Nov 09, 2010 - Sale 2229

Sale 2229 - Lot 200

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
[WORLIDGE, JOHN.] Systema Agriculturae, The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered . . . To which is added, Kalendarium Rusticum . . . And Dictionarium Rusticum. Woodcut text illustrations. [36], 324, [4] pages, including engraved frontispiece dated 1668 (lightly soiled, cropped in upper margin) and preceding leaf of explanatory text. Folio, brown panelled morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spine faded; contents toned with light marginal dampstaining, frontispiece and final index leaf reinforced in outer margin. London: T. Johnson for Samuel Speed, 1669

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First edition. "The first systematic and comprehensive treatment of arable and livestock husbandry" (ODNB). Hunt 310; Wing W3598.