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Certaine plaine and easie demonstrations : of divers easie wayes and meanes for the improving of any manner of barren land, although the same bee not worth xij.d. the acre. And shewing how to make the same become worth xx.s. xxx.s. or xl.s. the acre yearely. Published for the increasing of the wealth and prosperitie of the nation, and the benefit of the poore, and all of those as are owners of any barren land

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1657.
Call number: 65851
Creator: Shaw, John(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 4to
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