A Discovery of the true Cause of the wonderful Multiplication of Corn;

Wolfius (Dr., i.e. Christian, Freiherr von Wolff)

A Discovery of the true Cause of the wonderful Multiplication of Corn;

with some general Remarks upon the Nature of Trees and Plants.

Description: with an attractive engraved frontispiece of a prodigious corn (wheat) plant, frontispiece offset onto title, woodcut head and tailpieces, and initials; pp. [viii], 50, 8vo; modern calf backed boards, spine lettered in gilt, very good.

Publication Details: London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1734

Notes: First edition and a very attractive copy of this scarce early eighteenth-century treatise on corn, by the eminent German philosopher Christian Freiherr von Wolff (1679-1754). Wolff references many continental books on crop husbandry - Spanish, French, and other German authors are all cited - critiquing these for their failure to derive conclusions from nature. He is conscious not to repeat these mistakes himself, and takes pains to emphasise that he has made a close study of corn in the field, beginning in the year 1716. In his chapter 'of blighted corn', he explains how he has taken blackened...more

Bibliography: (ESTC T131469)

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Price: £375

Subject: Sciences

Published Date: 1734

Stock Number: 52197

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