Heresbach, Konrad

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 USD

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Description

Foure Bookes of Husbandry, (...) conteyning the whole arte and trade of Husbandry, with antiquitie, and commendations thereof. newely Englished and Increased by Barnabe Googe... London: Richard Watkins, 1577
paper, ink, leather

8vo (7 5/8 x 5 1/4 in.; 196 x 134 mm). Large printed arms on verso of title page, historiated woodcut initials, one illustration in text (p. 130 verso); some contemporary annotations, lacking first blank, title dusty, some tears in margins not affecting text, five last leaves with mice bits. Contemporary vellum; detached.

Literature

STC 13196; ESTC S103974; Westwood & Satchell, pp.116-117; Goldsmiths, 193

Catalogue Note

First English edition of one of the most influential agrarian manual of the sixteenth century, with chapters on angling, hunting and hawking. Konrad Heresbach was a Rhenish Reformer, Calvinist, humanist and educator, and was mentored by Erasmus.