Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(AGRICULTURE.) Bordley, John Beale. Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs. 4 plates. viii, 591, 7, [8] pages. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked in buckram with catalogue label; without the errata slip on page viii; front board gilt-stamped "Board of Agriculture 1818", inked library stamps on verso of title and on final page. Philadelphia, 1799

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first edition. A significant work by a Maryland farmer who founded the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture. Evans 35216; Sabin 6414.