General View of the Agriculture of the West Riding of Yorkshire: Surveyed by Messrs Rennie, Brown, & Shirreff, 1793: with Observations on the Means of

Publisher Marketing: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Cambridge University LibraryN030551Includes an appendix with separate pagination and register.London: printed for Richard Phillips; sold by Faulder & Son; Reynolds; J. Harding; J. Asperne; Black, Parry, & Kingsbury; Wilson & Spence, & Todd, York; Slater & Bacon, Sheffield; Edwards & Son, Halifax; W. Sheardon, Doncaster; Constable & Co. Edinburgh; J. Archer, Dublin; & all other booksellers; by B. McMillan, 1799. 8, xiv,293, [3];121, [1]p., plate: map; 8 Contributor Bio:  Brown, Robert Rob Brown graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1971 with a BMath degree. He added a MA in Gerontology in 1994 (Waterloo) and a PhD (Gerontology) from Simon Fraser University in 1997. Rob is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, and an Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society. Professor Brown was President of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries in 1990/91 and served on the Board of Governors of the Society of Actuaries from 1992 to 1996. From 1997-99, he was SoA Vice-President and in 1999, Rob was elected President-elect of the Society of Actuaries (his term as SoA President will run from October 2000 to October 2001). Rob Brown is presently Professor of Actuarial Science and Director of the Institute of Insurance and Pension Research at the University of Waterloo.