1733 Jethro Tull Horse-Hoeing Husbandry Agriculture English Irish Farming Dublin
“Fine language will not fill a Farmer’s Barn”
– Jethro Tull, Horse-Hoeing Husbandry
Jethro Tull was a 17th-century English agriculturalist who is responsible for upgrading the horse-drawn seed drill and hoe – technological advances that made modern agriculture a reality for English farmers. His essay on horse-hoeing provided farmers with a knowledge base for the importance and advantages of hoeing.
This 1733 first Dublin edition was published immediately following the success of the 1731 printing and included the full work which did not appear in the first printing.
1733 Jethro Tull Horse-Hoeing Husbandry Agriculture English Irish Farming Dublin
“Fine language will not fill a Farmer’s Barn”
– Jethro Tull, Horse-Hoeing Husbandry
Jethro Tull was a 17th-century English agriculturalist who is responsible for upgrading the horse-drawn seed drill and hoe – technological advances that made modern agriculture a reality for English farmers. His essay on horse-hoeing provided farmers with a knowledge base for the importance and advantages of hoeing.
This 1733 first Dublin edition was published immediately following the success of the 1731 printing and included the full work which did not appear in the first printing.
Item number: #2945
Price: $750
TULL, Jethro
The horse-hoeing husbandry, or, An essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation : wherein is shewn a method of introducing a sort of vineyard-culture into the corn-fields, in order to increase their product, and diminish the common expence, by the use of instruments described in cuts
Dublin : Printed by A. Rhames, for R. Gunne, G. Risk, G. Ewing, W. Smith, & Smith and Bruce, Booksellers, 1733.
Details:
- Collation complete with all pages: [xvii], [1], 417, [3]
- Includes 3 copper plates
- References: Kress 3963; PMM 188; ESTC T 117019;
- Language: English
- Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
- Size: ~8in X 5.25in (20cm x 13cm)
- Very rare with only one other example for sale worldwide at $2,750
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2945
Categories
Natural History
Medicine & Science
Authors
TULL, Jethro
Printing Date
18th Century
Language
English
Binding
Leather
Book Condition
Excellent
Collation
Complete