30th Sep, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
The Glaisdale Agricultural Library: The Private Collection of a Yorkshire Agriculturalist
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SOMERVILLE (John, Lord)
The System Followed During the Two Last Years by the Board of Agriculture Further Illustrated. With Dissertations on the Growth and Produce of Sheep and Wool, as well Spanish as English. Also, Observations Upon the Poor, and Poor Laws. To which are Added, Remarks on the Modes of Culture and Implements of Husbandry, used in Portugal, and an Inquiry into the Causes of the Present Scarcity, and Means Proposed to Remedy it in Future, 4to, pp. [4, incl. initial blank], 187 (1, Directions), 6 plates, contemp. half calf (hinges cracked), 1st Edn., L., Miller, 1800
Quoted by Darwin in his “Origin of Species.” Four locations noted in ESTC. With the 1873 Woburn Abbey bookplate on the front paste-down.
Sold for £250
Estimated at £100 - £200
Auction: The Glaisdale Agricultural Library: The Private Collection of a Yorkshire Agriculturalist, 30th Sep, 2022
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.
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