The Glaisdale Agricultural Library: The Private Collection of a Yorkshire Agriculturalist

Date: 30th Sep, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Catalogue: View Page Turner Catalogue
Lots: 179

Over the course of several decades, Yorkshire agriculturalist Martin Burtt assembled an extraordinary library of antiquarian agricultural books, which he carefully and sympathetically cared for and had repaired. The collection focuses on books from the 16th to 18th centuries, spanning the transition from an era when it was considered dubious to attempt to improve on God’s Creation to the advent of the Age of Reason with its huge rise in literacy, invention, experimentation, and applied rationality. The great agricultural writers all appear in the collection, which covers the obvious subjects connected with farming and husbandry, such as breeding of livestock, improvements in land use, crops, developments in technology and veterinary practices as well as other niche subjects from falconry, brewing, gardening, botany, beekeeping and dogs to rat catching and cheese making.

Name: Oliver Yarwood
Email: oliver.yarwood@tennants-ltd.co.uk

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Books, Maps and Manuscripts (179)

 

Lot 97
[LINDSAY (Patrick) The Interest 0f Scotland...

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Lot 98
LITTLE (John) Practical Observations on the...

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Lot 99
LIVINGSTON (Robert R.) Essay on Sheep, 12mo,...

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LORRAIN DE VALLEMONT (Pierre) Curiosities of...

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MACKENZIE (George) A Treatise on the Diseases...

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[SCOTLAND] [MACKINTOSH (William)] An Essay on...

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MACMILLAN (Anthony) A Treatise 0n Pasturage....

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Lot 104
MALCOLM (James) A Compendium of Modern...

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Lot 105
MARKHAM (Gervase) The English Husbandman [Part...

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MARKHAM (Gervase) Markhams Master-piece, . ....

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Lot 107
MARKHAM (Gervase) A small quarto sammelband...

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Lot 108
MARKHAM (Gervase, editor) & HERESBACH (C.) The...

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Lot 109
MARKHAM (Gervase) The Inrichment of the Weald...

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M[ARKHAM] (G[ervase]) The English Husbandman,...

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Lot 111
MARSHALL (William) Minutes of Agriculture,...

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Lot 113
MASCAL (Leonard) The Countreyman’s Jewel: or,...

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Lot 114
MASCALL (Leonard) The Government of Cattell....

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Lot 115
MASCALL (Leonard) The First [-Third] Booke of...

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Lot 116
[MASCALL (Leonard) & SCOT (Reginald)] The...

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Lot 117
MATHEWS (J.) Remarks on the Cause of the...

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Lot 118
[SCOTLAND] MAXWELL (Robert, of Arkland) Select...

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Lot 119
[MAXWELL (Robert) & HOPE (Sir Thomas)...

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Lot 120
MEAGER (Leonard) The Mystery of Husbandry: or,...

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Lot 121
MILLS (John) An Essay on the Weather, 12mo, pp....

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Lot 122
MONK (John) An Agricultural Dictionary, 3 vols,...

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M[ORTIMER] (J[ohn] The Whole Art of Husbandry,...

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Lot 125
NAPIER (William John) A Treatise on Practical...

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Lot 126
PARKER (Thomas) An Essay, or Practical Inquiry...

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Lot 127
PARKINSON (Richard) Treatise on the Breeding...

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Lot 128
PETERS (Matthew) The Rational Farmer: or a...

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Lot 129
PLAT (Sir Hugh) The Jewel House of Art and...

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PLATTES (Gabriel) Practical Husbandry improved,...

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PLATTES (Gabriel) A Discovery of Infinite...

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PRICE (Daniel) A System of Sheep Grazing and...

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Lot 133
QUAYLE (Thomas) General View of the...

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Lot 134
RANDALL (Joseph) The Construction and...

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Lot 135
RIGBY (Edward) Framingham, its Agriculture &c....

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Lot 136
[RINGSTEAD (Josiah)] The Cattle-Keeper’s...

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Lot 137
ROWLANDS (Henry) Idea Agriculturae. The...

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Lot 138
RUSSELL (Joseph) A New System of Agriculture,...

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Lot 139
[SHAW or SHAWE (John)] How to order any Land,...

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Lot 140
SHIRREFF (John) An Account of the Grubber, an...

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Lot 141
SINCLAIR (Sir John) The Code of Agriculture;...

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Lot 142
SINCLAIR (Sir John) Hortus Gramineus...

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Lot 143
SKELLETT (Edward, Professor) A Practical...

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Lot 145
SMITH (Captain John) Englands Improvement...

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Lot 146
SMITH (Robert) The Universal Directory for...

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Lot 147
SOCIETY of GENTLEMEN. The Complete Farmer: or,...

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Lot 148
SOMERVILLE (John, Lord) Facts and Observations...

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SOMERVILLE (John, Lord) The System Followed...

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Lot 151
SPEED (Adolphus) Adam Out of Eden, or, an...

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Lot 152
STELE (James) An Essay on Manufacturing Milk...

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Lot 153
SWITZER (Stephen) The Nobleman Gentleman, and...

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Lot 154
TINDALL (John) Tindalls Yorkshire Farriery,...

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TOPHAM (Thomas) A New Compendious System on...

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TOWNE (Leonard) The Farmers Directory . . ....

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Lot 157
TROWELL (Samuel) & ELLIS (William) The...

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Lot 159
TULL (Jethro) The Horse-hoeing Husbandry: or,...

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Lot 160
IRELAND] [TULL (Jethro) The New Horse-Houghing...

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Lot 161
TUSSER (Thomas) Five Hundred Points of Good...

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Lot 162
TUSSER (Thomas) & MAVOR (William) Five Hundred...

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Lot 163
TWAMLEY (J.) Essays on the Management of the...

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Lot 164
[VARIOUS AUTHORS] Gleanings from Books on...

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Lot 165
[VARIOUS AUTHORS] MUSEUM RUSTICUM et...

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Lot 166
VARLEY or VARLO (Charles) A Treatise on...

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VARLO or VARLEY (Charles) A New System of...

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Lot 168
WESTON (Richard) A New Cheap Manure. A...

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Lot 169
WILLIAMSON (Capt. Thomas) Agricultural...

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Lot 172
[WORLIDGE (John)] A Compleat System of...

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Lot 173
YOUNG (Arthur) Travels During the Years 1787,...

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Lot 174
[YOUNG (Arthur) The Farmer’s Letters to the...

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Lot 175
[YOUNG (Arthur] Observations on the Present...

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Lot 176
AGRICULTURAL BIBLIOGRAPHY, Yorkshire...

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Lot 178
[YORKSHIRE DIALECTS] ATKINSON (J.C.) A...

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