Systema agriculturae; : the mystery of husbandry discovered. Treating of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices. As also of fruits, corn, grain, pulse, new-hays, cattle, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, fish, &c. With an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession. To which is added Kalendarium rusticum: or, The husbandmans monthly directions. Also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, winds, rain, hail, thunder, &c. and Dictionarium rusticum: or, The interpretation of rustick terms. The whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practice. /
Worlidge, John,active 1669-1698.
Hove, Frederick Hendrick van,1628?-1698,engraver.
Worlidge, John,active 1669-1698.Kalendarium rusticum.
Worlidge, John,active 1669-1698.Dictionarium rusticum.
London, : Printed for Tho. Dring, at the Harrow at the corner of Chancery-Lane in Fleetstreet,
1681..
J.W. = John Worlidge.
The words "gardens, orchards," and corn-lands, ... coppices." are each bracketed together and the words "meadows, pastures," are enclosed in brackets on title page.
With an additional title page (pi2r), engraved and signed: Systema Agriculturae being the mystery of husbandry discovered and laid open by I. W. ... F H Van Houe scul.
Caption title on page 1: Of husbandry and improvements in general; plainly discovering the nature, reasons, and causes of improvements; and the growth of vegetables, &c.
"Kalendarium rusticum" and "Dictionarium rusticum" each have separate dated title page on leaves 2P1r and 2X3r, respectively.
A second part was published in 1689 (Wing W3597A).
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