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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.
Society of GentlemenDate: 1769- E-books
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By the King's royal licence and authority, granted at St. James's, on the 28th day of February, 1769. An entire new work. On Saturday the 8th of April, 1769, will be published, ... Number I. (To be continued weekly) of England displayed. Being a new, complete, and accurate survey and description of the kingdom of England, and principality of Wales. ... By a society of gentlemen. ... The particulars respecting England, ... by P. Russell, ... and those relating to Wales, by Mr. Owen Price
Society of GentlemenDate: 1769
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Literary memoirs of Germany and the North : being a choice collection of essays on the following interesting subjects ... / Done from the Latin and High-Dutch, by a society of gentlemen.
Date: 1759- E-books
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The honey-suckle consisting of original poems, epigrams, songs, ... and translations. By a society of gentlemen.
Society of GentlemenDate: 1734- Books
A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences : comprehending all the branches of useful knowledge, with accurate descriptions as well of the various machines, instruments, tools, figures, and schemes necessary for illustrating them, as of the classes, kinds, preparations, and uses of natural productions, whether animals, vegetables, minerals, fossils, or fluids; together with the kingdoms, provinces, cities, towns and other remarkable places throughout the world. Illustrated with above three hundred copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Jefferys, geographer to His Majesty / The whole extracted from the best authors in all languages. By a Society of Gentlemen.
Date: 1763-1764