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The complete farmer or, a general dictionary of husbandry, in all its branches; containing the various methods of cultivating and improving every species of land, according to the precepts of both the old and new husbandry. Comprising every Thing valuable in the best Writers on this Subject, viz. Linnaeus, Chateauvieux, the Marquis of Turbilly, Platt, Evelyn, Worlidge, Mortimer, Tull, Ellis, Miller, Hale, Lisl?, Roque, Mills, &c. Together with A Great Variety of New Discoveries and Improvements. Also The Whole Business of Breeding, Managing, and Fattening Cattle of all Kinds; and the most approved Methods of curing the various Diseases to which they are subject. Together with the Method of raising Bees, and of acquiring large Quantities of Wax and Honey, without destroying those laborious Infects. To which is now first added, the gardener' kalendar, Calculated for the Use of Farmers and Country Gentlemen. Illustrated with a great variety of folio copper-plates, finely engraved; exhibiting all the Instruments used in Husbandry; particularly those lately invented, and presented to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. in London; many of which have never yet appeared in a Work of this Nature. The second edition, corrected and improved. By a society of gentlemen, Members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.
- Title
- The complete farmer [electronic resource] : or, a general dictionary of husbandry, in all its branches; containing the various methods of cultivating and improving every species of land, according to the precepts of both the old and new husbandry. Comprising every Thing valuable in the best Writers on this Subject, viz. Linnaeus, Chateauvieux, the Marquis of Turbilly, Platt, Evelyn, Worlidge, Mortimer, Tull, Ellis, Miller, Hale, Lisl?, Roque, Mills, &c. Together with A Great Variety of New Discoveries and Improvements. Also The Whole Business of Breeding, Managing, and Fattening Cattle of all Kinds; and the most approved Methods of curing the various Diseases to which they are subject. Together with the Method of raising Bees, and of acquiring large Quantities of Wax and Honey, without destroying those laborious Infects. To which is now first added, the gardener' kalendar, Calculated for the Use of Farmers and Country Gentlemen. Illustrated with a great variety of folio copper-plates, finely engraved; exhibiting all the Instruments used in Husbandry; particularly those lately invented, and presented to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. in London; many of which have never yet appeared in a Work of this Nature. The second edition, corrected and improved. By a society of gentlemen, Members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.
- Author
- Society of Gentlemen.
- Publication
- London : printed for R. Baldwin, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, S. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, T. Lowndes, and Robinson and Roberts. And sold by James Williams, in Skinner-Row, Dublin, MDCCLXIX. [1769]
Details
- Additional Authors
- Gale (Firm)
- Description
- [688];111,[5]p.,plates; 4⁰.
- Uniform Title
- Eighteenth century collections online.
- Subject
- Agriculture > Dictionaries > Early works to 1800
- Genre/Form
- Dictionaries.
- Note
- In two parts: the dictionary is unpaginated, and the gardener's kalendar has separate pagination and register.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Indexed In (note)
- English Short Title Catalog
- Reproduction (note)
- Electronic reproduction.
- OCLC
- 642684634
- T75354
- Author
- Society of Gentlemen.
- Title
- The complete farmer [electronic resource] : or, a general dictionary of husbandry, in all its branches; containing the various methods of cultivating and improving every species of land, according to the precepts of both the old and new husbandry. Comprising every Thing valuable in the best Writers on this Subject, viz. Linnaeus, Chateauvieux, the Marquis of Turbilly, Platt, Evelyn, Worlidge, Mortimer, Tull, Ellis, Miller, Hale, Lisl?, Roque, Mills, &c. Together with A Great Variety of New Discoveries and Improvements. Also The Whole Business of Breeding, Managing, and Fattening Cattle of all Kinds; and the most approved Methods of curing the various Diseases to which they are subject. Together with the Method of raising Bees, and of acquiring large Quantities of Wax and Honey, without destroying those laborious Infects. To which is now first added, the gardener' kalendar, Calculated for the Use of Farmers and Country Gentlemen. Illustrated with a great variety of folio copper-plates, finely engraved; exhibiting all the Instruments used in Husbandry; particularly those lately invented, and presented to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. in London; many of which have never yet appeared in a Work of this Nature. The second edition, corrected and improved. By a society of gentlemen, Members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.
- Imprint
- London : printed for R. Baldwin, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, S. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, T. Lowndes, and Robinson and Roberts. And sold by James Williams, in Skinner-Row, Dublin, MDCCLXIX. [1769]
- Series
- Eighteenth century collections online.
- Reproduction
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
- Indexed In:
- English Short Title Catalog, T75354.
- Connect to:
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain England London.
- Added Author
- Gale (Firm)