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Noël Chomel

Dictionaire oeconomique: or, The family dictionary. Containing the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health, with many approved remedies for most distempers of the body of man, cattle and other creatures ... ways of breeding, feeding and ordering all sorts of domestick animals … nets, snares and engines for taking all sort of fish, birds, and other game … new discoveries, relating to gardening, husbandry, soils and manures of all sorts; ... improving all manner of meats and drinks; ... manufactures of soap, starch, spinning, cotton, thread, &c. The methods to take or destroy vermin ... several weights, measures, &c. of metals and minerals ... rural sports and exercises, … as also painting in miniature ... The whole illustrated thoughout ... Done into English from the second edition, lately printed at Paris, in two volumes, folio, written by M. Chomel: … Revised and recommended by Mr. R. Bradley, Professor of Botany ... In two volumes.