“
Boardley’s Sketches on rotations of crops. 8
vo. last edition
” is on Jefferson’s list of books recommended for purchase for the Library of Congress, sent to W. C. Nicholas on December
16, 1809.
John Beale Bordley, 1727-1804, a native of Maryland, was a lawyer by profession. In 1793 he established in Philadelphia the first agricultural
society of the United States.
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Boardley’s essays & Notes on husbandry.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 31. no. 43, as above.
BORDLEY,
John Beale.
Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs. By J. B. Bordley . . .
Philadelphia: Printed by
Budd and Bartram, for
Thomas Dobson,
1799. [Copy-Right secured according to Law.]
S497 .B72
First Edition. 8vo. 336 leaves: [ ]
4, A-Z, Aa-Oo
8, B-F
4, G
8, Pp-Qq
4, 4 folded engraved plates; sheet B (third alphabet) begins the
Additions and Amendments, with continuous pagination; sheet G of this part contains
Husbandry dependent on Live Stock¸ see no. 771. The 4 leaves of sheet Pp have separate pagination; Qq has the Index and is unpaged.
Sabin 6464.
Evans 35216.
Bradley III, page 117.
None of these bibliographies calls for the
Additions and Amendments, all finish the work at page 591, sig. Oo.
The
Essays and Notes on Husbandry contains reprints of
Country Habitations
and
Outlines of a Plan for establishing a State Society of Agriculture in Pennsylvania
, for the original editions of which see no. 719 and no. 715.
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Hale’s statical essays.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 32. no. 29, as above.
HALES,
Stephen.
Statical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks; Or, an Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables. Being
An Essay towards a Natural History of Vegetation . . . Also a Specimen of an Attempt to Analyse the Air . . . Vol. I . . . By Steph. Hales, D.D. F.R.S. Rector of Faringdon, Hampshire, and Minister of Teddington, Middlesex. The
Third Edition, with Amendments.
London: Printed for
W. Innys and
R. Manby,
T. Woodward and
J. Peele,
1738. [-
Vol. II . . . containing Haemastaticks; or, an account of some hydraulick and hydrostatical experiments made on the blood and blood-vessels
of animals . . .
ib.
1740.]
2 vol. 8vo. Vol. I, 198 leaves, 19 engraved plates, signed S. G.; the Imprimatur of Sir Isaac Newton “Pr. Reg. Soc.” on the back of the title, dated Feb. 16, 1726-7; vol. II; no copy of
this volume was seen for collation.
Not in Loudon.
Not in McDonald.
Bradley I, 162 (vol. I only).
This edition not in Osler.
This work is on Jefferson’s list of agricultural books recommended to W. C. Nicholas on December 16, 1809, for purchase for the Library of Congress.
Stephen Hales, 1677-1761, English clergyman, physiologist and inventor, known as the “father of vegetable physiology”. The first volume
of this work was originally published in 1727. This is the third edition of volume I and the
second of volume II (first edition 1733).
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Home (L
d Kaim’s) Gentleman farmer.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 32. no. 30, Home’s gentleman farmer, 8vo.
HOME,
Henry, Lord Kames.
The Gentleman Farmer. Being an Attempt to Improve Agriculture, by sub-
