Compleat body of husbandry. : Containing rules for performing, in the most profitable manner, the whole business of the farmer and country gentleman, in cultivating, planting and stocking of land; in judging of the several kinds of seeds, and, of manures; and in the management of arable and pasture grounds: together with the most approved methods of practice in the several branches of husbandry, from sowing the seed, to getting in the crop; and in breeding snd preserving cattle, and curing their diseases. To which is annexed, the whole management of the orchard, the brewhouse, and the dairy. /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | The second edition. |
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| Item Description: | Volume 1: [xiv], 402 pages, [3] leaves of plates; volume 2: [x], 420 pages, [3] leaves of plates; volume 3. [xii], 498 pages, [7] leaves of plates; volume 4. viii, 400, [2], [22] pages, 1 fold leaf of plates. "A work founded on experience ; and calculated for general benefit ; consisting chiefly of improvements made by modern practitioners in farming ; and containing many valuable and useful discoveries, never before published." Volume 4, dated 1759, has no edition statement. Extra-illustrated. "Illustrated with a great number of cuts, containing figures of the instruments of husbandry ; of useful and poisonous plants and various other subjects, engraved from original drawings." Signature irregularities. Index at end of volume 4. Final leaf of volume 4 an advertisement: "Books printed for T. Osborne in Gray's-Inn and S. Crowder on London Bridge." |
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| Physical Description: | 4 volumes, plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. (octavo) |