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The rural Socrates, or, An account of a celebrated philosophical farmer : lately living in Switzerland, and known by the name of Kliyogg.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Phila. Society for Promoting Agriculture Collection S417.G7 H613 1800
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hirzel, Hans Caspar, 1725-1803.
- Standardized Title:
- Wirthschaft eines philosophischen Bauers. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Gujer, Jakob, 1716-1785.
- Gujer, Jakob.
- Agriculture--Switzerland.
- Agriculture.
- Switzerland.
- Penn Provenance:
- Woodward, Arthur (autograph)(RBC copy)
- Showell, Joseph D. (inscription)(RBC copy)
- Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture (inscription, 1825)(PSPA copy)
- Vaughan, [illegible](inscription, 1825)(PSPA copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 203, xiii pages ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Rural Socrates
- Account of a celebrated philosophical farmer
- Place of Publication:
- Hallowell (District of Maine) : Printed by Peter Edes, and sold by the booksellers in the principal towns of the United States, 1800.
- Notes:
- A memoir of Jacob Gouyer, called Kliyogg. Cf. Pref.
- Attributed to Hirzel in the preface. This edition is based upon Arthur Young's translation from the French, edited and augmented from the original German by Benjamin Vaughan.
- Signatures: [a]⁴ b⁴ A-U⁴ W⁴ X-2C⁴.
- "Additions and corrections"--p. [1]-[4], 2nd count.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- A translation of Hans Kaspar Hirzel's Wirthschaft eines philosophischen Bauers; based on Arthur Young's version of the French translation.
- Cited in:
- Evans 38923
- Evans 37617
- Noyes, R.W. Maine, 182
- ESTC W29080
- Sabin 74176
- OCLC:
- 6595182
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