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A treatise of buggs : shewing when and how they were first brought into England, how they are brough...

A treatise of buggs : shewing when and how they were first brought into England, how they are brough...

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVEaXm50X

A treatise of buggs : shewing when and how they were first brought into England, how they are brought into and infect houses, their nature, several foods, times and manner of spawning and propagating in this climate, their great increase accounted for, by proof of the numbers each pair produce in a season, reasons given why all attempts hitherto made for their destruction have proved ineffectual, vulgar errors concerning them refuted, that from September to March is the best season for their total desctruction, demonstrated by reason and proved by facts : concluding with directions for such as have them not already, how to avoid them, and for those that have them, how to destroy them / by John Southall, maker of the nonpareil liquor for destroying buggs and nits, living at the Green Posts in the Green Walk near Faulcon-stairs, Southwark.

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A treatise of buggs : shewing when and how they were first brought into England, how they are brought into and infect houses, their nature, several foods, times and manner of spawning and propagating in this climate, their great increase accounted for, by proof of the numbers each pair produce in a season, reasons given why all attempts hitherto made for their destruction have proved ineffectual, vulgar errors concerning them refuted, that from September to March is the best season for their total desctruction, demonstrated by reason and proved by facts : concluding with directions for such as have them not already, how to avoid them, and for those that have them, how to destroy them / by John Southall, maker of the nonpareil liquor for destroying buggs and nits, living at the Green Posts in the Green Walk near Faulcon-stairs, Southwark.

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Publisher

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1730]

London : Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1730.

Record Identifier

74VKVEaXm50X

MMS ID

991024131228702626

Language

English

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Physical content

1 online resource (xii, 44 pages) : illustrations.

Content type

text

Media type

computer

Carrier type

online resource

Publication information

Publisher

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1730]

London : Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1730.

Edition

Second edition.

Date Published

[1730]

1730.

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Full title

A treatise of buggs : shewing when and how they were first brought into England, how they are brought into and infect houses, their nature, several foods, times and manner of spawning and propagating in this climate, their great increase accounted for, by proof of the numbers each pair produce in a season, reasons given why all attempts hitherto ma...

Notes

General note

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, Part II

Engraved frontispiece signed: G. VanderGucht, sculp.

Advertisements on [3] p. at end; last p. blank.

Head- and tailpieces; initials.

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.

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Record Identifier

74VKVEaXm50X

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVEaXm50X

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MMS ID

991024131228702626