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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Carrier, E.H.

WATER AND GRASS. A Study in the Pastoral Economy of Southern Europe.

Christophers, 1932. 1st Ed. [xii] + 434pp. 3 diagrams, 4 maps. From the Library of Dr James Bynon, good in very lightly soiled and chipped libra filmed d/w. lightly browned and rubbed to spine.
¶ Inscribed by the Author to front free endpaper - ‘D.M. Hoyles. E.H. Carrier. (many thanks for the contribution on p292.’ With ALS from the Author affixed to lower pastedown.

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Duhamel du Monceau, M.

A 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.

J. Whiston and B. White ..., 1759. 1st English Ed. Sm. 4to. xxiv + 491pp. + ([Rrr3]-[Sss2]). Rubric t.p., 6 copper plates including 4 folding, folding table, dec. head pieces. Ex.-libris I. Macmurdo, pp.ix restubbed, sporadic browning, new e.ps., contemporary calf boards, extremities rubbed with some loss to corners, rebacked in calf with gilt rule edged raised bands and gilt lettered title labels to spine.
¶ ESTC T107757. ‘Translated and edited by John Mills. With an index.’ Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782), French agriculturist and tree expert. 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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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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[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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Miles, W.J.

MODERN PRACTICAL FARRIERY A Complete Guide to all That Relates to the Horse, Its History, Varieties, and Uses-Breaking, Training, Feeding, Stabling, and Grooming-How to Buy, Keep and Treat a Horse in Health and Disease, &c., &c. Forming a Complete System of the Veterinary Art, as at Present Practised at the Royal Veterinary College, London. With Numerous illustrations and a series of anatomical plates ... by Benjamin Herring. To Which is Added an Essay on the Diseases and Management of Cattle, Sheep and Pigs by J.I. Lupton.

William Mackenzie, N.d. c.[1870]. 1st Ed. 4to. 536pp. + vi + 96pp. + [iv]. Additional cold. printed t.p., 40 plates including 12 cold. Light marginal browning, a.e. marbled, rebound in half calf with marbled boards, gilt filleted raised bands with gilt lettering to spine.
¶ Perkins 1196.

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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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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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Winter, George.

A NEW AND COMPENDIOUS SYSTEM OF HUSBANDRY. Containing the Mechanical, Chemical, and Philosophical Elements of Agriculture. Illustrating I. The Properties of different Soils. II. The Properties of Manures, and their Effects. III. The most advantageous Method of applying Manures on the different Soils. IV. The Improvment of Lands ... XI. A Copperplate and Description of a new-invented Patent Drill Machine, for planting all Sorts of Seed, Grain and Pulse; universally acknowledged to be superior to any hitherto constructed. XII. The Application of Substances for the Analysis of Soils and Manures. With many other useful and interesting Subjects.

Bristol: Printed by W. Routh ... Sold by Mrs. E. Newberry, London; Mr. Shirecliff, Bristol ..., 1787. 1st Ed. [viii] + [xvi] subscribers list + 359pp. + [i] blank. Engraved plate. Some sporadic light spotting, ink "correction" to p.344, plate very lightly offset, new e.ps., George Sumner bookplate, blind tooled edges, nicely rebound in full mottled calf, dec. gilt bands and contemporary leather title label to spine.
¶ Kress B 1358; Roscoe, A634 (1); Goldsmiths’, 13349; ESTC T132324; George Winter (1787-1801), was a practical agriculturalist whose chief purpose was to advertise his patent drill machine; it is shown from two different views on the engraved plate. The 16pp. list of subscribers printed on different paper and was probably inserted in copies after the book was printed.

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[Young, Arthur].

SIX WEEKS TOUR THROUGH THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES. Describing, particularly, I. The present state of agriculture and manufactures. II. The different methods of cultivating the soil. III. The success attending some late experiments on various grasses, &c. IV. The various prices of labour and provisions. V. The state of the working poor in those counties, wherein the riots were most remarkable. With descriptions and models of such new invented implements of husbandry as deserve to be generally known: interspersed with accounts of the seats of the nobility and gentry, and other objects worthy of notice. In several letters to a friend. By the author of the farmer’s letters.

London : printed for W. Nicoll, at the Paper-Mill, No. 51, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard,, 1768. 1st London Ed. Sm. 8vo. [iv] + 284pp. With (repaired) half title. 7 woodcut ills. Pp.67-70 sm. black spot to tail, some light browning, light stain to front f.e.p., residual signs of bookplate removal from pastedown, inner gilt dentelles, C19th calf with blind tooling and double gilt rule to edges, minor marking and wear, sympathetically rebacked with dec. blind tooled spine with gilt motifs and lettering laid down.
¶ Goldsmiths' 10407; Printing and the Mind of Man 214. ESTC T48401 ‘ The author of the Farmer’s letters = Arthur Young. With a half-title.’ The figures were depicted on a folding plate in the second edition. ‘... Late in 1767 Young and his family left Bradfield owing to friction between his wife and his mother. He advertised in the newspapers for a farm, and the journeys of inspection he made at this time formed the basis of his slim volume A Six Weeks' Tour through the Southern Counties of England and Wales (1768) ...’ ODNB.

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