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agriculture32
gardening5
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industrial arts5
home economics4
technology3
handbooks, vade-mecums, etc2
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bee culture1
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Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus6
Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)6
Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus5
Varro, Marcus Terentius5
Cato the Elder4
Cato, Marcus Porcius4
Cato, Marcus Porcius (234 BC-149 BC)4
Estienne, Charles (1504-1564)4
Liebault, Jean4
Liebault, Jean (1535-1596)4

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De omnibus agriculturae partibus, & de plantarum animaliumque natura & utilitate lib. xii : non minus philosophiae & medicinae, quam oeconomiae, agricolationis, pastionumque studiosis utiles

Crescenzi, Pietro de' (1233-1320); Petri, Heinrich (1508-1579)

1548

Date from colophon. Pages 113-120 repeated in pagination.

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Piero Crescientio De agricultura vulgare

Crescenzi, Pietro de' (1233-1320); Bindoni, Alessandro

1519

Printer's device on t.p. Place of publication and date from colophon. Printed in double columns on both sides of each numbered leaf. Leaves 201-234 numbered 202-235; other incidental errors in f...

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The jewel house of art and nature : containing divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experiments in the art of husbandry. With divers chimical conclusions concerning the art of distillation, and the rare practises and uses thereof. Faithfully and familiarly set down, according to the authours own experience

Plat, Sir Hugh (1552-1611?); Boot, Arnold de (1606-1653)

1653

The authorship of the "Discourse of several sorts of stones," by D.B. (p. 217-232) and the editorship of the entire work is attributed to Arnold de Boot. Cf. DNB.

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Systema agriculturæ, the mystery of husbandry discovered : treating of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices... with an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession

Worlidge, John (fl. 1669-1698); Worlidge, John (fl. 1669-1698); Worlidge, John (fl. 1669-1698)

1681

By J. Worlidge. "To which is added, Kalendarium rusticum, or, The husbandmans monthly directions... and Dictionarium rusticum, or, The interpretation of rustick terms." Includes index. Indexed i...

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Libri de re rustica

Marcus Porcius Cato; Varro, Marcus Terentius; Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus; Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus; Angeli, Niccolò degli (1448-)

1521

Imprint from colophon. In second part of numbered leaves, 21-24 numbered 235-238; 35-42 numbered 249-256; 77-80 numbered 291-294.

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De re rustica. M. Catonis lib. I, M. Terentii Varronis lib. III, Palladii lib. XIIII. [De re rustica L. Junii Moderati Columellae libri XIII. Priscarum vocum in libris de re rustica enarrationes

Marcus Porcius Cato; Varro, Marcus Terentius; Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus; Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus; Merula, Giorgio (1494); Beroaldo, Filippo (1453-1505); Manuzio, Aldo (1515)

1535

Although they bear numbering "tomus I," "tomus II," and "tomus III," the three volumes have no collective title. Titles above are transcribed from the three title pages. Published in 1537 without co...

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