Systema agriculturæ : the mystery of husbandry discovered. Treating of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices. ... With an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession. To which is added Kalendarium rusticum: or, The husbandmans monthly directions. Also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, winds, rain, hail, thunder, &c. And Dictionarium rusticum: or, The interpretation of rustick terms. The whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practice. The third edition carefully corrected and amended, with one whole section added, and many large and useful additions throughout the whole work. By J.W. Gent.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
printed for Tho. Dring, in Fleetstreet, and are to be sold by R. Clavel at the Peacock at the West end of St. Pauls,
1681.
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| Item Description: | J.W. = John Worlidge. With added engraved title page, signed "F H Vau Hove Scul", reading: Systema agriculturæ being the mystery of husbandry discovered and laid open by I.W. "An explanation of the frontispiece" (in verse, printed on verso) is bound before engraved title page. At foot of letterpress title page: Advertisement. About two months since the Bishop of Lincoln's book, called Brutum fulmer, or Animadversions upon the Popes bulls, against K. Hen. 8. and Q. Eliz. was published in a large quarto, but is now reprinted in a letter volume and cheaper. "Kalendarium rusticum: or, Monthly directions for the husbandman" and "Dictionarium rusticum; or, The interpretations and significations of several rustick terms used in several places of England" have separate dated title pages; register and pagination are continuous. Includes index and alphabetical table. Advertisement on verso of final leaf. Text is continuous despite pagination. Page 334 is misnumbered 134. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([28], 72, 83-262, [2], 263-297, pages 300, 307-134 [id est 334], [6] pages, [1] leaf of plate : illustrations. |