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

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

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

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

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Item #46 England's Improvement Reviv'd: In a Treatise of all manner of Husbandry & Trade By Land...

England's Improvement Reviv'd: In a Treatise of all manner of Husbandry & Trade By Land and Sea. Plainly discovering the several ways Improveing all sorts of Waste and Barren Grounds, and Enriching all Earths; with the Natural Quality of all Lands, and the several Seeds and Plants which most naturally thrive therein. Together with the manner of Planting all sorts of Timber-trees, and Under-woods, with two several Chains to Plant Seeds or Sets by; with several Directions to make Walks, Groves, Orchards, Gardens, Planting of Hops and good Fences; with the Vertue of Trees, Plants, and Herbs, and their Physical Use; With an Alphabet of all Herbs growing in the Kitchin, and Physick-gardens; and Physical Directions. Also The way of Ordering Cattel, with several Observations about Sheep, and choice of Cows for the Dairy, all sorts of Dear, Tame Conies, Variety of Fowles, Bees, Silk-worms, Pigeons, Fish-ponds, Decoys: with Directions to make an Aviary. And with accounts of Digging, Delving, and all Charges and Profits arising in all fore-mentioned: and a particular view of every part of the pleasant Land: With many other Remarks never before extant.

London: Printed By Tho. Newcomb, for Benjamin Southwood, at the Star next to Sergeants-Inn in Chancery-lane; and Israel Harrison near Lincolns-Inn. 1673. Second Edition. Full calf. 4to, 20cm.; 270pp.; Three bookplates (Johannes G[eorgius] Howe Drummond de Abbots Grange; Carl Franz Georg Richard Schwerdt; Duke of Gloucester, Prince Henry.) Includes initial..... More

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Item #57 The Horse-Hoing Husbandry: Or, An Essay On the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation....

The Horse-Hoing Husbandry: Or, An Essay On the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation. Wherein is Shewn A Method of introducing a Sort of Vineyard-Culture into the Corn-Fields, In order to Increase their Product, and diminish the common Expence; By the Use of Instruments described in Cuts.

London: Printed for the Author, 1733. Second Edition. 2º, 29 cm.; 274 pp. 7 plates (6 folding); lacking George II imprimatur page; bound with the 2nd edition supplement (1740); bookplate of David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield; W. Heffer and Sons, Cambridge, booksellers ticket to fr. pastedown; late 19th century..... More

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Item #59 Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, As well for the Champion or open Countrey, as...

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, As well for the Champion or open Countrey, as also for the Woodland or Several, mixed in every Moneth, with A Book of Houswifery, over and besides the Book of Houswifery. Corrected, better ordered, and newly augmented to a fourth part more, with divers other lessons, as a diet for the Farmer, of the properties of Winds, Plants, Hops, Hearbs, Bees, and approved Remedies for Sheep and Cattel; with many other matters both profitable, and not unpleasant to the Reader. Also two Tables, one of Husbandry; and the other of Houswifery, at the end of the Book, for the better and easier finding out of any matter contained in the same. Newly set forth by Thomas Tusser, Gentleman.

London: Printed by T.R. and M.D. for the Company of Stationers, 1672. Full calf. 4to, 20 cm.; [148 pp.], pagination of final leaves of main text being misnumbered; gilt-ruled mottled calf covers, corners rubbed and worn through, head and foot of spine worn, else Very Good. An enlarged edition of..... More

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Item #21 The Formation and Management of Floated Meadows; with Corrections of Errors, Found in...

The Formation and Management of Floated Meadows; with Corrections of Errors, Found in the Treatises of Messrs. Davis. Marshall, Boswell, Young, and Smith. On the Subject of Floating. To Which is Added, A Dissertation on the Size of Farms.

Northhampton: Printed by Peter Mackenzie, County Press Office, Sheep-street, 1808. ; London: Printed for James Scatcherd, No. 12, Ave-Maria Lane, 1796. 1808, 1796. 1st Edition. 1/2 Calf. 8º, 21cm.; 207pp, 3 pls.; Marbled covered boards; corners worn through and staining, cover rubbed, toned. Very Good otherwise. Scarce title. This copy..... More

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