstetrics, childrearing, and dream interpretation. Cagle 451; Krivatsy 2572.