£50
Philip Priske. 'The Land Steward and Farmers Assistant,' 'Consisting of Tables for Valuing Land, Reducing the Statute Measure of Sixteen Square Feet per Pole, into the Customary Measure of Eighteen Equare Feet per Pole etc,' first and only edition printed and published by W. Penaluna, Helston, 1813. This work incorporates cornish land measures typical in Cornwall and the Hundred of Lifton in Devon, as to date no such measures in print. The author states ‘’the sale of a small number of copies, which I have ventured to have printed, I shall be in some degree renumerated for my trouble‘’. 80 pages including a handwritten page ‘’for estimating per acre the value of perches’’. Bound in contemporary full polished calf with gilt spine. A very good copy of a rare work.
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