Description:
Heresbach, Conrad (1496-1576) Foure Bookes of Husbandrie, Collected by M. Conradus Heresbachius. London: Printed [at Eliot's Court Press] for Iohn Wight, 1586. Third edition, quarto, an English translation of Heresbach's Rei Rusticae Libri Quatuor; type ornament block in center of title, woodcut coat of arms on verso of title, one woodcut botanical text illustration, Wight's large woodcut printer's device on verso of last leaf, with colophon, bound in marbled sheepskin boards, nicely rebacked, ex libris Booth Grey, with his engraved bookplate pasted inside the front board, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
()4, (*)4, (**)3 [lacking (**)4], A-Z8, &8, Aa2.
http://estc.bl.uk/S103977
Estimate $4,000-6,000
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