Eyth, Max von, engineer, promoter of agricultural machinery, writer and draughtsman, founder of the German Agricultural Society (1836-1906). Eigh. Letter from M. Eyth. 11/3 p. With letterhead "Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft". Double leaf. Gr. 8vo. Berlin 1.II.1887. To Prof. Drews in Stuttgart. "... Actually, I have the misfortune of being the man to whom everything turns. The wine tasting matter in its details, however, is handed over to Director Göthe in Geisenheim a./Rh., who, although not even in Frankfurt, is well acquainted with the conditions there. From April, I intend to move there. I promise you, at least, a faithful and active consumer of our Swabian wines. - In the meantime, I sometimes think of a well-known verse of our special national poet Uhland. Would I be with a good kind of it - can also etc. Excuse this shock sigh ...". - Several of Eyth's books, especially the autobiography of the widely travelled engineer, "Hinter Pflug and vice", achieved high editions.