An essay towards a natural history of the county of Dublin, : accommodated to the noble designs of the Dublin Society; affording a summary view I. Of its vegetables, with their mechanical and oeconomical uses, and as food for men and cattle; a catalogue of our vegetable poisons; and a botanical kalendar, exhibiting the respective months in which most of the simples in use are found in flower. II. Of its animals. III. Of its soil, and the state of its agriculture; its fossils, mines, minerals, and some lately-discovered mineral waters; particularly the sulphureous water at Lucan, and its medicinal virtues, from practical observations. IV. Of the nature of the climate, from diaries of the weather, kept in Dublin for fifty years past; interspersed with meteorological and oeconomical observations. /
Rutty, John,1698-1775.
Dublin: : Printed by W. Sleater, in Castle-street, for the author.,
1772..
Vol. 2 imprint: Dublin: printed for the author, and sold by W. Sleater in Castle-street, and R. Jackson in Meath-street, 1772.
Pagination: v.1: xiv, 4, 392 p., V folded leaves of plates -- v.2: v, [1], 488 p., [7] folded leaves of plates (tables).
ESTC
Agriculture
Botany
Natural history
Zoology
Ireland Dublin.