Select essays [electronic resource] : containing: The manner of raising and dressing flax, and hemp....
Select essays [electronic resource] : containing: The manner of raising and dressing flax, and hemp. Also, the whole method of bleaching or whitening linen-cloth. Likewise, observations on the management of cows and sheep. The manner of raising radishes, turnips, cabbage, and other such plants. And an enquiry, concerning the materials that may be used in making paper. With, valuable dissertations on other useful subjects. Collected from the Dictionary of arts and sciences, and from various modern authors. [One line in Latin from Virgil, with one line translation].
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Philadelphia : Printed, by Robert Bell, next door to St. Paul's Church, in Third-Street, Philadelphia, M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]
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M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]
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[8], 159, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 8°.
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Philadelphia : Printed, by Robert Bell, next door to St. Paul's Church, in Third-Street, Philadelphia, M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]
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M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]
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Select essays [electronic resource] : containing: The manner of raising and dressing flax, and hemp. Also, the whole method of bleaching or whitening linen-cloth. Likewise, observations on the management of cows and sheep. The manner of raising radishes, turnips, cabbage, and other such plants. And an enquiry, concerning the materials that may be u...
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"Several of the following essays are translated from a periodical work, published at Paris, under the title of Journal oeconomique; the translation being undertaken by Doctor Tobias Smollett .."--Preface.
Bookseller's advertisements, p. [7-8], 1st count, and p. [160].
Error in paging: p. 97-104 misnumbered 79-86.
Reproduction of original from Library of Congress....
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ESTC W3401.
Evans, 15597.
Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1097.
Sabin, 78985.
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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74VKPWaKgGyl
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