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[HARTLIB, Samuel] (d.1670?). A Designe for Plentie, By an Universall Planting of Fruit-Trees: Tendred by some Wel-wishers to the Publick. London: for Richard Wodenothe, [1653].
First edition. In the preface to this work, Hartlib comments: “I am the more willing to divulge this brief Tract upon this Subject, because it will serve as a fore-runner to a larger Volume of Fruit-Trees, which an experienced friend of mine, Mr. Ralph Austen hat in a readinesse to put forth at Oxford.” The work to which he refers, Austen’s A treatise of fruit-trees, published in 1653, is dedicated to Hartlib (see lot 9). Scarce: according to online auction records, no copy of this work has appeared at auction in over 60 years.
Small 4to (173 x 129 mm). (Small hole inner margin of title-page not affecting letters, some light browning.) Modern calf. ESTC R202376; Henrey 167.
First edition. In the preface to this work, Hartlib comments: “I am the more willing to divulge this brief Tract upon this Subject, because it will serve as a fore-runner to a larger Volume of Fruit-Trees, which an experienced friend of mine, Mr. Ralph Austen hat in a readinesse to put forth at Oxford.” The work to which he refers, Austen’s A treatise of fruit-trees, published in 1653, is dedicated to Hartlib (see lot 9). Scarce: according to online auction records, no copy of this work has appeared at auction in over 60 years.
Small 4to (173 x 129 mm). (Small hole inner margin of title-page not affecting letters, some light browning.) Modern calf. ESTC R202376; Henrey 167.