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(AGRICULTURE - 18TH CENTURY). LAURENCE, JOHNBiblio.com

A NEW SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURE. BEING A COMPLETE BODY OF HUSBANDRY AND GARDENING

1726ST15736cLondon: Printed for Tho. Woodward by William Bowyer 1726. FIRST EDITION. One of 1000 copies according to Bowyer's ledgers per ESTC. 360 x 222 mm. 14 x 8 3/4". 12 p.l. 456 i.e. 452 pp. 4L2v is numbered 316-320. Contemporary calf covers with gilt roll frame oblique floral cornerpieces rebacked in olive-brown calf raised bands flanked by scrolling gilt rolls panels with decorative gilt centerpiece red morocco label marbled endpapers and edges neat repairs to head edge and to corners. With engraved frontispiece five small engravings in the text and two engraved plates of plants. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Charles Gresley; pp. 286 288-290 with contemporary ink annotations to folded fore margins. Henrey 945; ESTC T146573. ◆Boards with a number of small abrasions but the restored binding sound and perfectly agreeable; isolated faint dust-soiling to head margins other trivial imperfections but the text in very fine condition especially clean crisp and bright and with ample margins. Very fresh and bright internally especially for a book expected to incur use in an unprotected context this practical and comprehensive work would have been an indispensable resource for any 18th century husbandman interested in raising livestock and cultivating trees vegetables and fruit. Although the frontispiece depicts the stately Richmond home of the Prince of Wales with its manicured grounds and rows of neatly spaced trees the contents are just as useful to the everyman including "Husbandman Grazier Planter Gardener and Florist." John Laurence 1668-1752 was a fellow at Cambridge before becoming rector of Yelvertoft Northamptonshire where he developed a passion for horticulture while renewing a dilapidated garden there DNB tells us he was especially skilled at growing pears. Laurence wrote three books on the pleasures of gardening while living in Yelvertoft; he later moved to Bishopwearmouth Durham where he wrote the present work--his last and according to Henrey "most ambitious literary project." The author explains how to improve and maintain the land in book I with advice on planting crops and raising different kinds of livestock from cattle to silkworms. He even devotes a few chapters to using land for mines and quarries revealing the "hidden Treasures which lie couched in Nature's Bowels." Book II is devoted to forest and timber trees and books III-V offer a catalogue of fruit trees vegetables and decorative plants to grow in the Fruit Garden Kitchen Garden and Flower-Garden respectively. This is a pleasurable book to leaf through being wonderfully clean throughout and accessible to the modern reader with familiar plants that might be growing in one's backyard today. Printed for Tho. Woodward [by William Bowyer] unknown

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis1 560,00 $US≈ 1 319,92 €

(AGRICULTURE - 18TH CENTURY). DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, [HENRI-LOUIS]Biblio.com

A PRACTICAL TREATISE OF HUSBANDRY

1759ST15736eLondon: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White 1759. First Edition in English. 268 x 210 mm. 10 1/2 x 8 1/4". xxiv 491 9 pp. the last ads. Translated and edited by John Mills. Contemporary sprinkled calf raised bands rebacked with brown morocco original tan morocco title label restorations to corners. With a folding diagram for barley planting and six copper engravings of farm equipment ploughs seed drills etc. four of them folding. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Sir George Shuckburgh Bart. and ex-libris of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt. Fussell II 48-49; Hunt 564 this copy. ◆Extremities a bit rubbed corners bumped but A FINE COPY INTERNALLY quite clean fresh and wide margined in a solid serviceable binding. This is the Hunt copy of an influential work by the French polymath whom Raphael calls "one of the outstanding botanists of the 18th century" in the fields of plant physiology and agriculture. A physician naval engineer and botanist Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau 1700-82 gave up on formal university training to take lodgings near the Botanical Gardens where he pursued his own plan of learning from the director and from other distinguished persons who gathered there. After inheriting his father's estate he set up a model farm on the property to test various theories and methods of agriculture. According to Fussell Duhamel was a proponent of Jethro Tull's "drill husbandry" method of cultivating seeds planted in rows by machine the technique that formed the basis of modern agricultural practice. "He carried out extensive and probably costly experiments and demonstrated the financial advantages and increased physical volume of yield the system provided. This book no doubt played a large part in stimulating interest in the drill husbandry." Hunt notes that the present work was "apparently collected from several publications by Duhamel . . . with the addition of observations and experiments by other French and English writers" by translator and editor John Mills ca. 1717 - ca. 1794. The present item was once owned by one of the greatest botanical book collectors of modern times Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt 1882-1963. According to the Hunt Institute website "at the age of 15 Rachel received her first rare book Leonard Meager's 'The English Gardener' 1670 from a family member. Given her interest in plants gardens books and history this book planted the seed! for a lifelong appreciation of reading and collecting books about botany gardens and other plant-related topics." In addition to assembling an outstanding book collection Hunt was a respected bookbinder who studied with Cobden-Sanderson's pupil Euphemia Bakewell and operated the Lehcar Rachel spelled backwards Bindery out of her family home. She was a founding member of the Hroswitha Club for women bibliophiles which has since merged with the formerly all-male Grolier Club. Another previous owner Sir George Shuckburgh sixth baronet 1751-1804 was a prominent mathematician who was awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal for his work to establish the standard length of a yard. Printed for J. Whiston and B. White unknown

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis1 976,00 $US≈ 1 671,89 €

(AGRICULTURE). ELLIS, WILLIAMBiblio.com

CHILTERN AND VALE FARMING. bound with THE PRACTICAL FARMER; OR THE HERTFORDSHIRE HUSBANDMAN

1732ST15557-1London: Printed for the author 1733; London: Printed for Weaver Bickerton 1732. Early First Edition of the first work; Second Edition with additions of the second work published in same year as the first edition. 191 x 127 mm. 7 1/2 x 5". viii 400 pp.; iv 5-171 pp. 5 pp. ads. Two separately published works bound in one. Pleasing recent retrospective half calf over marbled boards raised bands spine with red morocco label speckled edges. Paper repairs to title page and pp. iii and 151 of first work no doubt to remove library stamps. Perkins 557 562. ◆A few quires of the first work with faint dampstain in the upper half of the fore margin not affecting the text light soiling to "Chiltern" title page isolated minor browning in the first work otherwise quite a fine fresh clean copy with only trivial imperfections internally and in an unworn sympathetic binding. This volume contains two important 18th century English works dealing in a direct specific way with land management soil amelioration and animal husbandry. William Ellis d. 1758 was a self-described "plain farmer" whose second book "The Practical Farmer" bound last in our volume was an immediate success going into three editions in its first year. Divided into nine chapters it covers topics that clearly were of interest to the contemporaneous audience from "increasing crops of pease and beans" to "how to keep pigeons and tame rabbits to advantage." The 14 chapters of the first work in our volume cover a great many headings. But it is slightly more focused than the second in that its various discussions feature two kinds of fields--those found in "the Chiltern" or hilly ground where soils are diverse and frequently problematic and those in "the Vale" or lowlands full of fertile black and "blewish" soils. Ellis' gift lay in his business sense: in Fussell's words he was among the first agricultural authors to try "to prove the advantages of the methods he propounds by attaching to them the golden measure of their financial profit a touchstone that reaches everybody." As a result he found himself very much in demand as a farm management "consultant" to the landed gentry travelling all over England to proffer his expertise. Always one to capitalize on an opportunity he supplemented his income by selling seeds and implements to his clients. These enterprises coupled with his steady production of literature including the first English book devoted entirely to sheep herding led him to neglect his own farm in Hertfordshire. As a result his reputation suffered in the eyes of visitors who expected to see a model of modern farming methods on his own spread but who found instead outdated equipment and general dilapidation. As Fussell indicates Ellis was criticized by more serious scholars for his inclusion of picturesque descriptions of the countryside and anecdotes about "gipsies and thieves" but ironically this inclusion constitutes one of the major attractions of his work for the modern reader. Printed for Weaver Bickerton unknown

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis676,00 $US≈ 571,96 €

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