A comparison of structural and compositional characteristics of the German agricultural manual Oeconomus Prudens et Legalis (1702) and its Russian translation Florinova Ekonomiya (‘Florin’s Economy’, 1738) demonstrates differences in the heading systems, in chapter structure, in the use of font highlights and in ways of integrating illustrations into the text. These data are used for describing some typological features of special texts in Germany and Russia of the 18th century.