Husbandry and trade improv'd
Subtitle: being a collection of many valuable materials relating to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c
By: With a compleat catalogue of the several sorts of earths, and their proper product ... as also full and exact histories of trades, as malting, brewing, &c. ... an account of the rivers of England, &c. and how far they may be made navigable; of weights and measures ... 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
Contributors: Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732, editor
Publisher: Printed for Woodman and Lyon in Russel-Street, Covent Garden
Published: 1727
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
Subjects: Technology; Industrial arts; History; Agriculture; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Collection of letters for the improvement of husbandry and trade.
Notes: The "Collection" was published in weekly folio numbers, of which the first appeared March 30, 1692, and the last (no. 583) on Sept. 24, 1703. Designed by the editor to comprise 19 vols. and growing out of his "Proposal for hte improvement of husbandry and trade," issued in November 1691.--cf. Dict. nat. biog.

Running title: A collection for improvement of husbandry and trade.

"A cataogue of the books in the library of the Royal Society, relating to agriculture": v. 4, p. 5-6.

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