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A witch surfing on a sieve. Mezzotint by C. Turner, 1807, after J.J. Halls.
Halls, J. J. (John James), active 1791-1834.Date: 1 Decr. 1807Reference: 576080i- Books
Dr. Franz Joseph Jacobi : Ein Amtsmedicus jüdischer Herkunft im Fürstbistum Münster. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Medizingeschichte des Amtes Vechta / Peter Sieve.
Sieve, PeterDate: 2014
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The Vestal virgin Tuccia being inspected while carrying water in a sieve to prove her chastity. Etching by P.W. Tomkins,1798, after Sir J. Reynolds.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792.Date: April 3d 1798Reference: 536282i- Books
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Agriculture improv'd: or, the practice of husbandry display'd. Chiefly shewn by facts perform'd in all Sorts of Land In the Month of July, According to the Old Plain, and the New Drill, Way of Farming. To be Continued Monthly, till Twelve Books are completed. Containing, 1. Several new Ways, never before published, how to discover whether Wheat is truly dry, and fit to be laid up for Store. 2. The Use of a new-invented Engine, propos'd to the Author for saving the Labour of Two Horses in Four in Plowing of Lands. 3. How one of the most diligent and skilfulest Farmers had one of the worst Crops of Grain in 1744. 4. The State of Crops of Grain for July 1744. 5. How a Crop of Coleworts may be preserved sound in extreme cold Countries. 6. The great Use and Value of a Chaff-Engine. 7. The great Use and Value of two new-invented Hand-Sieves. 8. Copies of Letters from two several ingenious Gentlemen, shewing their Practice in the Improvement of their various Soils; sent to the Author for engaging his particular Answers to the same. 9. How a Gentleman sowed his Orchard with Wheat. 10 How a Gentleman improved his Sandy and Gravelly Soils with Marl. 11. Rathripe Barley, the great Service it did those that sowed it in 1744. 12. Cole-Seed, to sow it to the best Advantage at several Seasons of the Year: With many other serviceable and curious Matters, not before publish'd. By William Ellis, a Farmer, of Little Gaddesden, near Hunsted, in Hertfordshire, Author of the Modern Husbandman.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]
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Balthasar Bekker and Christian Scriver sieve diseases from devils. Engraving, 1731.
Date: [1731]Reference: 994i