Author: Beatson, Major-General Alexander.
Title: A NEW SYSTEM OF CULTIVATION, Without Lime, or Dung, or Summer Fallows, as Practiced at Knowle-Farm, in the County of Sussex
Description: 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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