Research Catalog

Title

Select essays : containing the manner of raising and dressing flax, and hemp ... / collected from the Dictionary of arts and sciences, and from various modern authors.

Publication

Philadelphia : Printed, by Robert Bell ..., 1777.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Guettard, Jean Etienne, 1715-1786.
• Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.

Description

[8], 159, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill.; 20 cm. (8vo)

Uniform Title

Journal œconomique. English. Selections. 1777.

Alternative Title

• Select essays: on raising and dressing flax and hemp.
• Inquiry concerning the materials that may be used in making paper.

Subjects

• Paper, Plant fiber > Early works to 1800
• Papermaking > Early works to 1800
• Agriculture > Early works to 1800
• Industrial arts > Early works to 1800
• Book paper, Colored > Specimens
• Linen > Early works to 1800
• Flax > Early works to 1800
• Paper, Experimental > Early works to 1800

Note

• "An inquiry concerning the materials that may be used in making paper, by Mr. Guettard": p. [41]-75. Translation of: Recherches sur les matières qui peuvent servir à faire du papier (Journal œconomique, Jul.-Aug. 1751).
• Pages [1]-128 printed on blue-green paper.
• Half title: Select essays: on raising and dressing flax and hemp.
• Signatures: pi⁴ A-O⁴ Q-X⁴.
• Illustrations: 1 print : etching ; plate mark 22 x 19 cm. Copy of Plate LXXXII, by A. Bell, in the Encyclopœdia Britannica. Subject: Hand tools for dressing flax.
• Bookseller's advertisements (Bell's Book-Store): p. [7-8] and p. [160].

Indexed In (note)

• Evans
• Sabin
• Rink, E. Technical Americana
• Wagoner, M. Smollett
• Hunter, D. Literature of papermaking

Contents

Memoir concerning the cultivation of flax / by a man of understanding, who has lived long in Holland -- The manner of raising and dressing flax and hemp ... warmly commended, by the Trustees for Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland -- An inquiry concerning the materials that may be used in making paper / by Monsieur Guettard ... -- Observations on the raising and dressing of hemp / communicated to the American Philosophical Society by Edward Antil ... -- The method of bleaching, or whitening linen-cloth : according to the practice of the bleachers of Holland, England, Scotland and Ireland / from the Dictionary of arts and sciences, published by a society of gentlemen in Scotland -- An account of the nettle thread, invented at Leipsic -- Observations upon the management of cattle -- A remedy against rottenness in sheep -- Of cabbage, radishes, turnips, and other such plants : method for preserving them from the ravages of the game and insects that feed upon them -- The method of cultivating radishes for sallad used by the Reverend Fathers Minimes of Passi in France -- The method of raising asparagus.

Call Number

Schlosser 274c

LCCN

09025523

OCLC

• 4149393
• NYPG89-B61794

Title

Select essays : containing the manner of raising and dressing flax, and hemp ... / collected from the Dictionary of arts and sciences, and from various modern authors.

Imprint

Philadelphia : Printed, by Robert Bell ..., 1777.

Indexed In:

Evans 15597

Sabin 78985

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1097

Wagoner, M. Smollett, 667

Hunter, D. Literature of papermaking, p. 40

Local Note

With: Voltaire. [Homme aux quarante écus. English] / translated ... by T. Smollett ... and T. Francklin. 1778. -- Roberts, R. Seven rational sermons ... / written ... by a lady ... 1777. Bound together subsequent to publication by the publisher/bookseller?

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Local Subject

Paper, Plant fiber -- Early works to 1800.

Paper, Experimental -- Early works to 1800.

Book paper, Colored -- Specimens.

Added Author

Guettard, Jean Etienne, 1715-1786. Recherches sur les matières qui peuvent servir à faire du papier. English. 1777.

Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.

Added Title

Journal œconomique. English. Selections. 1777.

Select essays: on raising and dressing flax and hemp.

Inquiry concerning the materials that may be used in making paper.

Research Call Number

Schlosser 274c

*KD 1777 (Select essays)