Search Results: an essay on calcareous manures by ruffin edmund

Harvard University Press, 1961. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Belnap Press / Harvard. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (agriculture, manure) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. xxxv, 199 pp. Ruffin's book in 1832 "initiated an era of agricultural reform in the ante-bellum South." . Fine. Red Gilt Lettered Cloth. 1961.

Cambridge: Belknap. Fine with no dust jacket. 1961. in d. J.; xxxv, 199p. **1st printing of this ed. With 35p. Preface by J. C. Sitterson. .

Belnap Press / Harvard, 1961. Hardcover. Minor foxing on top edge, else very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight / price clipped, sunned spine on dust jacket. 199pp.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1961. xxxv, 199 pages. Signed and inscribed by J. Carlyle Sitterson. A nice tight book. Dust jacket is toned at spine and at top edge, with some rubbing to spine; a few soft creases on rear. Still looks nice in new mylar. This is a new edition of a work first pub. in 1832-exploring soil exhaustion.. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE EDITOR. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Collectible-Very Good+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

Cambridge, MA,: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1961. 199 clean, unmarked pages; dj w/price clipped, in mylar. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8 Vo.

Belknap Press, 1961-01-01. Hardcover. Good.

New.

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1961. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The John Harvard Library. Republished from the J.W. Campbell 1832 edition with the editor's introduction and facsimile title page of original. Orig. maroon cloth. xxxv, 199 pp. Very light rubbing to spine foot. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned to spine and edges, rubbed to extremities, small chips to spine head, short tear to head of rear cover.

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 1961. Hardcover; 8vo; 199 pages. Red cloth with gilt on spine. In a grey and red jacket. Sunned spine. Rubbed and bumped edges. PC. NF/VG-. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-.

Richmond: J.W. Randolf, 1852. Fifth edition, amended and enlarged. Hardcover. Octavo; Fifth edition, amended and enlarged; Fair+; Hardcover; Spine, green with gold print; Boards in green cloth, wear to spine caps and corners, light toning to spine, light rubbing, else clean and strong; Text block has tanning to endpapers, foxing to endpapers and title page, occasional foxing throughout, bottom fore corner of final page torn away, else clean and tight; xv, 493,10 pages, illustrated (b&w tables). 1346619. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardback. New.

Richmond, Virginia: J. W. Randolph. Good; Spine and Cover Showing Wear. 1853. Fifth Edition. Hardback. 5th Edition: Amended and Enlarged; 493 pages .

Richmond, Va. : J.W. Randolph. , 1852. . 5th edition. . Quarter brown calf over brown cloth boards, gilt spine title. . Moderate wear to covers, front hinge weak, owner’s names to endpapers, light foxing to edges and endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. . 8vo..

Shellsbank, Virginia: Published at the Office of the Farmers' Register, 1835. Second edition. pp. 116. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound, some light marginal browning, else a very good copy. Second edition. pp. 116. 1 vols. 8vo. American Imprints 34059

Petersburg: J. W. Campbell, Pub., 1832. First Edition. Hardcover.. Full leather. 242 pages plus one page of ads. front exterior hinge tender but still holding. Light wear to leather. Owner's ancient name on front end paper, otherwise a good copy -- overall internally clean, bright and, but for the hinge, a structurally s [MRS]

Shellbanks, VA: Published at the Office of the Farmers' Register, 1835. Second Edition. Wraps. Good. 8vo. Disbound wraps. 116 pages. Printed in double columns. Light toning and scattered foxing to contents. This edition has also appeared in some bound copies of Volume 2 of the Farmers' Register. Edmund Ruffin was considered the "father of modern scientific agronomy." Sabin 73519.

Shellbanks: The Office of the Farmers' Register, 1835. Second Edition. Octavo (25cm). Disbound pamphlet; [i]-viii [9]-166pp; a few in-text diagrams and wood engravings. Sewing sturdy, edges gently rubbed, minor creases to first few leaves, foxed throughout: Very Good. Ruffin was a Virginia plantation owner and senator who performed early research on soil, demonstrating the importance of using marl (calcareous earth) to rejuvenate earth exhausted by monoculture. He is also notorious as one of the first Confederate soldiers to fire on Fort Sumter in 1861, initiating the Civil War. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 34059.