Systema agriculturæ; the mystery of husbandry discovered. Treating of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices. As also of fruits, corn, grain, pulse, new-hays, cattle, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, fish, &c. With an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession. To which is added Kalendarium rusticum: or, the Husbandmans monthly direction's. Also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow ... &c. And Dictionarium rusticum: or the interpretation of rustick terms / [John Worlidge].
- Worlidge, John, active 1669-1698.
- Date:
- 1681
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About this work
Publication/Creation
London : Printed for T. Dring, 1681.
Physical description
14 unnumbered leaves, 134 (i. e. 334), 6 unnumbered pages : add. engr. title page, woodcuts, engr. plate, illustrations ; (folio)
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Edition
The 3d ed. /
References note
Wing W 3600
ESTC R2469
Goldsmiths', 2412
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), W3600
Notes
Added t.-p., illustrated
Kalendarium rusticum and Dictionarium rusticum each has separate t.-p
Paging irregular: p. 70 numbered 80; 73-82 omitted in numbering; 193 omitted; 194 repeated; 207 omitted; 209 repeated; 278 numbered 274; 298-299, 301-306 omitted; 311-312 numbered 305-306; 330 numbered 130; 332-333 numbered 322-323; 334 numbered 134.
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Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/C/56188