A treatise of buggs : shewing when and how they were first brought into England, how they are brought into and infect houses, their nature, several foods, times and manner of spawning and propagating in this climate, their great increase accounted for, by proof of the numbers each pair produce in a season, reasons given why all attempts hitherto made for their destruction have proved ineffectual, vulgar errors concerning them refuted, that from September to March is the best season for their total desctruction, demonstrated by reason and proved by facts : concluding with directions for such as have them not already, how to avoid them, and for those that have them, how to destroy them

By

Southall, John.
Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776
Roberts, James, 1668 or 1669-1754

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, MDCCXXX [1730]

Edition

The second edition.

Notes

Engraved frontispiece signed: G. VanderGucht, sculp.

First published 1730.

"Price one shilling".

Signatures: pi² A-G⁴.

Advertisements on [3] p. at end; last p. blank

Head- and tailpieces; initials.

ESTC | T139930

Subjects

Bedbugs , Early works to 1800

Call Number

QL523.C6 S68 1730b

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/t.173054
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/34036694
OCLC: 22225164