[Rarebooks] FS: 1639 Important Treatise on Agriculture with mention of new plantations in America

[Charles Agvent]

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PLATTES, Gabriel. A DISCOVERY OF INFINITE TREASURE, HIDDEN SINCE THE 
WORLDS BEGINNING. WHEREUNTO ALL MEN, OF WHAT DEGREE SOEVER, ARE FRIENDLY 
INVITED TO BE SHARERS WITH THE DISCOVERER G.P. London: J[ohn] L[egat] to 
be sold by George Hutton, 1639. First Edition. Small quarto (5-1/8" x 
7") in later polished blue morocco leather-backed boards; A4, a4, B-P4, 
Q2. [2, blank], 33, [1], 92, [1 errata], [1 blank] pages. Complete with 
the original first blank. Woodcut initials and head-pieces. An important 
early treatise on agriculture by one of the earliest advocates in 
England of an improved system of husbandry who devoted much time and 
money to practical experiments. Among his references are mention of the 
newly founded plantations in America and new agricultural machines. This 
copy has the cancel title page with "ver." in the Biblical quote and 
with the errata leaf. It is occasionally listed as a variant edition of 
his DISCOVERY OF SUBTERRANEALL TREASURE, but that is an error. Ferguson 
notes that this is a completely different work of "an original genius in 
husbandry who began his observations in the latter end of Queen 
Elizabeth's reign.... As great a genius as this writer was, the public 
allowed him to drop down dead in London streets with hunger only; nor 
had he a shirt upon his back when he died." Quite scarce. Small catalog 
sticker on spine, trimmed along fore-edge with minor loss to title page, 
some soiling, else Very Good.

STC 19998. Ferguson, II, 207-208 (not in Young Collection). Ferguson, 
Glasgow, II, 567. Wellcome I, 5100. Partington II, 103. Sotheran 907, 
31. ESTC s114836. Neville II, 310. Not in Duveen, Hoover. (#018365)    
     $4,500.00

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