J b bordley (17 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Full Leather. Zustand: Good+ binding. First Edition. Full bound in contemporary sheep with title label present; viii, [1]-591, [1]-7, [8]. Lacking plate I and only a fragment of folding plate II is present; wear to the extremities including the corners; front free endpaper has been partially tipped down; contemporary owner names and more modern bookplates on the preliminary leaves; foxed and toned to varying degrees; one signature is slightly pulled, but still held in by the sewing; 3 pages with contemporary owner corrections based on the errata page; 2 leaves with closed tears; lacking rear free endpaper and a portion of the last page of the index, 2Q4; else a sound copy of a very scarce title unfortunately lacking a couple plates. ~~A Maryland planter, Bordley was instrumental in the formation of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture. His contributions to colonial agriculture were significant and this present work is the most extensive on the subject, covering theory of crop rotation to infrastructure. ~~ (Sabin 6414; Evans 35216). Good+ binding.…

Second edition, with additions. viii, 536, 8, [24] pp. Frontispiece (not in the 1799 first edition, showing a "Fat Ox" and marking the cuts that a London butcher would make from it, naming the cuts) and five engraved plates, some folding. Bordley (1727-1804), a native of Maryland, was a lawyer by profession; in 1793 he established the first agricultural society of the United States in Philadelphia. From his wife's side, he inherited half of Wye Island at the mouth of the Wye River on Maryland's Eastern Shore (her sister, married to William Paca, a signer, owned the other half); Bordley worked a large farm there, the plates illustrating his suggested farm buildings. Sowerby 708 (for the 1799 first edition). Modern leather rebind (rubbed), leather spine label, new endpapers. Some scattered staining and foxing, remains of an ownership stamp on title-page.…