Binns, Thomas

A treatise of Agriculture from the Dictionary of Arts and Sciences published at Edinburgh Anno Domini. 1778. Illustrated with carefully executed pen-drawings of the original engraved plates of farming implements, etc. The original main extract ends on p. 359. This is followed by 141 pp. of other excerpts with a title-page 'Extracts, etc.' These also deal with agricultural subjects. This is a transcript from the second edition (1778-1783) of the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' The compiler's name appears on the second fly-leaf.

c. 1780

1 volume 3 ll. last bl.. + 359 pp. + 3 ll. + 141 pp. + 2 bl. ll. 19 x 15 cm. 4to. Original half rough-calf binding.

Purchased 1931.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).