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Husbandry and trade improv'd: being a collection of manyvaluable materials relating to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c.
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- With acompleat catalogue of the several sorts of earths, and their proper product ...as also full and exact histories of trades, as malting, brewing, &c. ... anaccount of the rivers of England, &c. and how far they may be made navigable;of weights and measures ... the vegetation of plants, &c. with many otheruseful particulars communicated by several eminent members of the RoyalSociety, to the collector, John Houghton, F. R. S. Now revised, corrected, andpublished, with a preface and useful indexes, by Richard Bradley, F. R. S. andProfessor of Botany in the University of Cambridge. In three volumes
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- London : Printed for Woodman and Lyon in Russel-Street, CoventGarden, 1727-1728
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- 4 volumes ; 20.2 cm
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- ocm01041169
- Vol. 1-3 first published in weekly folio numbers, of which thefirst appeared March30, 1692 and the last (no. 583) on Sept. 24, 1703
- Designed by the editor to comprise 19 v. and growing out of his"Proposal for the improvment of husbandry and trade", issued in November 1691.
- Caption title: A collection for improvement of husbandry andtrade.
- Vol. 4 first published as a serial, Sept. 8, 1681 - June 16, 1683,under title: A collection of letters for the improvement of husbandry andtrade.