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Item #35491 A Treatise, shewing the Intimate Connection that Subsists between Agriculture and Chemistry. Addressed to the Cultivators of the soil, to the proprietors of fens and mosses, in Great Britain and Ireland; and to the Proprietors of West India Estates ... A New Edition. Archibald COCHRANE, Earl of Dundonald.
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A Treatise, shewing the Intimate Connection that Subsists between Agriculture and Chemistry. Addressed to the Cultivators of the soil, to the proprietors of fens and mosses, in Great Britain and Ireland; and to the Proprietors of West India Estates ... A New Edition

A Treatise, shewing the Intimate Connection that Subsists between Agriculture and Chemistry. Addressed to the Cultivators of the soil, to the proprietors of fens and mosses, in Great Britain and Ireland; and to the Proprietors of West India Estates ... A New Edition

London: Printed for John Murray, 1803. Quarto. [8], 252pp. Uncut.

Expertly bound to style in half russia and period marbled paper covered boards, flat spine ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece

Second edition.

"In the following pages an attempt will be made to explain, on established principles, the processes that accompany the cultivation and amelioration of the soil ... By the adoption of a new line of investigation, exemplified in the following Treatise, light has not only been thrown on the action and effects of the manures at present employed, but the uses of other substances, and methods of combining and preparing them, have been discovered; from which there are just grounds to believe a valuable addition will accrue to the present stock of Agricultural Knowledge" (Introduction).

Bolton, 372; Ferchl, 99; Partington 1V, 39; Poggendorff, 1, 459; Wellcome, 11, 364 and Cole, Chemical Literature, 283.

Item #35491

Price: $400.00

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