Agriculture
Collection of treatises, 18th-19th century
£1,512
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
[?Ball, John]. The Farmer's Compleat Guide. London: for G. Kearsley, 1760. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, contemporary marginalia, bookplate (Probert of the Argoed), title-leaf tipped to front free endpaper, new backstrip partially separating from spine [ESTC T56256: 9 UK copies];
Ellis, William. The Farmer's Instructor ... first begun by Samuel Trowell. London: for J. Hodges, 1747. First edition thus, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf ruled in gilt, rebacked, front board gilt-lettered 'Board of Agriculture 1801', half-title, engraved frontispiece, extremities worn, frontispiece offset, signature A partly loose [ESTC T108402: 12 UK copies];
Idem. The Modern Husbandman, for the Month of July [August; June]. London: T. Osborne, and T. Cooper, 1742. 3 parts in 1 volume, 8vo, modern half morocco, browning, June with closed tear in B1 [ESTC T27827, 4 copies, T27828, 4 copies, T27829, 3 copies];
'A Country Gentleman'. The Complete Grazier: or, Gentleman and Farmer's Directory. London: J. Almon, 1776. Fourth edition, large 12mo, contemporary boards, rebacked, edges untrimmed, small marginal worm-track to quire D, M6 repaired [ESTC T122558: 7 UK copies];
[Mackenzie, Sir Francis]. Hints for the Use of Highland Tenants and Cottagers. By a Proprietor. Inverness: Robert Carruthers, 1838. First edition, 8vo, contemporary blue quarter roan, marbled paper sides, printed label to front board, parallel English-Gaelic text, 6 etched plates;
and 10 others (these not collated), including: William Ellis, Ellis's Husbandry Abridged and Methodized, 1772 (2 volumes, contemporary sprinkled calf, half-title, frontispiece to volume 1, half-title to volume 2, front covers effectively detached, held by tape, engraved bookplates of Arthur Young, possibly the agriculturalist); Arthur Young, A Six Months Tour through the North of England, Dublin, 1770 (3 volumes, contemporary streaked calf, rebacked); Thomas Hale, A Compleat Body of Husbandry, 1757 (second edition, 4 volumes, contemporary reversed calf, engraved plates, joints cracked); John Lawrence, The New Farmer's Calendar, 1802 (fourth edition, 20th-century half calf); idem, A General Treatise on Cattle, [1809?] (second edition, 20th-century half leather); George Robertson, Rural Recollections, Irvine: for the author, 1829 (first edition, later polished calf); and 4 similar
Footnote
Provenance: The Library of the late John Watson Ravenshear, with his bookplates.