sinclair right honourable sir john (1 Ergebnisse)

1st Ed. viii + 492pp. + 96pp. appendix. Port. frontis. (offset) and 10 plates. Institutional ink stamp to t.p. and very sm. ink stamp to most plates, some sporadic light browning and spotting, new e.ps., rebound in modern cloth with gilt title to spine. Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, 1st Baronet, (17541835) British politician, a writer on both finance and agriculture, and the first person to use the word statistics in the English language, in his vast, pioneering work, Statistical Account of Scotland. A proponent of new agricultural methods, his works sometimes were the first recording of details of archaeological monuments of Scotland. US$66.