Letters on Agriculture from George Washington
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Heading: (Presidents, 1789)
Author: Washington, George
Title: Letters on Agriculture from His Excellency George Washington...to Arthur Young, Esq. F.R.S. And Sir John Sinclair, Bart. M.P.
Place Published: Washington
Publisher:Published by the editor
Date Published: 1847
Description:
Author: Washington, George
Title: Letters on Agriculture from His Excellency George Washington...to Arthur Young, Esq. F.R.S. And Sir John Sinclair, Bart. M.P.
Place Published: Washington
Publisher:Published by the editor
Date Published: 1847
Description:
198 pp. With portrait frontispiece, illustrated plates, letter facsimiles, etc. 28x23 cm (11x9"), original blindstamped brown cloth.
The Young and Sinclair letters were originally published separately in 1801 and 1800, respectively. These letters offer perhaps the best picture from his own pen of Washington as an agriculturist and plantation owner, seeking to improve both his own lands and those of his country through this correspondence with two of the leading British agricultural theorists.
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Rubbing and soiling to cloth, corner tips worn, areas of loss to spine; frontispiece tissue guard torn, foxing throughout; good.
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