Agriculture New system of agriculture Dublin 1755
[Agriculture.] A new system of agriculture; or, a plain, easy, and demonstrative method of speedily growing rich: proving, by undeniable arguments, that every land-owner, in England, may advance his estate to a double value, in the space of one year's time. Together with several very curious instructions, how to feed oxen, cows, and sheep, to much greater profit, than has ever yet been known in England. By a country gentleman. Dublin: printed for George Faulkner, and Peter Wilson, 1755. 111 pp. 8vo, modern boards. First Dublin edition; first printed London earlier the same year. An appeal to gentlemen to farm their own estates, rather than leave them to tenants reluctant to make improvements. The text quotes at length from such early authorities as Markham and Googe, but takes into account as well certain recent developments: "He mentions some of the new crops and a rather ingenious barrel churn, the use of which would give a larger proportion of butter for a given quantity of milk, and concludes with an exhortation to cleanliness in the dairy." -- Fussell. Title-page somewhat dust-soiled, and neatly backed, with slight restoration at the top; two blank outer margins archivally strengthened, otherwise a good uncut copy. Uncommon. Fussell II, pp. 28-29; cf. Perkins 1269 (2nd London edition, also 1755).
£400
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