The epitome of the art of husbandry : comprizing all necessary directions for the improvement of it, viz. : plowing, sowing, grafting, gardening, ordering of flowers, herbs, directions for the use of the angle, ordering of bees, together with the gentlemans heroick exercise, discoursing of horses, their nature and use, with their diseases and remedies, of oxen, cows, calves, sheep, hogs, with the manner of ordering them, their diseases and remedies : of the nature of marle, the best way of planting clover-grass, hops, saffron, liquorish, hemp, etc. : to which is annexed by way of appendix a new method of planting fruit trees and improving of an orchard

Joseph Blagrave; Belgrave

Verlag: London : Printed for Benjamin Billingsley, 1670

Beschreibung

2 volumes bound as one. Bound with the 1670 New Additions to the Epitome of the Art of Husbandry. 306p, index; 59 p., ads. Rebound in mid-20th century brown leather. Moroccan leather spine label. Handsome binding and cover. When rebound, owner added 2 blank pages for notes between each original page, and several of these have pencil notation. Pages slightly toned. Head margins of last few pages of Epitomes and of the New Additions trimmed close. Wing B3118 & B3120a; (ESTC R35346; Goldsmiths 2580, in ref to 1685 edition) Epitomie. An important early English work in agriculture. Blagrave's art of husbandry was actively used in colonial New England. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1605300030

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The epitome of the art of husbandry : ...

Verlag: London : Printed for Benjamin Billingsley

Erscheinungsdatum: 1670

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 2nd .