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From the Library of the Earls of Haddington

MARKHAM | A Way to get Wealth, 1660

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December 10, 01:01 PM GMT

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1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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From the Library of the Earls of Haddington


MARKHAM, GERVASE

A Way to get Wealth, containing sixe principall vocations, for Callings, in which every Good Husband or Hu-wife, may lawfully imploy themselves. William Wilson for George Sawbridge, 1660


4to, tenth edition, 6 parts in one volume, woodcut initials, head-pieces and decorations, illustrations and diagrams in the text, contemporary calf with morocco spine label gilt, title in ink on fore-edge, repairs to joints and hinges, later endpapers, final leaf torn at outer edge affecting a letter


LITERATURE:

Wing M678


PROVENANCE:

Thomas Hamilton (1721-1794), 7th Earl of Haddington, engraved armorial bookplate on verso of title; thence by descent to the Earls of Haddington


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