Systema agriculturæ, . the mystery of husbandry discovered, wherein is treated 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. .. . With an account of the several instruments and engines useful in this profession. To which is added Kalendarium rusticum: or, The husbandmans monethly directions. Also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, windes, rain, hail, thunder, &c. And Dictionarium rusticum: or, The interpretation of rustick terms.
John Worlidge (d.1693)
Category
Books
Date
1675
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3109405
Summary
Bibliographic description
[28], 278, [6] p. . ill., engr. ; . 4to.. Provenance: Pictorial bookplate: Ex Libris Rudyard Kipling AD 1894. - Pencil inscription on front free-endpaper unread. - Ink markings, including financial calculations passim. Binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf, gold-ruled spine, black spine-label, gold-lettered. Ticket of 'G.A. Poynder / Book-Shop and Library / Next to General Post Office / Reading'.
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John Worlidge (d.1693)