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agriculture	3
encyclopedias and dictionaries, french	2
industrial arts	2
home economics	1
cooking, english	1
cooking	1

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People and organisations	Count
Bradley, Richard (1688-1732)	5
Bradley, Richard	2
Chomel, Noel (1632-1712)	2
Varro, Marcus Terentius	1
Virgil	1
Cato, Marcus Porcius (234 B.C.-149 B.C)	1
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus	1

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The country housewife and lady's director, in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of a farm : Containing instructions for managing the brew-house, and malt-liquors in the cellar; the making of wines of all sorts. Directions for the dairy, in the improvement of butter and cheese upon the worst of soils; the feeding and making of brawn; the ordering of fish, fowl, herbs, roots, and all other useful branches belonging to a country-seat, in the most elegant manner for the table. Practical observations concerning distilling; with the best method of making ketchup, and many other curious and durable sauces. The whole distributed in their proper months, from the beginning to the end of the year. With particular remarks relating to the drying or kilning of saffron

Bradley, Richard (1688-1732)

1736

References: Oxford 58, Bitting 55.

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The country housewife, and lady's director, for every month of the year : Both in the frugal management of the house, and in the delights and profits of the farm. Containing the whole art of cookery, laid down in a great variety of the best and cheapest receipts... Likewise the best methods to be observed in brewing malt liquors, and making the several sorts of English wines. The arts of pickling, preserving, confectionary, pastry, &c., &c. Together with a few of the most approved and efficacious medicines, proper to be kept in every private family. Published for the good of the public

Bradley, Richard (1688-1732)

1753

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Dictionaire oeconomique, or, The family dictionary : containing the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health... the most advantageous ways of breeding, feeding, and ordering all sorts of domestick animals ... the different kinds of nets, snares, and engines for taking all sorts of fish, birds, and other game, great variety of rules, directions, and new discoveries relating to gardening ... the best and cheapest ways of providing and improving all manner of meats and drinks ... means of making the most advantage of the manufactures of soap, starch, spinning, cotton, thread, &c., the methods to take or destroy vermin and other animals injurious to gardening ... an account of the several weights, measures, &c. of metals and minerals ... all sorts of rural sports and exercises ... The whole illustrated throughout with very great variety of figures (v.1)

Chomel, Noel (1632-1712); Bradley, Richard (1688-1732)

1725

The translator, who is unnamed, died before publication. Vol. 1: [490] p.; v. 2: [558] p.

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Dictionaire oeconomique, or, The family dictionary : containing the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health... the most advantageous ways of breeding, feeding, and ordering all sorts of domestick animals ... the different kinds of nets, snares, and engines for taking all sorts of fish, birds, and other game, great variety of rules, directions, and new discoveries relating to gardening ... the best and cheapest ways of providing and improving all manner of meats and drinks ... means of making the most advantage of the manufactures of soap, starch, spinning, cotton, thread, &c., the methods to take or destroy vermin and other animals injurious to gardening ... an account of the several weights, measures, &c. of metals and minerals ... all sorts of rural sports and exercises ... The whole illustrated throughout with very great variety of figures (v.2)

Chomel, Noel (1632-1712); Bradley, Richard (1688-1732)

1725

The translator, who is unnamed, died before publication. Vol. 1: [490] p.; v. 2: [558] p.

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A survey of the ancient husbandry and gardening : collected from Cato, Varro, Columella, Virgil, and others the most eminent writers among the Greeks and Romans: wherein many of the most difficult passages in those authors are explain'd, and the whole render'd familiar to our climate; with variety of new experiments. Adorn'd with cuts. With a preface, shewing the use of husbandry, and the necessity of erecting publick gardens

Bradley, Richard (1688-1732); Varro, Marcus Terentius; Cato, Marcus Porcius (234 B.C.-149 B.C); Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus; Virgil

1725