Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis, or, An Account of the Results of Experiments on the Produce and Nutritive Qualities of Different Grasses and Other Plants used as the Food of the More Valuable Domestic Animals ...
London, James Ridgway, 1826 (third edition).
Large octavo, [iii]-xx, 438, [6] (advertisement and catalogue) pages plus 62 hand-coloured lithographed plates (comprising 58 full-page plates of grass specimens, and 4 plates containing 35 figures of seeds), bound without the half-title.
Early quarter cloth and plain boards, later rebacked, retaining the original backstrip and paper title-label (both a little worn and discoloured, with minor loss); all edges uncut; original endpapers a little marked, with the inner hinges reinforced with cloth; occasional pencilled emphases and annotations; scattered foxing and offsetting (in a few instances from samples of grasses, a few still present); minor signs of use and age; a very good copy with the ownership details of Geo B. Inglis (London, 1889), and the later bookplate of Hardwicke Knight.
'Illustrated with numerous figures of the plants and seeds upon which these experiments have been made, and practical observations on their natural habits and the soils best adapted to their growth; pointing out the kinds most profitable for permanent pasture, irrigated meadows, dry or upland pasture, and the alternative husbandry; accompanied with the discriminating characters of the species and varieties' (the subtitle).
Item #130950
Price (AUD):
$500.00