Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 227

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. A New System of Agriculture; or, A Plain, Easy, and Demonstrative Method of speedily growing Rich; proving . . . that every Land-Owner, in England may advance his Estate to a Double Value . . . Together with Several very Curious Instructions, how to feed Oxen, Cows, and Sheep, to much greater Profit . . . By a Country Gentleman. 111 pages. 8vo, modern red buckram; scattered minor foxing. Dublin: G. Faulkner and P. Wilson, 1755

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first edition. "An appeal to gentlemen to farm their estates as a reputable and profitable occupation, and not to leave the business to the meanest of the people."--Fussell, More Old English Farming Books, pages 28-29.