Lot 231
SCOTTISH AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY, 10 VOLUMES, INCLUDING SALEROOM NOTICE: DOES NOT INCLUDE MARTIN'S GENERAL VIEW'
ROBSON, JAMES. GENERAL VIEW OF THE AGRICULTURE... OF ARGYLL. 1794
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 October 2018 at 12:00 BST
Description
4to, half-title, modern quarter calf gilt, marbled boards; Martin, Alexander General View of the Agriculture of the County of Renfrew. London, 1794. 4to, wrappers; Sinclair, Sir John General View of the Agriculture of the Northern Counties and Islands of Scotland. 1795. 4to, 2 coloured folding maps, 1 folding plate, title page and following leaf with foot of page excised, modern cloth; Sinclair, Sir J. An Account of the Systems of Husbandry adopted in the more improved districts of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1812. 8vo, plates, some folding, contemporary cloth, rubbed; Lasteyrie, C.P. An Account of the Introduction of Merino Sheep. 1810. 8vo, 19th century half calf gilt, frontispiece in good facsimile; [Lawrence, John] The New Farmer's Calendar. 1801. Third edition, 8vo, frontispiece plan, modern boards, stain to frontispiece from stamp on verso; Walker, John Essays on Natural History and Rural Economy. 1812. First edition, 8vo, original boards, neatly rebacked, uncut; [Cross, J.E.] The Berries and Heaths of Rannoch. 1881. First edition, large 8vo, 13 hand-coloured plates, original cloth; Pontey, W. The Profitable Planter. A Treatise on the Cultivation of Larch and Scotch Fir Timber. Huddersfield, for the author, [c.1799], 8vo, frontispiece, original wrappers; Macdonald, D.G.F. Cattle, Sheep and Deer. 1872. 8vo, frontispiece, original pictorial cloth gilt, recased, new endpapers (10)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of Larry Hutchison