[Rarebooks] fa: GLEANINGS ON HUSBANDRY with OBSERVATIONS BY A GENTLEMAN OF PHILADELPHIA - 1803

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Gleanings from the Most Celebrated Books on Husbandry, Gardening, and Rural Affairs... Interspersed with Remarks and Observations by a Gentleman of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by James Humphreys, 1803. First American edition and first edition thus; 8vo (21.5 cm) in early/period tree calf (or sheep?); viii, 365, [2] pp.; with the terminal leaf of publisher’s adverts, one folding plate. Shaw & Shoemaker 4284.

An important early American agricultural work, as the original English text is here interspersed with "remarks and observations" by John Beale Bordley (1727-1804), a prominent American judge, planter and agriculturalist, a patron of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, and the owner of an experimental farm on Wye Island, Maryland.

Bumping and wear to the corners, rubbing to the edges and front joint, rear joint professionally repaired; contents with intermittent spotting and browning, as often in American books of the period; contemporary owner’s signature of J[o]n[atha]n H—l Cocke on the title-page and front free-endpaper (the latter dated Nov. 1803); else clean and sound, firmly bound in an attractive binding of the period. The signatures are quite likely those of John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866), who built and designed Bremo Plantation in Virginia (now a National Historic Landmark), served as a brigadier general in the War of 1812, and later helped Thomas Jefferson establish the University of Virginia.