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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/COM

The complete family-piece, and, country gentleman, and farmer's, best guide : in three parts... Containing a very choice and valuable collections of near eight hundred well-experienced practical family-receipts in physick and surgery; cookery, pastry and confectionary ... With a complete alphabetical index to each part ... [etc.]

1736

Anon.

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Archive Print Item: Early French 4/BAS

La nouvelle maison rustique : ou économie rurale, pratique et générale de tous les biens de campagne (v.1)

Bastien, Jean François (1747-1824); Liger, Louis (1658-1717)

an VI-1798

Binder's title: Maison rustique. First published in 1700 under title: Œconomie générale de la campagne, ou Nouvelle maison rustique.

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Archive Print Item: Early French 4/BAS

La nouvelle maison rustique : ou économie rurale, pratique et générale de tous les biens de campagne (v.2)

Bastien, Jean François (1747-1824); Liger, Louis (1658-1717)

an VI-1798

Binder's title: Maison rustique. First published in 1700 under title: Œconomie générale de la campagne, ou Nouvelle maison rustique.

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Archive Print Item: Early French 4/BAS

La nouvelle maison rustique : ou économie rurale, pratique et générale de tous les biens de campagne (v.3)

Bastien, Jean François (1747-1824); Liger, Louis (1658-1717)

an VI-1798

Binder's title: Maison rustique. First published in 1700 under title: Œconomie générale de la campagne, ou Nouvelle maison rustique.

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Archive Print Item: BC Lt d/REM

Remarques on the humours and conversations of the town : written in a letter to Sr. T. L

S. L; T. L

1673

Anon. Contrasting the merits of rural life with the vices of the city. Assigned by Wing to "S. L.", apparently an error for "Sr T. L.", the recipient of the letter. In prose. Largely directed ag...

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Archive Print Item: BC Lt/MIL

Notes on Dryden's Virgil : in a letter to a friend : with an essay on the same poet

Milbourne, Luke (1649-1720); Virgil

1698

"The I. book of Virgil's Georgics made English" [by Milbourne]: p.206-232. Title-leaf, preceded by free end-paper and fly-leaf, is B1; B3 signed A3 in error - an irregularity not noted by Macdonald....

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Archive Print Item: BC Lt VIR

Virgil's Eclogves; with his booke De apibvs, concerning the governement and ordering of bees: Translated grammatically, and also according to the proprietie of our English tongue, so farre as Grammar and the verse will well permit. Written chiefly for the good of schooles ... [etc]

Virgil; Brinsley, John (1581-1624)

1633

First issued 1620. Translated by John Brinsley.

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Archive Print part: BC Lt/VIR

Virgil's husbandry : or An essay on the Georgics : being the second book translated into English verse. To which are added the Latin text, and Mr. Dryden's version. With notes critical, and rustick

Virgil; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Benson, William (1682-1754)

1724

With a half-title. The translation and notes are by William Benson.

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Archive Print Item: Roberts Collection VIR

Virgil's husbandry : or An essay on the Georgics : being the second book translated into English verse. To which are added the Latin text, and Mr. Dryden's version. With notes critical, and rustick

Virgil; Virgil; Virgil; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Benson, William (1682-1754)

1724

With a half-title. The translation and notes are by William Benson.

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Archive Print Item: BC Lt quarto VIR

Pub. Virgilii Maronis Bucolicorum ecolgae decem : The bucolicks of Virgil

Virgil; Virgil; Virgil; Martyn, John (1699-1768); King, Edward; Greenwood, William (1769); Cole, B (fl. ca.1737-1751)

1749

First edition. Title in red and black; illustrations and maps engraved; head-piece. Two plates signed: B. Cole sculp.t. "Remarks... by the learned Edward King, Esq., in a letter dated from Milks...

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