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A Course of Experimental Agriculture: Containing An exact Register of all the Business Transacted during Five Years On near Three Hundred Acres of Various Soils...[etc.]. In Four Volumes
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Treatise on Watering Meadows: A Treatise on Watering Meadows: Wherein are shewn Some of the Many Advantages arising from That Mode of Practice, particularly on Coarse, Boggy, or Barren Lands; and the Method of performing the Work. Also Remarks on a late Pamphlet upon that Subject. Illustrated with Five Copper-Plates. Fourth Edition, With Many Additions
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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. … Read more about this item Item Price
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The Profitable Planter. A Treatise on the Cultivation of Larch Scotch Fir Timber: showing that Their Excellent Quality (Especially that of the former) will Render Them so Extensively Useful, as greatly to promote the Interest of th Country. With Directions for Planting, in various soils and situation by a New and Expeditious Method; also, for the management of plantations. To which are added, Useful Hints, in regard to Shelter and Ornament
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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. … Read more about this item Item Price
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Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or A Garden of all sorts of pleasant Flowers which our English ayre will permit to be noursed up: With A Kitchen Garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, and fruites, for meate or sauseused with us, And An Orchard of all sort of fruit-bearing Trees and Shrubbes fit for our Land. Together With the right ordering, planting, and preserving of them and their uses and vertue. Collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London
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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,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ellis's Husbandry, Abridged and methodized: Comprehending the Most Useful Articles of Practical Agriculture
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Gentleman & Farmer's Assistant; Containing, first, Tables for Finding the Content of any Piece of Land, from dimensions taken in yards. Second, Tables, Shewing the Width required for an Acre, in any Square Piece of Land, From One to Five Hundred Yards, in Length. Third, Tables, Shewing the Number of Loads that will Manure an Acre of Land, By knowing the Distance of the Heaps. Fourth, a Table for Measuring Thatcher's Work, from one to sixty-four feet long, And from One to Twenty-Five Feet High. The Third Edition
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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Select Essays on Husbandry. Extracted from the Museum Rusticum, and Foreign Essays on Agriculture. Containing A Variety of Experiments, all of which have been found to succeed in Scotland
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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General View of the Agriculture of the County of Elgin or Moray, lying between the Spey and the Findhorn; including part of Strathspey, in the Counter of Inverness. With Observations on the Means of its Improvement. Drawn up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement
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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. Item Price
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A General View of the Agriculture of the County of Kent; With Observations on the Means of it Improvement. Drawn up for The Consideration of the Board of Agriculture, and Internal Improvement, From the original Report transmitted to the Board; With additional remarks of several respectable country gentlemen and farmers
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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,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Georgical Essays.
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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