
Auction Closed
November 19, 05:30 PM GTNN
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
Lot Details
Description
MARKHAM, GERVASE, AND JOHN MANWOOD
Two works on hunting, comprising:
i. Markham, Gervase. Hungers prevention: or, The whole art of fowling by water and land. London: Francis Grove for Martha Harrison, 1655, second edition, woodcut frontispiece and illustrations in text, nineteenth-century calf, [ESTC R12445; Schwerdt II, p.12], slight discolouration at edges, last few leaves slightly wormed, frontispiece slightly frayed, binding slightly worn
ii. Manwood, John. A treatise of the lawes of the forest. London: printed for the Societie of Stationers, 1615, 4to, with first and last blank leaves, contemporary calf, [ESTC S111855; cf. Schwerdt II, p.7, first edition of 1598], head and foot of spine slightly chipped