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he Complete Farmer: or, A General Dictionary of Husbandry, in All its Branches; Containing the Various Methods of Cultivating and Improving every Species of Land, According to the Precepts of both the Old and New Husbandry. Comprising every Thing valuable in the best Writers on this Subject, viz. Linnaeus, Chateauvieux, the Marquis of Turbilly, Platt, Evelyn, Worlidge, Mortimer, Tull, Ellis, Miller, Hale, Lisle, Roque, Mills, &c. Together with A Great Variety of New Discoveries and Improvements. Also the Whole Business of Breeding, Managing, and Fattening Cattle of all Kinds; and the most approved Methods of curing the various Diseases to which they are subject. Together with the Method of raising Bees, and of acquiring large Quantities of Wax and Honey, without destroying those laborious Insects. To which is now first added, The Gardener's Kalendar, Calculated for the Use of Farmers and Country Gentlemen. Illustrated with a great Variety of Folio Copper-Plates, finely engraved; exhibiting all the Instruments used in Husbandry; particularly those lately invented; and presented to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. in London; many of which have never yet appeared in a Work of this Nature. The Second Edition, Corrected and Improved. By A Society of Gentlemen, Members of the Society of the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. London: Printed for R. Baldwin, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, S. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, T. Lowndes, and Robinson and Roberts, 1769, dictionary is not paginated, Calendar is 111 pp, twenty-seven fold-outs + frontispiece (complete), Robert H. Elliot provenance, 11 x 8.5", 4to. In fair condition. Leather boards scuffed at edges & worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine rubbed. Title label on spine intact - gilt lettering bright and clean. Front hinge split at tail - binding exposed. Tail of leather spine lacking - binding exposed. Top compartment & head of spine is a modern restoration (repaired extremely well - modern leather almost seamlessly meets original leather). Previous ownership bookplate found on front paste-dow: Robert H. Elliot. Both front and rear gutters beginning to split - cording exposed. Toning throughout text-block, with some instances of finger-soiling or age-staining. All fold-outs clean & intact, present very well. Worming exhibited at head of gutter at the end of dictionary & beginning of Gardener's Kalendar - does not impede text. Binding is intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Robert Henry Elliot (1837-1914), previous provenance, was an early British coffee planter in Mysore, India. He was the author of books about plantation life in Mysore and about farming in Scotland. According to Elliot's own account in Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore, he arrived in Bombay in 1855 at 18 years old. From there, he sailed to Mangalore, then headed inland through the ghauts to the high plateau of Mysore, where he joined Frederick Green, who had begun his plantation in 1843. In 1856, Elliot started his own plantation at Bartchinhulla, Sakleshpur, Mysore State. At his farm called Clifton Park in Kelso, Scotland, Elliot formulated what he termed the "Clifton Park System." In this system, he advocated building up the organic content of soil by planting a mixture of grasses and other plants, particularly deep-rooted plants such as chicory. Modern organic growers still find Elliot's work applicable today. This is an incredibly extensive dictionary from A-Z concerning crops, insects, cattle, vegetation, water, agricultural inventions & so much more. Several pages dedicated to Bees - their anatomy, habits, wax, honey & preservation. Twenty-seven fold-outs present (complete), with several figures on each fold-out. Also includes a gardener's calendar, which explains, through all twelve months of the year, which crops grow best in what season. Presents very well & full of information that can still be pertinent today. N° de ref. del artículo RAREB1769JNOX
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