I have here for sale a 3 volume set entitled A NEW SYSTEM OF HUSBANDRY from Experiments never before made public with Tables shewing the Expence and Profit of each Crop by C Varley.  It is a first edition set published in 1770 by N Nickson, York - an uncommon publisher. Charles Varlo (or Varley) (c.1725-1796), English agriculturalist, ventured to America in 1784 to pursue his legal claim to about a third of the land granted to Lord Plowden in 1634 as the Albion Grant, which embraced Long Island and large parts of New Jersey and Maryland. Varlo had purchased the land in absentia before the revolution, but his claims went unrecognized, though he did publish an edition of this book, and produced several others recording his travels in the Americas. This earlier York edition of A New System of Husbandry did not contain his "Few Hints to prevent runaway servants..." The number of preliminary pages at front varies according to the additional subscribers lists, as noted by Howes. Evans 19338; Howes V54. This edition has xviii pages of prelims. It covers:

  • How to Stock Farms to the Best Advantage
  • How the Crops are to follow each other by the Way of Rotation
  • On Trench-Ploughing, shewing how to raise good Crops without Manure
  • On Rearing, Breeding, and Feeding Cattle, shewing the sorts of Food that lays on Fat and Lean
  • On a New Discovered Cheap Food for Cattle
  • A Description of a most valuable moving Sheep-House for eating Turnips on the Ground without waste
  • How to Raise Cabbages for Feeding Cattle
  • All Sorts of Manure, Marls, Clays, Sands, etc
  • A few Chapters humbly offered for the Perusal of the Legislature in regard to two or three Acts of Parliament which might be passed for the Good of the Public
  • Many chosen Receipts for the Cure of all sorts of Cattle
Bound in original light blue sugar paper hardboards with cream paper spines.  Ex-library so reference numbers to the base of the spines.  Author and volume number handwritten on the spines.  All boards firm.  Pages are rough cut, so edges are a little creased.  Pages clean throughout all three, just library stamps to a few pages and to the fold-out tables.
Condition: Very good.  Vol I - 324 pages, Vol II - 319 pages, Vol III - 347 pages, 22 x 14 cm.

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