Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1015887392 ISBN 13: 9781015887398
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1015882307 ISBN 13: 9781015882300
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh, 1802
Anbieter: Alexander Books (ABAC/ILAB), Ancaster, ON, Kanada
Half leather. Zustand: Very Good. Fifth Edition. 438 Pages Illus. Half Leather, Spine Ends, Edges And Corners Rubbed O/W Sound. Book.
Verlag: Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh, 1802
Anbieter: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, USA
Hardcover. Fifth Edition. XXXI, 438 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Frontispiece of Lord Kames and three plates. One page of adverts. HENREY Vol.II, p. 620. "Apart from his legal and literary activities he also found time and energy to devote to agriculture. He took in hand the improvement of Kames, the family estate in Berwickshire." Interior clean, front cover hinge reinforced, early owner signature dated 1842, book label, joint wear, boards rubbed. Contemporary calf and marbled boards. Very good.
Verlag: Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh, 1802
Anbieter: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 5th Ed. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. pp. xxxi, 438, (1). 22cm x 13.5cm. Portrait frontispiece. 3 engraved plates. nd. [circa1802]. Fifth edition. Contemporary binding of marbled paper-covereed boards with cloth spine. Chipping to edges of boards. Small mark to front board that has gone through to front pastedown and front free end-paper. Inner hinge between frontis and titlepage split, no lettering on spine. Published anonymously but by Lord Henry Home Kames.
Verlag: W. Creech and T. Cadell., Edinburgh, 1776
Anbieter: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Kanada
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Edition : First Edition. , Full calf boards. Spine with 5 raised bands, lacking label in 2nd compartment. Front and bottom edges light red., Period ownership inked on front pastedown, crossed out.Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696?1782) was a Scottish writer, philosopher, and judge who played a major role in Scotland?s Agricultural Revolution. A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment he was a founding member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh and active in The Select Society. Home acted as patron to some of the most influential thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, including philosopher David Hue, economist Adam Smith, writer James Boswell, philosopher William Cullen and naturalist John Walker., Size : 8vo.(210 x 130 mm), A very good example. Includes 3 engraved plates, numbered. Author name inked on title (spelled ?Lord Kaimes?). , P. Title. Blank. Pp. iii-xxiv. Pp. 1-409. Blank. Publisher?s ads (2). Plates (3). Joints split. Slight worming to last leaves affecting plates/text, slight offsetting, else interior generally clean and bright. Front free endpaper with section cut away at top right.
Verlag: Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh, 1802
Anbieter: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 5th Ed. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. pp. xxxi, 438, (1). 22cm x 13.5cm. Portrait frontispiece. 3 engraved plates. Fifth edition. Contemporary full calf with contrasting label, gilt title to spine. Boards and spine slightly rubbed. Previous owner's details to titlepage. A few small worm holes to bottom of rear pastedown and last 3 pages. Some foxing on engravings. Published anonymously but by Lord Henry Home Kames.
Verlag: Bell & Bradfute Edinburgh; G. G. & J. Robinson London 8vo, 1798
Anbieter: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, Vereinigtes Königreich
pp. xxxi, (i) blank, 438. Portrait frontispiece in aquatint, 3 engraved plates. Later cloth, uncut, rear joint weak and a little wear to the head of the spine, else a very good copy.
Verlag: Bell and Bradfute for Longman, Hurst et al, Edinburgh, 1815
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Leather. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). The sixth edition of Lord Kames' popular guide for the 'Gentleman Farmer'. Illustrated with three plates, and featuring chapters on crop rotation and soil fertility. The sixth edition of this guide to farming from Henry Homes, Lord Kames. First published in 1776, this sixth and final edition features a one hundred page supplement to the rear, updating Kames' work to 1815.Illustrated with three plates. Collated, complete.Over the course of seventeen chapters, Homes discusses husbandry, cattle, grass, crop rotation and soil fertility, alongside a range of further topics.With the bookplate of the University of Aberdeen to the front pastedown, and their stamp to the front free endpaper, half title, title page, and a small number of further leaves.With three plates of advertisements to the rear.A fascinating and detailed insight into early nineteenth century farming practices. Rebacked, in a full calf binding with original boards restored and endpapers renewed. Rubbing to board perimeters, resulting in small losses to leather. Library stickers to back strip head and tail. Library bookplate to front pastedown. Stamp to front free endpaper, half title, title page, and a small number of further leaves. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with the odd annotation. Very Good. book.
Verlag: Edinburgh: John Bell. 1779, 1779
Anbieter: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
xxiii, [1], 438, [2]pp ads, 3 engraved plates. 8vo. Some foxing to plates & few text pages. Full contemporary calf, raised bands, red morocco label; joints sl. cracked. An attractive copy. Armorial bookplate of Charles Mackenzie, Esq., of Kilcoy, his library label on front pastedown. In neat pencil a later hand as noted on f.e.p. that he 'bought this book from Mr Thomson, Bookseller, Frederick St, Edin., on 2nd April 1888, 2/6'. ESTC T55417. The work is partly written from his own experience managing his estate of Blair Drummond, where he introduced modern methods of cultivation and land reclamation.