Plat hugh platt (2 risultati)

TITLE CONTINUED: In two parts. By that learned and great observer, Sir Hugh Plat Kt. The second part of the Garden of Eden" has separate dated title page with separate pagination. SIXTH EDITION 1675. First issued under the title Floraes paradise in 1608, the title changed later and was edited by Charles Bellingham, the second Part was issued in 1660. Small 8vo, approximately145 x 90 mm, 6 x 3½ inches, pages: [28], 1-148; [16], 1-159, [1] last page blank, contemporay calf covers with new spine using the original label, endpapers replaced, leaving 1 original free endpaper at front and rear, engraved armorial bookplate of Philip Earl of Hardwicke. Spine faded, upper cover repaired showing slight damage and scuffing, gilt title to label rubbed leaving the title hard to read, some shelf wear to edges, Part 1 only has pale staining to lower corners of varying degrees not affecting text, pale age-browning to original free endpapers, tiny hole to page 125 of first Part, no loss to text, ink note to first original free endpaper. A very good copy. See: H. Frederic Janson, Pomonas Harvest, pages: 93, 399-400; Blanche Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature, Volume 1, pages:150 and 264, No. 299; Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, Catalogue of Botanical Books, pages 303-304 and 363; Stanley Johnston, The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical and Horticultural Collections, page 196, No. 215; Mary Aslin Catalogue of the Printed Books on Agriculture, page 103: " A great deal of the book is not all his original work, but Platt is very careful to acknowledge his sources, unlike most of his contemporaries". MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…

SECOND EDITION 1601 (first edition published in 1600), divided into 8 chapters, the running title: The new found arte of setting corne, printed signature H. Plat Esquire on final page. Small 4to, approximately 175 x 130 mm, 7 x 5 inches, woodcut vignette on title, headpiece and large initial to first page, 32 unnumbered pages, signatures: A-D4, plus 70 blank cream pages as padding at rear, modern full speckled calf, green gilt lettered title label to spine, authors name in gilt an hilt rules and date to spine, new brown endpapers. All inner margins have strip of tape for some reason as there appears to me no damage to paper, brown stain to leaves A2 and D3, all text readable, tips of top corners of 4 leaves neatly repaired, nowhere near text. Fair copy only. Another issue of STC 19993.5, according to ESTC, quires A and C reset. See: ESTC S114898; Luborsky & Ingram, English Illustrated Books, 1536-1603, page 633, No. 19993; Mary S. Aslin, Catalogue of the Printed Books on Agriculture 1471-1840, page 103; G. E. Fussell, Old English Farming Books, Volume 1, page 15; Blanche Henrey, Volume 1, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, page 155: "New and admirable arte of setting of corne, a treatise in which this author advocates growing corn by setting the seed at regular distances apart, the usual method of sowing corn at that time being by broadcast. On the title-page is a woodcut of a growing plant of corn, over which is a spade lying in a scroll bearing the words 'Adam's toole revived'; Donald McDonald, Agricultural Writers 1200-1800, page 58 with illustration opposite. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…