A discours of husbandrie used in Brabant and Flanders: . shewing the wonderful improvement of land there; and serving as a pattern for our practice in the Common-wealth.
Sir Richard Weston (c.1579 - 1652)
Category
Books
Date
1652
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3048503.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],27,[3]p. . 4to.. Not identified in 1768 catalogue. Imperfect: wanting final blank leaf, sig. E4. Bound with 3 other 17th century tracts on agriculture and husbandry. manuscript bookseller's inscription on front flyleaf: Most rare tracts 1:1-0. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions: (1) on front pastedown and flyleaf and rear flyleaf: Lord Stamford Dunham Hall [i.e.: probably William Grey, 9th earl of Stamford (1850-1910)]; (2) on front flyleaf: Peter Kidd his Book [17th century hand].. Binding: Calf; blind ruled and rolled; spine unlettered.
Makers and roles
Sir Richard Weston (c.1579 - 1652) Samuel Hartlib (d.1662)