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A28324 New additions to the art of husbandry comprizing a new way of enriching meadows, destroying of moles, making tulips of any colour : with an approved way for ordering of fish and fish-ponds ... with directions for breeding and ordering all sorts of singing-birds : with remedies for their several maladies not before publickly made known. Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682. 1675 (1675) Wing B3120; ESTC R4466 80,529 144

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