Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, in a Course of Lectures for the Board of Agriculture. To Which is Added, A Treatise on Soils and Manures, as Founded on Actual Experience, and as Combined with the Leading Principles of Agriculture: in which the Theory and Doctrines of Sir Humphry Davy, and Other Agricultural Chemists, are Rendered Familiar to the Experienced Farmer, by a Practical Agriculturalist
Philadelphia: B. Warner, M. Carey & Son, and Bennett & Walton, 1821. First American Edition. Octavo (23cm). Rebound with green marbled paper over boards, backed in green buckram, titled in gilt; modern yellow endpapers; [i]-viii [9]-304, [i]-viii [9]-92pp; 8 plates. Clean and tight, though rubbed at edges; paper heavily browned and slightly brittle, with one folding plate broken at folds: around Very Good. Second American edition of Davy; first American appearance of the anonymous Treatise on Soils and Manures (preceded by an 1818 London edition). AMERICAN IMPRINTS 5158 & 6995. RINK 704.
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