Silva Or A Discourse Of Forest Trees And The Propagation Of Timber In His Majestys Dominions As It

by John Evelyn

$8,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Contemporary red morocco gilt. The expanded edition of this highly influential book, the first important book published in England on forest trees, with numerous plates and supplemented with Evelyn's Terra 1676 in a fine red morocco binding. First published in 1664, this work was written by Evelyn at the request of the Royal Society in London in an effort to address the problem of the fast disappearing forests and woodlands of England. 'Arboriculture was an

• Binding: Leather

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