Item #174029 Systema Agriculturae: The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered. John Worlidge.
Systema Agriculturae: The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered
Systema Agriculturae: The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered
Systema Agriculturae: The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered
Systema Agriculturae: The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered
Systema Agriculturae: The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered

Systema Agriculturae: The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered

London: J.C. for T. Dring, 1681. Third Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with 3/4 leather boards, 5 raised bands on spine with gilt lettering with title name and date printed. (26), 1-72, 83-297, 300, 307-310, 305, 304, 313-316, (6)) pages, lacks but never bound in dictionary section (317-334). Frontispiece and black and white illustrations. Good (chipping and wear to leather cover, bumping to corners, pages tanned and block plate stained, interior pages are all tight). Item #174029

"Systema agriculturae :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. With an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession. To which is added Kalendarium rusticum: or, The husbandmans monthly directions. Also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, winds, rain, hail, thunder, &c. And Dictionarium rusticum: or, The interpretation of rustick terms. The whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practice. The third edition carefully corrected and amended, with one whole section added, and many large and useful additions throughouth the whole work." - Title page Includes frontispiece and an explanation of the frontispiece" (in verse, printed on verso) is bound before engraved title page.

OCLC: 1056376011

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