An Essay on Calcareous Manures

by Edmund Ruffin

$250 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

Shellbanks: The Office of the Farmers' Register, 1835. Second Edition. Octavo 25cm . Disbound pamphlet; i -viii 9 -166pp; a few in-text diagrams and wood engravings. Sewing sturdy, edges gently rubbed, minor creases to first few leaves, foxed throughout: Very Good. Ruffin was a Virginia plantation owner and senator who performed early research on soil, demonstrating the

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