A general treatise of agriculture, both philosophical and practical : displaying the arts of husbandry and gardening : in two parts ... / originally written by R. Bradley ... and now not only corrected and properly methodised, but adapted to the present practice, and improved with the late theories, in many large notes, wherein the several methods of culture, and the different systems of botany and vegetation, according to the most approved writers of the present period upon these subjects, are delivered : with a compleat index of all the matters contained in the book : illustrated with twenty copper plates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.

Contributor:

Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Early works to 1800.

Agriculture.

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Genre:

Advertisements -- England -- London -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Hoombe (autograph)(PSPA copy)

Powell (autograph, 1832)(PSPA copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 503 pages, 17 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates, 20 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for W. Johnston, R. Baldwin, J. Fuller, J. Wren, W. Owen, G. Keith, A. Strahan, T. Field, P. Davey and B. Law, E. Dilly, C. Henderson, A. Linde, and J. Robinson, 1757.

Contents:

(from t.p.) Part I. Of husbandry : treats of the nature of the soil, air, and situation proper for the production of vegetables ...

Part II. Of gardening : treats of the circulation of the sap in vegetables; the generation in plants, and their distribution into genera ...

Notes:

Signatures: A⁴ B-2I⁸ 2K⁴ 2L⁸.

Booksellers' advertisements: [2] p. at end.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cited in:

ESTC T73155

Higgs, H. Bibl. of economics, 1380

OCLC:

5589824