![CHURCHE, Rooke. An Olde Thrift Newly revived. Wherein is declared the Manner of Planting, Preserving, and Husbanding yong Trees of diuers kindes for Timber and Fuell. And of Sowing Acornes, Chesnuts, Beech-mast, The Seedes Of Elmes, Ashen-keyes, …. And also the vse of a small portable Instrument for measuring of Board, and the solid content and height of any Tree standing. Discoursed in Dialogue betweene a Surueyour, Woodward, Gentleman, and a Farmer. London: W[illiam] S[tansby] for Richard Moore, 1612.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/NYR/2016_NYR_12262_0017_000(churche_rooke_an_olde_thrift_newly_revived_wherein_is_declared_the_man101150).jpg?w=1)
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CHURCHE, Rooke. An Olde Thrift Newly revived. Wherein is declared the Manner of Planting, Preserving, and Husbanding yong Trees of diuers kindes for Timber and Fuell. And of Sowing Acornes, Chesnuts, Beech-mast, The Seedes Of Elmes, Ashen-keyes, …. And also the vse of a small portable Instrument for measuring of Board, and the solid content and height of any Tree standing. Discoursed in Dialogue betweene a Surueyour, Woodward, Gentleman, and a Farmer. London: W[illiam] S[tansby] for Richard Moore, 1612.
First edition, issue undetermined, but this copy without “as sharking catch-poles…” after “Surveyors are odious to farmers” in line 21 on p 21. Very rare.
4to. Folding woodcut plate of an instrument (remargined along gutter); woodcuts in text. (Title lightly soiled with fore-margin slightly frayed, some gutter margins weak, last page of table at end soiled.) Modern half morocco. ESTC S107648; Henrey 29; STC 4923.
First edition, issue undetermined, but this copy without “as sharking catch-poles…” after “Surveyors are odious to farmers” in line 21 on p 21. Very rare.
4to. Folding woodcut plate of an instrument (remargined along gutter); woodcuts in text. (Title lightly soiled with fore-margin slightly frayed, some gutter margins weak, last page of table at end soiled.) Modern half morocco. ESTC S107648; Henrey 29; STC 4923.