Author: GEORGE SINCLAIR
Title: Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis: or, An Account of the Results of Experiments on the Produce and Nutritive Qualities of Different Grasses and Other Plants, used as food of the more valuable domestic animals: instituted by The Duke of Bedford. Illustrated with dried specimens of the plants upon which the experiments have been made...
Description: B. McMillan, 1816. Folio. pp. vi, lxvi, 316, [4, index]> complete with all the actual specimens of grasses and seeds. Contemporary half straight grained morocco, front joint cracking, but sound. The Earl of Rosebery's copy with his bookplate. The important first edition of this work, the specimens being replaced with printed plates in subsequent editions.

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