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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. [One line in Latin from Virgil, with one line translation].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Flax.
- Industrial arts.
- Linen.
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([8], 159, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates ) ill. ;
- Other Title:
- Select essays
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed, by Robert Bell, next door to St. Paul's Church, in Third-Street, Philadelphia, M,DCC,LXXVII. [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.
- Error in paging: p. 97-104 misnumbered 79-86.
- Bookseller's advertisements, p. [7-8], 1st count, and p. [160].
- Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 15597
- Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1097
- Sabin, 78985
- English Short Title Catalog, W3401.
- OCLC:
- 510881077
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