containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several counties of this kingdom ...

wherein is containded the Natural History of those Insects : with the various methods of cultivating them, both Antient and Modern and the improved Treatment of them : to which are added the Natural History of Wasps and Hornets, and the Means of destroying them

written in the year 1714

in a series of letters to his guardian, chevalier Gherardo Compagni

composed from the journals and communications of Capitain Henry Wilson, and some of his officers, who, in August 1783, were there shipwrecked, in the antelope, a packet belonging to the honourable East India Company

being a treatise on lands in general: shewing the best methods of cultivating and improving the different soils, for the raising of wheat, barley, oats, pease, beans, vetches, lentils, turnips, &c. &c

written with a view to fix the fluctuating ideas of taste

containing a short treatise of the five orders, and the most necessary observations concerning all sorts of buildings: as also the different construction of private and publick houses, high-ways, bridges, market-places, xystes, and temples, with their plans, sections, and uprights

a treatise of watch and clock-work, shewing to the meanest capacities, the art of calculating numbers to all sorts of movements; the way to alter clock-work; to make chimes, and set them to musical notes; and to calculate and correct the motion of pendulums : also numbers for divers movements: with the antient and modern history of clock-work; and many instruments, tables, and other maters, never before published in any other book

improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches ...

with the restorations of Palladio, corrected and improved ...

containing I. their names, Greek, Latine and English. II. their species, or various kinds. III. their descriptions. IV. their places of growth. V. their times of flowering and seeding. VI. their qualities or properties. VII. their specifications. VIII. their preparations, galenick and chymick. IX. their virtues and uses. X. a complete florilegium, of all the choice flowers cultivated by our florists, interspersed through the whole work, in their proper places; where you have their culture, choice, increase, and way of management, as well for profit as delectation