
TULL (JETHRO) The Horse-Hoing 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, first folio edition, 1733; Supplement to the Essay on Horse-Hoing Husbandry, FIRST EDITION, 1736, 2 parts in 1 vol.,
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TULL (JETHRO)
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A fine copy of the first illustrated and first folio edition of Jethro Tull's pioneering work on agriculture and the reduction of manual labour through the use of the seed drills, the horse-hoe and improved aeration. This copy has the rarer first edition of the Supplement, with continuous pagination and without the seventh plate (issued with the second edition of the Supplement in 1740).
Provenance: First work, Jacob Astley of Melton Constable, bookplate; Second work, Captain Asher, 5th Foot and Mrs Ashe, ownership signatures on title; Third work, Wiliam Vaughan, Courtfield, Monmouthshire, bookplate. See illustration on preceding page.