Georg Andreas Agricola - English Translations

English Translations

• Bradley, Richard A philosophical treatise of husbandry and gardening : being a new method of cultivating and increasing all sorts of trees, shrubs, and flowers. A Very Curious work: Containing many Useful Secrets in Nature, for helping the Vegetation of Trees and Plants, and for fertilizing the most Stubborn Soils. By G.A. Agricola, M.D. and Doctor in Philosophy at Ratisbonne. Translated from the High-Dutch, with Remarks: and Adorn'd with Cuts. The whole revised and Compared with the Original, together with a Preface, confirming this New Method, by Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society. London: P. Vaillant, 1721 ESTC # T042266 Gale document # CW109618793 Gale Eighteenth Century Collections Online (subscription database) (Translation of the first 2 of the 3 volumes of "Neu- und nie erhörter..." see first item under bibliography)
• Bradley, Richard The experimental husbandman and gardener: containing a new method of improving estates and gardens, By Cultivating and Increasing of Forrest-Trees, Coppice-Woods, Fruit-Trees, Shrubs, Flowers and Greenhouses, and Exotick Plants, after several Manners; viz. by Layers, Cuttings, Roots, Leaves, &c. With Great Variety of New Discoveries relating to Graffing, Terebration or Boreing, Inarching, Emplastration, and Inoculation; of Reversing of Trees, and Digesting their Juices to bring them to bear Fruit. With several New Experiments for the Fertilizing of Stubborn Soils. By G.A. Agricola, M.D. Translated from the original, with remarks: and adorn'd with cuts. The second edition. To which is now added, an appendix, containing a Variety of Experiments lately practised upon the above System, By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany at Cambridge, and F. R. S, Translator Richard Bradley, W. Mears, and F. Clay, 1726 ESTC # T082177 Gale document # CW109840072 Gale Eighteenth Century Collections Online (subscription database) Gale Making of the Modern World (subscription database) (The second edition of Richard Bradley's translation of "Neu- und nie erhörter..." with "an appendix, containing a Variety of Experiments lately practised upon the above System")