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:
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