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

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Lot 771
  • 771

Stevenson, Matthew

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Stevenson, Matthew
  • The Twelve Months Or, A pleasant and profitable discourse of every action, whether of Labour or Recreation, proper to each particular Moneth, branched into Directions relating to Husbandry,... Of Recreations, as Hunting Hawking, Fishing, Fowling, Coursing, Cockfighting,.. London: by M.S. for Thomas Fenner, and to be sold at his Shop, at the South Entrance of the Royal Exchange, 1661
  • ink, paper, leather
4to (7 1/4 x 5 1/2 ins.; 183 x 140 mm). Twelve plates depicting each month's husbandry; small burn hole to G3 and lower margin of I2 with loss not affecting text. Nineteenth-century half morocco.

Provenance

H Gallice (bookplate; purchased at the Asburnham sale, 1898, lot 3494) — Marcel Jeanson (bookplate; Sotheby's Monaco, 1 March 1987, lot 514). acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch

Literature

Wing S5510; ESTC R24625;  Harting 32; Jeanson 1212