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Husbandry and trade improv'd : being a collection of many valuable materials relating to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c.; with a compleat catalogue of the several sorts of earths, and their proper product ... as also full and exact histories of trades, as malting, brewing, &c. ... an account of the rivers of England, &c. and how far they may be made navigable; of weights and measures ... the vegetation of plants, &c

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1727.
Call number: 713437
Creator: Houghton, John (1640-1705)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 20 cm
Associated people: Bradley, Richard, (1688-1732,)
Associated organization: Burndy Library,
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Husbandry and trade improv'd : being a collection of many valuable materials relating to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c. With a compleat catalogue of the several sorts of earths, ... With many other useful particulars communicated by several eminent members of the Royal Society, to the collector, John Houghton, F.R.S. Now revised, corrected, and published, with a preface and useful indexes, by Richard Bradley, ... In three volumes
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The history and antiquities of the town and county of the town of Newcastle upon Tyne, : including an account of the coal trade of that place and embellished with engraved views of the publick buildings, &c. ... By John Brand
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A proposal for uniformity of weights and measures in Scotland, by execution of the laws now in force. : With tables of the English and Scotch standards, and of the customary weights and measures of the several counties and boroughs of Scotland; --comparisons of the standards with each other, and with the county-measures; --tables and rules for their reciprocal conversion; --and some tables of the weight and produce of corn, &c. Addressed to His Majesty's sheriffs and stewarts depute, and justices of peace, of the several counties and stewarties, and to the magistrates of the royal boroughs, in Scotland
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Systema agriculturae, : the mystery of husbandry discovered; : wherein is treated of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering improving all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices. : And of all sorts of fruits, corn ... silk-worms, &c. : 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
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