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Item #92 Select Essays On Husbandry. Extracted from the Museum Rusticum, and Foreign Essays on...

Select Essays On Husbandry. Extracted from the Museum Rusticum, and Foreign Essays on Agriculture. Containing A Variety of Experiments, all of which have been found to succeed in Scotland.

Edinburgh: John Balfour, 1767. 1st Edition. Full calf. 8º, 20cm.; vii, 408pp.; full speckled calf with gilt title to spine compartment on red leather label, all edges speckled in red; top edge of front board bruised otherwise very good. A rather severe distillation of the Royal Society's multi-volume journal 'Museum..... More

Price: $450.00

Item #20 A New System of Agriculture; or, A Plain, Easy, and Demonstative Method of speedily...

A Country Gentleman

A New System of Agriculture; or, A Plain, Easy, and Demonstative Method of speedily growing Rich: Proving by undeniable Arguments, That every Land-owner, in England, may advance his Estate to a double Value, in the Space of one Year's Time. Together With Several very curious Instructions, how to feed Oxen, Cows, and Sheep, to much greater Profit, than has ever yet been known in England.

Dublin: Printed for George Faulkner, and Peter Wilson, 1755. Stiff boards. 8º, 22cm.; 111 pp.;. More

Price: $575.00

Item #13 A Synopsis of Husbandry. Being Cursory Observations in the Several Branches of Rural...

Banister, John

A Synopsis of Husbandry. Being Cursory Observations in the Several Branches of Rural Economy. Adduced from a Long and Practical Experience in a Farm of Considerable Extent.

London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1799. 1st Edition. Original Publisher's Board. 8º., 23cm. ; 471 p.; Spine title panel in paper. Corners bumped, paper spine cover chipped, general soiling; Retains both half-title and the folding tree-blossoming schedule in rear. Most pages still unread and uncut. Rare..... More

Price: $225.00

Item #75 A Treatise On Watering Meadows. Wherein Are Shewn Some Of The Many Advantages Arising...

[Boswell, George] ; Fordyce, George

A Treatise On Watering Meadows. Wherein Are Shewn Some Of The Many Advantages Arising From That Mode Of Practice, Particularly On Course, Boggy, Or Barren Lands. With Four Copper Plates ; [Bound with] Elements Of Agriculture And Vegetation. By George Fordyce, MD. Of the Royal College of Physicians; Physician to St. Thomas's Hospital; and Reader on the Practice of Physic, in London. The Second Edition. To Which Is Added, An Appendix For The Use Of Practical Farmers.

London: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Almon, in Piccadilly ; Printed For J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-yard. 1779; 1771. 1st Edition ; 2nd Edition. 1/2 Calf. 8º, 20cm; [ii], 108pp + errata; [i], 100pp. + appendix and plates.; 4 pls.; 3 pls.; gilt title to..... More

Price: $550.00

Item #18 General View of the Agriculture of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Surveyed by Messrs...

Brown, Robert

General View of the Agriculture of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Surveyed by Messrs Rennie, Brown, & Shirriff, 1793. With Observations on the Means of its Improvement, and Additional Information Since Received. Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement.

Edinburgh: Printed for James Watson, No. 40 South Bridge, 1799. Second Edition. Original Publisher's Board. 8º, 22cm.; 293pp. (appendix 121pp.). More

Price: $130.00

Item #27 A Treatise On Agriculture and Rural Affiars. Robert Brown

Brown, Robert

A Treatise On Agriculture and Rural Affiars.

Edinburgh: Printed for Oliphant, Waugh, and Innes, Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London. 1811. 1st Edition. 1/2 Calf. 8º, 22cm.; 2 vols. 477pp., 459pp.; Pls.; Blue marbled boards, corners exposed. Page toning. Red title label in spine compartment. Originally published in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, 1811; here seperatly..... More

Price: $450.00

Item #99 Observations On The Method of growing of Wool in Scotland, And Proposals for improving...

[Clerk-Maxwell, George]

Observations On The Method of growing of Wool in Scotland, And Proposals for improving the quality of our Wool. In Two Letters to the Commissioners and Trustees for improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland.

Edinburgh: Printed by Sands, Donaldson, Murray, & Cochran. 1756. 1st Edition. Marbled wraps. 8º, 19cm.; [3], 40pp.;. More

Price: $350.00

Item #34 Three Lectures On Agriculture; Delivered At Oxford, On July 22nd, And Nov. 25th, 1840;...

Daubeny, Charles

Three Lectures On Agriculture; Delivered At Oxford, On July 22nd, And Nov. 25th, 1840; And On Jan. 26th, 1841, In Which The Chemical Operation Of Manures Is Particularly Considered, And The Scientific Principles Explained, Upon Which Their Efficacy Appears To Depend.

Oxford & London: John Murray and J. H. Parker, 1841. 1st Edition. Stiff boards. 8º, 22 cm.; 106pp.; Appendix and Adverts. in r.; liquid stain on fr. cover. 20th C. rebind. with paper title to spine. More

Price: $110.00

Item #37 Elements Of Agricultural Chemistry, In A Course Of Lectures For The Board Of...

Davy, Humphry

Elements Of Agricultural Chemistry, In A Course Of Lectures For The Board Of Agriculture.; With An Appendix, Containing A Series Of Experiments To Test The Value Of The Grasses Cultivated In Great Britain. Second American Edition. To Which Is Added Practical Remarks On Some Of The Manures Mentioned In The Lectures.

Hartford: Hudson and Co. Printers, 1819. 2nd American edition. Full calf. 18cm.; 304pp. More

Price: $160.00

Item #105 A Treatise Of Agriculture. Vol. II. Adam Dickson

Dickson, Adam

A Treatise Of Agriculture. Vol. II.

Edinburgh: Printed for A. Kincaid and John Bell. 1769. Full calf. 8º, 21cm.; lxiii, 564pp.; cover rubbed, corners bumped and rubbed through, hinges cracked but holding, previous owner stamp at head of title. More

Price: $140.00

Item #94 General View Of The Agriculture In The Counties Of Roxburgh And Selkirk, With...

Douglas, Robert

General View Of The Agriculture In The Counties Of Roxburgh And Selkirk, With Observations On The Means Of Their Improvement: Drawn Up, For The Consideration Of The Board Of Agriculture And Internal Improvement, By The Rev. Robert Douglas, D.D. Minister At Galashiels.

Edinburgh: Printed For G. Nicoll, Pall Mall, London, 1798. 1st Edition. 1/2 Calf. 8º, 20cm.; xv, 376pp.; 2 hand colored maps; 1/2 calf with marbled paper covered boards, blue speckled edges; hinges started, rubbed; p. 25 penultimate line is "fatten-ed";. More

Price: $190.00

Item #90 The American Gardener, Containing Ample Directions For Working A Kitchen Garden, Every...

Gardiner, John & David Hepburn

The American Gardener, Containing Ample Directions For Working A Kitchen Garden, Every Month In The Year; And copious instructions for the cultivation of Flower Gardens, Vineyards, Nurseries, Hop-Yards, Green-Houses, And Hot Houses.

Washington: Printed by Samuel H. Smith For The Authors, 1804. 1st Edition. Full calf. 12º, 17cm.; 204pp., [4]; contemporary calf with stamped 6 paneled spine, spine title in gilt on red leather; hinges started, corners bumped and worn; title page and fr. flyleaf adhered together in the gutter; pages age..... More

Price: $4,000.00

Item #62 Practical Farming and Grazing, With Observations On The Breeding And Feeding Of Sheep...

Hillyard, C.

Practical Farming and Grazing, With Observations On The Breeding And Feeding Of Sheep And Cattle; On Rents And Tithes; On The Maintenance And Employment Of Agricultural Labourers; On The Poor Law Amendment Act; And On Other Subjects Connected With Agriculture

Northampton: Printed And Published By T. E. Dicey, 1837. Second Edition. Pebbled Paper covered boards. 8º, 18 cm.; 106 pp. More

Price: $50.00

Item #65 Hints To Gentlemen Of Landed Property. To which are now first added, Supplementary...

Kent, Nathaniel

Hints To Gentlemen Of Landed Property. To which are now first added, Supplementary Hints.

London: Printed For J. Dodsley, In Pall-Mall. 1793. Third Edition. Full calf. 8º, 21 cm.; 286 pp.; armorial bookplate of Hereford Solicitor, W. J. Humfrys on pastedown; rebacked;. More

Price: $375.00

Item #60 The Clergy-Man's Recreation: Shewing the Pleasure and Profit Of the Art of Gardening. /...

Lawrence, John

The Clergy-Man's Recreation: Shewing the Pleasure and Profit Of the Art of Gardening. / The Gentleman's Recreation: Or The Second Part Of The Art of Gardening Improved. Containing several New Experiments, and Curious Observations relating to Fruit-Trees. Particularly a New Method of building Walls with Horizontal Shelters. / The Fruit-Garden Kalendar: Or A Summary Of the Art of Managing the Fruit-Garden. Teaching in order of Time what is to be done therein every Month in the Year. Containing several new and plain Directions, more particularly relating to the Vine.

London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, at the Cross-keys, between the Temple Gates in Fleet-Street, 1718-1726. 6th Edition. Full calf. 8º, 19 cm.; 3 works: book 1 (Clergy-Man's Recreation), 83 pp.; book 2 (Gentleman's Recreation), 115 pp.; book 3 (Fruit-Garden Kalendar), 149 pp. ;. Probably as-issued. Lintot published various versions from..... More

Price: $650.00

Item #110 Rosarum Monographia; Or, A Botanical history Of Roses. To Which Is Added, An Appendix,...

Lindley, John

Rosarum Monographia; Or, A Botanical history Of Roses. To Which Is Added, An Appendix, For The Use Of Cultivators, In Which The Most Remarkable Garden Varieties Are Systemically Arranged.

London: Printed For James Ridgway, 160, Picadilly, 1820. Lindley. 1st Edition. Full calf. 4to, 24cm.; 19 plates (18 hand colored); full calf with gilt decoration to spine and borders to covers; Hand painted book plate of William Anthony Glynn;. Lindley, a prominent orchidologist and professor of botany at University College..... More

Price: $1,400.00

Item #98 The Interest Of Scotland Considered, With Regard to Its Police in imploying of the Poor,...

[Lindsay, Patrick]

The Interest Of Scotland Considered, With Regard to Its Police in imploying of the Poor, Its Agriculture, Its Trade, Its Manufactures, and Fisheries

Edinburgh: Printed by R. Fleming and Company, 1733. 1st Edition. Full calf. 8º, 17cm.; [10], xxxv, [11], 229pp. [1]; Title page with vignette; spine in six panels with gilt title on red leather, blind ruling on cover; foldovers have stained through the pastedowns, covers rubbed, very good otherwise. More

Price: $275.00

Item #97 Prize Essays And Transactions Of The Highland Society Of Scotland. To Which Is Prefixed,...

Mackenzie, Henry

Prize Essays And Transactions Of The Highland Society Of Scotland. To Which Is Prefixed, An Account Of The Institution And Principal Proceedings Of The Society

Edinburgh: Printed By C. Stewart, Printer To The Society; For T. Cadell Jun. And W. Davies, London, And William Creech, Edinburgh, 1799. 1st Edition. Full calf. 8º, 21cm.; cxxi, 394 pp.; vol. 1 only (of 6); bookplate, small patch of leather worn through on rear board, else very good. More

Price: $175.00

Item #6 The English Husbandman. The first Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of...

Markham, Gervaise

The English Husbandman. The first Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of every Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments belonging thereto. Together With The Art of Planting, Grafting, and Gardening after our latest and rarest fashion. A worke never written before by any Author: and now newly compiled for the benefit of this Kingdome.

London: Printed by T.S. for John Browne, and are to be sold at his shop in in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard. 1613. 1st Edition. Limp vellum. 4to., 18cm.; 346pp., missing blank front fly leaf and G1 and G4, G4 is the rear blank fly leaf with no loss of text; 7..... More

Price: $3,500.00

Item #25 A Review Of The Reports To The Board Of Agriculture; From The Northern Department Of...

Marshall, Mr. [William]

A Review Of The Reports To The Board Of Agriculture; From The Northern Department Of England: Comprizing Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Yorkshire; And The Moutainous Parts Of Derbyshire &c.

York: Printed by Thomas Wilson & Son: For Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row, London. 1808. 1st Edition. Original Publisher's Board. 8º, 22cm.; 536pp.with index and Ads.; 20th C. paper reback and hinge reinforcment. Bookplate of merchant and Dorset dairyman, Sir Ernest Ridley Debenham, Bart. on paste down. More

Price: $75.00

Item #8 The Rural Economy of Glocestershire; Including its Dairy: Together with the Dairy...

Marshall, William

The Rural Economy of Glocestershire; Including its Dairy: Together with the Dairy Management of North Wiltshire; and the Management of Orchards and Fruit Liquor, in Herefordshire

Glocester: Printed by R. Raikes, for G. Nicol, Pall Mall, London, 1789. 1st Edition. Full calf. 8º, 21cm. ; 2 vols. bound in one, Vol 1: [2], vi-xxviii, plate, [1], 2-221, 234, 255, 224-318, [1], 320-332, [4], pp. 222/223 typesetter misnumbered unaffecting text body, Vol 2: [3], iv, [1], 2-4..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #12 The Rural Economy of the Midland Counties; Including the Management of Livestock in...

Marshall, William

The Rural Economy of the Midland Counties; Including the Management of Livestock in Leicestershire and it's Environs: Together with Minutes of Agriculture and Planting in the District of the Midland Station

Dublin: Printed for J. Moore, No.45, College-Green, 1793. First Dublin edition. Full Tree Calf. 8º, 20cm. ; 2 vols. 280pp., 287pp.; with index. First published in London by G. Nicol, 1790. More

Price: $120.00

Item #95 Select Transactions Of the Honourable The Society of Improvers In the Knowledge of...

[Maxwell, Robert, ed.]

Select Transactions Of the Honourable The Society of Improvers In the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland. Directing the Husbandry of the different Soils for the most profitable Purposes, and containing other Directions, Receipts and Deascriptions. Together with an Account of the Society's Endeavours to promote our Manufactures.

Edinburgh: Printed by Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran. 1743. 1st Edition. Full calf. 8º, 20cm.; xxx, 457pp.; plate; full calf with spine in 6 raised band compartments, title in gilt on red panel;. The first publication of The Honourable the Society of Improvers In the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland..... More

Price: $600.00

Item #91 A Cyclopedia of Agriculture, Practical and Scientific in which the Theory, the Art, and...

Morton, John C. (ed.)

A Cyclopedia of Agriculture, Practical and Scientific in which the Theory, the Art, and the Business of Arming are Thoroughly and Practically Treated

Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1855. 1st Edition. 1/2 Calf. 8º, 24cm.; plates; 2 vols. bound in 3, 1022 pp., 1172 pp., complete; 1/2 calf with marbled paper covered boards, all edges speckled; some light edgewear and rubbing, internally clean, bindings tight. Extensive and heavily illustrated encyclopedia with over 50 contributers..... More

Price: $425.00

Item #108 General View Of The Agriculture Of The County Of Clydesdale. With Observations On The...

Naismith, John

General View Of The Agriculture Of The County Of Clydesdale. With Observations On The On The Means Of Its Improvement.

Glasgow: Printed By J. Mundell, 1798. 2nd Edition. Original Publisher's Board. 8º, 23cm.; 195pp.;. More

Price: $130.00

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