Sinclair (Sir John, Bart), An Account of the System of Husba...

Hammer

£220

Sinclair (Sir John, Bart), An Account of the System of Husbandry Adopted in the More Improved Districts of Scotland [...], two-volume set, second edition, Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co., 1813, frontispieces, full-page and folding plates, contemporary speckled quarter-calf gilt over papered boards, 8vo, another copy, rebacked original publisher's boards, 8vo, volume I of the third edition, 1814, later cloth, 8vo, Sinclair's Essays on Miscellaneous Subjects, first edition, London: A Strahan, 1802, folding plates, wormtrail to lower-gutter margin becoming fainter, contemporary quarter-calf gilt over marbled boards, 8vo, Memoirs of Sir John Sinclair, two-volume set, first edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1837, half-titles, original publisher's cloth over boards, 8vo, [&] Greg (Thomas), A Letter to Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P., President of the Board of Agriculture [...], second edition, London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1810, split, rebacked boards, 4to, (9).

Provenance: 1st: The Drambuie Collection copy, label. 2nd: John Wilson, 19th century armorial bookplate. 5th: 1) Thomas Hargreaves, 19th century armorial bookplate, & 2) Rothamsted Experimental Station, their stamp. 6th: Royal Agricultural Society of England, their bookplate.