[Rarebooks] FS: Plattes A DISCOVERY OF INFINITE TREASURE, 1639 with mention of newly founded plantations in America and new & agricultural machines
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
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