Batchelor, Thomas

General View Of The Agriculture Of The County Of Bedford

London By B. McMillan for Richard Phelps 1808 Drawn up by Order of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. Hand-coloured engraved folding frontispiece map (with a short tear at the inner margin), three folding and five single-page plates and two folding tables. 8vo. xvi, 636, [6] pp. Uncut and unopened. Rebound in old style boards, preserving the original partly perished spine label. With the three leaves of errata and advertisements at the end. Occasional light foxing, and slight damp-staining to the plates. Entirely uncut and unopened (except for where the plates and tables have been inserted). An important volume in the series of surveys conducted for the Board of Agriculture, with a detailed account of the Duke of Bedford's innovations and improvements to the Woburn Abbey estate. A second edition was published in 1813.

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• ordernr.: ebc124

• bookseller: George Bayntun (GREAT BRITAIN)