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The gentleman & farmer's assistant : containing, first, tables for finding the content of any piece of land from dimensions taken in yards : second, tables, shewing the width required for an acre, in any square piece of land, from one to five hundred yards in length : third, tables, shewing the number of loads that will manure an acre of land,by knowing the distance of the heaps : fourth, a table for measuring thatcher's work, from one to sixty four feet long, and from one to twenty five feet high / by John Cullyer.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection S413 .C85 1798
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cullyer, John, author, publisher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Tables--Early works to 1800.
- Agriculture.
- Genre:
- Tables.
- Penn Provenance:
- Phillips, Charles (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)
- Fiske, R. C. (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)
- Palmer, W. (stamp) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- XIX, [1], 124 pages ; 14 cm (12mo)
- Edition:
- The second edition.
- Distribution:
- Norwich ... : Sold by Stevenson and Matchett ; London : By J. Scatcherd, and Champante and Whitrow ..., [1798]
- Fingerprint:
- l.ok s:h, 3420 5040 (3) 1798 (Q)
- Place of Publication:
- Norwich : Printed for the author ..., [1798]
- Notes:
- With a half-title.
- Signatures: a⁶ b⁴ A-K⁶ L².
- Vertical chain-lines.
- The preface is signed in manuscript "John Cullyer" and dated "July 24, 1798."
- "Entered at Stationers Hall."--Half-title leaf.
- "Price 2s. 6d."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy has bookseller's manuscript notes in pencil on front pastedown and front free endpaper; a few early manuscript notes on front free endpaper.
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Antiquates Fine and Rare Books.
- Kislak Center copy has early autograph ("Charles Phillips") on front pastedown; armorial bookplate of R.C. Fiske on front pastedown; stamp ("W*PALMER") on front free endpaper.
- Kislak Center copy has laid in clipping from The gentleman's magazine (1799; page 139) with review of this work.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T131450
- OCLC:
- 940238741
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