Husbandry and trade improv'd
Subtitle: being a collection of many valuable materials relating to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c.; with a complete 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.
By: Now rev., cor., and pub. with a preface and useful indexes, by Richard Bradley ...
Contributors: Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732, ed.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress); Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: Printed for Woodman and Lyon
Published: 1728
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Technology.; Industrial arts -- History.; Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Collection of letters for the improvement of husbandry and trade.
Notes: Vol. IV (without "2d ed." on t.-p.) is a reprint of the author's "A collection of letters for the improvement of husbandry and trade," first published Sept. 8, 1681-June 16, 1683.
"A catalogue of the books in the library of the Royal society, relating to agriculture": v. 4, p. 5-6.