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

EVELYN, JOHN.

Edité par Robert Scott, Richard Chiswell et al, London, 1706

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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. N° de réf. du vendeur 014252

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Titre : SILVA, OR A DISCOURSE OF FOREST-TREES AND ...

Éditeur : Robert Scott, Richard Chiswell et al, London

Date d'édition : 1706

Reliure : Full Contemporary Calf

Etat : General Cover Wear

Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket

Edition : Fourth Edition.