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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
17621028254Bern, Selbstvlg, 1762. Titelbl., 88, 212; 262 S. Mit 1 Tab. u. 1 gefalt. Kupfertaf. Ldrbd d. Zeit m. Rverg. (beschabt, Vorderdeckel u. Rücken unten m. kl. Wurmspuren, kl. St. a. Titelrücks.).
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
17486666CBBasel, Joh. Ludwig Brandmüller, 1748. Gr.-4°. (1) Bl., 862 (recte 860) S. Mit gest. Frontispiz. Späterer Halblederband. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, A|B|C 1 (von 2) Teil in 1 Band. [3 Warenabbildungen]
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
1750188559O.O. ca. 1750. 4°. 4 Bl. Ohne Einbd. Gebräunt.
1788406118Berlin, Pauli, 1788-89. 4°. Mod. Ppbde. Stellenw. leicht fleckig.
1789623502Berlin, Pauli, 1789. 4°. 79, 220, 114 S. Pp. d. Zt.
17801320691Berlin, Pauli, (etwa 1780). 358 S. Interimsbroschur (unbeschnitten, innen gebräunt, Bibl.-Stempel).
1774166282Berlin, Pauli, 1774. M. gest. Front. u. gest. Tit.-Vign. 7 Bl., 404 (recte 804) S. Ldr. d. Zt. m. Rsch. u. Rverg. sowie Goldpr. a. Deckeln. Einbd. etwas beschabt. Gebräunt.
1786166283Berlin, Pauli, 1786. M. gest. Front. u. gest. Tit.-Vign. 1 Bl., 852 (recte 804) S. Hldr. d. Zt. m. Rsch. (leicht beschäd.) u. Rverg. Einbd. beschabt. Gebräunt.
1791170140Berlin, Pauli, 1791. M. gest. Front. u. gest. Tit.-Vign. X, 708 S., 1 Bl. Hldr. d. Zt. m. Rsch. (leicht beschäd.) u. Rverg. Einbd. beschabt. Gebräunt.
1781170141Berlin, Pauli, 1781. M. gest. Front. u. gest. Tit.-Vign. VIII, 780 S. Hldr. d. Zt. m. Rsch. u. Rverg. Einbd. beschabt. Rücken leicht angerissen. Gebräunt. Einige Bl. m. Randausrissen (m. kl. Textverlusten).
1774170142Berlin, Pauli, 1774. M. gest. Front. u. gest. Tit.-Vign. sowie 3 (v. 4?) Falttab. 1 Bl., 708 S., 1 Bl. Ldr. d. Zt. m. Rsch. u. Rverg. Einbd. etwas beschabt. Rücken leicht angerissen. Gebräunt.
1778170583Berlin, Pauli, 1778. M. gest. Front. u. gest. Tit.-Vign. XXIV, 768 S. Ldr. d. Zt. m. Rsch. u. Rverg. sowie Goldpr. a. Deckeln. Einbd. etwas beschabt. Gebräunt.
1775170584Berlin, Pauli, 1775. M. gest. Front. u. gest. Tit.-Vign. 3 Bl., 843 S. Ldr. d. Zt. m. Rsch. u. Rverg. sowie Goldpr. a. Deckeln. Einbd. etwas beschabt. Gebräunt.
17851095473Paris, Hotel de Mesgrigny, 1785. 8, 423, (1) S., 3 gefalt. Kupfertaf. Ldrbd d. Zeit m. Rverg. (Rücken an den Gelenken läd.)
