[PALMER, Sir THOMAS]. An Essay of the Meanes how to make our Travailes, into forraine Countries, the more profitable and honourable. London: by H.L. for Mathew Lownes 1606. Small 4to, nineteenth-century crushed olive morocco, covers with blind roll-tooled palmetto border, g.e., joints and head and tail of spine rubbed, spine discolored to brown, title-page slightly soiled, single tiny wormhole through all leaves, some light offsetting, the folding tables with 1/2-inch tears at mount (the 3rd repaired), the 4th with a skilfully repaired 4-inch tear, FIRST EDITION, woodcut device on title, woodcut head-pieces and initials, four folding tables, ruled in red throughout. STC 19156 ("Imitated from T. Zwinger's Methodus Apodemica, 1577").

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[PALMER, Sir THOMAS]. An Essay of the Meanes how to make our Travailes, into forraine Countries, the more profitable and honourable. London: by H.L. for Mathew Lownes 1606. Small 4to, nineteenth-century crushed olive morocco, covers with blind roll-tooled palmetto border, g.e., joints and head and tail of spine rubbed, spine discolored to brown, title-page slightly soiled, single tiny wormhole through all leaves, some light offsetting, the folding tables with 1/2-inch tears at mount (the 3rd repaired), the 4th with a skilfully repaired 4-inch tear, FIRST EDITION, woodcut device on title, woodcut head-pieces and initials, four folding tables, ruled in red throughout. STC 19156 ("Imitated from T. Zwinger's Methodus Apodemica, 1577").