The Glaisdale Agricultural Library: The Private Collection of a Yorkshire Agriculturalist

Date: 30th Sep, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Catalogue: View Page Turner Catalogue
Lots: 179

Over the course of several decades, Yorkshire agriculturalist Martin Burtt assembled an extraordinary library of antiquarian agricultural books, which he carefully and sympathetically cared for and had repaired. The collection focuses on books from the 16th to 18th centuries, spanning the transition from an era when it was considered dubious to attempt to improve on God’s Creation to the advent of the Age of Reason with its huge rise in literacy, invention, experimentation, and applied rationality. The great agricultural writers all appear in the collection, which covers the obvious subjects connected with farming and husbandry, such as breeding of livestock, improvements in land use, crops, developments in technology and veterinary practices as well as other niche subjects from falconry, brewing, gardening, botany, beekeeping and dogs to rat catching and cheese making.

Name: Oliver Yarwood
Email: oliver.yarwood@tennants-ltd.co.uk

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Books, Maps and Manuscripts (179)

 

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AGRICOLA (Georg Andreas) & BRADLEY (Richard) A...

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AITON (William) A Treatise on the Dairy Breed...

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AITON (William) A Treatise on the Origin,...

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[ALMON (J.) publisher:] The Complete Grazier,...

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AMOS (William) Minutes in Agriculture and...

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ANDERSON (James) A Practical Treatise on...

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[ANDERSON (James)] Essays Relating to...

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[ANON] Select Essays on Husbandry, 8vo, 2...

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[ANON] The Complete Family-Piece And Country...

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[ANON] A Course of Experiments and...

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[ARBUTHNOT (James)] An Inquiry into the...

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ARBUTHNOT (John) Culture and Curing of Madder,...

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BAILEY (J.) & CULLEY (G.) General View of the...

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BAILEY (John) An Essay on the construction of...

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BAKER (John Wyn) Experiments in Agriculture . ....

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BAKEWELL (Robert) Observations on the...

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[BALL (John) erstwhile attributed to:] The...

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BANISTER (John) A Synopsis of Husbandry, 8vo,...

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BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND SOCIETY. Letters and...

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[BLAGRAVE (Joseph) The Epitomie of the Art of...

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BLITH (Walter) The English Improver Improved,...

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BLITH (Walter) The English Improver, or a New...

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MOUBRAY (Bonington), pseud. [i.e. LAWRENCE...

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[BOSWELL (George)] A Treatise on Watering...

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BRADLEY (Richard) A Complete Body of Husbandry,...

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BRADLEY (Richard) The Country Gentleman and...

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BRADLEY (Richard) A General Treatise of...

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BRADLEY (Richard) A Survey of the Ancient...

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BROWN (Robert) General View of the Agriculture...

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[IRELAND] BURROUGHS (Edward) Essays 0n...

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CARPENTER (J.) A Treatise on Agriculture, 2...

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CLARKE (Cuthbert) The True Theory and Practice...

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CLATER (Francis) Every Man His Own Cattle...

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COLUMELLA Junius Moderatus, Of Husbandry in...

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COOKE (George) The Complete English Farmer,...

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COOKE (James) Reference to the annexed plate...

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CULLEY (George) Observations on Live Stock,...

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CULLEY (George) Observations on Live Stock,...

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[GRASSES] ROCQUE (B.) A Practical Treatise on...

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CURWEN (John) Hints on the Economy of Feeding...

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[DALRYMPLE (Sir John)] An Essay on the...

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DARWIN (Erasmus) Phytologia; or the Philosophy...

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BEATSON (Maj.-Gen. Alexander) A New System of...

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DICKSON (R.W.) A Complete System of Improved...

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[DICKSON (Adam] A Treatise of Agriculture, 8vo,...

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DOSSIE (Robert) Memoirs of Agriculture, and...

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DOWNING (Joseph) A Treatise on the Disorders...

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DOWNING (Joseph) A Treatise on the Disorders...

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DREW (John) Norfolk Husbandry, or, Perfect...

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DUBLIN SOCIETY. [PRIOR (Thomas) & MAPLE...

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DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU (Henri Louis) A Practical...

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DUHAMEL du MONCEAU (Henri Louis) The Elements...

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[ELKINGTON] JOHNSTONE (John) An Account of the...

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[ELLIS & MILLS] ELLIS (William) Chiltern and...

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ELLIS (William) A Compleat System of...

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[ESSEX FARMER / ANON] A Letter on the...

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ESTIENNE (Charles) & LIEBAULT (J.) Maison...

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[ESTIENNE (Charles)] Praedium Rusticum, 8vo,...

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[ESTIENNE (Charles) & LIEBAULT (Jean) Maison...

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[ESTIENNE (Charles) & LIEBAULT (Jean)] Maison...

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EVELYN (John) A Philosophical Discourse of...

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FINLAYSON (John) Treatise on Agricultural...

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FORBES (Francis) The Extensive Practice of the...

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GRAY (Andrew) Explanation of the Engravings of...

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HALE (Thomas) A Compleat Body of Husbandry,...

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[HARTLIB (Samuel) An Essay for Advancement of...

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HARTLIB (Samuel) Samuel Hartlib His Legacie of...

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[HARTLIB (Samuel)] Samuel Hartlib his Legacie...

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HEATON (Richard) Directions how to use R....

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HERESBACH (Conrad) Foure Bookes of Husbandry......

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HITT (Thomas) A Treatise of Husbandry on the...

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HOARE (Richard Colt) To the Bath Agricultural...

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HOGG (James) The Shepherd’s Guide, 8vo, pp. vi,...

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[HOME (Henry)] The Gentleman Farmer. Being An...

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HOPE (Sir William) The Compleat Horseman: or,...

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[HORNE (Thomas Hartwell)] The Complete Grazier;...

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[PERIODICAL] HOUGHTON (John) A Collection of...

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HOUGHTON (John) A Collection of Letters for...

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HUNTER (Alexander) Georgical Essays, 6 vols,...

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JACOB (Giles) The Country Gentleman’s Vade...

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JAMES (Robert) The Rational Farmer and...

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KIDDLE (R.) The Practical Norfolk Farmer, 8vo,...

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KNOWLSON (John C.) The Complete Farrier, or...

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[LAMMERMUIR FARMER / ANONYMOUS] A Treatise...

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LAURENCE (Edward) The Duty of a Steward to his...

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LAURENCE (Edward) The Duty and Office of a...

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LAURENCE (John) A New System of Agriculture,...

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