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Household pests - Great Britain - Handbooks, manuals etc. - Early works to 1800
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The Vermin-killer: Being a compleat and necessary family-book, shewing a ready way to destroy adders, badgers, birds of all sorts, earwigs, caterpillars, flies, fish, foxes, frogs, gnats, mice, otters, pismires, pole-cats, rabbets, rats, snakes, scorpions, snails, spiders, toads, wasps, weasles, wants or moles, worms in houses and gardens, bugs, lice, fleas, &c. Also several excellent receipts for the cure of most disorders. And some useful directions for gardening and husbandry; and likewise for travellers in regard to the management of a horse on a journey, &c. With many curious secrets in art and nature.
Date: [1755?]- Books
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The Vermin-killer: Being a compleat and necessary family-book. Shewing a ready way to destroy adders, badgers, pests of all sorts, earwigs, caterpillars fish, foxes, frogs, gnats, mice, ... pismires, pole-cats, rabbets, rats, snakes, scorpions, snails, spiders, toads, wasps, weasles, wants or moles, worms in house and gardens, bug, lice, fleas, &c. also several excellent receipts for the cure of most disorders. And some useful directions for gardening and husbandry; and likewise for travellers in regard to the management of a horse on a journey, &c. With many curious secrets in art and nature.
Date: [1755?]- Books
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The vermin-Killer: being a compleat and necessary family-book. Shewing a ready way to destroy adders, badgers, birds, of all sorts, earwigs Caterpillars, Flies, Fish, Foxes, Frogs, Gnats, Mice, Otters, Pismires, Pole-Cats, Rabbets, Rats, Snakes, Scorpions, Snails, Spiders, Toads, Wasps, Weasles, Wants or Moles, Worms in Houses and Gardens, Bugs, Lice, Fleas, &c. Also Several excellent Receipts for the Cure of most Disorders. And Some useful Directions for Gardening and Husbandry: and likewise for Travellers in regard to the Management of a Horse on a Journey, &c. With many curious Secrets in Art and Nature.
Date: [1765?]- Books
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The Vermin-killer. Being a very necessary family-book, containing exact rules and directions for the artificial killing and destroying all manner of vermin, viz. bugs. Rats and mice. Moles. Weasles. Snakes. Fleas. Catterpillars. Flies. Whereunto is added, the art of taking all kinds of fish and fowl with many other things never before known.
Date: Printed this year [1790?]