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Dictionaire oeconomique: or, the family dictionary. Containing, the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health, with many approved Remedies for most Distempers of the Body of Man, Cattle and other Creatures, and the best Means for attaining long Life. The most advantageous Ways of Breeding, Feeding and Ordering of Domestick Animals, as Horses, Kine, Sheep, Swine, Poultry, Bees, Silkworms, &c. The different Kinds of Nets, Snares and Engines, for taking most Sorts of Fish, Birds, and other Game. Great Variety of Rules, Directions, and new Discoveries, relating to Gardening, Husbandry, Soils and Manures of all Sorts: The Planting and Culture of Vines, Fruit-Trees, Forest-Trees, Underwoods, Shrubs, Flowers, and their several Uses: The Knowledge of Foreign Drugs, Dies, Domestick and Exotick Plants and Herbs, with their specifick Qualities and medicinal Virtues. The best and cheapest Ways of providing and improving all manner of Meats and Drinks; of preparing several Sorts of Wines, Waters and Liquors for every Season, both by Distillation and otherwise: Of preserving all kind of Fruits as well dry as liquid, and making divers Sweetmeats and Works of Sugar, and other profitable Curiosities, both in the Confectionary and Culinary Arts of Housewifery. Means of making the most Advantages of the Manufactures of Soap, Starch, Spinning, Cotton, Thread, &c. The Methods to take or destroy Vermin, and other Animals injurious to Gardening, Husbandry, and rural Oeconomy; with a Description of Garden and other Country Tools and Utensils. An Account of the several Weights, Measures, &c. of Metals and Minerals, with their Preparations and Uses. All sorts of rural sports and exercises, conducing to the Benefit and innocent Enjoyments of Life; as also Painting in Miniature, and divers other Arts and Ternis of Art explain'd, for the Entertainment and Amusement of Gentlemen, Ladies, &c. The whole illustrated throughout with very great Variety of Figures, for the readier understanding and practising of those things to which they belong. Done into English from the second edition, lately printed at Paris, in two Volumes, Folio, written by M Chomell. With considerable alterations and improvements. Revised and recommended by Mr. R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S. In two volumes. Vol. I. From A - to - H.
Chomel, Noel, 1632-1712.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Encyclopedie Françoise, Latine et Angloise, ou dictionnaire universel des arts et des sciences, Francois, Latin et Anglois, Contenant La signification et l'explication de tous les mots de ces trois Langues, & de tous les termes relatifs aux Arts & aux Sciences. Tome premier A-K
Date: M.DCC.LXI. [1761]- Books
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A marine pocket-dictionary, of the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German languages, with an English-French, and French-English index; being a collection of a great variety of the most useful sea-terms in the above idioms. By Henry Newman, agent and translator of languages.
Neuman, Henry, active 1798-1799.Date: 1800- Books
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Nouveau dictionnaire portatif des langues françoise et angloise; contenant tous les mots dont l'usage est autorisé par les meilleurs auteurs. On y a indiqué les différentes parties d'Oraison, ainsi que le genre des noms dans la langue françoise, & on y a ajouté les accens des mots anglois, une liste alphabétique des noms de baptème les plus usités, & leur signification dans les langues d'où ils tirent leur origine. Composé d'après les dictionnaires françois & anglois les plus estimés, & sur-tout d'après celui de l'Académie Françoise. Par Thomas Nugent. Septième Edition, revue avec soin, & augmentée de plusieurs milliers denouveaux mots, d'une liste nombreuse de noms propres & de villes, ainsi que des termes de marine & de guerre à l'usage de Messieurs les officiers; par J. S. Charrier. On y a joint, en faveur des François, une table des verbes irréguliers en anglois.
Nugent, Thomas, 1700?-1772.Date: M. DCC. XCVI. [1796]- Books
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Petite encyclopédie des jeunes gens : Ou définition abrégée des notions rélatives aux arts et aux sciences, à l' astronomie, au blason, à la chronologie, à la géographie, à l'iconologie, à la physique, et généralement à tout ce dont il est nécessaire et agréable d'avoir quelques idées nettes et précises: le tout range' suivant l'ordre alphabe'tique: avec figures. Par N. Wanostrocht. Seconde édition, revue, corrigée, et augmentée, de la nouvelle division de la France, en quatre-vingt-trois départemens, par l' auteur.
Wanostrocht, N. (Nicolas), 1745-1812.Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]