Platt, Hugh, Sir

Estimate

2,500 - 3,500 USD

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Description

The Jewell House of Art and Nature. Conteining Divers Rare and Profitable Inventions, Together with Sundry New Experimentes in the Art of Husbandry, Distillation, and Moulding. Faithfully and Familiarly Set Downe, According to the Authors Owne Experience. London: Peter Short, 1594
Paper, Ink, Leather

Three parts in one volume, 4to (7 x 5 1/4 in.; 178 x 134 mm). Part I: General title within architectural woodcut border, woodcut arms of the dedicatee, Robert Devereaux, Second Earl of Essex, on title-page verso, woodcut folding plate, 6 woodcut text illustrations. Parts II–III: separate title-pages within woodcut ornamental borders (both McKerrow 213), with separate registers and pagination, 11 woodcut text illustrations and diagrams in part III; moderate browning and dampstaining, fore-margins of quire A in part I slightly frayed. Seventeenth-century Cambridge style calf binding; very worn, upper cover detached.

Provenance

Marcus Crahan (bookplate, Sotheby's New York, 9 October 1984, lot 71)

Literature

STC 19991; ESTC S110434

Catalogue Note

First edition. Parts II and III are entitled: Diverse New Sorts of Soyle Not Yet Brought into Any Publique Use, for Manuring Both of Pasture and Arable Ground and Diverse Chimicall Conclusions Concerning the Art of Distillation, printed by Short and dated 1594.