A Treatise on Forest-Trees: Containing not only the best Methods of their Culture hitherto published, but a variety of new and useful discoveries, the result of many repeated experiments.
por Boutcher, William
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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Fine illustrated and antiquarian Botany . 1st. Ed. Pub. R. Fleming, Edinburgh. 1775. pp.4, xlviii, 259 plus 3-page postscript. 4to. Hardback. Neat, early, signature to title-page. Contents thor. vg. to nr. fine with intermittent minor spotting. Does not contain the engraved title (present in a small number of copies) and not signed by the author. More recent handsome quarter cloth over marbled boards, lightly marked o/w. fine. A very pleasing copy. William Boutcher was a nurseryman at Comely Garden, Edinburgh. His �A Treatise on Forest-Trees� �was the best eighteenth-century work published on the subject and, in the opinion of Edlin, it still contains �much of interest and practical application in present-day forest nurseries�.� (Henrey).
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- A Treatise on Forest-Trees: Containing not only the best Methods of their Culture hitherto published, but a variety of new and useful discoveries, the result of many repeated experiments.
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- Boutcher, William
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- 1st. Ed. Pub. R. Fleming, Edinburgh. 1775
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- Fine illustrated and antiquarian Botany
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