Beschreibung:

Systema Agriculturae; the Mystery of Husbandry Discovered. Treating of the several new and most Advantagious Ways of Tilling, Planting, Sowing, Manuring, Ordering, Improving of all sorts of Gardens, Orchards, Meadows, Pastures, Corn-lands, Woods & Coppices. As Also of Fruits, Corn, Grain, Pulse, New-Hays, Cattle, Fowl, Beasts, Bees, Silk-Worms, Fish... To which is Added Kalendarium Rusticum: Or, the Husbandmans Monthly Direction... and Dictionarium Rusticum..., 3rd edition, published Thomas Dring, 1681, additional decorative title with closed tear, stained and frayed, duplicate title page, lacking plates, some staining and spotting throughout, near contemporary notes and marginalia, mostly to preliminaries and titles, occasional closed tears to page margins, last page of alphabetical index at rear worn and frayed, book plate of John Lumsden, hinges and joints weak, near contemporary quarter sheep, worn and frayed, 4to, together with, Miller (Philip), The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden, as also the Physick Garden, Wilderness, Conservatory and Vineyard..., 2nd edition, 1783, decorative frontispiece, title and dedication, one engraved plate (only), rear endpaper detached, contemporary calf, upper board detached, rubbed and frayed, folio, with, Rennie (James, editor), The Magazine of Botany & Gardening, British & Foreign. Comprehending Figures carefully coloured from Nature of Flowers, Fruits & Cryptogamia with Desciptions thereof..., 2 volumes, published G.Henderson, 1833 - 36, decorative title to volume 1, fifty-three plates with contemporary hand colouring, volume 2 lacking title and with first leaf torn with loss, near contemporary marginalia throughout, one plate in volume 2 with fore-edge margin torn and dust soiled, ink ownership signature and address to front endpaper, contemporary cloth, worn and bumped, 8vo, together with another twenty volumes on botany, gardening and husbandry, various sizes and condition (25)