Dictionaire oeconomique, or, The family dictionary
Subtitle: containing the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health ... the most advantageous ways of breeding, feeding, and ordering all sorts of domestick animals ... the different kinds of nets, snares, and engines for taking all sorts of fish, birds, and other game, great variety of rules, directions, and new discoveries relating to gardening ... the best and cheapest ways of providing and improving all manner of meats and drinks ... means of making the most advantage of the manufactures of soap, starch, spinning, cotton, thread, &c., the methods to take or destroy vermin and other animals injurious to gardening ... an account of the several weights, measures, &c. of metals and minerals ... all sorts of rural sports and exercises ... : the whole illustrated throughout with very great variety of figures ...
By: done into English from the second edition, lately printed at Paris ... written by M. Chomel, with considerable alterations and improvements.
Contributors: Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732.; Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
Edition: Revised and recommended by Mr. R. Bradley ...
Publisher: Printed for D. Midwinter ...
Published: 1725
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French -- Early works to 1800.; Agriculture -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.; Industrial arts -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Dictionaire oeconomique.; Dictionnaire oeconomique.; Family dictionary.
Notes: Translation of: Dictionnaire œconomique.
The translator, who is unnamed, died before publication.
Vol. 1: [490] p.; v. 2: [558] p.
Source: Gift of A.W. Bitting, presented in memory of Katherine Golden Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939.
Bitting, K.G.  Gastronomic bib., p. 87
Table of contents: title: v. 1. From A to H; title: v. 2. From H to Z.