ELLIS (William)

Ellis's Husbandry, Abridged and Methodized; Comprehending the most useful Articles pf Practical Agriculture.

London: Printed for W. Nicoll; and G. Robinson, 1772. 2 Vols., 8vo (203 x 120 mm), xx, 516; [6], 528, [40]pp., one engraved plate, some browning from turn-ins, cont. full tree calf, joints a little worn, flat spines richly tooled in gilt, red and green morocco lettering pieces on spines, an attractive set in a contemporary binding. First edition of this abridgement of the author's most import book, The Modern Husbandman, which appeared in installments, ending in 1744. Provenance: Small neat ink stamp of the Lawes Agricultural Library to the front paste-down. Rothamsted, p.53; Perkins, 560.

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Ellis, William

Ellis's Husbandry ; Abridged and Methodized: Comprehending the Most Useful Articles of Practical Agriculture Vol II

London, W Nicoll and G Robinson, 1772. First Edition. Hardcover. original leather tight hinges from the estate of Harold Whitaker the animator of George Orwell's Animal Farm Good+.

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ELLIS, WILLIAM

Ellis's Husbandry, Abridged and Methodized: Comprehending the Most Useful Articles of Practical Agriculture. Volume I

London: W Nicoll, 1772. First Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). xx, 516pp + plate. 1 b/w plate.. G : in good condition. Cover heavily rubbed. Slight foxing .

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Catalogue: Farming and Country

Keywords: Farming and Country 1750 - 1850 Antiquarian

TROWELL (Samuel) & ELLIS (William)

The Farmer's Instructor; or, the Husbandman and Gardener's Useful and Necessary Companion. Being a new treatise of husbandry, gardening, and other curious matters relating to country affairs. Containing A Plain and Practical Method of improving all Sorts of Meadow, Pasture, and Arable Land, &c. and making them produce greater Crops of all Kinds, and at much less than the present Expence. Giving an Account how poor Land, not worth above 5 s. an Acre, may be made to bear as good Crops of Grain, Grass, &c. as the richest, at the most reasonable Expence, by a new Manure, and the Use of a New Invented Excellent Four-Wheel-Drill-Plough, and Horse-Break, both so light, that a Man may easily draw either of them, which are here exhibited, and the Uses and Manner of working them fully explained. Also, The Seedsman's Monthly Kalendar, shewing the best and most easy Method for raising and cultivating every Sort of Seed belonging to a Kitchen and Flower-Garden, with necessary Instructions for sowing of Berries, Masts and Seeds, Ever-Greens, Forest-Trees, and such as are proper for improving of Land. With many New, Useful, and Curious Improvements, never before Published. First begun by Samuel Trowell, Gent. and now compleated with a Supplement to every Chapter on Husbandry; by William Ellis, Farmer, At Little Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire.

London: Printed for J. Hodges, 1750. Second edition, 8vo (197 x 122 mm), xiii, [3], 254, [2]pp., with a half-title and a final advertisement leaf, engraved frontispiece, one engraved plate, endpapers renewed, later full panelled calf, a very good copy. This was self-evidently an expansion and editing of Trowell's 'New Treatise of Husbandry', originally published in 1738. Provenance: Ink signature of 'Thomas Davis, 1792' to half-title. Rothamsted, p.149; Blanche Henry, 1442.

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ELLIS,WILLIAM

JOURNAL OF WILLIAM ELLIS narrative of a tour of Hawaii, or Owhyhee; with remarks on the history, traditions, manners, customs, and language of the inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands

Rutland 1979, 363 pp., map, dust jacket (code Sc-145)

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Catalogue: Science

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Aristotle (William Ellis, tr.)

The Politics. Translated by William Ellis

Amherst, Prometheus Books, [, 1986. Softcover. Corner lightly bumped; otherwise very good condition. ]. 253p. .

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Book number: 36909

Catalogue: Philosophy

Dugdale (Sir William) and Henry Ellis; W Finden; Charles Heath; John Coney, (Engravers)

The History of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, from Its Foundation : Extracted out of Original Charters, Records, Ledger-Books, and Other Manuscripts, with a Continuation and Additions, Including the Republication of Sir William Dugdale's Life from His Own Manuscript by Henry Ellis... (Original Edition with All Plates)

London : Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Manor, and Jones .. and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown .. 1818. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 69 plates, some double-page, tissue guards, 2 engravings in the text, some offsetting, browning and spotting. XXXI, 500pp. Armorial bookplate of Sir William Browne Ffolkes ( the second or third Baronets of that name, both Members of Parliament), contemporary calf, gilt rules, covers with interlaced panel, rubbed, rebacked, preserving part of old spine, folio, 9.75 x 14.75 x 2.5 inches. OCLC Number: 54252779. .

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