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    A catalogue of a very large and fine collection of valuable books : in all arts, sciences and languages; Among which is contained the Library of the late Thomas Morell, D. D. Rector of Buckland, in Hertfordshire, and F. S. S. R. and A. Editor of Ainsworth's Dictionary, Hederici Lexicon Graecum, &c. With several other Libraries and Parcels of Books, lately purchased; Which will be sold very reasonable, the lowest Prices marked in the Catalogue, By Leigh and Sotheby, Booksellers, At their House, in York-Street, Covent-Garden. Beginning January 1, 1785. Catalogues to be had of the following Booksellers, Mr. Beckett, Pall Mall; Mr. Robson's, Bond-Street; Mr. Walter's, Charing Cross; Mr. Owen's, Temple Bar; Mr. Sewel's, in Cornhill; and at the Place of Sale. - Where is given the full Value for Libraries and Parcels of Books
    Published 1784

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  2. 122
    The husbandmans plea against tithes. Or, Two petitions presented unto the House of Commons assembled in Parliament : by divers freeholders, and other freemen of Hertfordshire, with the parts adjacent of Bedford and Buckinghamshires for the taking away of tithes. And the matter of the said petitions is reduced unto two propositions, or generall heads, and reasons to confirm them. And also the said petitioners answers unto certain objections made by the ministers and impropriators that would continue tithes upon the husbandman. Published by some of the said petitioners whose names are set down in the latter end of this book, for the vindication of themselves and their fellows, from the reproach cast upon them by the writer of a book, intituled, Plain English, &c. Printed 1646. And the reproach cast upon them by the author of another book, intituled, Tithes re-mounted, &c
    Published 1647

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  3. 123
    The true relation of a wonderfull and strange passage that was lately like to befall certaine souldiers at St. Albans in Hartfordshire, and how by the providence of God they escaped on both sides without any hurt or danger: together with the true relation how Sir John Winter a recusant inhabiting in the forrest of Deane made a wicked assault on certaine souldiers that were commanded to search his house with the store of ammunition was found therein : also Colonell Mericks brave exploit at Portsmouth
    Published 1642
    “...St. Albans (Hertfordshire) History...”

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  4. 124
    The privilege and duty of communion with God : considered in a circular letter from the Baptist ministers and messengers, Assembled at Spalding, June 2, 3, and 4, 1789: Maintaining inviolably the important doctrines of three equal Persons in the Godhead; eternal and personal Election; original Sin; particular Redemption; free Justification by the imputed Righteousness of Christ; efficacious Grace in Regeneration; the final Perseverance of the Saints; the Resurrection of the Dead; the future Judgment; and the Life everlasting; with the congregational Order of the Churches of Christ. To the several Churches they represent, or have received Letters from, meeting at Codnor, in Derbyshire; Sutton-Ashfield and Nottingham, in Nottinghamshire; Sheepshead, Leicester, Sutton-in-The-Elms, and Arnsby, in Leicestershire; Oakham, in Rutland; Clipstone, Guilsborough, Gretton, Kettering, Walgrave, Moulton, Northampton, and Road, in Northamptonshire; Olney, in Buckinghamshire; Carlton and Thorn, in Bedfordshire; St. Alban's, in Hertfordshire; Spalding, in Lincolnshire; and Soham, in Cambridgeshire
    The privilege and duty of communion with God : considered in a circular letter from the Baptist ministers and messengers, Assembled at Spalding, June 2, 3, and 4, 1789: Maintaining inviolably the important doctrines of three equal Persons in the Godhead; eternal and personal Election; original Sin; particular Redemption; free Justification by the imputed Righteousness of Christ; efficacious Grace in Regeneration; the final Perseverance of the Saints; the Resurrection of the Dead; the future Judgment; and the Life everlasting; with the congregational Order of the Churches of Christ. To the several Churches they represent, or have received Letters from, meeting at Codnor, in Derbyshire; Sutton-Ashfield and Nottingham, in Nottinghamshire; Sheepshead, Leicester, Sutton-in-The-Elms, and Arnsby, in Leicestershire; Oakham, in Rutland; Clipstone, Guilsborough, Gretton, Kettering, Walgrave, Moulton, Northampton, and Road, in Northamptonshire; Olney, in Buckinghamshire; Carlton and Thorn, in Bedfordshire; St. Alban's, in Hertfordshire; Spalding...
    Published 1789

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  5. 125
    The complete planter and cyderist : Or, a New Method of Planting Cyder-Apple, and Perry-Pear-Trees; and the Most approved Ways of Making Cyder. In two parts. Part I. Shewing, among other Particulars, how thousands of Acres on the Sides of barren Hills and other waste Grounds, may be converted into fruitful Orchards at a small Expence. How Apple and Pear Trees may be made to grow to Perfection in half the usual Time. How to manage an Orchard that it shall never miss bearing, &c. Part II. How to make Cyder and Perry various Ways, as practised in Devonshire and Herefordshire, &c. How to distil Cyder Spirits; with a Proposal for making a strong bodied Cyder, as a noble Antiscorbutic for the Service of his Majesty's Navy, &c. By William Ellis, Of Little-Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, Author of several Treatises on Husbandry, &c
    The complete planter and cyderist : Or, a New Method of Planting Cyder-Apple, and Perry-Pear-Trees; and the Most approved Ways of Making Cyder. In two parts. Part I. Shewing, among other Particulars, how thousands of Acres on the Sides of barren Hills and other waste Grounds, may be converted into fruitful Orchards at a small Expence. How Apple and Pear Trees may be made to grow to Perfection in half the usual Time. How to manage an Orchard that it shall never miss bearing, &c. Part II. How to make Cyder and Perry various Ways, as practised in Devonshire and Herefordshire, &c. How to distil Cyder Spirits; with a Proposal for making a strong bodied Cyder, as a noble Antiscorbutic for the Service of his Majesty's Navy, &c. By William Ellis, Of Little-Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, Author of several Treatises...

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  6. 126
    The Husbandmans Plea Against Tithes. Or, Two Petitions presented unto the House of Commons Assembled in Parliament: By divers Freeholders, and other Freemen of the County of Hertfordshire, with the parts adjacent of Bedford aud Buckinghamshires for the taking away of Tithes. And the matter of the said Petitions is reduced unto two Propositions, or generall Heads, and Reasons to confirm them. And also the said Petitioners Answers unto certain Objections made by the Ministers and Impropriators that would continue Tithes upon the Husbandman. Published by some of the said Petitioners whose Names are set down in the latter end of this Book, for the Vindication of themselves and their Fellows, from the reproach cast upon them by a Writer of a Book, intituled, Plain English, &c. Printed 1646. And the reproach cast upon them by the Author of another Book, intituled, Tithes Re-mounted, &c. ... (3 lines)
    Published 1647

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  7. 127
    The art of making wines from fruits, flowers, and herbs, all the native growth of Great Britain. : Particularly of grapes, goosberries, currants, rasberries, mulberries, elder berries, blackberries, strawberries, dewberries, apples, pears, cherries, peaches, apricots, quinces, plumbs, damascens, figs, roses, cowstips, scurvy-grass, mint, baum, birch, orange, sage, turnip, cyprus wine imitated, gilliflower, mead, &c. &c. &c. With a succinct account of their medicinal virtues, and the most approved receipts for making raisin wine. The whole comprehending many secrets relative to the mystery of vintners never before made public; shewing not only how to previous accidents to which all wines are liable, but absolutely to restore those that are actually tainted, and give them the most agreeable flavour. To which is now added, the complete method of distilling, pickling, and preserving. The eighth edition. Revised, corrected, and greatly enlarged, by William Graham, late of Ware in Hertfordshire
    The art of making wines from fruits, flowers, and herbs, all the native growth of Great Britain. : Particularly of grapes, goosberries, currants, rasberries, mulberries, elder berries, blackberries, strawberries, dewberries, apples, pears, cherries, peaches, apricots, quinces, plumbs, damascens, figs, roses, cowstips, scurvy-grass, mint, baum, birch, orange, sage, turnip, cyprus wine imitated, gilliflower, mead, &c. &c. &c. With a succinct account of their medicinal virtues, and the most approved receipts for making raisin wine. The whole comprehending many secrets relative to the mystery of vintners never before made public; shewing not only how to previous accidents to which all wines are liable, but absolutely to restore those that are actually tainted, and give them the most agreeable flavour. To which is now added, the complete method of distilling, pickling, and preserving. The eighth edition. Revised, corrected, and greatly enlarged, by William Graham, late of Ware in Hertfordshire

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  8. 128
    The copie of three petitions as they were presented to the Honourable, the Commons assembled in Parliament, September 14th. and 15th. 1647. : 1. From, the county of Bucks, against two great oppressions, viz. Tythes, and free-quarter. 2. From the county of Oxford. 3. From Oxford, Bucks, and Hertford, for purging the great Fountain of Justice: that at last, justice might run down the land like a stream, to wash away the pollutions thereof
    Published 1647
    “...Hertfordshire (England) History Early works to 1800...”

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  9. 129
    The art of making wines from fruits, flowers, and herbs, all the native growth of Great Britain. : Particularly of grapes, goosberries, currants, rasberries, mulberries, elder berries, blackberries, strawberries. dewberries, apples, pears, cherries, peaches, apricots, quinces, plums, damaseens, figs, roses, cowslips, scurvy grass, mint, baum, birch, orange, sage, turnip, cyprus wine, imitated, gilliflower, mead, &c. &c. &c. &c. With a succint account of their medicinal virtues, and the most approved receipts for making raisin wine. The whole comprehending many secrets relative to the mystery of vintners, never before made public; shewing not only how to prevent those accidents to which all wines are liable, but absolutely to retrieve those that are actually tainted, and give them the most agreeable flavour. To which is now added, the complete method of distilling, pickling, and preserving. A new edition. Revised, corrected, and greatly enlarged, by William Graham, late of ware in Hertfordshire
    The art of making wines from fruits, flowers, and herbs, all the native growth of Great Britain. : Particularly of grapes, goosberries, currants, rasberries, mulberries, elder berries, blackberries, strawberries. dewberries, apples, pears, cherries, peaches, apricots, quinces, plums, damaseens, figs, roses, cowslips, scurvy grass, mint, baum, birch, orange, sage, turnip, cyprus wine, imitated, gilliflower, mead, &c. &c. &c. &c. With a succint account of their medicinal virtues, and the most approved receipts for making raisin wine. The whole comprehending many secrets relative to the mystery of vintners, never before made public; shewing not only how to prevent those accidents to which all wines are liable, but absolutely to retrieve those that are actually tainted, and give them the most agreeable flavour. To which is now added, the complete method of distilling, pickling, and preserving. A new edition. Revised, corrected, and greatly enlarged, by William Graham, late of ware in Hertfordshire

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  10. 130
    Bibliotheca Warburtoniana : a catalogue of the entire library of printed books and manuscripts of the late John Warburton, Esq; Somerset Herald, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquary Societies; Editor of the large and distinct Maps of Yorkshire, Northumberland, Middlesex, Essex and Hertfordshire, from actual Surveys; Author of Vallum Romanum, London and Middlesex illustrated, &c. Deceased. Containing a valuable Collection in Manuscript and Print, towards a particular History, Natural, Ecclesiastical and Civil, of every County in England; together with a great ... of Original Visitations, Pedigrees, Ordinaries, .. Grants, and Alphabets of Arms, and other Heraldical Manuscripts: Also his Collection of Prints, Copper Plates, Coins, and other Curiosities. Which will be sold by Auction, By Samuel Paterson, At Essex House, in Essex-Street, in the Strand; On Monday the 19th of November 1759, and the five following Evenings, To begin each Evening precisely at Six O'Clock. The whole may be viewed on Monday the 5th of November, and (sundays excepted) to the Time of Sale
    by Paterson, Samuel, 1728-1802
    Published 1759

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  11. 131
    The art of making wines from fruits, flowers, and herbs, all the native growth of Great Britain. : Particularly of grapes, goosberries, [c]urrants, [r]asberries, [m]ulberries, [e]lder berries [b]lackberries, [s]trawberries, dewberries, apples, pears, cherries, peaches, apricots, quinces, plumbs, damascens, figs, roses, cowslips, scurvy grass, mint, baum, birch, orange, sage, turnip, cyprus wine, imitated, gilliflower, mead, &c. &c. &c. &c. With a succinct account of their medicinal virtues, and the most approved receipts for making raisin wine. To whole comprehending many secrets relative to the mystery of vintners, never before made public; showing not only how to prevent those accidents to which all wine are liable, but absolutely to [retrie]ve those that are actually tainted, and give them the most agreeable flavour. To which is now added, the complete method of distilling, pickling, and preserving. A new edition. Revised, corrected, and greatly enlarged, by William Graham, late of ware in Hertfordshire
    The art of making wines from fruits, flowers, and herbs, all the native growth of Great Britain. : Particularly of grapes, goosberries, [c]urrants, [r]asberries, [m]ulberries, [e]lder berries [b]lackberries, [s]trawberries, dewberries, apples, pears, cherries, peaches, apricots, quinces, plumbs, damascens, figs, roses, cowslips, scurvy grass, mint, baum, birch, orange, sage, turnip, cyprus wine, imitated, gilliflower, mead, &c. &c. &c. &c. With a succinct account of their medicinal virtues, and the most approved receipts for making raisin wine. To whole comprehending many secrets relative to the mystery of vintners, never before made public; showing not only how to prevent those accidents to which all wine are liable, but absolutely to [retrie]ve those that are actually tainted, and give them the most agreeable flavour. To which is now added, the complete method of distilling, pickling, and preserving. A new edition. Revised, corrected, and greatly enlarged, by William Graham, late of ware in Hertfordshire

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  12. 132
    The farmer's instructor : or, the husbandman and gardener's useful and necessary companion. Being a new treatise of husbandry, gardening, and other curious matters relating to country affairs. Containing A Plain and Practical Method of improving all Sorts of Meadow, Pasture, and Arable Land, &c. and making them produce greater Crops of all Kinds, and at much less than the present Expence. With Many New, Useful, and Curious Improvements, never before Published. First begun by Samuel Trowell, gent. and now compleated with a Supplement to every Chapter on Husbandry; giving an Account how poor Land, not worth above Five Shillings an Acre, may be made to bear as good Crops of Grain, Grass, &c. as the richest, after a very cheap Manner of Performance, by the Use of a New-Invented Excellent Four-Wheel Drill-Plough, which carries on it a Seed-Hopper and a Manure-Hopper, with a little Harrow; all which are so light, that a Man may easily draw it. By William Ellis, Farmer, At Little-Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire
    The farmer's instructor : or, the husbandman and gardener's useful and necessary companion. Being a new treatise of husbandry, gardening, and other curious matters relating to country affairs. Containing A Plain and Practical Method of improving all Sorts of Meadow, Pasture, and Arable Land, &c. and making them produce greater Crops of all Kinds, and at much less than the present Expence. With Many New, Useful, and Curious Improvements, never before Published. First begun by Samuel Trowell, gent. and now compleated with a Supplement to every Chapter on Husbandry; giving an Account how poor Land, not worth above Five Shillings an Acre, may be made to bear as good Crops of Grain, Grass, &c. as the richest, after a very cheap Manner of Performance, by the Use of a New-Invented Excellent Four-Wheel Drill-Plough, which carries on it a Seed-Hopper and a Manure-Hopper, with a little Harrow; all which are so light, that a Man may easily draw it. By William Ellis, Farmer, At Little-Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire

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  13. 133
    The timber tree improved: or, The best practical methods of improving different lands with proper timber. : And those fruit trees whose woods make the most profitable returns to their owners, according to the newest inventions, by the plough, harrow, and other methods most approved of. Containing, I. Seven different ways of improving the oak, with remarks on the same. II. The nature and improvement of the beech. III. To raise a beech wood from seeds and sets. IV. Transplanting large beeches. V. To raise a beech hedge by seeds or sets. VI. Of the nature and improvements of the elm, witch elm, ash, pollard ash, ashen stems, standard ash, walnut, black cherry. VII. Reasons humbly offered for the common use of the black cherry. VIII. Of the horn bean, or horn beech, lime tree, horse chesnut, maple, hazel, firt tree, sycamore, sallow, aps, whitewood, poplar and abel, alder, withy and willow, oziers, white elder, pear tree, &c. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesdon, near Heamstead, in Hertfordshire
    The timber tree improved: or, The best practical methods of improving different lands with proper timber. : And those fruit trees whose woods make the most profitable returns to their owners, according to the newest inventions, by the plough, harrow, and other methods most approved of. Containing, I. Seven different ways of improving the oak, with remarks on the same. II. The nature and improvement of the beech. III. To raise a beech wood from seeds and sets. IV. Transplanting large beeches. V. To raise a beech hedge by seeds or sets. VI. Of the nature and improvements of the elm, witch elm, ash, pollard ash, ashen stems, standard ash, walnut, black cherry. VII. Reasons humbly offered for the common use of the black cherry. VIII. Of the horn bean, or horn beech, lime tree, horse chesnut, maple, hazel, firt tree, sycamore, sallow, aps, whitewood, poplar and abel, alder, withy and willow, oziers, white elder, pear tree, &c. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesdon, near Heamstead, in Hertfordshire

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  14. 134
    To the Right Hounourable the supreame authority of the Common-wealth of England in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of divers free-holders and other inhabitants in the county of Hartford
    Published 1659
    “...Hertfordshire (England) History 17th century Early works to 1800...”

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  15. 135
    Fifty six new and acurate maps of Great Britain, Ireland and Wales : With all the direct and cross roads exactly tracted in the maps, which are more full and exact than any extant, having all the cities, Parliament and market towns, villages, parks, hundreds, wapentacks, &c. distinguish'd. Begun by Mr. Morden: perfected, corrected and enlarg'd by Mr. Moll. The name of the maps, 1 The S. part of G. Britain. 2 The N. part of G. Britain. 3 Ireland. 4 Berkshire. 5 Bedfordshire. 6 Buckinghamshire. 7 Cambridgeshire. 8 Cheshire. 9 Cornwall 10 Cumberland. 11 Derbyshire. 12 Devonshire. 13 Dorsetshire. 14 Durham. 15 Essex. 16 Glocestershire. 17 Hampshire. 18 Isles of Wight, Jersey, Guernsey, Seilly, Sark, Alderney, Man, &c. 19 Herefordshire. 20 Hertfordshire. 21 Huntingdonshire. 22 Kent. 23 Lancashire. 24 Leicestershire. 25 Lincolnshire. 26 Middlesex. 27 Monmouthshire. 28 Norfolk. 29 Northamptonshire. 30 Northumberland. 31 Nottinghamshire. 32 Oxfordshire. 33 Rutlandshire. 34 Shropshire 35 Somersetshire 36 Surrey. 37 Sussex. 38 Staffordshire. 39 Suffolk. 40 Warwickshire. 41 Westmorland. 42 Wiltshire. 43 Worcestershire. 44 Yorkshire. Wales. 45 Anglesey
    Fifty six new and acurate maps of Great Britain, Ireland and Wales : With all the direct and cross roads exactly tracted in the maps, which are more full and exact than any extant, having all the cities, Parliament and market towns, villages, parks, hundreds, wapentacks, &c. distinguish'd. Begun by Mr. Morden: perfected, corrected and enlarg'd by Mr. Moll. The name of the maps, 1 The S. part of G. Britain. 2 The N. part of G. Britain. 3 Ireland. 4 Berkshire. 5 Bedfordshire. 6 Buckinghamshire. 7 Cambridgeshire. 8 Cheshire. 9 Cornwall 10 Cumberland. 11 Derbyshire. 12 Devonshire. 13 Dorsetshire. 14 Durham. 15 Essex. 16 Glocestershire. 17 Hampshire. 18 Isles of Wight, Jersey, Guernsey, Seilly, Sark, Alderney, Man, &c. 19 Herefordshire. 20 Hertfordshire. 21 Huntingdonshire. 22 Kent. 23 Lancashire. 24 Leicestershire. 25 Lincolnshire...

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  16. 136
    The farmer's instructor : or, the husbandman and gardener's useful and necessary companion. Being a new treatise of husbandry, gardening, and other curious matters relating to country affairs. Containing A Plain and Practical Method of improving all Sorts of Meadow, Pasture, and Arable Land, &c. and making them produce greater Crops of all Kinds, and at much less than the present Expence. Giving an Account how poor Land, not worth above 5 s. an Acre, may be made to bear as good Crops of Grain, Grass, &c. as the richest, at the most reasonable Expence, by a new Manure, and the Use of a New Invented Excellent Four-Wheel-Drill-Plough, and Horse-Break, both so light, that a Man may easily draw either of them, which are here exhibited, and the Uses and Manner of working them fully explained. Also, The Seedsman's Monthly Kalendar, shewing the best and most easy Method for raising and cultivating every Sort of Seed belonging to a Kitchen and Flower-Garden, with necessary Instructions for sowing of Berries, Masts and Seeds, Ever-Greens, Forest-Trees, and such as are proper for improving of Land. With many New, Useful, and Curious Improvements, never before Published. First begun by Samuel Trowell, Gent. and now compleated with a Supplement to every Chapter on Husbandry; by William Ellis, Farmer, At Little Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire
    The farmer's instructor : or, the husbandman and gardener's useful and necessary companion. Being a new treatise of husbandry, gardening, and other curious matters relating to country affairs. Containing A Plain and Practical Method of improving all Sorts of Meadow, Pasture, and Arable Land, &c. and making them produce greater Crops of all Kinds, and at much less than the present Expence. Giving an Account how poor Land, not worth above 5 s. an Acre, may be made to bear as good Crops of Grain, Grass, &c. as the richest, at the most reasonable Expence, by a new Manure, and the Use of a New Invented Excellent Four-Wheel-Drill-Plough, and Horse-Break, both so light, that a Man may easily draw either of them, which are here exhibited, and the Uses and Manner of working them fully explained. Also, The Seedsman's Monthly Kalendar, shewing the best and most easy Method for raising and cultivating every Sort of Seed belonging to a Kitchen and Flower-Garden, with necessary Instructions for sowing of Berries, Masts and Seeds, Ever-Greens, Forest-Trees, and such as are proper for improving of Land. With many New, Useful, and Curious Improvements, never before Published. First begun by Samuel Trowell, Gent. and now compleated with a Supplement to every Chapter on Husbandry; by William Ellis, Farmer, At Little Gaddesden, in Hertfordshire

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  17. 137
    The new art of brewing and improving malt liquors to the greatest advantage. : Containing the new improvement of the barley corn, for making the truest, best, and palest malt. The best methods of brewing all sorts of fine ale, strong beer, and table beer, in several parts of England and Wales. An account of hops, and of a new discovered herb growing wild, which for its agreeable bitter, and wholesome qualities, is often preferred to the hop. Curious methods of drying malt and hops in the greatest perfection. The prodigious damage done by the wevil infect to malt, wheat, &c. and how to destroy them. To fine, relish, strengthen and preserve ale or strong beer, wine or cyder, and to recover them if turned, &c. &c. &c. With many other curious and very useful matters relating to the brewery, never before published, and absolutely necessary for all who would brew their own malt drink in the highest perfection. To which is prefixed, an introduction, proposing an easy and cheap expedient for improving London porter, by rendering it pleasanter and much more wholesome; with a detection of several pernicious ingredients too commonly put therein; and directions for the use very best method of using the hop. By William Ellis, late of little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, author of the London and country brewer, &c. who was formerly a public brewer in London
    The new art of brewing and improving malt liquors to the greatest advantage. : Containing the new improvement of the barley corn, for making the truest, best, and palest malt. The best methods of brewing all sorts of fine ale, strong beer, and table beer, in several parts of England and Wales. An account of hops, and of a new discovered herb growing wild, which for its agreeable bitter, and wholesome qualities, is often preferred to the hop. Curious methods of drying malt and hops in the greatest perfection. The prodigious damage done by the wevil infect to malt, wheat, &c. and how to destroy them. To fine, relish, strengthen and preserve ale or strong beer, wine or cyder, and to recover them if turned, &c. &c. &c. With many other curious and very useful matters relating to the brewery, never before published, and absolutely necessary for all who would brew their own malt drink in the highest perfection. To which is prefixed, an introduction, proposing an easy and cheap expedient for improving London porter, by rendering it pleasanter and much more wholesome; with a detection of several pernicious ingredients too commonly put therein; and directions for the use very best method of using the hop. By William Ellis, late of little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, author of the London and country brewer, &c. who was formerly a public brewer...

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  18. 138
    Agriculture improv'd: or, The practice of husbandry display'd. : In two volumes: containing, a receipt how to improve an acre of barley for six-pence charge. How to improve that noble large fowl the bustard. The nature of pond-insects; also of serpents; and how to cure their venomous bites, &c. How to prevent the mischiefs done to farmers by sparrows. Of St. Timothy's Grass, (five feet long) which will mow four times a year. Of night as well as day fishing. Tench-broth, its restorative nature; and how to make it. Mr. Worlidge's notes on husbandry commented upon. Of improving of estates, soils, bogs, &c. Of the management of bees. How to prevent damage done to peas by pigeons, &c. Accounts of several new-invented engines and implements, of great use in husbandry. How farming may be carried on by the drill-plough, without dung, manure, or live cattle. How to preserve wheat in granaries, from damps, vermin, &c. How to desend crops of turnep-seed from field-fowls. Of encouragements from landlords to promote the industry of tenants. The present state of bad husbandry in Scotland; with proposals for remedying it. The Cheshire and Lancashire way of managing their wheat and barley crops. Of the bad consequences of wrong manuring, wrong ploughing, &c. Damage done by greedy tenants to themselves and landlords, by ploughing up the poor lands of woulds, downs, and commons. With many other curious and serviceable matters, never before published... By William Ellis, a farmer, of Little Gaddesden, near Hemsted, in Hertfordshire, author of the Modern husbandman
    Agriculture improv'd: or, The practice of husbandry display'd. : In two volumes: containing, a receipt how to improve an acre of barley for six-pence charge. How to improve that noble large fowl the bustard. The nature of pond-insects; also of serpents; and how to cure their venomous bites, &c. How to prevent the mischiefs done to farmers by sparrows. Of St. Timothy's Grass, (five feet long) which will mow four times a year. Of night as well as day fishing. Tench-broth, its restorative nature; and how to make it. Mr. Worlidge's notes on husbandry commented upon. Of improving of estates, soils, bogs, &c. Of the management of bees. How to prevent damage done to peas by pigeons, &c. Accounts of several new-invented engines and implements, of great use in husbandry. How farming may be carried on by the drill-plough, without dung, manure, or live cattle. How to preserve wheat in granaries, from damps, vermin, &c. How to desend crops of turnep-seed from field-fowls. Of encouragements from landlords to promote the industry of tenants. The present state of bad husbandry in Scotland; with proposals for remedying it. The Cheshire and Lancashire way of managing their wheat and barley crops. Of the bad consequences of wrong manuring, wrong ploughing, &c. Damage done by greedy tenants to themselves and landlords, by ploughing up the poor lands of woulds, downs, and commons. With many other curious and serviceable matters, never before published... By William Ellis, a farmer, of Little Gaddesden, near Hemsted, in Hertfordshire, author of the Modern...

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    Agriculture improv'd: or, The practice of husbandry display'd. : Chiefly shewn by facts, perform'd in all sorts of land, according to the old plain, and the new drill, way of farming. In two volumes: containing, a receipt how to improve an acre of barley for six-pence charge. How to improve that noble large fowl the bustard. The nature of pond-insects; also of serpents; and how to cure their venomous bites, &c. How to prevent the mischiefs done to farmers by sparrows. Of St. Timothy's Grass, (five feet long) which will mow four times a year. Of night as well as day fishing. Tench-broth, its restorative nature; and how to make it. Mr. Worlidge's notes on husbandry commented upon. Of improving of estates, soils, bogs, &c. Of the management of bees. How to prevent damage done to peas by pigeons, &c. Accounts of several new-invented engines and implements, of great use in husbandry. How farming may be carried on by the drill-plough, without dung, manure, or live cattle. How to preserve wheat in granaries, from damps, vermin, &c. How to desend crops of turnep-seed from field-fowls. Of encouragements from landlords to promote the industry of tenants. The present state of bad husbandry in Scotland; with proposals for remedying it. The Cheshire and Lancashire way of managing their wheat and barley crops. Of the bad consequences of wrong manuring, wrong ploughing, &c. Damage done by greedy tenants to themselves and landlords, by ploughing up the poor lands of woulds, downs, and commons. With many other curious and serviceable matters, never before published. ... By William Ellis, a farmer, of Little Gaddesden, near Hemsted, in Hertfordshire, author of the Modern husbandman
    Agriculture improv'd: or, The practice of husbandry display'd. : Chiefly shewn by facts, perform'd in all sorts of land, according to the old plain, and the new drill, way of farming. In two volumes: containing, a receipt how to improve an acre of barley for six-pence charge. How to improve that noble large fowl the bustard. The nature of pond-insects; also of serpents; and how to cure their venomous bites, &c. How to prevent the mischiefs done to farmers by sparrows. Of St. Timothy's Grass, (five feet long) which will mow four times a year. Of night as well as day fishing. Tench-broth, its restorative nature; and how to make it. Mr. Worlidge's notes on husbandry commented upon. Of improving of estates, soils, bogs, &c. Of the management of bees. How to prevent damage done to peas by pigeons, &c. Accounts of several new-invented engines and implements, of great use in husbandry. How farming may be carried on by the drill-plough, without dung, manure, or live cattle. How to preserve wheat in granaries, from damps, vermin, &c. How to desend crops of turnep-seed from field-fowls. Of encouragements from landlords to promote the industry of tenants. The present state of bad husbandry in Scotland; with proposals for remedying it. The Cheshire and Lancashire way of managing their wheat and barley crops. Of the bad consequences of wrong manuring, wrong ploughing, &c. Damage done by greedy tenants to themselves and landlords, by ploughing up the poor lands of woulds, downs, and commons. With many other curious and serviceable matters, never before published. ... By William Ellis, a farmer, of Little Gaddesden, near Hemsted, in Hertfordshire, author of the Modern husbandman

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    The second part of the timber-tree improved : Containing, I. The nature and uses of foreign and British timber-trees. II. Of oak; a profitable account of it from tradesmen, with several cases relating to this timber. To know if trees are found or unfound, as they stand, or after felling. Why posts, that are burnt at one end to last long, last the less time for it. How to make timber more durable, than in the common way with twenty other improvements relating on the oak. III. Of ash: how to make an impregnable live-fence with this sort of tree, for parks and fields, to immense profit. IV. Of beech; how to make it last near as long as heart of oak. How beech was so managed, as to be sold to a London chair-maker for walnut tree. A remarkable example of many great beeches being rotted as they stood, by the ignorance of their owner; with fifteen other particulars relating to this tree. V. Ten sorts of improvements of the elm. VI. Eight improvements of the walnut-tree. VIII. Of the maple, bay-tree, sycamore, birch, laurel, lignum-vitae tree, whip-beam, holly, witch-elm, horn-beech, yew, and box-tree, pine of fir, cypress-tree, black cherry, cedar, sweet and horse chesnut, juniper, hasel and fill-beard, pear-tree, apple and crab, barberry-tree. almond-tree, plum-tree, quince, mulberry, white and red elder-tree, black and white-thorn, asp, poplar, alder, willow, white-wood, sallow, withy and osier, medalar and service-tree, ivy, furz and whins, &c. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire
    The second part of the timber-tree improved : Containing, I. The nature and uses of foreign and British timber-trees. II. Of oak; a profitable account of it from tradesmen, with several cases relating to this timber. To know if trees are found or unfound, as they stand, or after felling. Why posts, that are burnt at one end to last long, last the less time for it. How to make timber more durable, than in the common way with twenty other improvements relating on the oak. III. Of ash: how to make an impregnable live-fence with this sort of tree, for parks and fields, to immense profit. IV. Of beech; how to make it last near as long as heart of oak. How beech was so managed, as to be sold to a London chair-maker for walnut tree. A remarkable example of many great beeches being rotted as they stood, by the ignorance of their owner; with fifteen other particulars relating to this tree. V. Ten sorts of improvements of the elm. VI. Eight improvements of the walnut-tree. VIII. Of the maple, bay-tree, sycamore, birch, laurel, lignum-vitae tree, whip-beam, holly, witch-elm, horn-beech, yew, and box-tree, pine of fir, cypress-tree, black cherry, cedar, sweet and horse chesnut, juniper, hasel and fill-beard, pear-tree, apple and crab, barberry-tree. almond-tree, plum-tree, quince, mulberry, white and red elder-tree, black and white-thorn, asp, poplar, alder, willow, white-wood, sallow, withy and osier, medalar and service-tree, ivy, furz and whins, &c. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire

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