108 - Agriculture - Horticulture - Agricola, Johann Jakob. A Guide to General Housekeeping: A Brief Yet Clear Instruction and Guide for the Householder on Farming, Field Cultivation, Viticulture, Floriculture, and Gardening. As well as hunting, trapping, bird catching, fishing, sheep farming, and livestock breeding, along with a book on cooking, candying, and distilling. 3 parts in 1 volume. With a total of 48 (instead of 49) folded copperplate engravings. Nördlingen, Schultes, 1677. Contemporary parchment binding with ribbon closures (slightly rubbed and somewhat stained).

Agriculture - Horticulture - Agricola, Johann Jakob. A Guide to General Housekeeping: A Brief Yet Clear Instruction and Guide for the Householder on Farming, Field Cultivation, Viticulture, Floriculture, and Gardening. As well as hunting, trapping, bird catching, fishing, sheep farming, and livestock breeding, along with a book on cooking, candying, and distilling. 3 parts in 1 volume. With a total of 48 (instead of 49) folded copperplate engravings. Nördlingen, Schultes, 1677. Contemporary parchment binding with ribbon closures (slightly rubbed and somewhat stained). VD17 23:654203N - VD17 23:654210W - Bircher B14987-14898 - Wimmer/Lauterbach 125. - A rare work on horticulture, household management, and folk medicine. Part 1: Setting. Title engraving by Melchior Haffner, title page in black and red, 152 pp. and 40 folded engravings (pp. 1–41, 11/12 on 1 sheet). - Part 2: Pharmacopaeus, or The Home Apothecary. Title engraving by Melchior Haffner, title page in black and red, 88 pages and 8 folded engravings. - Part 3: The Garden. Printed title page (as a facsimile), pp. 1–32 (of 176), pp. 1–52 (cookbook), 1 copperplate illustration for the cookbook as a facsimile. - Part 1 begins with a “Clear Guide to Housekeeping in General” (the role of the householder, servants, the estate, and tasks for each month). This is followed in Chapters 1–19 by the layout and care of the garden; Chapter 20 covers garden tools; and then a garden calendar for the tree, flower, and herb gardens. The copperplate engravings depict tree shapes, pruning, cold frames, grafting, gardening tools, container plants, the layout of flower beds, fences, gates, ornamentation, and sundials. Part 2 deals with distillation, descriptions of herbs, and their preparation and use. The copperplate engravings depict herbs with flowers and roots. Of Part 3 (cf. VD17 23:654213U), only the following sections are bound in: the first three books on household management and chores, beer brewing, viticulture, and the appendix on cookery, slaughtering, and preserves. The cookbook is not listed in the relevant bibliographies. — The pages of Part 3 are bound after pp. 1–24 of Part 1. — Scattered light stains, slight browning; the last leaf of Part 3 has a missing corner that has been repaired. *