SERIES OF ESSAYS ON AGRICULTURE & RURAL AFFAIRS, IN FORTY-SEVEN NUMBERS.; by "Agricola," a North Carolina Farmer.
Raleigh, NC: Printed & published by Joseph Gales, 1819. 12mo. 223, (2) pp. Contemporary calf (rubbed), leather spine label; text heavily foxed, scattered old light tidelines, ownership names on the front endpapers, rear free endpaper removed. Still a solid, very good copy. Item #44266
First edition. Marshall, "Mythical Mayflower Competition" (North Carolina Historical Review, vol. xxvii, no. 2, 1950): "Essayist is concerned with application of scientific principles to North Carolina farming, lamenting that the state of agriculture is at the lowest ebb. Discourses on such subjects as improvement of land, horizontal ploughing, livestock, irrigation, orchards, and cider. The author attributed the deplorable condition of North Carolina agriculture to two causes: a neglect in the state of rendering the rivers navigable and to a want of knowledge among farmers as to the best modes of cultivating the soil." Rink Technical Americana 1214. American Imprints 48370 and 49397. Thornton 6872.
Price: $1,500.00