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

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Lot 110 - M[ARKHAM] (G[ervase]) The English Husbandman,...

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Lot 78 - HERESBACH (Conrad) Foure Bookes of Husbandry......

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Lot 74 - [HARTLIB (Samuel) An Essay for Advancement of...

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

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Lot 131 - PLATTES (Gabriel) A Discovery of Infinite...

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Lot 86 - [PERIODICAL] HOUGHTON (John) A Collection of...

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Lot 65 - [ESTIENNE (Charles)] Praedium Rusticum, 8vo,...

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

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

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Lot 67 - [ESTIENNE (Charles) & LIEBAULT (Jean)] Maison...

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Lot 32 - BRADLEY (Richard) A Survey of the Ancient...

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

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Lot 23 - [BLAGRAVE (Joseph) The Epitomie of the Art of...

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Lot 132 - PRICE (Daniel) A System of Sheep Grazing and...

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

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Lot 66 - [ESTIENNE (Charles) & LIEBAULT (Jean) Maison...

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Lot 41 - CULLEY (George) Observations on Live Stock,...

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Lot 68 - EVELYN (John) A Philosophical Discourse of...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lot 90 - JAMES (Robert) The Rational Farmer and...

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Lot 100 - LORRAIN DE VALLEMONT (Pierre) Curiosities of...

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Lot 101 - MACKENZIE (George) A Treatise on the Diseases...

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

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

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Lot 3 - AITON (William) A Treatise on the Dairy Breed...

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Lot 75 - HARTLIB (Samuel) Samuel Hartlib His Legacie of...

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

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Lot 62 - ELLIS (William) A Compleat System of...

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Lot 92 - KNOWLSON (John C.) The Complete Farrier, or...

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

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Lot 5 - [ALMON (J.) publisher:] The Complete Grazier,...

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Lot 93 - [LAMMERMUIR FARMER / ANONYMOUS] A Treatise...

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

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

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

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Lot 8 - ANDERSON (James) A Practical Treatise on...

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Lot 19 - [BALL (John) erstwhile attributed to:] The...

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Lot 25 - BLITH (Walter) The English Improver, or a New...

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Lot 39 - COOKE (George) The Complete English Farmer,...

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Lot 60 - [ELLIS & MILLS] ELLIS (William) Chiltern and...

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Lot 76 - [HARTLIB (Samuel)] Samuel Hartlib his Legacie...

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

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Lot 14 - ARBUTHNOT (John) Culture and Curing of Madder,...

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Lot 30 - BRADLEY (Richard) The Country Gentleman and...

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Lot 89 - JACOB (Giles) The Country Gentleman’s Vade...

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

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Lot 156 - TOWNE (Leonard) The Farmers Directory . . ....

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Lot 38 - COLUMELLA Junius Moderatus, Of Husbandry in...

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Lot 64 - ESTIENNE (Charles) & LIEBAULT (J.) Maison...

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Lot 79 - HITT (Thomas) A Treatise of Husbandry on the...

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Lot 2 - AGRICOLA (Georg Andreas) & BRADLEY (Richard) A...

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Lot 42 - CULLEY (George) Observations on Live Stock,...

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Lot 43 - [GRASSES] ROCQUE (B.) A Practical Treatise on...

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Lot 53 - DOWNING (Joseph) A Treatise on the Disorders...

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Lot 54 - DREW (John) Norfolk Husbandry, or, Perfect...

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Lot 167 - VARLO or VARLEY (Charles) A New System of...

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Lot 18 - BAKEWELL (Robert) Observations on the...

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Lot 37 - CLATER (Francis) Every Man His Own Cattle...

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Lot 52 - DOWNING (Joseph) A Treatise on the Disorders...

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Lot 77 - HEATON (Richard) Directions how to use R....

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

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

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

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

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

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Lot 4 - AITON (William) A Treatise on the Origin,...

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Lot 31 - BRADLEY (Richard) A General Treatise of...

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Lot 35 - CARPENTER (J.) A Treatise on Agriculture, 2...

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Lot 47 - BEATSON (Maj.-Gen. Alexander) A New System of...

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Lot 69 - FINLAYSON (John) Treatise on Agricultural...

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

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Lot 149 - SOMERVILLE (John, Lord) The System Followed...

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

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Lot 176 - AGRICULTURAL BIBLIOGRAPHY, Yorkshire...

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Lot 12 - [ANON] A Course of Experiments and...

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Lot 34 - [IRELAND] BURROUGHS (Edward) Essays 0n...

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