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Select essays: containing The manner of raising and dressing flax, and hemp : also, The whole method of bleaching or whitening linen-cloth : likewise, Observations on the management of cows and sheep : The manner of raising radishes, turnips, cabbage, and other such plants : And An enquiry, concerning the materials that may be used in making paper : With valuable dissertations on other useful subjects / collected from the Dictionary of arts and sciences, and from various modern authors.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Phila. Society for Promoting Agriculture Collection S497 .S454 1777
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial arts--Early works to 1800.
- Industrial arts.
- Flax--Early works to 1800.
- Flax.
- Linen--Early works to 1800.
- Linen.
- Agriculture--Early works to 1800.
- Agriculture.
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements.
- Physical Description:
- [8], 159, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- e.to nkto otid byan (7) 1777 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed by Robert Bell, next door to St. Paul's Church, in Third-street, Philadelphia, MDCCLXXVII [1777]
- Notes:
- Half-title: Select essays: on raising and dressing flax and hemp; and on bleaching linen-cloth: with valuable dissertations on other useful subjects.
- "Several of the following essays are translated from a periodical work, published at Paris, under the title of Journal oeconomique; the translation being undertaken by Doctor Tobias Smollett."--Preface.
- Signatures pi⁴ A-O⁴ Q-X⁴ .
- Engraved illustrative plate.
- Errors in pagination: pages 97-104 numbered 79-86.
- Bookseller's advertisements on leaves pi4 and X4v.
- Local Notes:
- PSPA copy imperfect: half-title (leaf pi1) wanting.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture Fund.
- PSPA copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from David M. Lesser.
- PSPA copy disbound.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 15597
- Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1097
- Sabin, 78985
- ESTC W3401
- OCLC:
- 228765655
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