Manuscript On Paper Of An Early Version Of Weston S Highly Important A Discours Of Husbandrie Used

by Sir Richard Weston

$27,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

1649. 1 p.l., 35 pages, numbered in upper outer corners, and 17 blank leaves. Small 4to 200 x 150 mm. , modern cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt “Rothamsted Laboratory Lawes Trust.” United Kingdom: 9 February 1649. A manuscript copy by Archdale Palmor, with variations from the first printed edition, of Weston’s highly important work, which describes farming rotation for the first time in England. Our manuscript precedes the first printed edition

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