A discourse on agriculture : its antiquity, and importance, to every member of the community, the obligations all are under to encourage it, and the necessity of diffusing a knowledge of its principles, and systematical practice, as the first steps towards its advancement : delivered before the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, at their request, on their annual meeting, the 9th of January, 1816 / by Richard Peters, their president.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Peters, Richard, 1743-1828.

Contributor:

• Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture.
• Johnson & Warner, publisher.
• Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Agriculture.
• Agriculture--United States.
• United States.

Penn Provenance:

• Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture (stamp)

Physical Description:

40 pages ; 22 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Philadephia : Published by Johnson and Warner ..., 1816.

Notes:

• "Published by order of the Society."
• Signatures: [A]² B-E⁴ F².
• Device of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture on t.p.
• "Officers of the Agricultural Society, for the year 1816"--p. [4].
• "The eleventh article of the laws of the Society"--p. [39]-40.
• Errata slip pasted on p. 37.

Local Notes:

No. 1 in a vol. of 20 agriculture pamphlets bound together.

OCLC:

154808649