Plan for Reclaiming the Bog of Allen, and the Other Great Morasses, in Ireland; addressed to the Right Hon. Earl of Rosse

by William Richardson

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First edition

34 pp. 8vo, attractive antique calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Dublin: W. Porter, 1809. First edition and quite rare. Richardson 1740-1820 , political activist and geologist, devoted his final years to agricultural research. He “experimented with sixteen grasses, as described in An Elementary Treatise on the Indigenous Grasses of Ireland 1806 . From 1808 he was a zealous advocate of fiorin grass

• Binding: Leather

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