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Eden:, or, a compleat body of gardening. Containing plain and familiar directions for raising the several useful products of a garden, ... Compiled and digested from the papers of the late celebrated Mr. Hale, by the authors of the Compleat body of husbandry

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1757 [1756-57]
Call number: 265630
Creator: Hill, John (1714?-1775)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (folio)
Associated people: Hale, Thomas,
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Eden:, or, a compleat body of gardening. Containing plain and familiar directions for raising the several useful products of a garden, ... Compiled and digested from the papers of the late celebrated Mr. Hale, by the authors of the Compleat body of husbandry

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