Select Transactions Of the Honourable The Society of Improvers In the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland. Directing the Husbandry of the different Soils for the most profitable Purposes, and containing other Directions, Receipts and Deascriptions. Together with an Account of the Society's Endeavours to promote our Manufactures
by [Maxwell, Robert, ed.]
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Edinburgh: Printed by Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1743. 1st Edition. Full calf. Very good. 8º, 20cm.; xxx, 457pp.; plate; full calf with spine in 6 raised band compartments, title in gilt on red panel;. The first publication of The Honourable the Society of Improvers In the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland, of which Maxwell was Secretary. (Fussell).
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- Title
- Select Transactions Of the Honourable The Society of Improvers In the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland. Directing the Husbandry of the different Soils for the most profitable Purposes, and containing other Directions, Receipts and Deascriptions. Together with an Account of the Society's Endeavours to promote our Manufactures
- Author
- [Maxwell, Robert, ed.]
- Format/Binding
- Full calf
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
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- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Printed by Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1743
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