Tracts on Practical Agriculture and Gardening; With Several Useful Improvements in Stoves and Green-Houses. to Which Is Added a Chronological Catalog

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1773. Excerpt: ... 1480. Bryce, (Hugh.)--The mirrour os the worlde.!' This book, which is a translation from the French, was printed' by Caxton, at the expence of Hugh Bryce, an alderman of London, to be presented to the Lord Chamberlain Hastings. It contains one hundred leaves, and amongst other subjects, enume-rates the following. ' It speketh of nature, how she werketh, ancLwhat fteis: cap. 14. i.partieof the rubrices. - Of the-regyons of Ynde, and of thinges founden there, cap. 4. z parte. ' Of the trees that ben in Ynde, and of theyr fruyu cap. 10. Of the diverfytes that ben in Europe and Aftryce. cap. 14. J-joo.------, ------.--Propertees, and Medcynes for a horse. Wynken de Worde, 4t0. This book and the following were printed before the year 1500, though the exact year I have not been able to ascertain; at the end of it is written the following., And here we snail leve to treate ferthermorf in this sayde mater, whych is dylygently corrected, and made after a fufficyent copy directed unto me by a certen person whyche as hym thought rygt necessary to be knowen to gentlemen, and men of honour, as to servisable and ruslyk people. 1500. Grosshead, (Bishop.)--Treatise of husbandrie, Wynken de Worde, 4to. translated from the French. 1510. Vaughan, (R.)--Water-works, containing the manner of Winter and Summer drowning the meadow and pasture lands. 1516., .--The Grete Herbal. Feter Treveris. 1521. Arnolde, .--The Customes of London, or Ar nolde's Chronicle, sol. In this booke is conteined the names of the baylyfs, custose mayers and Iherefs of the cyte of London, from the tyme of Kynge Richard the fyrst, and also the artycles of the chartour and lybartyes of the fame cyte; and of the chartour and lybartyes of England: with other dyvers maters, good and necessary for ...