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Subject Terms Gardening -- Early works to 1800.

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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. 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

3. A sure method of improving estates, by plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber-trees, coppice-woods, &c. : wherein is demonstrated the necessity and advantages thereof : their manner of raising, cultivating, felling, &c., in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improv'd : offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of Great-Britain / by Batty Langley, of Twickenham.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:
[10], xx, 274 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The garden of Cyrus, or, The quincuncial Lozenge, or, Network plantations of the ancients artificially, naturally, mystically consider'd / by Sir Thomas Browne, physician of Norwich.

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Creator:
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605–1682
Date:
MCMXXIII [1923]
Physical Description:
[1], 4-58, [6] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts