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1. Ichnographia rustica, or, The nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation : containing directions for the surveying and distributing of a country-seat into rural and extensive gardens, by the ornamenting and decoration of distant prospects, farms, parks, paddocks, &c. : originaly calculated ... for the embellishment of countries in general; as als for an introduction to a general system of agriculture and planting / by Stephen Switzer.

Ichnographia rustica, or, The nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation : containing directions for the surveying and distributing of a country-seat into rural and extensive gardens, by the ornamenting and decoration of distant prospects, farms, parks, paddocks, &c. : originaly calculated ... for the embellishment of countries in general; as als for an introduction to a general system of agriculture and planting / by Stephen Switzer.

Creator:: Switzer, Stephen, 1682?-1745
Date:: 1742
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Campania fœlix, or, A discourse of the benefits and improvements of husbandry : containing directions for all manner of tillage, pasturage, and plantation : as also for the making of cyder and perry : with some considerations upon I. Justices of the peace, and inferior officers. II. On inns and alehouses. III. On servants and labourers. IV. On the poor : to which are added, two essays: I. Of a country-house. II. Of the fuel of London / by Tim. Nourse ...

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Creator:: Nourse, Timothy, d. 1699
Date:: 1700
Physical Description:: 6, 354 (i.e. 366) p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The gentleman and farmer's guide for increase and improvement of cattle : viz. lambs, sheep, hogs; calves, cows, oxen. Also the best manner of breeding, and breaking horses, both for sport and burden: with an account of their respective distempers, and the most approved medicines for the cure of them. Also some observations on the many benefits of the woollen manufactures of Great-Britain, and the great advantages arising from hides, tallow, &c. Illustrated with copper plates / by R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S.

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Creator:: Bradley, Richard, 1688–1732
Date:: 1732
Physical Description:: [4], iv, [10], 352 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Markhams farewell to husbandry, or, The enriching of all sorts of barren and sterile grounds in our nation, : to be as fruitfull in all manner of graine, pulse and grasse, as the best grounds whatsoever. Together with the annoyances, and preservation of all graine and seed, from one yeare to many yeares. As also, a husbandly computation of men and cattels dayly labours, their expences, charges, and utmost profits ... For the bettering of arable, pasture, and woody grounds: of making good all grounds againe, spoyled with ever-flowing of salt water by sea-branches; as also, the enriching of the hop-garde, and many other things never published before. / By G.M.

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Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1653
Physical Description:: [6], 126, [4] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Systema agriculturae, the mystery of husbandry discovered : wherein is treated of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling planting sowing manuring ordering improving all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods, & coppices, and of all sorts of fruits, corn, grain, pulse, new hays, cattel, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, &c. : with an account of the several instruments and engines useful in this profession : to which is added, Kalendarium rusticum, or, The husbandmans monethly directions : also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, windes, rain, hail, thunder, &c. : and Dictionarium rusticum, or, The interpretation of rustick terms / published for the common good, by J. W. gent. ; the whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practice.

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Creator:: Worlidge, John, fl. 1669–1698
Date:: 1669
Physical Description:: [32], 278, [6] p. : ill. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The gentleman's recreations : in three parts : the first part contains a short and easie introduction to all the liberal arts and sciences, &c. : the second treats of horsemanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, agriculture, &c. : done from the most authentick authors, especially several lately printed at Paris, as may be seen in the preface; with great enlargements, made by those well experienced in the respective recreations. : the third is a complete body of all our forest, chace, and game-laws, as they are at this time. : the whole illustrated with near an hundred copper-cuts relating to the several subjects, particularly all sorts of nets, engines, traps, &c. are added for the taking of wild beasts, fowl, fish, &c. not hitherto publish'd by any.

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Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: 1709-1710
Physical Description:: 3 v. in 1 : ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. De agricultura vulgare / Piero Crescentio.

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Creator:: Crescenzi, Pietro de', approximately 1233–approximately 1320
Date:: die nono mẽsis Iulii anno dñi M.D.XIX [9 July 1519]
Physical Description:: 235 (i.e. 234), [6] leaves : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Marci Catonis Prisci de re rustica liber.

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Date:: [1472]
Physical Description:: [302] leaves ; 34 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The English husbandman / Gervase Markham.

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Creator:: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: 205 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

10. Campania foelix / Timothy Nourse.

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Creator:: Nourse, Timothy, d. 1699
Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: 354 [i.e. 366] p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

11. On agriculture / with a recension of the text and an English translation by Harrison Boyd Ash.

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Creator:: Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus
Date:: 1941-1955
Physical Description:: 3 v. 17 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

12. Marcus Porcius Cato, On agriculture; Marcus Terentius Varro, On agriculture; with an English translation by William Davis Hooper ... revised by Harrison Boyd Ash.

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Creator:: Cato, Marcus Porcius, 234 B.C.-149 B.C
Date:: 1954
Physical Description:: xxv, 542 p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library