Beatson, Major-General Alexander.

A NEW SYSTEM OF CULTIVATION, Without Lime, or Dung, or Summer Fallows, as Practiced at Knowle-Farm, in the County of Sussex

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol ..., 1820. 1st Ed. xv + 163pp. 4 plates. Some light browning, early marbled boards, C20th calf corners and spine, gilt motifs and gilt lettered label to spine.
¶ Alexander Beatson (1759–1830), army officer in the East India Company and colonial governor. ‘... After his return to England in November 1813 he devoted much attention to experimental agriculture on his farms, his major work in this respect being his influential A new system of cultivation without lime or dung, or summer fallows, as practised at Knowle-Farm, in … Sussex (1820), with a supplement (1821). This work ran through three editions in German (1828, 1829, 1830) ...’

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Campbell, Bruce M.S.

ENGLISH SEIGNIORIAL AGRICULTURE 1250-1450.

cup, 2000. 1st Ed. xxvi + 517pp. + [ii] + [xi] blank. 82 figures, 51 tables. Very good in d/w.
¶ Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography 31.

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Duhamel du Monceau, M.

PRACTICAL TREATISE OF HUSBANDRY: Wherein are contained, many Useful and Valuable Experiments and Observations in the New Husbandry, Collected, during a Series of Years, by the Celebrated ... Also, The most approved Practice of the best English Farmers, in the Old Method of Husbandry. With Copper-Plates of several new and useful Instruments.

C. Hitch and L. Hawes, 1763. 2nd Ed. Corrected and Improved. Sm. 4to. xxiv + 489pp. + Errata + [vi] Index. Rubric t.p., 6 folding plates, folding table. Ex.-libris Ja. Stainbank and another sm. bookplate, contemporary speckled calf, corners rubbed, some staining to upper board intruding sl. onto spine, joints sl. rubbed with minute worm hole to tail of upper joint, faint gilt edged raised bands with gilt lettered title label to spine.
¶ Fussell, pp.48-9; ESTC T82192. ‘Titlepage in red and black. Translated and edited by John Mills. With an index.’ Duhamel was a protagonist of Tull’s methods, and this book rekindled interest in drill husbandry which had waned soon after Tull’s death in 1741.

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[Horne, Thomas Hartwell]

THE COMPLETE GRAZIER; Or, Farmer and Cattle-Dealer’s Assistant. Comprising Instructions for the buying, breeding, rearing, and fattening of Cattle, Directions for the choice of the best Breeds of Live Stock ... Together with an Introductory View of the Different Breeds of Neat Cattle, Sheep, Horses, and Swine: And Also an Appendix on the Improvement of The Shepherd’s Dog, the Horse and British Wool. By a Lincolnshire Grazier.

Printed for B. Crosby and Co., 1807. 2nd Ed. xxxii + 502pp. + [ii] publ. adverts. Frontis., 3 plates including 1 folding, 15 wood engravings after Bewick? Some light browning, ink stamp to pastedown, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, light wear to boards, gilt ruling with gilt motifs and gilt lettered label to spine, some cracking to joints with sl. loss, some loss to spine.
¶ Thomas Hartwell Horne (1780–1862).

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Hudson, W.H.

A SHEPHERD’S LIFE Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs.

J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1923. xv + 337pp. Edges and e.ps. browned, from the Library of Dr James Bynon, original bright gilt lettered green cloth with gilt device to upper board, minor marking and wear, t.e.g.
¶ One of the Collected Works of W.H. Hudson, one of 750 Copies.

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Kreiner, Jamie.

LEGIONS OF PIGS IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL WEST.

Yale University Press, 2020. 1st Ed. [xxiv] + 340pp. 32 colour plates, 7 maps. Very good in d/w.
¶ Yale Agrarian Studies Series.

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Laufer, Berthold.

THE AMERICAN PLANT MIGRATION. Part I. The Potato. Prepared for Publication by C. Martin Wilbur.

Field Museum of Natural History ..., July 28, 1938. 1st Ed. 132pp. Port. frontis., 6 ills. Unopened. Original wrapps., some browning.
¶ Anthropological Series Field Museum of Natural History, Volume 28, Number 1.

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[Lawrence, John].

THE NEW FARMER’S CALENDAR; Or, Monthly Remembrancer, for all Kinds of Country Business: Comprehending all the Material Improvements in the New Husbandry, With the Management of Live Stock. Inscribed to the Farmers of Great Britain. By a Farmer and Breeder.

H.D. Symonds ..., 1800. 1st Ed. vi + [ii] + 616pp. Folding frontis. Some light browning, with the armorial bookplates of Frederick Polhill and Probert of The Argoed, contemporary double gilt rule edged tree calf, minor marking and several scratches to boards, gilt ruling and gilt lettered title label to spine.
¶ ESTC T121778 ‘A farmer and breeder = John Lawrence. Goldsmiths’, 17888’.

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MacDonald, James and Sinclair, James.

HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE. Revised Edition by James Sinclair.

The Hereford Herd Book Society, 1968. Facsimile Reprint of 1909 Ed. xvi + 501pp. Port. frontis., many ills. Original gilt lettered maroon cloth.

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Murphy, Denis J.

PEOPLE, PLANTS AND GENES. The Story of Crops and Humanity.

OUP, 2007. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xxiv + 401pp. Numerous ills. Original laminated boards.

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W[orlidge], J[ohn].

SYSTEMA AGRICULTURÆ; The mystery of husbandry discovered: treating of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices. As also of fruits, corn, grain, pulse, new-hays, cattle, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, &c. With an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession. To which is added Kalendarium rusticum: or, The husbandmans monthly directions. Also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, winds, rain, hail, thunder, &c. And Dictionarium rusticum: or, The interpretation of rustick terms. The whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practice.

London : printed by J[ames]. C[ottrell]. for T. Dring; and are to be sold by Charles Smith and Tho. Burrell, at the Angel neer the Inner-Temple-gate, and the Golden Ball under St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1675. The second edition carefully corrected and amended, with many large and useful additions throughout the whole work: by the author. Sm. folio. [36], 324, [4] p. Engraved ‘frontis.’, ills. Frontis. Explanation of the Frontis. (silked to verso) and the last leaf of index frayed with marginal loss and affecting text particularly to index, title page and subsequent two leaves with marginal loss only affecting text marginally to Ded., pp.273 onwards with sl. loss to upper leading corner, with the signature of James King, some browning and spotting, rebound in modern dark brown crush morocco, single gilt rule to edges of boards, gilt lettered label and gilt ruling to spine.
¶ ESTC R218038 ‘J.W. = John Worlidge. The words gardens, orchards, and corn-lands, ... coppices. are each bracketed together and the words meadows, pastures, are enclosed in brackets on title page. With additional title page (pi2r) engraved, Systema agricultur? being the mystery of husbandry discovered and laid open by J W, and signed: F H Van Hove scul. Printer's name from Wing CD. The first leaf bears An explanation of the frontispiece. Kalendarium rusticum and Dictionarium rusticum each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. Includes index. Gathered in 4's. A second part was published in 1689 (Wing W3597A). Identified as Wing W3599 on UMI microfilm set Early English books, 1641-1700, reel 994.’

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Ryder, M.L. and Stephenson, S.K.

WOOL GROWTH.

Academic Press, London & New York, 1968. 1st Ed. Large 8vo. xviii + 805pp. + [iii]. Frontis., 199 figures, over 60 tables. Sm. ownership signature, good in lightly soiled and sl. chipped price clipped d/w.

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Sinclair, Right Honourable Sir John.

THE CODE OF AGRICULTURE; Including Observations on Gardens, Orchards, Woods and Plantations.

Sherwood, Neely and Jones ..., 1817. 1st Ed. viii + 492pp. + 96pp. appendix. Port. frontis. (offset) and 10 plates. Institutional ink stamp to t.p. and very sm. ink stamp to most plates, some sporadic light browning and spotting, new e.ps., rebound in modern cloth with gilt title to spine.
¶ Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, 1st Baronet, (1754–1835) British politician, a writer on both finance and agriculture, and the first person to use the word statistics in the English language, in his vast, pioneering work, Statistical Account of Scotland. A proponent of new agricultural methods, his works sometimes were the first recording of details of archaeological monuments of Scotland.

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Soderini, Giovan Vettorio.

TRATTATO DI AGRICOLTURA. Ora per la Prima Volta Pubblicato.

Florence Nella Stamperìa del Giglio di Guiseppe Vigiani, 1811. Large Paper Copy? Royal 8vo. vii + 191pp. Rubricated t.p. Inscription and no. to head of t.p., remains of ink lib? stamps to several preliminary leaves, modern dec. paper covered boards, sl. chipping and browning, gilt lettered morocco title label to spine.
¶ Giovan Vettorio Soderini (1526–1596) Italian agronomist.

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Wilson, Rev. John M. (Editor).

THE RURAL ENCYLOPAEDIA, Or a General Dictionary of Agriculture, and of the Arts, Sciences, Instruments, and Practice, necessary to the Farmer, Stockfarmer, Gardener, Forester, Landsteward, Farrier, &c.

Edinburgh: A. Fullarton and Co., 1847-50. 4 vols. Sm. 4to. 72 litho. plates, including some hand coloured, many text ills. Some sporadic very light age toning and spotting, sl. waterstaining mainly to edges of plates in vol. 4 with ink spot to fore edge of a couple, occasional pencil annotations, tear to title page in vol. 2 repaired, marbled e.ps. and edges, half brown calf with marbled boards, boards rubbed, very sl. wear to corners, gilt filleted raised bands and very sl. chipped gilt lettered contrasting leather title labels to spines, some minor marking.

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