61
Bakewell on the influence of soil & climate on wool.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 31. no. 57, as above.
BAKEWELL,
Robert.
Observations on the Influence of Soil and Climate upon Wool . . . By Robert Bakewell. With Occasional Notes and Remarks, by the Right Hon. Lord Somerville.
London: Printed [by
B. McMillan] for
J. Harding,
1808.
SF377 .B16
8vo. 86 leaves; printer’s imprint on the back of the title and on the last leaf.
Loudon, page 1212.
Royal Agricultural Society catalogue, page 20.
Jefferson’s copy was a presentation from the author, who wrote from London on December 23, 1810: “In taking the liberty of requesting your acceptance of my Book upon Wool I can with much sincerity assure you that my principal
motive has been to acknowledge the high esteem & respect I feel for your public character . . . With my Book I have taken
the further liberty of sending you the proposals for an undertaking in which I am engaged: a mineralogical & statistical survey
of Estates . . .”
Robert Bakewell, 1763-1843, geologist of Wakefield in Yorkshire, where, according to the Dictionary of National Biography[,] the first edition
of this book was printed. The London edition is the only one in the catalogues of the British Museum and of the Royal Society
of Agriculture, and in Loudon. In this treatise the author mentions his first hand knowledge of the sheep and wool of Buenos
Aires and of the Mississippi.
John Southey Somerville, Lord Somerville, 1765-1819, agriculturalist. In 1798 Somerville was elected president of the Board of Agriculture, ousting
Sir John Sinclair, q.v. by thirteen votes to twelve.
[797]
62
Le Jardinier solitaire.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 32. no. 14, as above.
[GENTIL,
François.]
Le Jardinier Solitaire; ou, Dialogues entre un Curieux & un Jardinier Solitaire. Contenant la méthode de faire & de cultiver
un Jardin Fruitier & Potager; & plusieurs experiences nouvelles. Avec des reflexions sur la Culture des Arbres.
Cinquième Edition, augmentée de plusieurs Chapitres, dont il est fait mention a le fin de la Preface.
A
Paris: chez
Rigaud, Directeur de l’Imprimerie Royale,
1723.
12mo. 234 leaves; folded engraved plate.
Barbier II, col. 982.
This edition not in Quérard.
Bradley III, 111.
François Gentil [frère François], Carthusian.
Le Jardinier Solitaire was published anonymously in France, the first edition in 1704. An English translation published in 1706 reads on the title-page:
Written in French by Francis Gentil, Lay-Brother of the Order of the Carthusians, and above Thirty Years Gard’ner to the Charter-House
at Paris
.
[798]
63
Bradley’s gardening.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 31. no. 59, as above.
BRADLEY,
Richard.
New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, both Philosophical and Practical. In Three Parts. I. Containing, a new System
of Vegetation . . . II. The best Manner of Improving Flower Gardens or Parterres . . . III. Of Improving Fruit-Trees, Kitchen-Gardens,
and Green-House Plants . . . To which is
