Rural economy, or, Essays on the practical parts of husbandry : designed to explain several of the most important methods of conducting farms of various kinds, including many useful hints to gentlemen farmers, relative to the economical management of their business : to which is added, The rural Socrates, being memoirs of a country philosopher / by the author of The farmer's letters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.

Contributor:

Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Early works to 1800.

Agriculture.

Gujer, Jakob, 1716-1785.

Gujer, Jakob.

Penn Provenance:

Seltzer, Charles M. (autograph)

Physical Description:

299 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The third edition.

Other Title:

Rural economy

Essays on the practical parts of husbandry

Place of Publication:

Burlington [N.J.], : Printed by Isaac Neale, 1792.

Notes:

Written by Arthur Young. Cf. NUC pre-1956.

Second part has special t.p.: The rural Socrates, or, A description of the economical and moral conduct of a country philosopher; written in German by Mr. Hirzel, president of the Physical Society at Zurich. [The country philosopher is Jakob Gouyer, called Kliyogg].

"The rural Socrates" is a translation by Arthur Young of the French version of Hans Kaspar Hirzel's Wirthschaft eines philosphischen Bauers. Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-U⁴ W⁴ X-2N⁴ 2O².

Errors in paging: p. 263, 293 misnumbered 249, 283.

Cited in:

Evans 25061

Morsch, L.M. New Jersey, 183

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1110

ESTC W22052

Contains:

Hirzel, Hans Caspar, 1725-1803. Wirthschaft eines philosphischen Bauers. English.

Rural Socrates

OCLC:

6009017