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Rare Books: Agriculture

Descriptions of the University of Manitoba's Rare Books Collection as well as educational resources available to those studying related fields.

Agriculture

Creator / Imprint Title Call Number
Young, Arthur, (London : Published for W Strahan et al 1770.) A six month tour through the north of England : containing an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several counties of this kingdom ... : Interspersed with descriptions of the seats of the nobility and gentry; and other remarkable objects / [Arthur Young]. S 455 Y7 v.1-4
Loudon, J. C. (London : Longmans, Green, 1869.) An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements ; a general history of agriculture in all countries ; a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles ; and Supplements bringing down the work to the year 1844 / by J.C. Loudon. S493 .L88 1869
Liger, Louis, (Paris : Desaint, 1772.) La nouvelle maison rustique S515 .L72 1777
Pellet, Pierre, (Geneve, P Pellet, 1764.) Recueil de pieces oeconomiques, et autres, curieuses et utiles. S515 .R4
Menon de Turbilly, Louis-François-Henri, (Paris, d'Houry, 1761.) Pratique des defrichemens. S604 .T87 1761

Horticulture. Plant propagation. Plant breeding

Creator / Imprint Title Call Number
Locke, John, (London : W Sandby, 1766.) Observations upon the growth and culture of vines and olives : the production of silk : the preservation of fruits / written at the request of the Earl of Shaftesbury, to whom it is inscribed, by John Locke. SB393 .L75 1766
Laurence, John, (London : Bernard Lintott, between the two Temple-Gates, in Fleet Street, 1716.) The Clergy-man's recreation : shewing the pleasure and profit of the art of gardening / by John Lawrence. SB453.3.G7 L38 1716
Switzer, Stephen, (London : Thomas Woodward at the Half-Moon over against St Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, 1731.) The practical fruit-gardener : being the newest and best method of raising, planting and pruning all sorts of fruit-trees, agreeably to the experience and practice of the most eminent gardeners and nurserymen / by Stephen Spitzer ; revised and recommended by the Reverend Mr. Laurence and Mr. Bradley. SB556 .S8 1731
Eggert Ólafsson, ([Copenhagen] : Prentat i Kaupmannahöfn hja AF Stein, 1774.) Stutt agrip ur Lachanologia, eða, Mat-urta-bok, fyrrum vice-lögmannsins hr. Eggerts Olafs sonar um garð-yrkju a Islandi : fra þvi sæðit fyrst fer i jörðina, til þess alldinit verðr a borð borit : þar segir og um allskonar hulldu-groda, krydd-urtir, og flesta villi-vexti her innlenda, hversu brukaz kunni, so sem eru : ber, rætur, sveppar, fiallagraus, og annat fleira / af þeim excerptis sem author leifði eptir sig, i eitt safnat af sira Birni Halldors syni ... enn siðan at hanns og vice-lögmannsinns Magnusar Olafs sonar tilhlutan prentat i Kavpmanna-hofn. SB87.I3 O4
Olavius, Ólafur, (Kaupmannahøfn : sn, 1770) Islendsk Urtagards Bok : Søfnud og samannteken Bændum og Alþydu aa Islande til reynslu og nota / af Olafe Olafssyne, Philosophiæ Baccalaureo. SB87.I3 O42 1770
Mawe, Thomas. (London : William Griffin, at Garrick's Head, in Catharine-Street, Strand, 1773.) Every man his own gardener : being a new, and much more complete gardener's kalendar than any other hitherto published : containing, not only an account of what work is necessary to be done in the hot-house, green-house, shrubbery, kitchen, flower and fruit gardens for every month in the year : but, also ample directions for performing the said work, according to the newest and most approved methods now in practice among the best gardeners : in this edition, particular directions are given with respect to soil and situation : and to the whole is added, complete and useful lists of forest trees, flowering shrubs, fruit trees, evergreens, annual, biennial, and perennial flowers, hot-house, green-house, and kitchen garden plants, with the varieties of each sort, cultivated in the English garden / by Thomas Mawe, gardener to His Grace the Duke of Leeds, and other gardeners. SB97 .A3 1773
Mawe, Thomas. (London : London J F and C Rivington, S Crowder, B Law, T Lowndes, G Robinson, T Cadell, T Evans, W Goldsmith, R Baldwin, and E Newbery, [ca. 1780].) Every man his own gardener : Being a new, and much more complete gardener's kalendar than any one hitherto published, containing not only an account of what work is necessary to be done in the kitchen and fruit garden, pleasure ground, flower garden and shrubbery ; nursery, green-house, and hot-house, for every month in the year, but also ample directions for performing the said work, according to the newest and most improved methods now in practice among the best gardeners. With complete practical directions for forcing all kinds of choice plants, flowers, and fruits, to early perfection, in hot-beds, hot-houses, forcing-frames, forcing-houses, vineries, etc. And to the whole is added, complete and useful lists of kitchen garden plants, fruit trees, forest trees, flowering shrubs, evergreens, annual, biennial, and perennial fibrous-rooted flowers, bulbous and tubrous-rooted flowers, green-house and hot-house plants, proper for cultivation in the English gardens and plantations / by By Thomas Mawe, ...John Abercrombie, ... and other gardeners. SB97 .A3 1780
Hill, John, (London, Eng. : T Osborne, T Trye, S Crowder, H Woodgate, 1757.) Eden, or, A compleat body of gardening, containing plain and familiar directions for raising the several useful products of a garden, fruits, roots, and herbage; from the practice of the most successful gardeners, and the result of long experience ... / compiled and digested from the papers of the late celebrated Mr. Hale, by the authors of the Compleat body of husbandry... SB97 .H28 1757

Forestry. Arboriculture. Silviculture

Creator / Imprint Title Call Number
Evelyn, John, (York, J Dodsley, 1786.) Silva : or, A discourse of forest-trees and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions as it was delivered in the Royal Society on the 15th day of October, 1662 ... together with an historical account of the sacredness and use of standing groves / by John Evelyn ; with notes by A. Hunter. SD391 .E93 1786

Animal husbandry. Animal science

Creator / Imprint Title Call Number
Wallis, Thomas (Dublin : James Williams, 1766.) The farrier's and horseman's complete dictionary : containing the art of farriery in all its branches : with whatever relates to the manage, and to the knowledge, breeding, feeding, and dieting of horses : as delivered by Newcastle, Bracken, Gibson, La Fosse, Bartlett, Burdon, Markham, Solleysell, Guillet, Wood, Reeves, Snape, and others, the best writers upon these subjects / by Thomas Wallis. SF278 .W355 1766