Agriculture
[ANON] The Complete Farmer or General Dictionary of Agriculture and Husbandry. Fifth edition. Volume 2 only of 2.
R. Baldwin, London,1807. 44 engraved plates (as called for). Thick 4to (11 x 8 3/4 inches). Unpaginated, contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Binding very damp marked, split to upper joint at base, marbled paper mold marked and lifting from boards, occasional mold marking to margins.
Weight 3.337 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.
£75.00
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E.H. BENTALL & CO: Wholesale Price List of Chaff Cutters, Disc Pulps, Barrel Pulpers, Turnip Cutters...etc.
Heybridge Aorks, Maldon, Essex, Sept. 1878. A 3 fold 4-page price list printed in red, (7 1/2 x 5 inches).
£10.00
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CAMERON, CHARLES A: Chemistry of Agriculture. The Food of Plants: The Composition, Properties, and Adulteration of Manures.
Dublin: W. B. Kelly; London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1857. First edition. 8vo, pp.vi:(2):144:(20, "Agricultural Advertisements", mostly Dublin businesses, 2 illustrated), original crimson cloth blocked in blind; two short splits to joints but generally very good & bright.
£30.00
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CORRALL, A.J. [Editor]: Accounting for Nutrients. A Challenge for Grassland Farmers in the 21st Century. Occasional Symposium No. 33 British Grassland Society, 1999.
British Grassland Society, 1999. First edition. Large 8vo, pp.v:173, softcover; an excellent copy.
£25.00
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COWAN, MICHAEL: Wiltshire Water Meadows. Understanding and Conserving the Remains of a Farming and Engineering Revolution.
Hobknob Press, East Knoyle, Salisbury, 2005. First (& only?) edition. Illustrations. 8vo (9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches), 164-pages. Softback. Original coloured pictorial wrappers. Uncommon.
£14.00
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DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY: Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, in a Course of Lectures for the Board of Agriculture, delivered between 1802 and 1812. The fifth edition.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, 1836. 10 folding engraved plates. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), pages: viii:413, contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards, lacking backstrip. Some light foxing but generally very good internally. Name, A.W. Graveson, in ink on front fly; some marginal annotations in pencil.
£50.00
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FARNWORTH, JOHN: Ferguson, implements and accessories
Ipswich: Farming Press, 1996. First edition. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. 4to (11 1/8 x 8 3/4 inches), 178-pages. Original coloured pictorial laminated boards; fine
£45.00
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FITT, J.N. [attributed to]: Hearths and Homesteads: A Series of Papers on Subjects connected with Agriculture. By a Hampshire Farmer.
London: James Humphreys [1867]. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), 93-pages. Original purple blindstamped cloth. Headbands bumped, binding slightly unevenly faded, prelims. foxed. Armorial bookplate. Anon.
£40.00
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FRASER, H. MALCOLM: Beekeeping in Antiquity.
University of London Press, 1951. The 2nd (& best) edition. Plates. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 145-pages. Original green cloth in edge chipped else good dust jacket. Binding damp mottled, internally good. The 2nd edition has the Greek and Latin quotes now translated and a new appendix " Beekeeping during the Middle Ages".
£20.00
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HARLEY, WILLIAM: The Harleian Dairy System; and an Account of the Various Methods of Dairy Husbandry pursued by the Dutch. Also a New and Improved Mode of Ventilating Stables with An Appendix, containing useful hints .... for the management of Hedge-Row Fences .....
London: James Ridgeway, 1829. First edition. Engraved portrait, 3 engraved plans (2 folding) and two sepia tinted plates of cattle. 8vo, pp.xxxvi:288, modern green cloth. Some offsetting of portrait to title, binding a little unevenly faded. An excellent uncut & crisp copy with the half-title and leaf of advertisements at end.
£100.00
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HEARING, TERRY: The Dorset Horn, a short History of the Dorset Horn & Poll Dorset Sheep Breeders' Association.
P.D.S.B. Association, n.d. First edition. Plates & illustrations. 4to (12 x 8 1/4 inches) 66-pages. Original cloth, very good in creased otherwise good dust jacket.
£15.00
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JOHN JEFFERY & SON Auctioneers: The Attractive Freehold....Underhill Farm, Ludwell, Wiltshire. Delightful Stone Farmhouse & about 38 acres.
1st September 1960. Folding plan coloured in outline. 4to (10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches), 8-pages. Original printed wrappers.
£10.00
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JOHN JEFFERY & SON Auctioneers: Corner Farm, Sedgehill, Wiltshire - Valuable Freehold Dairy Farm of 52 acres.
9th Jule 1964. Auction catalogue, 4-pages, folding plan in endpocket. 8vo (9 x 7 inches), original wrappers, a little spotted, 1 annotation.
£10.00
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JOHN JEFFERY & SON, Auctioneers: Oxleaze Farm, West Knoyle, Wiltshire. Freehold Dairy Farm of about 80 acres.
9th Jule, 1964 Auction brochure of 4-pages with folding plan in endpocket, 9 x 7 inches, original wrappers. One anotation - the price realized £14,000. Very good.
£12.00
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LAVER & SON Auctioneers: Catalogue of an Important .... Sale of 210 Down Ewes, 4 Sussex Down Rams, 49 Choice Young Dairy Cows....3 Cart Horses, Nag Mare, Traction and Portable Engines........etc. Whitcomb Farm, Corton Denham, Somerset.
For sale by Auction, Feb. 15th 1894. 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches), 17-pages, orginal wrappers, foxed.
£28.00
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MACDONALD, JAMES & SINCLAIR, JAMES: History of Hereford Cattle. Revised edition by James Sinclair.
Reprinted for the Hereford Herd Book Society, 1968. Facsimile of the Vinton & Co. edition of 1909. Plates. 8vo (9 x 5 1/2 inches), 501-pages, original burgundy cloth; very good.
£30.00
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MILES, W.J: Modern practical farriery : a complete system of the veterinary art, as at present practised at the Royal Veterinary College, London / by W.J. Miles ; including practical treatises on cattle, their management in dairy field and stall by John Walker. Pasture grasses and forage plants by Samuel P. Preston. The practice of sheep farming by Charles Scott and The diseases of cattle, sheep, and pigs by J.I. Lupton, M.R.C.V.S.L.:
William Mackenzie, ca.1890. Decorative title in colours, 48 plates by Benjamin Herring, some coloured. 4to (12 3/8 x 9 3/4 inches), pages :536:(96). Old half calf; spine blocked in gilt with a horseshoe & gilt lettered direct. Scuff on spine.
Weight 3 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.
£30.00
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MILES, W.J: Modern practical farriery : a complete system of the veterinary art, as at present practised at the Royal Veterinary College, London / by W.J. Miles ; including practical treatises on cattle, their management in dairy field and stall by John Walker. Pasture grasses and forage plants by Samuel P. Preston. The practice of sheep farming by Charles Scott and The diseases of cattle, sheep, and pigs by J.I. Lupton, M.R.C.V.S.L.
William Mackenzie, ca.1890. Decorative title in colours, 48 plates by Benjamin Herring, some coloured. 4to (12 3/8 x 9 3/4 inches), pages :538:(96). Contemporary half black calf, spine gilt with burgundy lettering piece & horse shoe motifs. Sides rubbed and marked, old auction lot number label on upper cover, upper inner joint cracked but firm, some spotting internally., Weight 3 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.
£40.00
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PERIODICAL: Farm and Home. A Weekly Journal of Agriculture in All its Branches. Nos. 1 - 103, March 4th 1882 - February 16, 1884.
The first 103-issues of this journal. Woodcut illustrations and illustrated advertisements throughout. Two volumes folio (17 x 12 inches), 416-pages. Old purple cloth, binding very faded and marked, upper inner hinge of Volume 1 broken. Internally very good apart from the last 90 leaves of volume 2 which are browned. Uncommon.
Weight 6.2 kg thus extra shipping will be requested.
£60.00
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ROBINSON, W: Mushroom Culture: Its Extension and Improvement.
The "Garden" Office, London, ca. 1880. Frontispiece, woodcut illustrations. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 172-pages. Original green cloth. Binding damp marked, internally good. Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper.
£18.00
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ROOK, A.J. and PENNING, P.D. [Editors]: Grazing Management. Occasional Symposium No. 34 British Grassland Society, 2000.
British Grassland Society, 2000. First edition. Large 8vo, pp.viii:270, softcover; an excellent copy.
£25.00
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THE MOREDUN FOUNDATION: The Moredun Foundation (Formerly Animal Diseases Research Association). Volume One News Sheets 1-30. Volume Two News Sheets 1-20.
Edinburgh: The Moredun Foundation, 1998. Two volumes. Volume One 1998 a reprint, Volume Two 2002 a reprint. Large 8vo, pp.229 and pp.190, softcovers; both generally very good.
£26.00
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The Complete Farmer or General Dictionary of Agriculture and Husbandry. Fifth edition. Volume 2 only of 2.
R. Baldwin, London,1807. 44 engraved plates (as called for). Thick 4to (11 x 8 3/4 inches). Unpaginated, contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Binding very damp marked, split to upper joint at base, marbled paper mold marked and lifting from boards, occasional mold marking to margins. Weight 3.337 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.
£75.00
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WOOLLEY & WALLIS Auctioneers: Wiltshire - Dorset Borders. The Balance of the Sedgehill Easte in three lots. 1) An Important Property, Park Farm, Sedgehill Farmhouse, some 47 acres. 2) 30 acres of valuable grazing land. 3) 7 3/4 acres woodland.
14th July 1966. Folding plan coloured in outline in endpocket. 4to (10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches). 8-pages. Wrappers a little dusty.
£14.00
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WOOLLEY & WALLIS Auctioneers: Wiltshire - Dorset Borders. The Balance of the Sedgehill Easte in three lots. 1) An Important Property, Park Farm, Sedgehill Farmhouse, some 47 acres. 2) 30 acres of valuable grazing land. 3) 7 3/4 acres woodland.
14th July 1966. Folding plan coloured in outline in endpocket. 4to (10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches). 8-pages. Wrappers a little dusty.
£14.00
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