The gentleman farmer. : Being an attempt to improve agriculture, by subjecting it to the test of rational principles.

Jonathan A. Hill, bookseller, description: First edition. Home (1696-1782), a leading judge in Scotland and the author of several legal and agricultural works, counted James Boswell (who had an affair with Home's daughter Jean), David Hume, Adam Smith, and Benjamin Franklin as friends. In 1766,...

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Main Author: Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Printed for W. Creech, Edinburgh, and T. Cadell, London, MDCCLXXVI [1776]
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