Author: SMALL, JAMES; BAILEY, JOHN
Title: A Treatise on Ploughs and Wheel Carriages [and] an Essay on the Construction of the Plough Deduced from Mathematical Principles and Experiments with and Appendix Containing the Description of a Drill
Description: Edinburgh, London, Newcastle: Printed by James Small; sold by W Creech, C Elliot and T Cadell, 1784. First Edition. Leather cover. 210mm x 230mm (8" x 9"). 250pp, 71pp. 9 plates (mainly folding) comprising designs for ploughs and wheel carriages. Two treatise bound as one. The second being John Bailey's essay on the construction of the plough and published in 1795.. G : in Good condition. Covers rubbed and edge-worn with tears to leather along front cover. Light marking to spine. Some foxing and sporadic light marking within. Extinct worming to spine and prelims. One plate split along crease without loss. Contents otherwise generally clean and tight .

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