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173145307Stockholm Benjamin G. Schneider 1731. 8vo. Smukt nyere hldrbd. pastichebind med ophøjede bind på ryggen. Forgyldt rygtitel. Nanna Grönvalls Eftr. Malmø. Graveret frontispiece. 323171 Errata pp. 2 kobberstukne plancher det ene foldet. Yderst frisk rent og velbevaret eksemplar trykt på skrivepapir. <br/><br/><em>Originaltrykket af denne yderst sjældne svenske have-og husholdningsbog. </em> unknown
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. <br/> 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.<br/> <br/> 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
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. <br/> 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.<br/> <br/> 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
1766117474London: printed for G. Kearsley 1766. First edition. The harvest of 1766 had been a poor one leading to a rise in food prices and over 40 riots by the count of that year's Annual Register. With much debate as to the appropriate response the author of this anonymous tract argues against any form of price controls and interference with the free market and criticises those who bow to mob pressure to do so. The treatise concludes: "It is found by experience that nothing encourages agriculture and promotes plenty so much as the utmost freedom in the trade of corn and every other article of common consumption". It is a fine defence of free trade in agriculture written at the same time as similar arguments were being promoted in France by the physiocrats and preceding Adam Smith's writings by a decade. The treatise is scarce in commerce last recorded at auction in 1989. Octavo 204 x 123 mm. Rebound in modern boards printed paper label to front board edges sprinkled red. A few blemishes to text and a few pages lightly creased else a very good copy. ESTC T110131; Higgs 3688. hardcover
1784j5711Edinburgh London Newcastle: Printed by James Small; sold by W Creech C Elliot and T Cadell. G : in Good condition. Covers rubbed and edge-worn with tears to leather along front cover. Light marking to spine. Some foxing and sporadic light marking within. Extinct worming to spine and prelims. One plate split along crease without loss. Contents otherwise generally clean and tight. 1784. First Edition. Leather cover. 210mm x 230mm 8" x 9". 250pp 71pp. 9 plates mainly folding comprising designs for ploughs and wheel carriages. Two treatise bound as one. The second being John Bailey's essay on the construction of the plough and published in 1795. . Printed by James Small; sold by W Creech, C Elliot and T Cadell hardcover
172816648London. Good. 1728. First Edition. Hardcover. Title continued: whereby estates may be greatly improved. Offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of Great-Britain. By Batty Langly of Twickenham. Printed for Francis Clay at the Bible and Daniel Brown at the Black-Swan without Temple-Bar. Original binding in leather. Spine with raised bands and gilt label. Both hinges are cracked with covers firmly attached. Fold out engraved frontispiece. Interior of text is tight clean & intact without foxing. Title in red and black ink. Decorative head and tail pieces. United Kingdom; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 274 pages . hardcover
1742TS165London and Dublin: T. Osborne; T. Cooper and T. Bacom 1742. 3rd Edition . Hardback. Vg. 8vo. Or the Best Practical Methods of Improving Different Lands with Proper Timber PARTS 1 AND 2.vi 110; viii 207 i pub. ads. pp. The two volumes complete with Volume One being the 3rd edition 1742 and Volume Two a first edition 1742. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards morocco label. A nice volume with a tight and a mainly clean text block. Some ticks and marginalia in a neat ink or pencil hand.Top corner of the first title-page missing with the .REE of the title lost but otherwise a complete example. William Ellis hailed from Little Gaddesdon near Hempstead in Herts. <br/> <br/> T. Osborne; T. Cooper and T. Bacom hardcover
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. <br/> 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.<br/> <br/> 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
1770018436Edinburgh and London: A. Kincaid & J. Bell; T. Longman & T. Caddel 1770. Two volumes; with two engraved plates slightly marked at the margins small thick octavo pp lxvi 487; 8 564 edpapers age-toned at the margins the first volume suffers from some marginal worm holes early on but between pages 365 & 386 the little beast has eaten the upper margin so much that several pieces are nearly detached see illustration otherwise the volumes are both clean and tight internally with just a few turned corners; contemporary roan marked and scuffed joints a little worn the upper joint cracked slightly in each volume leather labels in black and red on the spines. Dickson was born in 1721 at Aberlady and studied at Edinburgh University where he took the degree of M.A. He passed his life between his cherished country employments on a large farm of his father's where he lost no opportunity of gathering experience from the conversation of the neighbouring farmers and the duties of his holy office. Having early shown a great taste for agriculture he watched its processes carefully and made rapid progress in it as he always connected practice with theory. On moving to Dunse he found more real improvements in the art and also more difficulties to be surmounted than had been the case in East Lothian. Observing that English works on agriculture were ill adapted to the soil and climate of Scotland and consisted of theories rather than facts supported by experience he determined to compose a "Treatise on Agriculture" on a new plan. The first edition of this appeared in 1762 and was followed by a second in 1770. This treatise is practical and excellently adapted to the farming of Scotland its first four books treating of soils tillage and manures in general the other four of schemes of managing farms usual in Scotland at that time and suggestions for their improvement. "Probably the most important of the authors of the period". And fifty years later J.C. Loudon wrote "decidedly the best work on tillage which has appeared in the English language and was and still is held in universal esteem among the practical farmers of Scotland". New Edition. Full Leather. Good. A. Kincaid & J. Bell; T. Longman & T. Caddel Hardcover
1710008966London: Rhodes at the Star corner of Bride Lane Fleet Street 1710. Fourth edition. full title reads - "COOKERY in dressing flesh fowl fish herbs roots making sawces etc; PASTRY making pyes pasties puddings pancakes cheesecakes custards tansies etc; CONFECTS candies conserves preserves creams gellies pickles etc; POTABLE Liquors as ale beer mum mead cider perry rape English wines chocolet coffer tea etc; PERFUMING sweet balls pouders pomanders essences sweet waters beautifying washes etc; HUSBANDRY as it relates to the improvement of our barren and waste lands manufactures etc; PREPARATIONS Galenick and Chymick relating to physickand chirurgery as cordial waters spirits tinctures elixirs syrups ponders electuaries pills oils balsams cerecloths and emplasters fitted for curing mist diseases incident to men women and children". 8vo pp 12 560 browned and a bit used throughout the t.p. & preface pages frayed at the margins rear hinge cracking rear e.p. marked and tender front endpapers replaced probably nineteenth century contemporary panelled calf rubbed upper and lower joints cracking though sound spine worn and lacking most of its surface lacking the label. An unsophisticated copy of a rare work. William Salmon 1644 1713 - an empiric doctor advertising himself as "Professor of Physick - was a writer of medical texts that savor to the modern eye of quackery. "Prolific but somewhat disreputable" - Knight and Eddy. Full-Leather. Fair. Rhodes, at the Star, corner of Bride Lane, Fleet Street Hardcover
1719021143Tiguri Zurich: Typis & Sumptibus Bodmerianis 1719. First edition. With 11 single page engraved plates all on stubs and 8 folding engraved plates the title page printed in red and black and slightly loose at the lower gutter edge a little age-toned and marked pp 38 512 24 slight age-toning and marking but overall very clean and tight contemporary half-leather and paper-covered boards rather worn and a little battered worming has led to slight loss at the spine head the author's name written on the spine in a contemporary hand. Our copy has a double-sided sheet tipped-in at the front endpaper - possibly the author's brief explanation of the aims of his work I can not see this mentioned in any other copy. A highly important work in the history of grass taxonomy and with an impeccable provenance - from the library of C.E. Hubbard with his signature and stamp on the front endpaper; Hubbard was the foremost grass taxonomist of the twentieth century. . First Edition. Half-Leather. Good. Typis & Sumptibus Bodmerianis Hardcover
1773188170Edinburgh: printed and sold by William Auld 1773-74. First edition of this successful journal published during the early boom of Scottish agricultural writing. At 15 shillings the collected work was too expensive for most farmers but its popularity and cheaper serial issues reflect the increasing interest in scientific approaches to farming. The front pastedown of Volume II is annotated by a contemporary reader: "Page 396 to make hay speedily & with little trouble". It was reissued in 1778 as The Northern Farmer. 2 vols octavo 207 x 126 mm pp. viii 654 12; viii 628 8. Folding plate facing p. 272 lacking the first plate as often charts and diagrams within text. With 2 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear of vol. I. Contemporary speckled calf raised bands ruled in gilt red morocco spine label red sprinkled edges. Early pencil annotations to endpapers. Extremities lightly worn corners bumped covers marked in places; upper joint of vol. II beginning to split loss to head long closed tear to title page of same. A very good copy. ESTC T90070. Heather Holmes "The Circulation of Agricultural Books during the Eighteenth Century" Agricultural History Review 54 2006. hardcover
1797c3794London: Printed by W Bulmer for George Nicol. G : in good condition. Scuffing at edges and joints. Some bumping. Loss to title panel of first volume with a crack beneath. Occasional foxing within impacting. 1797. First Edition. Brown leather hardback. 290mm x 230mm 11" x 9". lxxxii 412pp; viii 501pp ads. 79 plates and one colour map. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Printed by W Bulmer for George Nicol hardcover
1795e2509Edinburgh: Printed by H Inglis. G : in Good condition. Cover and spine rubbed and scuffed with faded titles. Front hinge cracked. Some light spotting to eps otherwise contents VG. Book-plate on paste-down. 1795. First Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 260mm x 200mm 10" x 8". 255pp appendices. Hand coloured map 4 engraved plates 5 folding tables. Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. . Printed by H Inglis hardcover
1798r2593London: Richard Phillips. G: in Good condition without dust jacket as issued. Cover rubbed and bumped with edge and corner wear. Front cover cracked at joint but holding. Spine rubbed with wear to base. Minor tears at map folds but not impacting on main body of the illustrations. Scattered foxing. Contents tight. 1798. First Edition. Quarter-leather cover. 220mm x 140mm 9" x 6". xv378pp. 2 hand-coloured folding engraved maps and 2 engraved plates. . Richard Phillips hardcover
1767015005Opposite Burlington House in Picadilly London: J. Almon 1767. Second edition. 12mo two-page publisher's list half-title title page xii 252 slight age-toning but exceptionally clean and tight internally endpapers unevenly browned full contemporary calf spine with raised bands and morocco label joints cracking but firm upper cover with a long scuff-mark but still a good copy with a pleasant patina. SCARCE. With the "bear" bookplate of Joseph Berens. . Second edition. Full-Leather. Good. J. Almon Hardcover
177816661Edinburch: Printed for the Author and Sold By J. Murray. Good. 1778. Second Edition. Hardcover. Title Continued: Plain Directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of Forest-Trees to the height of thirty feet and upwards with certain success and on the same principles with as certain success for transplanting Hedges of Sundry kinds which will at once resist Cattle: to which are added Directions for the Disposition Planting and culture of Hedges by observing which they will be handsomer and stronger Fences in five years than they now usually are in ten. 1778 second edition in original leather binding. 259pp ii -xxvi Preface xxvii -xliii Subscribers. 3 pages of Postscript. Both covers are decorated with a narrow gilt border. Spine has raised bands with geometric gilt designs in panels. Clean brown leather. Interior of text is tight clean & intact. Marble endpaper. Front hinge cracked with cover firmly attached. Spine ends and front corners lightly rubbed. Trees Forestry Botany ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 259 pages; The original leather binding. . Printed for the Author and Sold By J. Murray hardcover
179341673Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews 1793. v 1 blank 7-56 pp. Stitched untrimmed and Very Good.<br /> <br /> This document prints the Society's Articles of Incorporation signed in type by John Hancock. Samuel Adams and other luminaries comprised the original incorporators. The Rules and Regulations and list of officers are also printed along with other founding documents including the list of original members-- John Adams a Brattle Bulfinch Brooks Cabot and a long cast of eminent persons. <br /> The document also includes papers on early agricultural research. According to Evans and Sabin this is the first printing of all the constituent documents of the Society. <br /> FIRST EDITION. Evans 25794. Sabin 45896. Rink 1011. Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews unknown
17995976London Pall Mall: G. Nicoll Bookseller To His Majesty and the Board of Agriculture. Very Good. 1799. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover leather binding. First Edition 1799. Very good hardback bound in full brown leather; contains detailed text numerous fold-out colour maps and many copper plate illustrations of agricultural objects; Edges of spine split but binding is tight; Corners slightly bumped; Some rubbing and scuffing to covers; All pages are very good. A handsome copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 455 pages . G. Nicoll Bookseller To His Majesty and the Board of Agriculture hardcover
1776e8708Edinburgh and London: W. Creech and T. Cadell. G : in Good condition. Cover lightly rubbed. 1776. First Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 220mm x 130mm 9" x 5". xxvi 409pp ads. 3 engraved plates. . W. Creech and T. Cadell hardcover
1743e4265London: J and P Knapton; T Longman; H Lintot; and J and H Pembertom. G : in Good condition. Neatly rebacked. Cover lightly rubbed. Plates with short splits at folds. Pages slightly stained at lower corner throughout. Heraldic book-plate on paste-down. Contents firm. 1743. The Third Edition with alterations and additions. Leather cover. 200mm x 130mm 8" x 5". xxiii 296pp. Folding frontispiece and one folding plate. . J and P Knapton; T Longman; H Lintot; and J and H Pembertom hardcover
179839978Boston: Printed by Young & Minns Printers to the State and to the Agricultural Society 1798. 25 3 blanks pp. Disbound light scattered foxing. Good.<br /> <br /> Everything anyone conceivably would want to know. Publication is motivated by "the importance of increasing the quantity of vegetable food for the comfort and happiness of mankind as well as for the support of domestick animals. . ." <br /> Evans 34084. Not in Rink. Printed by Young & Minns, Printers to the State and to the Agricultural Society unknown
1773d4297Edinburgh: William Auld. VG: in very good condition. Later rebind with new eps. Occasional browning notably at first 30 pages of second volume. First plate torn at fold. 1773. Reprint. Half leather hardback with marbled boards. 210mm x 130mm 8" x 5". viii 653pp; viii 515pp indices. Two fold out plates in first volume. Printed 1773 - 1774. Volume 2 omits Articles I - XIX; it begins at Article XX the pagination running 113 - 628. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . William Auld hardcover
1771W028London: T. Cadell and P. Elmsly et al. 1771. 1st English Edition . Hardback. Vg. 4to. Vol II of 2 only. 441-880pp. Original full calf with morocco labels raised bands worn and chipped to the front board. The dictionary from NIT to the end. 2 engraved plates and a table of chemical symbols as called for. Half-title and tile pages both present.The binders instructions call for 2 plates only at the rear of volume 2. 'With full explanations of the qualities and modes of acting of chemical remedies and the fundamental principles of the arts trades and manufactures dependent on chemistry / translated from the French'. Pierre Joseph Macquer Paris 1718-1784. The original French edition was entitled 'Elemens de Chymie' and published in 1766. The French edition was 8vo and the two volumes has over 1300 pages. Important work known as the first modern book on chemistry. The English translation of Macquer's dictionary London 1771 by the Scot James Keir was five years after the French and he added material Black MacBride and Cavendish. A scarce item. 260x205mm. Cole Chemical Literature 874 <br/> <br/> T. Cadell and P. Elmsly et al. hardcover
1767015567At the Cross-Keys over against St Dunstans Church: C. Bathurst & J. Newbery 1767. Octavo pp 2 82; viii 120; viii 100 a little age-toning and occasional marking throughout the last few pages lightly stained bound in a fairly recent green half calf the spine faded. RARE. Consists of reprints of three rare early works :Gentian Hervet's translation of Xenophon's "Treatise of the Householde" 1534 and two works by Sir Anthony Fitzherbert : " Boke of Husbandry" 1534 and "Surveyinge" 1539. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good. C. Bathurst & J. Newbery Hardcover
