A compleat system of husbandry and gardening; or, The gentleman's companion, in the business and pleasures of a country life Shewing, I. The several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, and improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods, and coppices. As also of fruits; corn, grain, pulse, new-hays, cattle, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, fish, and fish-ponds. II. The Husbandman's monthly directions. Also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, winds, rain, hail, and thunder. III. The interpretation of rustick terms. With an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession, and exact draughts thereof curiously engraven on copper. The whole collected from, and containing what is most valuable in all the books hitherto written upon this subject; with many new experiments and observations
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London
Printed for J. Pickard, next the Cock-Inn in Aldersgate-street, A. Bettesworth at the Red-Lyon in Paternoster-Row, and E. Curll at the Dial and Bible in Fleet-Street
1716, 1716
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | "Kalendarium Rusticum" (p. [419]) and "Dictionarium Rusticum" (p. 481]" each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. - Dedication signed: J. W. [i.e. John Worlidge]. - English Short Title Catalog, N4932. - Price on title page: Price Six Shillings. - Reproduction of original from University of London's Goldsmiths' Library |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (xxvi,[14],504p.,folded plate) ill 8° |