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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The profitable arte of gardeninge : nowe the third time sette forth: to which is added much necessarye matter, and a number of secrets with the phisicke helpes belonginge to eche herbe, and that easie prepared ; To this annexed, two proper treatises, the one entituled The marvellous gouernement, propertie, and benefyte of the bees, vvith the rare secretes of the hony & waxe ; And the other, the yearly coniectures, meete for husbandmen to knovve: englished by Thomas Hyll Londiner ; Whereunto is newly added a treatise, of the arte of graffing and planting of trees.

Accession number
PML 55621
Creator
Hill, Thomas, active 1568-1600.
Published
Imprinted at London : Thomas Marshe, 1572.
Credit line
Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1965.
Notes
3rd edition (STC 13492).
Each part has list of authors from whose works those treaties fwre compiled and translated.
Gothic type.
Part 2 has title: A pleasant instruction of the parfit ordering of bees, with the maruelous nature, propertie & gouernment of them: and the miraculous vses both of their hony and waxe, (seruing diuersly) as vvel as invvard as outwarde causes: gathered out of the best vvriters. To which is annexed, a profitable tretise, intituled Certain husbandly coniectures of dearth and plenty for euer; and other matters also meete for husbandmen to knowe &c. Whyche is now englished by Thomas Hyll, Londiner, 1568. Imprinted at London in Fleetestrete by Thomas Marshe.
Part 2, first signature of 6 leaves has no signature mark.
Signatures: pt. 1, A-Z⁸, Aa-Dd⁸; pt. 2, Aa-Mm⁸. Lacks Gg-Mm.
Two parts in 1 volume, each part wiht separate t.-p. and paging; many errors in paging. Titles with ornamental borders.
Description
16 preliminary leaves, 198 numbered leaves, 1 leaf, [10], 80 numbered leaves, [32] pages : illustrations, double plan
Provenance
Mrs. M.'s collection; Henry S. Morgan.
Binding
Russet oasis,blind tooled, in 1/2 russet oasis box.
Classification
Department