Tables for the Easy Valuing of Estates, from one shilling to five pounds per acre: also the parts of an acre, from three roods to one perch.

First London edition of this handbook of tables for valuing estates. The book presents a striking example of an engraved title page and dedication leaf, the latter dedicated to James Fitzgerald, first duke of Leinster, for whom Scale surveyed in 1771. The book also presents tables for converting English money into Irish money, and vice versa. A Dublin edition was also printed that year, without established priority. Provenance: The Lawes Agricultural Library, with their stamp to front cover and shelf marks to front pastedown. The library was assembled in the early 20th century by Sir John Russell, director of the Rothamsted agricultural research institution in Hertfordshire, and ranked as one of the finest English collections of agricultural material. ESTC T150357; Goldsmiths' 10743. Octavo (192 x 118 mm). Engraved titlepage and dedication leaf. Twentieth-century black cloth by Chivers, spine lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Tiny chips not affecting text to pp. 47 and 107. An excellent, well-preserved copy.…