Dictionarium rusticum & urbanicum : or, a dictionary of all sorts of country affairs, handicraft, trading, and merchandizing. : Containing more particularly the whole art of gardening, viz. sowing, setting, grafting, transplanting, salleting, &c. with the names, descriptions, and uses, of all kinds of plants, flowers, and fruits. The raising and ordering of all manner of forest and fruit-trees, and dwarfs. Agriculture in the various parts of it, and the modern improvements made therein. The gentleman's recreation; or the arts of hunting, hawking, fishing, fowling, ferreting, cock-fighting, &c. including (besides the several animals) the tackling, nets, and different instruments used therein. The breeding, feeding, and managing of all sorts of cattle, as also of bees, poultry, and singing-birds; with all their respective diseases, and cures. The preparing of all sorts of English liquors, common eatables and drinkables; with the several parts of country house-wifry. The digging, refining, &c. of minerals; salt, and sugar works; and the arts of making brick, birdlime, gunpowder, shot, &c. Merchandizing, trading, and handicraft terms and instruments. The produce, manufactory &c of the counties of England, and of foreign parts. The ancient customs, and natural rarities of England. Illustrated with cuts of all sorts of nets, traps, engines, &c..
Bailey, N.(Nathan),-1742.
Worlidge, John,active 1669-1698.
London: : Printed for A. and J. Churchill, at the Black-Swan, in Pater-Noster Row, and John Taylor at the ship, in St. Paul's Church-Yard,
1704..
In double columns.
Caption title on p. [11]: Dictionarium rusticum, urbanicum, botanicum, &c., or, a dictionary of husbandry, gardening, trade, commerce, and all sorts of country affairs..
Attributed to Nathan Bailey, also to John Worlidge.
"A catalogue of some of the books made use of in this work": p. [7-9].
A reissue of the 1704 edition printed for J. Nicholson with a new title-page.
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Agriculture