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1726248433London: Printed for W. Mears 1726. Fifth edition with an Appendix. Frontispiece 12 plates many folding. xvi 608 pp. 8vo. Bound in contemporary calf some wear to covers neatly rebacked. Fifth edition with an Appendix. Frontispiece 12 plates many folding. xvi 608 pp. 8vo. Printed for W. Mears unknown books
17625037London & York: W. Bristow and C. Etherington 1762. Hardcover. Good. 6 of 8 352 pages; possibly lacking a half-title otherwise complete. 12mo contemporary sheep rebacked top of spine damaged endpapers renewed. Very scarce. First published in 1727. ESTC locates only the Bodleian Library copy of this edition. <br/><br/> London & York: W. Bristow and C. Etherington hardcover books
17202131London: Printed for W. Mears at the Lamb without Temple Bar 1720. Three volumes bound as one. Thick octavos 71 136 290 2 pages. Third editions corrected. & 2 xv 124 pages. 2 leaves of plates. Illustrated in all with 11 engraved plates. Third edition corrected. New Improvements and the Kalendar were often found bound together as such. Bradley ca. 1688-1732 was an English botanist and gardener appointed to be the first Professor of Botany at Cambridge University a Fellow of the Royal Society and the first to publish a pineapple recipe in English. Fussell Old English Farming Books provides Bradley an entire chapter but only on the grounds that Bradley was the most prolific author of the period 1700-1730. Very good with all plates present rebound in modern half-calf with raised bands and ornamented compartments. Fussell page 108. Printed for W. Mears at the Lamb without Temple Bar hardcover books
17240000801London: W. Mears 1724. Contemporary calf. Very good. 4th Edition. 8vo 18.2 x 11.6 cm. Contemporary paneled calf with some wear; raised bands on later spine; gilt label; small patches to lower cover repaired; two ink spots on fore edge of text block; edges speckled red. Collation: xvi 63 64 viii 65-435 1-Bl ii 1-104 ii 36 7-Index 1-Corrigenda 2-Addenda 1-Errata 5-Cat. pp. 11 copper engraved plates. 8 folding. Text has light browning at head. <br />The organization of this series of tracts has continuous pagination with separate title pages printed in red and black. There is a fourth part The Gentleman and Gardener’s Kalendar where it is noted on the title page that this tract includes several “Acts of Parliament to encourage the Planting of Timber-trees Fruit-Trees and other Trees for Ornament Shelter or profit…” The last tract of this publication contains for the first time a copy of John Beale’s Herefordshire-Orchards A Pattern for all England. Written in and Epistolary Address to Samuel Hatlib Esq. “John Beale was a clergyman and writer on agriculture and natural philosophy. Beale began a weekly correspondence with Samuel Hartlib in 1656 two of his early letters being published as Herefordshire Orchards a Pattern for All England 1657. Nichols Lit. anecdotes 1.447.”ODNB. <br /> <br/><br/>Provenance: Engraved bookplate of Patrick Hume Earl of Marchmont on front paste down. He was a politician born at Redbares Berwichshire who served several English monarchs and Queen Anne. His coat of arms occupies the bookplate with motto “True to the King” along with description of his position as Viscount Blasonberrie and Lord Polwarth of Polwarth and Lord High Chancelor of Scotland. There is also a loose bookplate from Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt library tipped in. <br />This work contains the three different tracts that Bradley wrote on botany gardening and vegetable physiology from 1717 to 1718. In this 1724 fourth edition of the New improvements of planting and gardening there is addition of John Beale’s treatise on Herefordshire-Orchards. Henrey p. 437. Bradley was a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1724 was elected Professor of Botany at Cambridge. ODNB <br /> W. Mears unknown books
1748133622London England: The Royal Society 1748. disbound all edges uncut. 8vo. disbound all edges uncut. 48 pages. DNB IOI 1074-9. First printing of Bradley's "great discovery" of the oscillation of the earth's axis due to the gravitational pull of the moon. Bradley 1693-1762 held the title of Astronomer Royal. In 1748 he presented his findings in a long letter to his patron the Earl of Macclesfield which was read at a meeting of the Royal Society on February 14 1747. Also includes a letter to Martin Folkes from James Parsons with observations on shell fish read at the Society's meeting January 21 1747. Disbound from Philosophical Transactions XLV 1. Tanning and light soiling at edges of text. The Royal Society unknown books
