THE EXPERIMENTAL HUSBANDMAN and GARDENER: Containg A NEW METHOD Of Improving ESTATES and GARDENS.. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.THE EXPERIMENTAL HUSBANDMAN and GARDENER: Containg A NEW METHOD Of Improving ESTATES and GARDENS.

TITLE CONTINUED: By Cultivating and Increasing of Forrest-Trees, Coppice-Woods, Fruit-Trees, Shrubs, Flowers and Greenhouses, and Exotick Plants, after several Manners; viz. by Layers, Cuttings, Roots, Leaves, &c. WITH Great Variety of NEW DISCOVERIES relating to Graffing, Terebration or Boreing, Inarching, Emplastration, and Inoculation; of Reversing of Trees, and Digesting their Juices to bring them to bear FRUIT. With several NEW EXPRIMENTS for the Fertilizing of Stubborn Soils. By G.A. Agricola, M.D. Translated from the original, with remarks: and adorn'd with cuts. The second edition. To which is now added, an appendix, containing a Variety of EXPERIMENTS lately practised upon the above System, By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany at Cambridge and F. R. S. THE PREFERRED SECOND EDITION 1726 WITH AN ADDED 14 page appendix of EXPERIMENTS MADE UPON Dr AGRICOLA'S General Treatise of Husbandry by R. Bradley. 4to, approximately 290 x 230 mm, 11 x 9 inches, head- and tailpieces, pictorial initials, 33 engraved plates, 11 double page plates showing 19 separate numbered plates plus 14 numbered full page plates, plate 18 faces page 132, some duplicate numbering, 4 and 23 repeated but no duplication of images, the last plate in the book is numbered 31 but there are 33 plates counting the duplicated numbers. Pages: [24], 1-314, [4]-Index, bound in full calf, both covers are original, rebacked with a new later spine, endpapers replaced at some time. Spine faded, covers rubbed and lightly scuffed, pale browning to title page and final page, small water stain to top margins of index, pale browning to top margins, ink splash on page 36 with some letters inked in (see attached image), pale offset and pale age-toning to a few plates, occasional small spot, a good tight copy . See: Mary Aslin, Catalogue of the Printed Books on Agriculture Published Between 1471 and 1840, page 8; Blanche Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800, page 4, No. 412; W. Frank Perkins, British and Irish Writers on Agriculture, page 16; ESTC No.:T82177. A heavy book which may require extra postage. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…