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LIEBIG, Baron von. Letters on Modern Agriculture. Edited by John Blyth.
London: Walton and Maberly, 1859. First edition. 8vo., orig. blindstamped plum cloth, xxviii, 284, 8pp. ads. Name stamp on front endpaper and titlepage, scattered foxing, spine rubbed, chipped at head and foot, otherwise a very good copy.
“The most urgent problem which the present day has to solve, is the discovery of the means of producing more bread and meat on a given surface, to supply the wants of a continually increasing population. The most important social questions are bound up in this problem, which science is expected to solve.”