Systema agriculturÆ; 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, &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. The second edition carefully corrected and amended, with many large and useful additions throughout the whole work: by the author. Published for the common good: by J.W. gent.
Worlidge, John,active 1669-1698.
Hove, Frederick Hendrick van,1628?-1698,engraver.
London : printed by J[ames].C[ottrell]. for Thomas Dring, at the Harrow at the corner of Chancery-Lane in Fleetstreet,
1675.
J.W. = John Worlidge
With additional title page (plate), engraved and signed: "Systema agriculturÆ being the mystery of husbandry discovered and laid open by J W. F H Van Hove Scul".
With "An explanation of the frontispiece" bound before engraved title page.
Caption title on p. 1: Of husbandry and improvements in general; plainly discovering the nature, reasons, and causes of improvements; and the growth of vegetables, &c.
"Kalendarium rusticum: or, Monethly directions for the husbandman" and "Dictionarium rusticum; or, The interpretations and significations of several rustick terms used in several places of England" have separate title pages dated 1675; register and pagination are continuous.
Gathered in 4's.
A second part was published in 1689 (Wing W3597A).
Locations:  E  Copy notes: Matched from printed catalog.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),
ESTC
Agriculture