The modern improvements in agriculture containing the principles of tillage and vegetation, and present practice of the most skilful husbandmen, in the Culture of Corn and Pulse, and of the Grasses, Plants, and Roots for feeding Cattle: And a comparative View of their Uses and Advantages, from authentic Experiments made by many ingenious Persons, particularly in Britain and Ireland. Likewise the most approved methods of watering land, Draining, and other valuable Improvements. Illustrated With Copper-Plates, and Descriptions Of Several New Instruments; One a Horse-Hoe invented by the Author, Of very general Use, for hoeing all Grops planted in Rows, with wide for narrow Spaces. By Mr. Forbes
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
printed for T. Evans, near York-Buildings, Strand; J. Debrett, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly; J. Ogilvy, Holborn; and T. Vernor, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill
1784, M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]
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| Edition: | A new edition, complete in one volume |
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | A reissue, with a collective titlepage, of a work published anonymously in 1774 in four parts. - English Short Title Catalog, T122807. - P.325 misnumbered 235. - Pagination and register are continuous. - Part 1 is dated 1774, parts 3-4, 1776. - Parts 1, 3-4 have separate titlepages, reading: 'The modern improvements in agriculture. .. By a practiser of both the old and new husbandry [i.e. Francis Forbes], London: printed for J. Wilkie'. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - With a final advertisement leaf for J. Wilkie. - With an errata leaf to part 1 following p.158 |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource ([2],vii,[1],324,[2],235[i.e.325]-487,[3],489-654,[2]p.,plates) 8° |