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Smith, John. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Argyll. Edinburgh: for Mundell & Son, 1798. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tree sheep, 3 engraved plates, folding table, 10 pp. advertisements, joints partly cracked, damp-stain to title-page and subsequent leaf, a few other spots and marks [ESTC T151869: tracing 6 copies in libraries for this issue, and citing a map, in practice never encountered]; Robertson, James. General View of the Agriculture in the County of Perth. Perth: printed by order of the Board of Agriculture, 1799. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary blue half morocco, folding map, 4 plates, folding letterpress table, bookplate of the barons Kinnaird, short closed tear to map [ESTC T40605]; Douglas, Robert. General View of the Agriculture in the Counties of Roxburgh and Selkirk. Edinburgh: for G. Nicoll, 1798. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tan half sheep, 2 hand-coloured folding maps, 3 plates (one folding), spine-label perished, wear to foot of spine, one plate shaved [ESTC T40594]; Idem. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1813. Second edition, 8vo, 19th-century marbled boards, rebacked, 2 folding maps, 3 plates (one folding); Robertson, George. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Mid-Lothian. Edinburgh: by G. Ruthven and Sons, for G. Nicol, 1795. First edition, 8vo, c.1900 half calf by Robertson, folding map, 11 plates, plates spotted [ESTC T147166]; Findlater, Charles. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Peebles. Edinburgh: by D. Willison, for Archibald Constable, 1802. First edition, 20th-century quarter morocco, plate, lacking map; Somerville, Robert. General View of the Agriculture of East Lothian. London: W. Bulmer and Co., for G. and W. Nicol, 1805. First edition, 8vo, contemporary diced half russia, folding map, 2 pp. catalogue to rear ('A Catalogue of agriculture seeds, etc. sold by Thomas Gibbs and Co.'), engraved bookplate and ownership inscription of George Paterson (identified in pencilled note of George Paterson of Castle Huntly, 1734-1813, British army surgeon); Naismith, John. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Clydesdale. London: B. McMillan, 1806. 8vo, modern quarter sheep, folding map, 2 + 2 pp. advertisements, stamps of the Royal History Society, browning; Macdonald, James. General View of the Agriculture of the Hebrides. Edinburgh: for Sir Richard Phillips 1811. First edition, 8vo, later half calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, plate, 5 folding maps, spotting; Aiton, William. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Ayr. Glasgow: A. Napier, 1811. First edition, 8vo, 19th-century marbled boards, rebacked in green morocco, green calf cornerpieces, folding map (repaired), all plates as called for (except 'Galloway Bull and Cow', 'not included in this edition' according to accompanying correspondence from the National Library of Scotland), browning and offsetting; Keith, George Skene. A General View of the Agriculture of Aberdeenshire. Aberdeen: D. Chalmers & Co., 1811. First edition, 8vo, later half calf, 7 maps and plates, spotting, browning and damp-staining; Leslie, William. General View of the Agriculture in the Counties of Nairn and Moray. London: Richard Phillips 1811. First edition, 8vo, later maroon half calf, folding map, folding table, 2 plates, ink-stamp and manuscript shelfmark of the Advocates Library, Aberdeen to title-page, spotting and offsetting; the lot collated with regard to plates and maps only (12) Provenance: The Library of the late John Watson Ravenshear, with his bookplates.