KELP.. [Extracts] Kelp.1800

[n.p., s.l.], 8vo (215 x 135 mm), [2], 37, [1]pp., with half-title, recent quarter calf, marbled paper boards, morocco title label on upper cover. Three extracts from larger works but with pagination continues: 1. Extract from the Foreign Communications to the Board of Agriculture of London. Vol. I. Of Sea Weed or Wreck in Jersey. 2. Extract from an Essay on Kelp, By the Rev. Dr. Walker, Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh. History of the Plants from which the Kelp in Made. 3. Extract from a Memoir on the Art of Making Kelp, &c. By Mr. Angus Beaton, Canongate, Edinburgh. How to prepare the Shore, so as to increase the materials of which Kelp is made.