1767 Husbandry FARMING Horses BEER Wine Horseshoes Mills 5v SET John Adams USA

1767 Husbandry FARMING Horses BEER Wine Horseshoes Mills 5v SET John Adams USA

John Mills’s “Practical Husbandry” is a thorough survey on farming and rural life. Mills offers direction producing strong soils for plant growth, cultivating the land, farming tools and plows, shoeing horses, fermenting beers and wine, harvesting fruits and vegetables, and so much more. This impressive five-volume set is known to have been in the library of famous founding fathers, including John Adams!

This 1676 edition includes numerous full-page and folding engravings!

Item number: #25966

Price: $750

MILLS, John

A new and complete system of practical husbandry

London: printed for J. Johnson and B. Davenport, 1767.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 5 volumes
  • 1 – [2], xxii, 483, [1]
  • 2 – [2], xv, [1], 437, [1]
  • 3 – [2], xii, 3-466
  • 4 – [2], xii, 3-465, [1]
  • 5 – [2], v (i.e., xii), 342, xcviii
  • 20 engravings (most folding; 3 present but incomplete)
• Provenance: Handwritten
  • John J. Robinson, Althorne, 1903
  • James Robinson, Latimer, 1840
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; secure
• Size: ~8in x 5.25in (20.5cm x 13.5cm)

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