Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

/

Lot 625
  • 625

Parkinson, John

Estimate
9,000 - 12,000 USD
Log in to view results
bidding is closed

Description

  • Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or a Garden of all Sorts of Pleasant Flowers which Our English Ayre Will Permit to be Noursed up: A Kitchen Garden of all Manner of Herbes, Rootes, & Fruites, for Meate or Sauce Used with Us. And an Orchard of all Sorte of Fruitbearing Trees and Shrubbes Fit for our Land together with the Right Orderinge Planting & Preserving of Them and Their Uses and Vertues. [Colophon: London: Humfrey Lownes & Robert Young at the Signe of the Starre on Bread-Streethill], 1629
  • ink, paper
Folio (21 3/4 x 8 3/8 in.; 324 x 210 mm). Woodcut allegorical title of the Garden of Eden by A. Switzer, woodcut portrait of Parkinson opposite A1, 110 full-page and three small woodcut text illustrations, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces; faint dampstaining along gutter of first few quires, small dampstain along top right margin throughout, seven browned leaves (B5–6, C1–5), repairs to upper right corners of last three leaves with residual soiling. Contemporary Cambridge-style speckled calf, border of central paneled mottled, the spine in six comparments, plain endpapers and edges; corners bumped, upper joint starting at head of spine.   

Provenance

Bent Juel-Jensen (library ticket on front pastedown). acquisition: Juel-Jensen

Literature

STC 19300; ESTC S115360; Cleveland 179; Henrey 282; Hunt 215; Mellon Oak Spring Flora 40; Nissen BBI 1489

Condition

Folio (21 3/4 x 8 3/8 in.; 324 x 210 mm). Woodcut allegorical title of the Garden of Eden by A. Switzer, woodcut portrait of Parkinson opposite A1, 110 full-page and 3 small woodcut text illustrations, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces; faint dampstaining along gutter of first few quires, small dampstain along top right margin throughout, 7 browned leaves (B5–6, C1–5), repairs to upper right corners of last three leaves with residual soiling. Contemporary Cambridge-style speckled calf, border of central paneled mottled, the spine in six comparments, plain endpapers and edges; corners bumped, upper joint starting at head of spine.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.

Catalogue Note

First edition of this notable herbal and "the earliest important treatise on horticulture published in England" (Henrey). The woodcut title-page is signed in the block by A. Switzer, a German artist living in England. He is almost certainly responsible for the fine woodcut text illustrations depicting over 750 varieties of plants (including fifty varieties of anemones and over 150 different tulips). "Though it makes little appeal to the scientific botanist, it does give a very complete picture of the English garden at the beginning of the seventeenth century and in such a delightful ... style that gardeners cherish it even to the present day" (Hunt).