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Systema agriculturæ, the mystery of husbandry discovered treating of the several new and most advantaious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices, as also of fruits, corn, grain, pulse, new-hays, cattle, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, fish, &c. : 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 ..
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Systema agriculturæ, the mystery of husbandry discovered [microform] : treating of the several new and most advantaious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices, as also of fruits, corn, grain, pulse, new-hays, cattle, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, fish, &c. : 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 ... / by J.W. Gent.
Edition
The third edition carefully corrected and amended with one whole section added, and many large and useful additions throughout the whole work.
Published
London : Printed for Tho. Dring ..., 1681.
Physical Description
[24], 134 [i.e. 324], [6] p. : ill.
Notes
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
Edition statement taken from title.
Later published under title: A compleat system of husbandry and gardening.
Separate t.p.: Kalendarium rusticum, or, Monthly directions for the husbandman ...
Dictionarium rusticum, or, The interpretations and significations of several rustick terms ...
Index: p. [1]-[6] at end.
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1979. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 994:45)
Variant and related titles
The mystery of husbandry discovered.
Kalendarium rusticum.
Monthly directions for the husbandman.
Dictionarium rusticum.
The interpretations and significations of several rustick terms.
Compleat system of husbandry and gardening.
Format
Books / Microforms
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700, W3600
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