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Hemp - Early works to 1800

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    A treatise on hemp. In two parts. Containing I. Its history, with the Preparations and Uses made of it by the Antients. II. The methods of cultivating, dressing, and manufacturing it, as improved by the Experience of modern Times. Translated from the French of M. Marcandier, Magistrate of Bourges.

    Marcandier, M. | Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]
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    A great number of the nobility and gentry having come to a resolution to encourage the wearing of home made linnen [sic] cloth, the Honourable Society for Improving in the Knowledge of Agriculture have advised the publishing of the following rules for propagating and dressing of lint and hemp, and for bleaching and whitning [sic] of linnen [sic] cloth.

    Honourable the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland. | Date: 1726]
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    A philosophical enquiry concerning the nature, use, and antiquity of hemp. As it was deliver'd in a common-place. In a famous university. ...

    | Date: 1733
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