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Samuel Hartlib his legacie : or an enlargement of the discourse of husbandry used in Brabant and Flaunders: wherein are bequeathed to the commonwealth of England, more outlandish and domestick experiments and secrets, in reference to universall husbandry

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Type of record: Book

Title: Samuel Hartlib his legacie : or an enlargement of the discourse of husbandry used in Brabant and Flaunders: wherein are bequeathed to the commonwealth of England, more outlandish and domestick experiments and secrets, in reference to universall husbandry

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Pol/HAR

Creator(s): Hartlib, Samuel (1662)

Additional creator(s): Dymock, Cressy (Other); Child, Robert (1613-1654) (Other); Weston, Sir Richard (1591-1652) (Other)

Related people: Dymock, Cressy; Child, Robert; Weston, Richard

Publisher: Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for Richard Wodenothe

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1652

Language: English

Size and medium: 4 p.l., 118, [28] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/287540

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002433809705181

Description

Consists chiefly of letters to Hartlib apparently written by Cressy Dymock, though the first is attributed by some authorities to Robert Child. cf. Dircks, Biographical memoir of Samuel Hartlib [1865] p. 69.


Prefixed is Sir Richard Weston's Introduction to his "Discourse of husbandry" of which Hartlib promises a new edition.


"An appendic to the Legacie" and "An interrogatory" have individual title-pages.


Pagination irregular; p. 118 misnumbered 18.


Edited by Samuel Hartlib.


Indexed in: Wing H990.

Additional description

Title-page mutilated. Imperfect wanting after T4 of the Interrogatory

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