£50 - £100
Pomology. Langford (Thomas), Plain and Full Instructions To raise all sorts of Fruit-Trees That prosper in England [...], Together with an Addition of two intire (sic) Chapters of Greens and Green-houses, second edition, London: Printed by Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1696, black-ruled title-page, with the one-leaf letter to the publisher from John Evelyn praising the work, collating: [xxx], 180, [185]-220, [6] (publisher's adverts), 2 engraved plates as called, the first with explanatory letterpress leaf, some later 19th c annotations and marginalia, a respectable reading copy, some soiled grime, stains and wear in places, contemporary sheep, worn but holding, lacking endpapers, 8vo, [Wing L389; Henrey 216]; & Science: Helmont (Franciscus Mercurius van), The Paradoxal Discourses [...], Concerning the Macrocosm and Microcosm, or the Greater and Lesser World, And their Union, two parts in one, first English edition, London: Printed by K.C. and Freeman Collins, for Robert Kettlewel, at the Hand and Scepter near S. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1685, defective black-ruled title-page, collating: [viii], 127; 194, 197-215, [1] (erratum), 2 plates, an imperfect but respectable copy, some browning and soiled stains in places, but perfectly legible, some chipped leaves, yet marginal and without loss of text (but for the lacking leaf N2 as catalogued), disbound, 8vo, [Wing H1393], (2)
Provenance: 1st: 1) R Copley; contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription. 2) Early 18th c Jacobean armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.
The first lacking one leaf, i.e. pages 195-196; the second lacking two leaves, i.e. pages 181-184.
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