A collection for the improvement of husbandry and trade
Subtitle: Consisting of many valuable materials relating to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c. With a compleat catalogue of the several sorts of earths, and their proper product; the best sorts of manure for each; with the art of draining and flooding of lands; as also full and exact histories of trades, as malting, brewing, &c. the description and structure of instruments for husbandry, and carriages, with the manner of their imrovement; an account of the rivers of England, &c. and how far they may be made navigable; of weights and measures, of woods, cordage, and metals; of building and stowage the vegetation of plants, &c. with many other useful particulars, communicated by several eminent members of the Royal Society, to the collector, John Houghton, F.R.S. Now revised, corrected, and published, with a preface and useful indexes, by Richard Bradley, F.R.S. and professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. In three volumes.
Series: Eighteenth century -- reel 9588, no. 01.
Publisher: printed for Woodman and Lyon in Russel-street, Covent Garden
Published: 1727
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Early works to 1800.; Agriculture -- Animal industry -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: In fact in four volumes: the fourth, dated 1728 and calling itself "Vol. IV" bears the title: 'Husbandry and trade improv'd: being a collection of many valuable materials'.

A collection of papers originally published in periodical form.

Titlepages in red and black.

Goldsmiths', 6508, Hanson 2n

Microfilm. New Haven, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1974. 1 reel ; 35mm. (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature ; reel 398, no. 6508).

Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1997 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 9588, no.01).