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Title: The Complete Farmer: or, A General Dictionary of Husbandry, in all its branches Containing the various Methods of Cultivating and Improving every Species of Land, According to the Precepts of both the Old and New Husbandry. Comprising every Thing valuable in the best Writers on this Subject, viz. Linnaeus, Chateauvieux, the Marquis of Turbilly, Platt, Evelyn, Worlidge, Mortimer, Tull, Ellis, Miller, Hale, Lisle, Roque, Mills, Young, &c. Together with A Great Variety of New Discoveries and Improvements. Also The Whole Business of Breeding, Managing, and Fattening Cattle of all Kinds; and the most approved Methods of curing the various Diseases to which they are subject. Together with the Method of raising BEES, and of acquiring large Quantit
Description: London: Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington, S. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, and R. Baldwin, 1777. 0. Hardcover. Large quarto. Unpaginated. [740], 111, [v]pp. Third edition, corrected and improved. Includes index. In two parts: the dictionary is unpaginated; 'The gardener's kalendar' has a divisional title-page and separate pagination and register. Contemporary calf, rebacked. With a penny-sized mark on the upper cover. Corners slightly worn. With a frontispiece and 27 folding plates, for a total of 28 plates. With the armorial bookplate of I. Green Wilkinson. ESTC T117986; Wilkinson's bookplate referenced in: Franks, Franks Bequest, Volume III, No. 31805. With a few small and scattered stains; overall a very good copy. Very Good.

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