1701 FAMOUS Georgica Curiosa by Hohberg Agriculture Gardening Husbandry FARMS

1701 FAMOUS Georgica Curiosa by Hohberg Agriculture Gardening Husbandry FARMS

Wolf Helmhardt von Hohberg was a 17^th-century Austrian author best-known for his book ‘Georgica Curiosa’. This book proved to be one of the most prolific agricultural encyclopedias of the 17^th-century. When Hohberg began work on ‘Georgica Curiosa’, there seemed to be a need for a more thorough ‘household’ reference for families. It covered a wide variety of topics including:

• home gardening
  • managing mills
  • registering farmland
  • growing fruits and making wine
• social and cultural expectations
  • quarrels and public fights
  • engaging with gypsies
• household behavior
  • prayer, conduct in God’s eyes
  • raising children
  • how to treat servants, drunkards, unhealthy persons, suspicious people
    • (by not bringing them into your home, says Hohberg)
  • distilling methods
  • smelting metals
  • hunting and forestry; husbandry, fishing
    • dealing with bees and silkworms
    • gathering eggs, raising chickens and poultry
  • farming
    • horse and cattle breeding

This impressive 1701 folio edition is bound in original vellum binding, printed with numerous woodcut illustrations throughout.

Item number: #22859

Price: $950

HOHBERG, Wolf Helmhardt von

Georgica Curiosa Aucta Oder: Des auf alle in Teutschland übliche Land- und Haus-Wirthschafften gerichteten, hin und wieder mit vielen untermengten raren Erfindungen und Experimenten versehenen

Nürnberg: Martin Endters, 1701.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [14], 870, [36]
    • Pagination errors expected
  • 107 woodcut engravings and 10 full-page plates
• Language: German
• Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
• Size: ~13.25in X 8.75in (34cm x 22cm)
• very rare and desirable

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