Lot 2191 , The Farmer's Friend; a record of recent discoveries, improvements, and practical suggestions in agriculture. original blind decorated and gilt pictorial cloth, cr. 8vo. 1847; Ewart, John - The Agriculturist's Assistant;
° The Farmer's Friend; a record of recent discoveries, improvements, and practical suggestions in agriculture. original blind decorated and gilt pictorial cloth, cr. 8vo. 1847; Ewart, John - The Agriculturist's Assistant; a manual on principles, rules and tables ... 2nd edition, enlarged and improved. 8 plates and text engravings; original blind and gilt decorated cloth, sm.8vo. 1863; Dannatt, William - Practical Hints from the Notebook of an Old Farmer. portrait and other illus.; original cloth. 1914; Clift, William - The Reminiscences of William Clift, of Bramley ... illus.; original cloth. Basingstoke, (1908); together with others 19th and earlier 20th century) on agriculture and rural life (76 - inclusive of 40 pamphlets)
£140-180
Condition:
Friend - spine faded, upper cover lt. discol. else good, xiii, 340pp. and Smith, Elder's 32pp. catalogue (June 1847); Ewart - good, xiv, 256pp. (incl. half title and Blackies 16pp. adverts. additionally); Dannatt - good. xx, 85pp.; Clift - good. 127ppp. (of Bramley, Hants); Others include - Mechi's How to Farm Profitably. (4th ed., ?1870); McConnell's The Diary of a Working Farmer (1906); Lawrence's A Handy Book for Young Farmers 91857); Burn's Year Book of Agricultural Facts for 1859; Caird's High Farming, under liberal covenants (7th ed., 1850), wrapps.; Wright's Standard Cyclopedia Mod. Agriculture and Rural Economy (12 vols, 1909-11)
Sold for £70