Brown Agriculture West Riding Yorkshire 1793 old book map
Brown Agriculture West Riding Yorkshire 1793 old book map Brown Agriculture West Riding Yorkshire 1793 old book map Brown Agriculture West Riding Yorkshire 1793 old book map Brown Agriculture West Riding Yorkshire 1793 old book map
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General View of the Agriculture of the West Riding of Yorkshire surveyed by messers Rennie, Brown & Shirreff, 1793...by Robert Brown.

Publ. Edinburgh, 1799 by James Watson. pp. 223, frontis folding engraved map showing the route taken by the men [by McIntyre].

Period full leather boards, spine rebacked in past with gilt rules & lettering, Royal Crest gilt pictorial stamp to both boards. Clean, tight & sound, light signs of age, tips of covers worn through to boards, but still well preserved overall. Nice looking old book.

A contribution to the vast agricultural survey of Britain, organized under the supervision of Sir John Sinclair, first president of the newly-formed Board of Agriculture. The three authors were all experienced farmers. (J.P. McGahern Books, Canada).

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