A NEW SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURE, Being a Complete Body of Husbandry and Gardening. In Five Books.
London: Tho. Woodward, at the Half-Moon over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1726. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. Very good- condition. Item #015886
[xxiv], 456 pages of text. Original full leather binding is moderately to heavily worn and rubbed, moreso at the extremities, with weakened hinges, remaining intact and attractive with the original green leather spine label. Previous owner's oval bookplate (Lowther [Earl of Lonsdale]) on the inside front cover. Lacks the frontis and two plates, and was not bound with the list of subscribers. Previous owner's stamp blacked out with marking pen at the top of the title page and on the inside rear cover. The title continues "...In all the Parts of them. Viz. Husbandry in the Field, and its Several Improvements. Of Forest and Forest Trees, Great and Small; with Ever-Greens and Flow'ring Shrub, &c. Of the Fruit-Garden. Of the Kitchen-Garden. Of the Flower-Garden. In Five Books. Containing All the best and latest, as well as many new Improvements, useful to the Husbandman, Grazier, Planter, Gardener, and Florist. Wherin are interspersed Many curious Observations of Vegetation; on the Diseases of Trees, and the general Annoyances to Vegetables, and their probable Cures. As also a Particular Account of the famous Silphium of the Antients."
Price: $450.00