Lot 25•
[HAYES (SAMUEL)]
A Practical Treatise on Planting, FIRST EDITION, [London, 1799]; and 5 others, forestry and cultivation (6)
29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,147.50 inc. premium
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FORESTRY
[HAMILTON (THOMAS, EARL OF HADDINGTON)] A Treatise on the Manner of Raising Forest Trees &c... to Which are Added, Two Memoirs; the One on Preserving and Repairing Forests; The Other on the Culture of Forests... both Translated from the French of M. De Buffon, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, without final blank, light browning, pencil name and date added to title, contemporary calf, rebacked, Edinburgh, G. Hamilton and J. Balfour, 1761--[HAYES (SAMUEL)] A Practical Treatise on Planting, and Management of Woods and Coppices, FIRST EDITION, engraved pictorial title-page, 4 engraved plates (one folding), engraved illustrations in the text, upper cover detached [Henrey 774], Dublin, William Sleater, 1794--AGRICOLA, Pseud. of JAMES ANDERSON. Miscellaneous Observations on Planting and Training Timber-trees; Particularly Calculated for the Climate of Scotland, half-title [Henrey 409], Edinburgh, Charles Elliot, and Thomas Cadell, 1777--BOUTCHER (WILLIAM, Nurseryman, at Comely-Garden, Edinburgh) A Treatise on Forest-Trees, third edition, one engraved plate [Henrey 479], Dublin, William Wilson, 1784--MANWOOD (JOHN) Manwood's Treatise of the Forest Laws... Fourth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. By William Nelson, rebacked in calf gilt with red morocco spine label, corners worn [Goldsmiths 5346], B. Lintott [and others], 1717, contemporary calf--STEUART (HENRY) The Planter's Guide; or, a Practical Essay on the Best Method of Giving Immediate Effect to Wood, by the Removal of Large Trees and Underwood, second edition "Greatly improved and enlarged", engraved frontispiece after William Turner, advertisement note before half-title, contemporary boards, back cracked with contents in sections, lacks spine, Edinburgh, John Murray, 1828, 8vo--CORREA DE SERRA (JOSEPH) On a Submarine Forest, on the East Coast of England... From the Philosophical Transactions, SEPARATELY PRINTED EDITION, stitched, without wrappers, [London, 1799], 8vo and small 4to (7)
Footnotes
Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp on inner covers.