Systema agriculturæ : the mystery of husbandry discovered. Treating of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices. .. . With an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession. To which is added Kalendarium rusticum: or, The husbandmans monthly directions. Also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, winds, rain, hail, thunder, &c. And Dictionarium rusticum: or, The interpretation of rustick terms. The whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practise. The fourth edition carefully corrected and amended, with one whole section added, and many large and useful additions throughout the whole work. By J.W. Gent.
| Author/creator | Worlidge, John |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : printed, and are to be sold by John Taylor, at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard, M DC XCVIII. [1698] |
| Description | [28], 72, 83-262, [3], 264-326, [6] p., [1] leaf of plate : ill. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240858964 |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Systema agriculturæ being the mystery of husbandry discovered and laid open. |
| Variant title | Kalendarium rusticum: or, Monthly directions for the husbandman. |
| Variant title | Monthly directions for the husbandman. |
| Variant title | Dictionarium rusticum; or, The interpretations and significations of several rustick terms used in several places of England. |
| Variant title | Interpretations and significations of several rustick terms used in several places of England. |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | J.W. = John Worlidge. |
| General note | With added engraved title page reading: Systema agriculturæ being the mystery of husbandry discovered and laid open by I.W. |
| General note | "An explanation of the frontispiece" (in verse, printed on verso) is bound before engraved title page. |
| General note | "Kalendarium rusticum: or, Monthly directions for the husbandman" and "Dictionarium rusticum; or, The interpretations and significations of several rustick terms used in several places of England" have separate title pages dated 1687; register and pagination are continuous. |
| General note | Includes index and alphabetical table. |
| General note | Advertisement on verso of final leaf. |
| General note | Text is continuous despite pagination. |
| General note | Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. |
| References | Wing (2nd ed.) W3602A |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1962:22) |
| Stock number | CL0037000076 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |
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