beatson major general alexander (3 Ergebnisse)

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. Collation pp. xiv, 163. 23.5cm x 14.5cm. 4 engraved plates. 1st edition 1820. Original paper-covered boards, new spine. Extremities rubbed, pages uncut. Occasional slight foxing, pencil notes on rear pastedown.

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 (17591830), 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) .' US$184.

Half Calf. Zustand: Very Good. Daniell, William (engraver) ; Davis, Samuel (drawings) (illustrator). First Edition. First edition. xix, lxxxvii, 330 pp. 6 aquatints. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with blind tooling to edge of leather at boards and gilt lettering, ruling and devices to spine; all edges and endpapers marbled. Sympathetically recased with the head and tail strengthened. Rubbing to binding. Minor marking/spotting internally, though generally quite clean. The aquatint views are engraved by William Daniell, fromd drawings by Samuel Davis. Also included is a geological plan and elevation of the island. Major-General Beatson was in 1816 late Governor of the island. 4to.