Complete with a coloured example of the rare engraved and folding plan that is usually lacking – here dissected and laid down on canvas – is a 1610 first in later calf of Rowland Vaughan’s treatise on water meadows, drains and other Most Approved and Long experienced Water-Workes. The ex Gough- Heber copy, it is valued at £2000-3000 at Forum Auctions.
An engraved plate from a 1777 trade catalogue, estimated at £750-1000, that was issued by James Sharp. Seen here is a ‘Quernstone Mill with bolting Mill annex’d, to Grind and dress two sorts of Flower, and Bran at the same time’.
Comprising some 3000 books that range in date from 1473-1840, one of the finer collection of books on agriculture ever assembled will be dispersed by Forum Auctions in a July 10-11 sale that runs to more than 800 lots.