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1798biblio8<p><i>First edition. Printed for B. MacMillan for G. Nicol Pall Mall. 1798. Octavo. Half title title xvii 1: errata 597pp. 2 hand coloured folding maps one folding table. Printed note to the contents: "The Author intended to have inserted a plan of an orchard . but as it turned out to be inconvenient in point of size and being of small importance the idea was given up". </i></p><p><i>Later utilitarian quarter calf spine in six compartments with raised bands with uneven black rules gilt lettering sl. rubbed to head and foot; slightly marked cloth boards. All edges speckled. Apart from a little light sporadic foxing a nice crisp clean copy firmly bound. Priced to accommodate cost of rebacking which would greatly enhance the volume.</i></p><p><b><i>John Middleton 1751 – 1833</i></b><i> surveyor pioneering and inventive agriculturist commissioner for enclosures. "The best of all the board's surveys of English Counties'". ODNB. An all-encompassing work in the spirit of the age including the state of property commons and enclosures arable land and crops grown gardens and orchards copses woods plantations hedge-rows and oziers livestock rural economy political economy markets commerce trade population legislation weights and measures improvement waste-land manufactures distilleries. Pre-Ricardo and Corn Laws analysis of corn and "manufacture of wheat". 108 of the 208 parishes lay within the City of London of which there is an invaluable account from that time.</i><br /></p><p><i>ESTC: T50760</i></p> Printed for B. MacMillan, Printer to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales; for G. Nichol, Pall Mall, Bookseller to His Majesty hardcover
1794yu-27Bury St Edmunds: W Richardson. Cover worn with upper board detached. Text block firm. Content in overall good condition. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. 1794. Second Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 290mm x 220mm 11" x 9". 336pp index. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . W Richardson 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
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
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
1757d1945London: C Wright & Co.; J Paton; Hamilton & Balfour; &c. G : in good condition. Modern rebind with new eps. 1757. First Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 200mm x 130mm 8" x 5". xii 432pp vi. Signed by author on authentication page. . C Wright & Co.; J Paton; Hamilton & Balfour; &c hardcover
1778020663Dublin: John Exshaw 1778. Illustrated with three folding engraved maps and ten engraved plates some folding octavo pp xvi 118; 128; 132; 95; 13 a few folded corners a little used and age-toned internally with a few paper imperfections and marks the front endpaper slightly marked and lacking a corner contemporary calf sound but rather worn at the edges lacking tiny pieces at the head and tail of the spine the spine dull and lacking its label the joints cracking and peeling. Of great value for the extensive notes on agriculture botany medicine and herbalism. Martyn 1699-1768 was born in London the son of a merchant. He attended a school in the vicinity of his home and when he turned 16 worked for his father intending to follow a business career. He married Marie Anne Fonnereau daughter of Claude Fonnereau a Huguenot refugee who had settled in England and became a successful merchant. He abandoned this idea in favour of medical and botanical studies. His interest in botany came from his acquaintance with an apothecary John Wilmer and Dr. Patrick Blair a surgeon-apothecary from Dundee who practiced in London. Martyn gave some botanical lectures in London in 1721 and 1726 and in 1727 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. Martyn was one of the founders with Johann Jacob Dillenius and others and the secretary of a botanical society which met for a few years in the Rainbow coffee-house Watling Street. In 1732 he was appointed Professor of Botany at Cambridge University but finding little encouragement and hampered by a lack of equipment he soon ceased lecturing. He retained his professorship however until 1768 when he resigned in favour of his son Thomas. On resigning the botanical chair at Cambridge he presented the university with a number of his botanical specimens and books. Full Leather. Good. John Exshaw 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
179733709Walpole New Hampshire: David Carlisle Jun 1797. Newspaper. Good. Newspaper. Approx. 18.5" x 12". 4 pages. Folded twice. Contents include foreign intelligence news from around the States advertisements etc. Nice floral decoration on page 4. Old ink name top left corner page 1. Light toning to the paper. A very small slit in the paper in the middle section. David Carlisle, Jun unknown
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
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
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
179633582Boston: Printed by Thomas Fleet 1796. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Disbound trimmed wraps. Approx. 8" x 5". 78 pages. Title on page 1. Rear wrap is blank. Illustrated with 7 figures on one plate. Light toning to the paper. Some page corners creased. Contents include a list of members of the society headed by the Hon. John Adams Esq. from Quincy. Articles include information on sheep cows cheesemaking cleaning the cheese Stilton Cheese Chesire Cheese Butter Culture of Trees Natural History of Cankerworm with illustrated figures on one plate eggs corn compost and more.<br /> <br /> Evans 30773. Printed by Thomas Fleet 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
179617536London: G. Nicol Et Al. Very Good. 1796. Second Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes with white spines over light blue paper boards. Hand lettered titles & numerals. Hinges and texts are tight clean & intact. Deckle edges. xxxii 408pp 8 index & xx 454pp 4index 2ads . With half-titles to both volumes. Early owner's name in each volume. Botany Trees Shrubs. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . G. Nicol, Et Al. 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
1757r3568London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes J. Rivington etc. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed with lower one inch at spine tail missing. Fep removed. Text block firm and bright. 1757. Second Edition. Leather cover. 210mm x 120mm 8" x 5". 408pp. Details on Fatting of Cattle Turnips Grasses Cows and Calves Sheep and Lambs Horses Wood Weeds Hoggs Poultry Bees Wool Weather and Enemies to Husbandry. . C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Rivington etc 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
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
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
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
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
