Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Worlidge, John, active 1669-1698
Title:
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.
Alternate Title(s):
Kalendarium rusticum
Published / Created:
London : Printed by T. Johnson for Samuel Speed, near the Inner Temple Gate in Fleet-Street, 1669.
Physical Description:
[32], 278, [6] p. : ill. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Uz52 +669w: 2 p.l. missing; t.p. and 32 p.l. mutilated. Added t.p. missing.
Subject Terms:
Agriculture -- Early works to 1800. | Animal culture -- Early works to 1800. | Speed, Samuel -- Publisher. | Johnson, T. -- Printer. | Jennings, Walter -- Pres. insc. from Walter B. James. | James, Walter B. -- Pres. insc. to Walter Jennings.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- 1669.
Contributors:
Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698, engraver. | Johnson, Thomas, active 1642–1677, printer. | Speed, Samuel, -1681, publisher.