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179931012Baltimore 1799. Letter. Very good. Paper. Approx. 4.5" x 8" sheet of paper . Light toning to the paper. Contents reads: This may certify that I inspected Six Barrels flour Baranded on the end E. KREMER four of Which was condemn'd to Midlings Middlings being too course and Shky the other two had too much rye in the flour and could not be pass'd and branded for Merchantable Wheat Flour of any Quality signed Isaac Trimble Balt 12th of 3 mo 1799." From wikipedia:<br /> <br /> Wheat middlings also known as millfeed wheat mill run or wheat midds are the product of the wheat milling process that is not flour. A good source of protein fiber phosphorus and other nutrients they are used to produce foods like pasta breakfast cereals puddings and couscous for humans as well as fodder for livestock and pets. 1 They are also being researched for use as a biofuel. unknown
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1795578534London: G.Nicol 1795. General view of the agriculture of the county of Mid-Lothian with observations on the means of its improvement. Binding in fair condition. Some brown spotting mostly on end papers. Backstrip worn and taped. Cover scuffed. 223 pages for main body then 135 pages of appendix. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library. With usual stamps and markings. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item650grams ISBN: G.Nicol 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
1797e6326Edinburgh: Mundell and Son. G : in Good condition. The lower board has been subject to burning the impact of which has caused some loss and fragility to two sections of the fore edge the rear ep and the fore edge of the last 20 pages but with deceasing effect. There is only a very limited impact on the text. Illustrations bright with some minor offsetting. 1797. First Edition. Brown card cover. 270mm x 220mm 11" x 9". 181pp. 14 fold out engravings. '. Together with observations on hollow and surface draining in general. . Mundell and Son unknown
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
1767AGRICULT008453C. Bathurst and J. Newbery London. 1767. First edition. Edited by Robert Vansittart. Octavo. pp vi 82; viii 120; viii v 100. Three volumes in one. Calf-backed marbled paper boards Contains in Gentian Hervet's translation Xenophon's Treatise of Householde and Sir Anthony Fitzherbert's The Boke of Husbandry 1523 and Svrveyinge 1539. Covers rubbed at spine and edges. Front free endpaper pasted down. Very good. C. Bathurst and J. Newbery, London. 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
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
17720459baLondon: W Nicoll. G : in good condition. Cover heavily rubbed. Slight foxing. 1772. First Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 200mm x 130mm 8" x 5". xx 516pp plate. 1 b/w plate. . W Nicoll hardcover
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
175214562London: J. Shuckburgh 1752. Seventh Edition. Full Leather. Good. Spine cracked hinges loose some tanning on first and last pages due to exposure to leather binding. Interiors Very Good. 12mo pp. viii 363 plus Index. Scarce copy of this original edition treatise on farriery and hoof care. Full title: .Wherein is fully explain'd the nature structure and mechanism of that noble and useful creature a horse the diseases accidents he is liable to and methods of cure. Set down in as clear and intelligible a manner as the subject will admit of. The use and abuse of the science discover'd; whereby any gentleman may be able to judge for himself whether or no he is impos'd upon by ignorant grooms and other pretenders to this Art. Together with many necessary and useful observations and remarks concerning the choice and management of horses. Likewise an account of drugs and mix'd medicines used in Farriery with some remarks upon their genuineness and adulteration; and their several prices set down alphabetically at the end of the work. A comprehensive compendium of information on horse husbandry and the farrier's art and craft. J. Shuckburgh hardcover
1742022163The Golden Ball Duck Lane : J. Clarke & J. Shuckburgh 1742. Fourth edition. Thick 12mo pp 8 363 18 page index lacking a corner of the title page with slight loss of text some general blemishes and marking throughout the lower inner gutter corner stained and wormed for the first few and the last few pages contemporary full calf aged crazed and worn the spine lacking several pieces. The front endpaper has a manuscript recipe for a shoulder strain and the other endpaper has the armorial bookplate of the British Unionist politician Walter Long. Fourth edition. Full-Leather. Fair. J. Clarke & J. Shuckburgh Hardcover
1799g0200Edinburgh: James Watson. G : in good condition. Some light scattered browning. 1799. Reprint. Brown hardback leather cover. 220mm x 140mm 9" x 6". 8pp xiv 293pp 121pp. B/w fold-out map. . James Watson 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
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
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
17717670London: printed for T. Durham J. Wilkie and J. Blyth 1771. 1st edition. V.g./No Jacket. Contemporary full leather. Scarce; vol. 2 only 3 volumes published 1770-1772. Ex-library copy; some edge wear. v 6-227 pp. London: printed for T. Durham, J. Wilkie and J. Blyth hardcover
17284732aLondon: John Houghton. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and scuffed. Hinges cracked. Slight foxing. Fep detached. 1728. Second Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 200mm x 130mm 8" x 5". viii 460pp index. . With a Complete Catalogue of the Several Sorts of Earths and their Proper Product . Manur .Draining . Flooding of Lands; As Also Full and Exact Histories Histories od Tradesm as Malting Brewing &c. .; An Account of the Rivers of England &c. . with Many Other Useful Particulars . . John Houghton hardcover
