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Dublin: Printed for J. Exshaw, H. Saunders, D. Chamberlaine, W. Sleater, J. Potts, J. Hoey, jun., J. Williams, J. Porter, R. Moncrieffe, and T. Walker, 1771. 4 volumes. 8vo, 204 x 122 mms., pp. [iv], [iv] v - xxxi [xxxii blank], 473 [475 blank]; [iv], 439 [440 blank]; [iv], 404; [iv] 479 [480 blank], including half-titles in volumes 1 and 4, with two folding engraved plates in volume, contemporary lightly speckled calf, gilt spines, olive morocco labels; some slight worming of binding, but a very good and attractive set, with the armorial bookplate of N. C.Colthurst, Antrim County Cork on the front paste-down page of each volume. Arthur Young (1741 - 1820) is said of have written, or at least compiled, about 250 books, and there is little doubt about his exceptional energy. The first edition of this work was published in two volumes, but Young is also said to have spent time and money buying up any copies that came onto the market and presumably destroying them. Liam Blunt: "Rehabilitating… Read More

London: Printed for W. Nicoll..., 1772. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 213 x 123 mms., pp. xx, 516; [viii], 528 [529 - 567, 568 blank], including half-title in volume 1, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines, green morocco numbering labels; fragments of title labels, joints very slightly cracked but quite firm, corners worn, but a very good set, with G. E. Fussell's autograph on the verso of the front free end-paper in volume, below a contemporary inscription, "Henry Christopher Wise his Book/ with Profit improving, therein may be had/ Monday May 19th 1777." William Ellis (c. 1700 - 1758) wrote a number of books on agriculture, the value of which was sometimes disputed by farmers. The present work is an abridgment of an eight-volume The Modern Husbandman, published in instalments and finished by 1744, though some of Ellis's other works are referenced in the abridgment. In her ODNB entry on Ellis, Anne Pimlott Baker comments, "Ellis's Husbandry Abridged and… Read More

London: Printed by C. Clarke, 1794. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [3] - 43 [44 blank], library buckram; ex-library. This is one of a series of works on the agriculture of various Scottish counties that Donaldson wrote for the board of agriculture.

London: Printed for G. Nicol...and sold by Messrs Robinson..., J. Sewell..., Cadell and Davies...., William Creech, Edinburgh; and John Archer, Dublin, 1796. 8vo, pp. xiv [xv - xvi Preface], 206 [207 Errata, 208 blank], including half-title, folding engraved coloured map before title-page, folding chart between pp. 126 and 127, 2 full-page engraved plates, original wrappers, uncut; ex-library, with library stamp in blind on front free end-paper, half-title, and title-page, library shelf marks in pencil and ink on verso of title-page, with ink slightly showing through to recto, spine reinforced, covers a little soiled. Boys (1749 - 1824) was a farmer in Kent and one of the commissioners for sewers for east Kent. He wrote this book at the request of the board of agriculture. The first edition of this book was published in Brentford in 1794. Goldsmiths 16572.

Norwich: Printed by and for Stevenson and Matchett, and J. Scatcherd..., [no date]. [c. 1800]. Square 12mo (in 6s), 122 x 112 mms., pp. 144 [145 -148 adverts], including half-title, contempoary sheepskin; front cover very slightly wormed, but a very good copy with the ownership inscription on the half-title, "Thomas Watson/ 1801." Also signed by Cullyer on page 7 with date of 27 July 1800. Cullyer published this work in 1795, and a second edition appeared in 1798. It continued to be reprinted and presumably used by and useful to gentlemen and farmers, as it was still in print as late as 1872. Early copies are uncommon: ESTC locates two copies (BL, Rutgers) of the 1795 first edition, eight of the second (BL Bodleian, Cambridge, Glasgow, London, Southampton, St. Andrews; Auckland Public); with this third edition located in BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, Rothamsted Experimental Station Library; The Czartoryski Library.

York: Printed by A. Ward, for J. Dodsley..., 1777. 8vo, pp. [iv], 530 [531 - 534 Index, 535 adverts, 536 blank], uncut, recently recased in rather nasty quarter cloth, marbled boards, paper label. Hunter (1729 - 1800), a native of Edinburgh, practiced medicine in York from 1763 until his death. He published these essays in four volumes in 1770 - 1772, but this later edition adds essays not available in those volumes. Most of the essays are by Hunter, but other contributors include Adam Dickson, Robert Peirson, Thomas Percival, Richard Townley, and William Speechley.

London. Printed by Tho Cotes, and are to be sold by John Grismond. 1635. Folio (in 6s), 302 x 193 mms., pp. [xii], 612 [613 - 628 indexes], woodcut portrait before page 1, 110 full-page engraved woodcuts, vignette woodcuts on page 294, vignette woodcut plans on pages 537 and 543, names in ink in margins of pages, 428, 530, 544, and margins of Indexes Fff3-6, armorial bookplate of George Arnold, "One of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Chamber" with the autograph "E. Lindsay" beneath, and below that "sum A. Oliveri van Oss MCMXXXVI," bound in contemporary sheepskin, spine gilt in compartments with two red leather labels laid down with joints skilfully restored; some slight water-staining, corner torn fomr pages 213-214 with loss of one letter on page 214, most leaves with print-through of woodcuts, title-page a bit stained as are last two leaves of index, and corner last leaf of index repaired, but for the most part a very good copy. The first… Read More

Huddersfield: Printed for the Author, By Sikes and Smart; and sold by Vernor and Hood London..., [no ]date] [1796]. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo (in 4s), pp. 96, engraved plate of axes as frontispiece, uncut, original wrappers, with title in ink on front cover; some minor wear to extremities, but a very good copy. The Critical Review noticed the work in 1800: "The author's great objects are to show, that the English firs, in suitable soils, with proper management, are as useful as those of Norway, and will produced timber of very considerable scantlings; and also that larch is highly valuable as a timber tree, adapted not only to useful but ornamental purposes. The specimen of larch timber, transmitted with the work, is… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed for John Balfour, 1767. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 202 x 122 mms., pp. [ii], viii, 408, 2 engraved plates, one folding chart at end, contemporary calf,, spine richly gilt in compartments; front joint cracked and tender, lacks label, corners worn, with the contemporary Welsh autograph "Penry Williams" on title-page. John Balfour (1715 - 1795) was one half of the Hamilton and Balfour printing and publishing firm; the partnership was dissolved in 1762, and Balfour continued to publish by himself and became a well-known importer of French books. The first essay in the volume, "Reasons why farming so often proves unprofitable," is probably as relevant in the 21st century as it was in the late 18th.

London: Printed for J. Debrett..., 1801. 8vo, 227 x 143 mms., pp. [viii], 134 [ 135 - 136], six plans on five folding engraved leaves at pages 34, 42, 55, 79, and 125, original wrappers, uncut; spine somewhat perished, and the binding a bit knocked about, but a good copy of a book as originally issued. Boswell first publshed this work himself in 1779, with a second edition appearing in 1790, followed by a third in 1792. The Monthly Review noticed the work in 1780: "One circumstance, which may possibly have regarded its progress [of making meadows] has been the want of some intelligent guide to direct the process.... Whatever information may be necessary in this business, seems to be amply supplied in the work before us. The Author, Mr. George Boswell, seems to be a sensible understanding man, who writes...with what he is really acquainted with. Whoever has land capable of being converted into water-meadows, though it were but a single acre, will do well to read the present treatise."… Read More