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Record Nr.

UNISA996394547103316

Autore

Worlidge John <fl. 1660-1698.>

Titolo

Systema agriculturæ [[electronic resource] ] : 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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

Descrizione fisica

[28], 72, 83-262, [2], 263-297, p. 300, 307-134 [i.e. 334], [6] p., [1] leaf of plate : ill

Soggetti

Agriculture - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018