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Agriculture: a plan for better drainage of fields. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1803.

A woman with shears holding a sheep; representing June. Engraving.

Agriculture: peasants, ploughs and carts of Sardinia. Coloured engraving by A.J. Lallemand after Gonin after Cominotti.

Maison rustique, or the covntrey farme / compiled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens and John Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Svrflet ... Also a short collection of the hunting of the hart, wilde bore, hare, fox, gray, cony; of birds and faulconrie.

Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.

Bedford hospital: view of grounds. Lithograph after J. Sunman Austin, 1850.

Agriculture: a Chinese rice plantation, with workers transplanting the rice. Engraving by T.A. Prior, c. 1840, after T. Allom.

A country scene with many activities depicted: these include, from left to right, picking cherries, bathing, hay-making, hunting, and eating and drinking. Engraving by M. Merian after S. Vrancx.

Christ winnowing evil from the human heart; a penitent bathing in the blood and water from Christ's side; an angel locking a dragon in hell. Engraving by H. Goltzius, 1578.

The milk marketing fraud / The Vegan Society.

A boy sitting on a fence, scaring away crows with a pair of clappers. Coloured line block after W. Bromley.

Cours complet d'agriculture, théorique, pratique, économique, et de médecine rurale et vétérinaire; suivi d'une méthode pour étudier l'agriculture par principes: ou dictionnaire universel d'agriculture / par une société d'agriculteurs, et rédigé par M. l'abbé Rozier.

Formula for profit.

Science strategy, 1998-2001 / CHABOS ; editors Ian Bremner & T. Jeff Maxwell.

Lectures on Roman husbandry : delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil / by Charles Daubeny.

Rules and orders of the Edinburgh Society, for the encouragement of arts, sciences, manufactures, and agriculture

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Rules and orders of the Edinburgh Society, for the encouragement of arts, sciences, manufactures, and agriculture