code agriculture including observations von sinclair john (7 Ergebnisse)

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

Zustand: Fair. 1817. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Two books bound joined together, each paginated separately. Half bound brown leather with brown marbled paper covered boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and illustrations are heavily tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Bookseller sticker stuck to front pastedown. Hinges are moderately cracked with exposed netting. Binding is slightly loose. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate peeling and splits to spine and corners. Visible wear marks to boards.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. Hardback, half-calf and marbled boards. vii, 645pp. Complete with frontis and 9 plates. 2nd edition 1819. Front hinge weak. Surface abrasions to binding. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Private ownership. (bs56).

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$67.

Full Leather. Zustand: Very Good binding. First American Edition. An attractive copy of the First American Edition of this agricultural treastise by a prominent Scots politician and agricultural writer. With two plates of a Hereford Cow and a Hereford Bull, and six additional plates. The front board of this mottled calf binding has been discreetly reattached; morocco title label to the spine. (Shaw and Shoemaker, 45720). Very Good binding.

Leather bound. Zustand: Very good. The first American edition of The Code of Agriculture by Sir John Sinclair, from the library of Massachusetts Governor, Levi Lincoln Jr. (illustrator). First American Edition. Octavo, viii, 424pp. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt over red morocco label. Both hinges showing wear, but stable. Occasional foxing and toning, solid text block. Includes frontispiece portrait and seven full page illustrated plates. (Shaw and Shoemaker, 45720) Signed on the front free endpaper and title page by Levi Lincoln, Jr. Levi Lincoln Jr. (1782-1868) was an American politician who served as the 13th Governor of Massachusetts from 1825 to 1834. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, he was the son of Levi Lincoln Sr., a prominent political figure who served as Attorney General under President Thomas Jefferson. Lincoln Jr. graduated from Harvard College in 1802, studied law, and established a successful legal practice. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he also served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Senate. In addition to his tenure as governor, Lincoln Jr. was appointed as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and later served as the first Mayor of Worcester, contributing significantly to the development of the city.

, viii, 492 pages, [96] pages of appendix, index and explanation of the plates, illustrated with 11 black and white engravings (including frontispiece) and various tables of values throughout the text, SIGNED with a dedication to Captain Worth of Oakley Hall Suffolk. by Sir John Sinclair on title page, however the signature and dedication were cropped when rebound First Edition , front and rear hinges cracked, wear to boards, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, minor staining on pages throughout, transfer to opposite page in places, signature on title page cropped, overall book in good condition , half calf and marbeld paper, 6 raised bands on spine, gilt titles and decoration in compartments , octavo, 22.5 x 14 cms Hardback SIGNED by author ISBN: