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; Being an Attempt to Place the Art, and that of General Arboriculture, on Phytological and Fixed Principles...

Edinburgh, Scotland: John Murray, 1828. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Good+ condition. Item #008891

xxxviii, 527 pages of text. Original cloth binding is in poor condition; both boards are detached and the spine is detached in two pieces with loss. The textblock remains sound. Illustrated with six engravings, which are heavily foxed. Text is quite clean. Title continues "...Interspersed with Observations on General Planting, and the Improvement of Real Landscape; Originally Intended for the Climate of Scotland." "Greatly Improved and Englarged" from the first edition. Previous owner's bookplate affixed neatly to front endpaper.

Price: $125.00

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