14
Hugh Plat
The jewel house. 1653.
Estimate:
€ 500 / $ 575 Sold:
€ 888 / $ 1,021 (incl. surcharge)
14
Hugh Plat
The jewel house. 1653.
Estimate:
€ 500 / $ 575 Sold:
€ 888 / $ 1,021 (incl. surcharge)
Platt, H., The Jewel House of art and nature: containing divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experiments in the art of husbandry. With divers chimical conclusions concerning the art of distillation, and the practises and uses thereof .. Wherunto is added, a rare and excellent discourse of minerals, stones, gums, and rosin .. by D. B. [= Arnold de Boate].Mit mehreren Textholzschnitten . London, B. Alsop 1653. Spät. Ldr. mit RSch. und Blindpräg. 19,5 : 14,5 cm. 4 Bll., 232 S.
Zweite erweiterte Ausgabe, heute sehr selten. - "Hugh Platt was the most ingenious husbandman of the age he lived in" (Ferguson). "This compendium of 150 recipes, experiments and inventions was one of Plat's most popular works" (Hoover). - Tls. leicht gebräunt. Deckel etw. berieben, Gelenke eingerissen.
Wing P 2390. - Ferguson II, 207. - Duveen S. 476. - Hoover Coll. 644. - Nicht bei Sinkankas.
Second increased edition, very rare. With several woodcuts in the text. Later calf with label and blindtooling. - "Hugh Platt was the most ingenious husbandman of the age he lived in" (Ferguson). "This compendium of 150 recipes, experiments and inventions was one of Plat's most popular works" (Hoover). - Slighty browned in places. Boards somewhat rubbed, joints slightly torn.
Zweite erweiterte Ausgabe, heute sehr selten. - "Hugh Platt was the most ingenious husbandman of the age he lived in" (Ferguson). "This compendium of 150 recipes, experiments and inventions was one of Plat's most popular works" (Hoover). - Tls. leicht gebräunt. Deckel etw. berieben, Gelenke eingerissen.
Wing P 2390. - Ferguson II, 207. - Duveen S. 476. - Hoover Coll. 644. - Nicht bei Sinkankas.
Second increased edition, very rare. With several woodcuts in the text. Later calf with label and blindtooling. - "Hugh Platt was the most ingenious husbandman of the age he lived in" (Ferguson). "This compendium of 150 recipes, experiments and inventions was one of Plat's most popular works" (Hoover). - Slighty browned in places. Boards somewhat rubbed, joints slightly torn.
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