SILVA, OR A DISCOURSE OF FOREST-TREES AND THE PROPAGATION OF TIMBER IN HIS MAJESTY'S DOMINIONS.

Descripción

Panelled spine, red spine label. Covers with blind-stamp double fillet borders, central darker panel, corner florettes. Engraved frontispiece of the author, done 50 years earlier. Title-page variant with a comma after Evelyn. Front cover is loosened but remains intact. "as it was delivered in the Royal Societt the xvth of October, MDCLXII." "Silva" is in two books in same volume. Together with four additional accounts: "Terra, a philosophical essay of Earth", 1706, third edition; "Pomona, or an appendix concerning fruit-trees.", 1706, fourth edition; "Acetaria, or a discourse of sallets.", 1706, second edition, and "Kalendarium Hortense, or a gardener's almanack", 1706, tenth edition. Clean copy throughout with wide margins. John Evelyn (1620-1706) was a well-known English writer, gardener, and dfiarist, a comtemporary of Pepys. Size: Tall Quarto.

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Título

SILVA, OR A DISCOURSE OF FOREST-TREES AND THE PROPAGATION OF TIMBER IN HIS MAJESTY'S DOMINIONS.

Editor

Robert Scott, Richard Chiswell et al, London

Fecha de publicación

1706

Encuadernación

Full Contemporary Calf

Edición

Fourth Edition.

Estado

General Cover Wear

Estado de la sobrecubierta

No Dust Jacket

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