COCHRANE (Archibald, Earl of Dundonald). A Treatise, shewing the intimate connection that subsists between Agriculture and Chemistry. Addressed to the Cultivators of the Soil, to the Proprietors of Fens and Mosses, in Great Britain and Ireland; and to the Proprietors of West India Estates.1795

London: Printed for J. Murray & S. Highley, First edition, 4to, viii, 252pp., without half-title, new endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, contrasting leather spine labels lettered in gilt (one chipped), upper joint cracked. A treatise on agricultural chemistry with a section devoted to soil analysis. The work contains practical and interesting ideas and continued to be read long after Davy's 'Elements of Agricultural Chemistry.' appeared. Provenance: Bookplate of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. Bolton, 372; Ferchl, 99; Partington 1V, 39; Poggendorff, 1, 459; Wellcome, 11, 364 and Cole, Chemical Literature, 283; Ragatz, 291; Cundall, 107.