Colonel Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet, (10 May 1754 – 21 December 1835), was a British politician, military officer and writer who was one of the first people to use the word "statistics" in the English language in his pioneering work, Statistical Accounts of Scotland, which was published in 21 volumes. (From Wikipedia)
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Makers of modern agriculture (Macmillan, 1913), by Will MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)- On the science of agriculture : comprising a commentary on and comparative investigation of the agricultural chemistry of Mr. Kirwan and Sir Humphry Davy : the code of agriculture of Sir John Sinclair, Sir Joseph Banks, and other authors on the subject (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825), by Joseph Hayward (page images at HathiTrust)
- Memoirs of the life and works of the late Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, bart. (W. Blackwood and sons; [etc., etc.], 1837), by John Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust)
- Letters on agriculture from His Excellency, George Washington, president of the United States, to Arthur Young, esq., F.R.S., and Sir John Sinclair, bart., M.P., with statistical tables and remarks, by Thomas Jefferson, Richard Peters, and other gentlemen, on the economy and management of farms in the United States. (The editor;, 1847), by George Washington, Franklin Knight, Richard Peters, and Thomas Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)
- A letter from Ralph Anderson, Esq. [pseud.] to Sir John Sinclair, bart. ... on the necessity of an instant change of ministry, and an immediate peace: in order to renew the circulation of coin, to revive public and private credit, and to save the British constitution from utter ruin ... (G. Mudie & Son, 1797), by Robert Heron (page images at HathiTrust)
- Letters on agriculture from His Excellency, George Washington, president of the United States, to Arthur Young, esq., F.R.S., and Sir John Sinclair, bart., M.P., with statistical tables and remarks, by Thomas Jefferson, Richard Peters, and other gentlemen, on the economy and management of farms in the United States. (The editor;, 1847), by George Washington, Franklin Knight, Richard Peters, and Thomas Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Makers of Modern Agriculture, by William Macdonald (Gutenberg ebook)
Books by John Sinclair:
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Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: An Account of the Systems of Husbandry Adopted in the More Improved Districts of Scotland, with Some Observations on the Improvements of Which They are Susceptible: Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture, with a View of Explaining How Far Those Systems are Applicable to the Less Cultivated Parts in England and Scotland (Edinburgh: Printed for A. Constable et al., 1812)
Additional books by John Sinclair in the extended shelves:
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: An account of the Highland Society of London, from its establishment in May 1778, to the commencement of the year 1813. (B. McMillan, 1813) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: An account of the several public funds : including those created by the imperial and Irish loans, transferrable at the Bank of England : together with an account of the stock of the principal public companies in London : to which are added several useful and extensive tables, illustrated by observations and examples : also, statements of the national debt and of the sinking fund ... (Printed for John Richardson ... J.M. Richardson ... Walker and Edwards and John Robinson ... , 1816), also by William Fairman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: An account of the systems of husbandry adopted in the more improved districts of Scotland ... (A. Constable, 1813) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: An account of the systems of husbandry adopted in the more improved districts of Scotland; with some observations on the improvements of which they are susceptible. Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture with a view of explaining how far those systems are applicable to the less cultivated parts in England and Scotland. (A. Constable, 1814), also by Great Britain. Board of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Analysis of the statistical account of Scotland : with a general view of the history of that country, and discussions on some important branches of political economy (W. Tait, 1831) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Bullion finance &c. (Published by J. Ridgeway, Piccadilly, and J. Hatchard and Son, 187 Piccadilly, 1826), also by Thomas Attwood (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Bullion finance, 1807-1810. (Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland Row, St. James's; and sold by T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand; J. Stockdale, Piccadilly; and J.M. Richardson, Cornhill, 1810) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Cabrach Feerings (Banffshire Journal, 1920), also by James Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: The code of agriculture. (Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper; [etc., etc.], 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: The code of agriculture : including observations on gardens, orchards, woods, and plantations (Printed for Hudson & Co., Cooke and Hale, 1818) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: The code of agriculture : including observations on gardens, orchards, woods and plantations (Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones by B. M'Millan, 1819) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: The code of agriculture : including observations on gardens, orchards, woods, and plantations (Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: The code of agriculture; including observations on gardens, orchards, woods and plantations; with an account of all recent improvements in the management of arable and grass land. (Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: The code of health and longevity, or, A concise view of the principles calculated for the preservation of health, and the attainment of long life : being an attempt to prove the practicability of condensing, within a narrow compass, the most material information hitherto accumulated, regarding the most useful arts and sciences, or any particular branch theory (Edinburgh : Printed for Arch. Constable & Co., and T. Cadell and W. Davies, and J. Murray, London, 1807., 1807), also by John Murray, Archibald Constable, Samuel John Neele, John Beugo, and Cadell & Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: The code of health and longevity; or, A general view of the rules and principles calculated for the preservation of health, and the attainment of long life. (Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1817) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: The code of health and longevity; or, A general view of the rules and principles calculated for the preservation of health, and the attainment of long life. (Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: The correspondence of the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, bart. : with reminiscences of the most distinguished characters who have appeared in Great Britain, and in foreign countries, during the last fifty years. Illustrated by facsimiles of two hundred autographs ... (H. Colburn & R. Bentley, 1831) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: An essay on longevity (A. Strahan, 1802) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Essays on miscellaneous subjects (T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Essays on miscellaneous subjects. (A. Strahan, for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1802) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Facsimiles of letters from His Excellency George Washington, President of the United States of America to Sir John Sinclair ... (Franklin Knight, 1844), also by George Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: General report of the agricultural state, and political circumstances, of Scotland. Appendix. Drawn up for the consideration of the board of agriculture and internal improvement, under the directions of the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, bart. the president. (A. Constable & co.; [etc., etc.], 1814), also by Great Britain. Board of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: General report of the agricultural state, and political circumstances, of Scotland, drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, under the direction of the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, bart. the president. (A. Constable & co., 1814), also by Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: General report on enclosures (Printed by B. McMillan ..., 1808), also by Great Britain. Board of Agriculture and Arthur Young (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: General view of the agriculture of the county of Caithness; with observations on the means of its improvement. (Printed by B. M'Millan, for Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1815), also by Great Britain. Board of Agriculture and John Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Hints : addressed to the public : calculated to dispel the gloomy ideas which have been lately entertained of the state of our finances / 1 (Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1783), also by John Dalrymple Stair (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Hints regarding the agricultural state of the Netherlands, compared with that of Great Britain ... (Printed by B. McMillan, 1815) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: The history of the public revenue of the British Empire (Printed by W. and A. Strahan, for T. Cadell, 1785) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: The history of the public revenue of the British Empire (Printed by W. and A. Strahan, for T. Cadell, 1790) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: The history of the public revenue of the British Empire (Printed by W. and A. Strahan, for T. Cadell, 1785) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: The history of the public revenue of the British Empire. (Printed by W. and A. Strahan, for T. Cadell, 1785) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: The history of the public revenue of the British empire. Containing an account of the public income and expenditure from the remotest periods recorded in history, to Michaelmas 1802. With a review of the financial administration of the Right Honorable William Pitt. (Printed by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Husbandry of Scotland. Sketch of chapter II. On the practical details of the Scotch system of husbandry. (Printed by A. Neill and Co., 1810) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: La richesse du cultivateur ou Les secrets de Jean-Nicolas Benoît (s.n.], 1850), also by A. L. and Godefroy Chagnon (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: L'agriculture pratique et raisonnée (Madame Huzard, 1825), also by C. J. A. Mathieu de Dombasle (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: A letter on parliamentary representation, in which the propriety of trienial and septennial parliaments is considered. (Printed for J. Stockdale, 1783) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: A letter to the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, bart. M.P. supporting his auguments in refutation of those advanced by Mr. Huskisson, on the supposed depreciation of our currency : including a letter to Sir Charles Price, bart. M.P. in August last, on the report of the bullion committee (Causton, 1811), also by J. M. Siordet and Charles Price (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Letters from His Excellency George Washington, to Arthur Young, Esq. F.R.S. and Sir John Sinclair, Bart. M.P. : containing an account of his husbandry, with his opinions on various questions in agriculture, and many particulars of the rural economy of the United States. (Printed by Cottom and Stewart, 1803), also by George Washington and Arthur Young (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Letters on the revolution of France, and on the new constitution established by the National Assembly; occasioned by the publications of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke and Alexander De Calonne. Illustrated with a chart of the new constitution. To which is added, an appendix containing original papers and authentic documents relative to the affairs of France, addressed to Sir John Sinclair. Part 1. (Printed for J. Johnson, 1791), also by Thomas Christie, France. Assemblée nationale constituante (1789-1791), and France (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Letters, respecting the trade, manners, &c. of Edinburgh. (AMS Press, 1982), also by William Creech (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Letters written to the governor and directors of the Bank of England, in September, 1796 : on the pecuniary distresses of the country, and the means of preventing them : with some additional observations on the same subject, and the means of speedily re-establishing the public and commercial credit of the country / 5 (Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., and sold by G. Nicol, bookseller, Pall-Mall; Cadell and Davies, Strand; and J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1797), also by John Sewell, G. Nicol, and William Bulmer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Letters written to the governor and directors of the Bank of England, in September, 1796, on the pecuniary distresses of the country, and the means of preventing them ... (W. Bulmer, 1797) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Observations on the Report of the Bullion Committee. (London, 1810) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Observations on the Scottish dialect (Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell ;, 1782) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: On the means of arresting the progress of national calamity ([s.n.], 1817) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: The poems of Ossian, in the original Gaelic, with a literal translation into Latin (G. and W. Nicol; [etc., etc.], 1807), also by James Macpherson, Melchiorre Cesarotti, John M'Arthur, and Robert Macfarlan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Remarks on a pamphlet intitled, "The question concerning the depreciation of the currency stated and examined." by William Huskisson, esq., M.P. Together with several political maxims regarding coin and paper currency, intended to explain the real nature, and advantages of the present system. (Printed by W. Bulmer, 1810) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Remarks to a pamphlet entitled "The question concerning the depreciation of the currency stated and examined" by William Huskisson, Esq., M.P. together with several political maxims regarding coin and paper currency, intended to explain the real nature and advantages of the present system (Printed by W. Bulmer ... and sold by T. Cadell and W. Davies ..., J. Stockdale ... and J.M. Richardson ..., 1810), also by W. Huskisson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Sir John Sinclair's speech on the bullion question. (B. McMillan, 1811) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: The statistical account of Scotland. Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes (Printed and sold by W. Creech, 1791), also by William Creech (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835: Thoughts on currency and the means of promoting national prosperity by the adoption of "an improved circulation" ... : with an appendix, "On the doctrines of free trade" ... (Printed for Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly, and Richardson, Cornhill, 1829) (page images at HathiTrust)
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