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Philadelphia: Published by Kimber and Conrad, William Fry, Printer, 1814. First American edition, 12mo, text slightly browned, 120pp., disbound. This is not Bakewell the sheep-breeder, but the geologist. Bakewell was probably one of the Quakers and wool-staplers of that name in Nottingham. As a schoolboy he amused himself with construction of telescopes, and being amongst wools looked at them under a microscope. He afterwards speculated as to the effects of soil and food upon them and published this work, while living in Wakefield. After writing this book he confined himself to mineralogy and geology.

London, printed for J. Harding, 1808.. TITLE CONTINUED: And Preserving The Health Of Sheep, With Hints For Management Of Sheep after Shearing: An inquiry into the structure, growth, and formation of wool and hair, and remarks on the means by which the Spanish breed of sheep may be made to preserve the best qualitites of its fleece unchanged in different climates. FIRST EDITION 1808, EX LIBRARY COPY FROM THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, with their ink stamp to blank side of title page and last page under Finish, these are the only library markings. 8vo, approximately 220 x 130 mm, 8½ x 5¼ inches, pages: ix, [1 - errata], [1]-157, pages *111 & *112 are extra pages added making the page count 159 (see image ), rebound in maroon buckram, gilt title to spine, new endpapers, Royal Society Bookplate to first pastedown. Occasional pale foxing, a few pages have a small pale brown stain to margins, a few pages at beginning slightly dusty to top corners, otherwise a very good copy. Robert Bakewell (1725-1795)… Read More