Beatson, Major-General Alexander. A NEW SYSTEM OF CULTIVATION, Without Lime, or Dung, or Summer Fallows, as Practiced at Knowle-Farm, in the County of Sussex 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) ...’
£125.00 [ref: 290463]

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.
£60.00 [ref: 284696]

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.
£150.00 [ref: 211047]

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.
£25.00 [ref: 287122]

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.
£25.00 [ref: 285238]

Laufer, Berthold. THE AMERICAN PLANT MIGRATION. Part I. The Potato. Prepared for Publication by C. Martin Wilbur. Field Museum of Natural History ... July 28, 1938.
1st Ed. 132pp. Port. frontis., 6 ills. Unopened. Original wrapps., some browning.
Anthropological Series Field Museum of Natural History, Volume 28, Number 1.
£25.00 [ref: 288556]

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.
£75.00 [ref: 282569]

Ryder, M.L. and Stephenson, S.K. WOOL GROWTH. Academic Press, London & New York 1968.
1st Ed. Large 8vo. xviii + 805pp. + [iii]. Frontis., 199 figures, over 60 tables. Sm. ownership signature, good in lightly soiled and sl. chipped price clipped d/w.
£110.00 [ref: 290882]

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. Italian text. Inscription and number 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.
£50.00 [ref: 195119]

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.
£300.00 [ref: 224824]