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Georgica curiosa aucta. Das ist: Umständlicher Bericht und klarer Unterricht von dem adelichen Land- und Feld-leben, auf alle in Teutschland übliche Land- und Haus-Wirthschafften gerichtet hin... [etc.] (v.1)
Hohberg, Wolfgang Helmhard Freiherr von (1612-1688)
1682-1715
Added engr. half-titles; title vignettes; title in red and black.
Georgica curiosa aucta. Das ist: Umständlicher Bericht und klarer Unterricht von dem adelichen Land- und Feld-leben, auf alle in Teutschland übliche Land- und Haus-Wirthschafften gerichtet hin... [etc.] (v.3)
Hohberg, Wolfgang Helmhard Freiherr von (1612-1688)
1682-1715
Added engr. half-titles; title vignettes; title in red and black.
Sketch of 'The Good Shepherd'
c. 1830
An undated pencil sketch of 'The Good Shepherd' by Edward Petre Novello, mounted in a cardboard frame. The shepherd holds a staff in their proper left hand and a sheep in their right. The under eye is...
Georgica curiosa aucta. Das ist: Umständlicher Bericht und klarer Unterricht von dem adelichen Land- und Feld-leben, auf alle in Teutschland übliche Land- und Haus-Wirthschafften gerichtet hin... [etc.] (v.2)
Hohberg, Wolfgang Helmhard Freiherr von (1612-1688)
1682-1715
Added engr. half-titles; title vignettes; title in red and black.
Survey of English Dialects recording in Read, Lancashire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
05 Mar 1954
[Side 1] Jim outlines typical year in sheep farming, incl. details of 'tupping' time [= mating time], use of 'raddle' [= red dye used to brand sheep], lambing time, 'provand' [= fodder], sale of fat l...
Field Book 1779
1779?
Contains accounts of receipts and payments with indication of balance of profit or loss, field by field, in respect of livestock, oats, and various other payments, with final balance in profit
The gentlemans recreation : In two parts. The first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences. To wit, an abridgment thereof, which (in a clear method) treats the doctrine, and general parts of each art,... The second part, treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture. With a short treatise of cock-fighting; for the breeding, dyetting, ordering, matching, and fighting them. All which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements made by those well experienced in the said recreations. And for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish; not hitherto published by any. The whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures, engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects
Blome, Richard (1705)
1686
With an additional title page (plate) engraved: The gentlemans recreation by R. Blome. Title page in red and black. Printed in double columns. Brome signs the dedication. Approbation of Charle...
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...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
11 February 1975
[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings [unidentified]; sings 'Since I've Had a Row with the Wife'; talks about and sings his version of 'My Grandfather's Clock...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
19 March 1976
Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', [first line: 'When I was a jolly young ploughboy'], 'Farmer's Boy' and [first line: 'Come with me to t...
Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Wakelin, Martyn F
29 March 1963
Thomas Stephens, recorded at home in Altarnun; answers a selection of questions, put by Martyn Wakelin, from the Dieth-Orton dialect survey questionnaire; talks with Stanley Ellis about his first job;...
Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Hampshire
Kylstra, Henk E
1961
Mr. G. Shaw, recorded at home in Whiteparish; talks about domestic lighting; thatching (hay ricks, cottages); roods (measurement of length); walls for dwellings and materials used; mowing with a scyth...