added, That scarce and valuable Tract, intitled, Herefordshire-Orchards . . . The
Fifth Edition, with an Appendix, treating of several Matters omitted in the former Impressions. Illustrated with Copper Plates.
By Richard Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S.
London: Printed for
W. Mears, and Sold by
J. Knapton,
G. Strahan [and others],
1726.
8vo. 320 leaves: A-T
8, U
4, X-Z, Aa-Rr
8, Ss
4, engraved frontispiece by E. Kirkall, 13 engraved plates, folded and full-page, general title printed in red and black; titles for Part II and Part III on E
5 and M
3 respectively, the former dated 1725; on Kk
2 is the title for
Herefordshire Orchards, a Pattern for all England. Written in an Epistolary Address to Samuel Hartlib, Esq. by I. B.
[John Beale], with imprint dated
1726, and on Mm
5 the title for
An Appendix to the new Improvements of Planting and Gardening . . . By R. Bradley, with the same imprint.
Not in McDonald.
Not in Loudon.
Bradley III, 108.
The three parts of this work were originally published separately in 1717 and 1718.
Herefordshire Orchards was first added to the fourth edition, 1724. John Beale, 1603-1683?, its author, was a native of that county, and the book
was first printed in 1656.
[799]
64
Millar’s gardener’s calendar.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 32. no. 58, as above.
MILLER,
Philip.
The Gardeners Kalendar; Directing what Works are necessary to be performed every Month in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure-Gardens,
as also in the Conservatory and Nursery . . . By Philip Miller, F.R.S. Member of the Botanick Academy at Florence, and Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick
Garden in Chelsea. The
Fourteenth Edition, with a List of the Medicinal Plants, which may be gathered for Use each Month. To which is prefixed, a short Introduction
to the Science of Botany, illustrated with Copper Plates.
London: Printed for the Author; and sold by
John Rivington,
H. Woodfall,
A. Millar, [and others]
1765.
8vo. 233 leaves; A
8, a-c
8, d
1, B-Z
8, Aa-Cc
8, the last a blank, engraved frontispiece by J. Miller, 5 folded engraved plates, publishers’ advertisement on the last page.
This edition not in Lowndes, not in Bradley, not in Pritzel.
Not in McDonald.
This title was on the list of agricultural books supplied by Jefferson to W. C. Nicholas on December 16, 1809, recommended for purchase for the Library
of Congress.
Philip Miller, 1691-1771, English gardener.
The Gardeners Kalendar first published in 1732, was frequently reprinted and translated into several European languages. The work is dedicated to
the Master, Thomas Harris, Wardens and other Members of the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries
of London.
[800]
65
Millar’s gardener’s dictionary.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 32. no. 75, as above.
MILLER,
Philip.
The Gardeners Dictionary: containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, flower garden,
and nursery; as also for performing the practical parts of agriculture: including the management of vineyards, with the methods
of making and preserving wine, according to the present practice
