Certaine Plaine And Easie Demonstrations Of Divers Easie Wayes And Meanes For The Improving Of Any

by John Shaw Inventor

$3,250 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

1 p.l., 7, 9 , 6 pp. Small 4to, attractive antique calf, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: Printed by T.F., sold by W. Ley, 1657. First edition and rather scarce. Following Shaw’s essay on the dung roller, which he invented, the remainder of the book consists of two texts, the first starting “How to Order any Land, so as it may reteyne all the moysture that falleth thereon: and to Improve it thereby,” and the second

• Binding: Leather

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