2052 TULL (Jethro) Horse-Hoeing Husbandry, or an Essay on the Principles of Vegetation and Tillage, designed to introduce a New Method of Culture, whereby the Produce of the Land will be increased and the usual Expense lessened, by J. Tull. 1762. Several plates, 8vo, old calf, 78 6d 2053 TURBERVILE (George) THE BOOKE OF FALCONRIE OR HAWKING, FOR THE ONEly Delight aND PLEASURE OF ALL NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN, collected out of the best authors, as well Italians as Frenchmen, and some English Practices withall concerning Falconrie, heretofore published by GEORGE TURBERVILE, Gentleman, and now newly revised, corrected, and augmented, with many additions proper to these present times. At London, printed by Thomas Purfoot, (1611). Black Letter, numerous woodcuts. A PERFECT COPY, but date cut from title. At end is added, THE BOOKE OF HUNTING, with numerous quaint cuts. (1611.) 2 vols in 1, small 4to, title and some loves at end missing from the latter book, calf, £5 15s 2054 TURNER (Robert) THE BRITISH PHYSICIAN; or, the NATURE AND Vertues of ENGLISH PLANTS, exactly DESCRIBING SUCH PLANTS AS GROW NATURALLY IN OUR LAND, with their several Names, Greeke, Latine, or English, Natures, PLACES WHERE THEY GROW, TIMES WHEN THEY FLOURISH AND ARE MOST PROPER TO BE GATHERED, their degrees of Temperature, Applications, and Vertues, Physical and Astrological Uses, treated of, each plant appropriated to the several diseases they cure, and directions for their medicinal uses, throughout the whole body of man, being most special helps for sudden accidents, acute and chronick distempers, by means whereof people MAY GATHER THEIR OWN PHYSICK UNDER EVERY HEDGE, OR IN THEIR OWN GARDENS, WHICH MAY BE MOST CONDUCING TO THEIR HEALTH, so that observing the direction in this book they may become their own Physicians, for what climate soever is subject to any particular disease in the same place there grows a cure, etc., by ROBERT 'I'urner. 1664. Fine portrait, small 8vo, old sheep, £1 108 2055 TURTON (John, of Sheffield, Yorks.) THE ANGLER'S MANUAL, or Fly-fisher's Oracle, with a Brief Compendium on Bottom Fishing. 1836. Engraved frontispiece, 12mo, half morocco, very neat, T. Westwood's copy, with his bookplate, 10s 6d 2056 TUSSER (Thomas) FIVE HUNDRED POINTES OF GOOD HUSBANDRIE, as well for the Champion or Open Countrie, as also for the woodland or severall, mixed in every month with Huswiferie, over and besides the booke of Huswifery, corrected, better ordered, and newlie augmented to a fourth part more, with divers other lessons, as a diet for the Farmer, of the properties of Winds, Planets, Hops, Hearbs, Bees, and Approved Remedies for Sheepe and Cattell, with many other matters both profitable and not unpleasant to the reader, also two Tables, one of Husbandrie and the other of Huswiferie, at the end of the booke, for the better and easier finding of any matter conteined in the same, newlie set foorth by Thomas Tusser, Gentleman. London, printed for the Company of Stationers, An. Dom. 1620. Black Letter, border around title, small 4to, a large and sound copy in dark calf extra, £5 158 Very rarely, indeed, is this once esteemed and much read poetical volume to be found in perfect state as above. "The great merit of Tusser's book, independent of the utility of its agricultural precepts, consists in the faithful picture which it delineates, of the manners, customs, and domestic life of the English farmer, and in the morality, piety, and benevolent simplicity which pervade the whole." -Dr. Drake's "Shakespeare and his Times." "Such was the ancient farmer's year, which Tusser has described with wonderful spirit, even to the minutest detail, and such were the operations of husbandry that the boy Shakespeare would have beheld with interest amidst his native cornfields and pastures.' ."-Charles Knight, "William Shakespeare, a Biography." 2057 TWAMLEY (J.) Dairying Exemplified, or the Business of Cheese Making, laid down from approved rules, collected from the most experienced Dairy-Women of several Countries, digested under various heads, from a series of Observations during Thirty Years' Practice in the Cheese Trade, by J. TWAMLEY. Warwick, 1787. 8vo, sewn, 58 2058 UNIVERSAL CONJUROR (The): or, the Whole Art of Legerdemain as practised by the Famous Breslaw, Katterfelto, Jonas, Flocton, Comas, and by the greatest adepts in London and Paris: containing a variety of Tricks and Deceptions with Cards, Cups and Balls, Automatic Figures, German Puddings, Quicksilver, Birds' Eggs, Rings, Money, Handkerchiefs, Watches, etc., never before made public. 1829. Folding coloured frontispiece, small 8vo, original wrappers, 38 6d 2059 UNIVERSAL ANGLER (The), or that Art Improved in all its parts, especially in Fly-fishing, describing the several sorts of Freshwater Fish, with their properest Baits, also the Names, Colours, and Seasons of all the most useful Flies, together with Directions for making each Fly artificially, in the most exact manner, the whole interspersed with many curious and uncommon observations. 1766. Engraved frontispiece and plates, 12mo, very pretty copy in full green calf extra, neat emblematic tooling on backs and side, £2 28 2060 VALUABLE SECRETS in Arts and Trades, including the ART OF FISHING, BIRD-CATCHING, etc. N.D. (circa 1758). Small 8vo, half calf, 58 2061 VENABLES (Col. Robert) THE EXPERIENCED ANGLER, OR ANGLING IMPROVED, BEING A GENERAL DISCOURSE OF ANGLING, IMPARTING THE APTEST WAYES AND THE CHOICEST EXPERIMENTS FOR THE TAKING OF MOST SORTS OF FISH IN POND OR RIVER, the Fifth Edition, much enlarged. B. Tooke, 1683. Engraved frontispiece by Van Hove, and engravings of fish throughout, 12mo, calf, £2 28 Prefixed is a commendatory letter addressed to the author by Isaac Walton, and the engravings of the fish are the same as used in Walton's Angler. 2062 VINDICATION (A) OF THE CONDUCT OF THE MINISTRY, in the Scheme of the Excise on WINE AND TOBACCO. 1734. Small 8vo, sewn, 6s 6d -2063 VIRGIL.-VIRGIL'S HUSBANDRY, or an Essay on the Georgics, being the FIRST (and SECOND) Book, translated into English Verse, to which are added the Latin Text and Mr. Dryden's Version, with Notes, Critical and Rustick. 1725. Frontispieces and plates, 2 vols in 1, original calf, rebacked, £1 18 2064 VOCAL ENCHANTRESS (The), presenting an elegant selection of the MOST FAVOURITE HUNTING, SEA, LOVE, AND MISCELLANEOUS SONGS, Sung by Edwin Bannister, Webster, Mrs. Cargill, Mrs. Kennedy, Mrs. Wrighten, etc., etc., etc., WITH THE MUSIC PREFIXED TO EACH. 1783. Frontispiece and vignette title, small 8vo, red morocco extra, gilt edges, by Larkins, £1 18 -2065 VYNER (R. T.) NO CITIA VENATICA, A TREATISE ON FOX-HUNTING, TO WHICH IS ADDED A COMPENDIOUS KENnel stud BOOK. E. Ackerman, 1841. FIRST EDITION, illustrations by HENRY ALKEN, 8vo, original cloth, uncut, £4 108 2066 W. (1.) The Charitable Physitian, with the Charitable Apothecary, written in French by Philbert Guibert, Esq., now faithfully translated into English for the benefit of this Kingdom, by I. W. 1639. Small 4to, fine copy in old calf, £1 108 An interesting old treatise, "Shewing the manner to make and prepare in the house with ease and little paines all those remedies which are proper to all sorts of diseases, according to the advice of the best and ordinariest physitians serving as well for the rich as poor." etc. Page 157, etc, OF THE VERTUE OF FRUITS. 161, TO MAKE PRESERVES, 165, OF FUMES AND PERFUMES, Etc 2067 W. (W.) THE VERMIN KILLER, BEING A VERY NECESSARY FAMILY-BOOK, CONTAINING EXACT RULES AND DIRECTIONS FOR THE ARTIFICIAL KILLING and DES TROYING OF ALL MANNER OF VERMIN, etc., Rats and Mice, Snakes, WHEREUNTO IS ADDED THE ART OF TAKING OF ALL SORTS OF FISH AND An exceedingly rare little book. Flyes, Fleas and Lice, " Adders, 2068 WACKERBARTH (F. D.) MUSIC and the Anglo-Saxons, being some Account of the Anglo-Saxon Orchestra, with Remarks on the Church Music of the Nineteenth Century. 1837. 8vo, cloth, uncut, 58 2069 WAFER (Lionel) A NEW VOYAGE AND DESCRIPTION OF THE ISTHMUS OF AMERICA, giving an Account of the Author's Abode there, the form and make of the Country, the Coasts, Hills, Rivers, etc., Woods, Soil, Weather, etc., TREES, FRUIT, BEASTS, BIRDS, FISH, etc., the Indian Inhabitants, their Features, Complexion, etc., their Manners, Customs, Employments, Marriages, Feasts, HUNTING. Computation, Language, etc., with Remarkable Occurrences in the South Sea and elsewhere, by LIONEL WAFER. 1699. Map and curious copperplates, 8vo, old calf (very rare), £1 4s 2070 WALKER (Rev. Dr.) A Short Account of the late Donation of a Botanic Garden to the University of Cambridge by the Rev. Dr. Walker, Vice-Master of Trinity College, with Rules and Orders for the Government of it. Cambridge, 1763. 4to, sewn, 28 6d 2071 WALTON (Isaac) THE COMPLEAT ANGLER, OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION, BEING A DISCOURSE OF RIVERS AND FISH-PONDS AND FISH AND FISHING NOT UNWORTHY OF THE PERUSAL OF MOST ANGLERS. [FIRST EDITION]. "Simon Peter said: I go a fishing: and they said, we also wil go with thee.". John xxi, 3. Londm, printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot, in S. Dunstan's Church-yard, Fleet Street, 1653. Brilliant engraved title and engravings of fish. Do., do., THE SECOND EDITION, MUCH ENLARGED. London, printed by T. M. for Rich. Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St. Dunstan's Church-yard, Fleet Street, 1655. 12mo. Mr. Hazlitt says of this, the Second Edition, that it is "OF AT LEAST EQUAL RARITY WITH THE FIRST; THE PLATES ARE THE SAME." Do., do., THE THIRD EDITION, MUCH ENLARGED, TO WHICH IS ADDED THE LAWS OF ANGLING: WITH A NEW TABLE OF THE PARTICULARS IN THIS BOOK. London, printed by J. G. for Rich. Marriot, at his shop in St. Dunstan's Church-yard, Fleet Street, 1661. 12mo. Do., do., THE FOURTH EDITION, MUCH CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. London, printed for R. Marriot, and are to be sold by Charles Harper, at his shop, the next door to the Crown, near Sergeant's Inn, in Chancery Lane, 1668. 12mo. Do., do., THE FIFTH EDITION, MUCH CORRECTED AND ENLARGED, called Another set, 5 vols, uniformly bound in morocco extra, rough gilt edges, by Riviere & Son, A PERFECT AND GENUINE SET, £525 These, the first five editions of probably the most charming of English Pastorals, WERE ALL PUBLISHED DURING THE AUTHOR'S LIFETIME. It is important that a collector should have the series, as there are very many interesting variations, made by Walton himself in each edition. The value of these books is not only steadily but is rapidly increasing, only a few years ago so was considered a good amount for the first edition; but recently it has alone realized as much as 310 and £415. And the Earl of Ashburnham's set of the five volumes, in old bindings, sold for £800. 2072 WALTON (Izack) THE COMPLEAT ANGLER, OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE Man's RECREATION, BEING A DISCOURSE OF RIVERS, FISH-PONDS, FISH AND FISHING, TO WHICH IS ADDED THE LAWS OF ANGLING, WITH A NEW TABLE OF THE PARTICULARS IN THIS BOOK. THE THIRD EDITION, MUCH ENLARGED. R. Marriot, 1664. Engraved title, cuts of Fish, 12mo, red morocco extra, with blind emblematic tooling, probably bound by Gosden, enclosed in a new morocco case, £28 10s There were two issues of the Third Edition, one dated 1661 and the other as above 1664, the latter is far rarer than the previous. The present is a perfect copy, but not a fine one. 2073 WALTON (Isaac) THE COMPLETE ANGLER, OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION, BEING A DISCOURSE OF RIVERS, FISHPONDS, FISH AND FISHING, to which is added the Laws of Angling, with a New Table of the Particulars in this Book, the Fourth Edition, much Corrected and Enlarged. Printed by R. Marriot, 1668. Engraved title and numerous engravings of fish, 12mo, morocco super extra, rough gilt edges, by the late FRANCIS BEDFORD, £16 168 Very good copy of the fourth edition of Walton. Mr. Foote's sold for 140 dollars. 2074 WALTON (Isaac) THE UNIVERSAL ANGLER, MADE SO BY THREE Books OF FISHING, THE FIRST WRITTEN BY MR. IZAACK WALTON, THE SECOND BY CHARLES COTTON, THE THIRD BY COL. ROBERT VENABLES, ALL WHICH MAY BE BOUNd together, OR SOLD EACH OF THEM SEVERALLY. Richard Marriott, 1676. 3 vols in 1, with all the separate tit engraved and printed, fine perfect copies in olive morocco super extra, rough gilt edges, by the late FRANCIS BEdford, £25 Contains the FIFTH EDITION OF WALTON, being the last edited by the author himself, and published within his lifetime, the FIRST EDITION OF COTTON, and the FOURTH OF VENABLES. 2075 WALTON (Isaac) and COTTON (Charles) THE COMPLEAT ANGLER; or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, in Two Parts, containing: I. A large and particular account of Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing: written by the INGENIOUS AND CELEBRATED MR. ISAAC WALTON. II. The best and fullest instructions how to angle for a Trout and Grayling in a clear stream, by CHARLES COTTON, Esq., and PUBLISHED BY MR. WALTON. Comprising all that has been accourted valuable, instructive, or curious, that has ever appeared on this subject, interspersed with a variety of practical experiments, learned observations, beautiful descriptions, philosophical, moral, and religious reflections, pieces of innocent mirth and humour, poetical compositions, etc, so as to render it entertaining to readers of every taste and character whatsoever: with exact representations of all the Fish, and the addition of several copper-plates, designed as an embellishment to the work, CAREFULLY AND CORRECTLY PUBLISHED FROM THE BEST EDITIONS, WITH A NUMBER OF OCCASIONAL NOTES BY MOSES BROWNE, author of Piscatory Eclogues. London, H. Kent, 1750. Engravings, 12mo, half calf, angling tooling on back, £2 58 This is the FIRST EDITION edited by Moses Browne, and the first issued after a lapse of over seventy years, it being really the sixth edition of the work, the fifth was published in 1676. 2076 another copy, original calf, rebacked, £2 58 2077 another, the Seventh Edition (really the second of Moses Browne's), very much amended and improved. 1759. Plates, as above, WITH FOUR ADDITIONAL ONES ADDED, 12mo, old calf 2078 another edition (edited by SIR JOHN HAWKINS), TO WHICH ARE NOW prefixed the LIVES OF THE AUTHORS, illustrated cuts of the several kinds of River Fish, and of the Implements used in Angling, views of the principal 'scenes described in the book, AND NOTES, HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND EXPLANATORY. London, Thos. Hope, 1760. Fine impressions of the beautiful engravings by Wale, engraved by Ryland, 8vo, sprinkled calf extra, gilt back, by Cecil, £3 38 2079 another copy, in calf extra, rebacked, with angling tooling on back, gilt leaves, £2 108 This is the First Edition of Hawkins' celebrated issue. 2080 another edition (the fourth edition of Hawkins', WITH LARGE ADDITIONS). 1784. Illustrations as in the first issue, described above, 8vo, original calf, 128 2081 WALTON (Isaac) and COTTON (Charles) another edition (the seventh of Hawkins', WITH IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS, BOTH OF MATTER AND PLATES). Samuel Bagster, 1808. Numerous engravings, 8vo, fine copy in full calf extra, top edges gilt, UNCUT, by Riviere, £2 28 A nice copy of Bagster's FIRST ISSUE. 2082 another edition. Chiswick, 1824. Portraits and vignettes, 2 vols, 12mo, Frontispiece and engraved calf, 48 6d 2083 another edition. William Pickering, 1825. title by THOS. STOTHARD, 48mo, original cloth, uncut, 138 6d A nice copy of Pickering's Diamond Classic Edition. 2084 another edition, EDITED BY JAMES RENNIE, A.M. trait and engravings, sm. 8vo, half morocco extra, top edges gilt, 2085 another edition, EDITED BY JAMES RENNIE, A.M. trait and engravings, sm. 8vo, half morocco extra, uncut, 68 6d 2086 another edition, edited by "Ephemera," of "Bell's Life in London" (i.e., EDWARD FITZGIBBON). Second Edition, 1854. Portrait and engravings, 8vo, original cloth, 38 6d 2087 another edition, EDITED BY EDWARD JESSE, Esq., to which are added papers on Fishing-Tackle, Fishing Stations, etc., by Henry G. Bohn. 1856. Portraits and numerous fine steel engravings and woodcuts, sm. 8vo, half moro:co extra, top edges gilt, uncut, 98 2089 another edition, EDITED BY JOHN MAJOR. Boston, 1866. Portraits and beautifully engraved steel plates and woodcuts. THIS COPY, WHICH IS A LARGE PAPER ONE, IS EXTRA ILLUSTRATED BY THE INSERTION OF THE SERIES OF BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS WHICH APPEARED IN PICKERING'S VERY FINE EDITION (1836), ALL OF THE PLATES BEING BRILLIANT PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER. Forming 2 vols, 8vo, full calf extra, gilt back with emblematic tooling, gilt edges by Matthews, £5 53 2089 WALTON (Isaac) The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers. London, T. Maxey, 1653. Reprint by Bagster, 1810, of the first edition, engraved title and outs of fish, eq. 12mo, original boards, £l 1s A great number of the issue of this edition was burned by fire at the Publisher's; it is now scarce. 2090 another edition, (a cheap reprint) by Alex. Murray & Co., of the First Edition. 1872. 8vo, cloth, 28 2091 WALTON (Isaac) THE LIVES Edinburgh, 1836. Por- of DR. JOHN DONNE, 2095 cloth, 68 Written by Izaak Walton. To which are added some Letters written by Mr. George Herbert, at his being in Cambridge; with others to his Mother, the Lady Magdalen Herbert, written by John Donne, afterwards Dean of St. Paul's. London, printed by Tho. Newcomb for Richard Marriott, sold by most Booksellers, 1670. FIRST EDITION, portraits of Donne by Lombart, Wotton by Dolle, Hooker by Dolle, and Herbert by White, 8vo, very fine, in calf extra, by the late FRANCIS BEDFORD, £5 58 2092 2093 another copy, wormed in blank margins, else a good one in calf, £4 48 another, THE FOURTH EDITION. R. Marriott. Portraits as above, small 8vo, sprinkled calf extra by Larkins, £10 10s This is a PRESENTATION COPY ("ffor Mr. Holman-Iz: Wa :") with inscription on top of title in the author's own hand. 2091 another edition, to which is added the Life of Dr. Robert Sanderson, with Index and Illustrative Notes. John Major, 1825. LARGE PAPER, with BRILLIANT INDIA PROOF IMPRESSIONS of all the admirable portraits and plates, 8vo, contemporary brown morocco extra, gilt edges, £4 48 Fine copy of Major's First Edition, scarce on Large Paper. another edition. Pickering's Diamond Edition, 1827. Engraved plate, 48mo, |