Agriculture
Group of English county surveys, 18th-19th century
£756
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
Middleton, John. View of the Agriculture of Middlesex. London: by B. McMillan for G. Nicol [and others], 1798. First edition, 8vo, 20th-century green half morocco by Bayntun, 2 hand-coloured engraved maps (both folding), errata leaf, folding table, half-title discarded [ESTC T50760];
[Yorkshire]. [Sammelband of Board of Agriculture surveys, comprising:] General View of the Agriculture of the East Riding of Yorkshire, and the Ainsty of the City of York ... by Isaac Leatham; [...] West Riding [...] by Messrs. Rennie, Broun, and Shirreff; [...] North Riding ... by Mr. Tuke, Junior; Letter to Sir John Sinclair, Bart. from John Robinson, Surveyor-General of Woods and Forests; Outlines of the Fifteenth Chapter of the Proposed General Report from the Board of Agriculture. On the Subject of Manures ... by Robert Somerville. London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1794-5. 5 works in 1 volume, first editions, 4to, contemporary marbled boards, blue paper backstrip, each work with half-title, first 3 works with engraved map, Somerville contents leaf loose [ESTC T40689, T40695, T40692, T38193, T43513];
Marshall, William. The Rural Economy of the Midland Counties. London: for G. Nicol, 1790. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, near-contemporary green half morocco gilt (with an inscription dating the binding to 1833), half-title to volume 1, engraved folding map, bookplates of Rev. Sir George B. Lee, Bart and the Lee family, later book-label (William Delafield) [ESTC T94144];
Marshall, William. The Rural Economy of Gloucestershire. London: for G. Nicol, 1796. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary marbled calf, engraved folding map, 4 pp. advertisements [ESTC T132844];
Pitt, William. General View of the Agriculture of Stafford. London: for G. Nicol, 1796. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary marbled calf, engraved hand-coloured folding map frontispiece, 14 engraved plates (several folding), bookplate (William Lygon Esqr), old typescript label to spine, front joint superficially cracked [ESTC T40676];
Bailey, John, & G. Cully. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Northumberland [... Cumberland ... Westmoreland]. Newcastle: Sol. Hodgson, 1797. Second edition, 3 parts in 1 volume, 8vo, 20th-century tan half sheep, 14 engraved maps and plates (most folding), directions the binder/errata leaf present, plates and maps browned and offset [ESTC T40663];
Tuke, John. General View of the Agriculture of the North Riding of Yorkshire. London: printed by B. McMillan for G. Nicol [and others], 1800. Second edition, 8vo, modern half calf, half-title, engraved folding map, 14 engraved plates, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page, browning [ESTC T40693];
Young, Arthur. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Sussex. London: Richard Phillips, 1808. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary marbled calf, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 20 engraved plates (most of them folding), label perished;
Bailey, John. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Durham. London: Richard Phillips, 1810. Second edition, near-contemporary half calf, 8vo, errata leaf, 9 engraved plates (including hand-coloured frontispiece, 6 plates numbered 2-7, and 2 wood-engraved plates of cattle), front joint partly cracked and spine slightly defective, front free endpaper, initial blank and frontispiece tipped in, frontispiece offset, plates browned;
the lot collated for plates only
Footnote
Note: All but Marshall's two works were surveys produced for the Board of Agriculture.
Provenance: The Library of the late John Watson Ravenshear, with his bookplates.