(Farming) Five good works John Curtis. ' Farm Insects: Being...

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(Farming) Five good works John Curtis. ' Farm Insects: Being the Natural History and Economy of the Insects Injurious to the Field Crops of Great Britain and Ireland,' first edition, contemporary half polished calf, spine with gilt tooling and morocco label, label stuck to front board, marbled endpapers and text block edge, Courtney Library label pasted to verso of binders leaf, 16 hand coloured plates as called for, numerous vignette engravings throughout, a very good copy, Blackie and Son, Glasgow, 1860; With another copy in its original embossed cloth, inner front joint split with vg text block loosening; Robert Somerville. 'Outlines of the Fifteenth General Report from the Board of Agriculture. On the Subject of Manures,' first edition, near contemporary card boards rubbed, ex libris to pastedown, half title, advertisement, vi, contents, pp.89-36, some contemporary ink notes to margins, vg, W. Bulmer and Co, London, 1795; J. C. Nesbit. 'On Agricultural Chemistry, and the Nature and Properties of Peruvian Guano,' original embossed cloth with gilt lettering, ex libris label to front pastedown, advertisement, pp.126, three steel vignette engravings, vg to fine, Longman and Co, London, [c.1856]; Jethro Tull and Alexander Burnett. 'Tillage A Substitute for Manure Illustrated by the Principles of Modern Agricultural Science, and the Precepts and Practice of Jethro Tull....The Particulars of Lois Weedon Husbandry, and Other Instances of Tull's Method of Farming by Alexander Burnett,' original embossed green cloth with gilt lettering, slight sun discolouring to the spine, ex libris label, x, pp.212, xxiv, viii, errata, vg to fine, Whittaker and Co, London, 1859. (5)