Elements of Agricultural Chemistry: In a Course of Lectures for the Board of Agriculture

Humphry Davy; John Russell Bedford

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; [etc., etc.], 1813

1st ed. Tall quarto, 28 cm. Bound in early 1/4 green cloth over brown boards, with black leather spine label. Rebacked. Corners bumped. 10 plates, one folding. Toning / offsetting to plates (mostly to first plate opposite title). Also a stain on the first plate. Text is generally clean and unmarked.  Pages uncut. [2], viii, 331 pages, LXXIV appendix.  Refs: An important and pioneering work in soil analysis. "This was the first serious attempt to apply chemistry to agriculture and it remained a standard work until displaced by Liebig's publications a generation later. In 1802, Humphry Davy lectured before the Board of Agriculture on agricultural chemistry. This course was repeated each year until 1812 and was published in 1813. The book is of interest because of its pioneering nature. Its value lie in the impulse it gave toward the application of scientific methods in agriculture." DSB III p. 601. Norman 610. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 20643.