A Treatise of Husbandry on the Improvement of Dry and Barren Lands. Shewing, I. The many Advantages which would arise to the Nation in general, by destroying of Warrens, and converting the Lands into Tillage, Pasture, &c. II. Pointing out new and cheap Methods to make growing Fences upon the most Barren Soils, and how to Till and Manure the same at a low Expence. III. How to prepare the Land, and Raise upon it Various Sorts of Plants, to produce both poles and timber

Dublin: Printed for Richard Watts... and William Whitestone, 1761.

Price: $600.00

Softcover. First Irish edition (and English edition precedes by a year). Unprinted blue wrappers. 123, (1)pp., foldout plate. Tiny old spine label, a bit of soiling, a pleasing very good copy. Title page gives price for the work both sewn and bound. *OCLC* locates a single copy of this edition, at Cambridge; *Copac* adds another. *ESTC T73930; Higgs. Bibliography of Economics 2444.*.

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Item #285462 A Treatise of Husbandry on the Improvement of Dry and Barren Lands. Shewing, I. The many Advantages which would arise to the Nation in general, by destroying of Warrens, and converting the Lands into Tillage, Pasture, &c. II. Pointing out new and cheap Methods to make growing Fences upon the most Barren Soils, and how to Till and Manure the same at a low Expence. III. How to prepare the Land, and Raise upon it Various Sorts of Plants, to produce both poles and timber. Thomas HITT.