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 by Henry Steuart

$100 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

New York, NY : Published by G. Thorburn and Sons, 1832. First American edition, from the second London and Edinburgh editions. Tall 8vo. Frontis. 422 pp., 3 wood engraved plates. Original blue cloth, leather label. Text foxed, slight wear, crown of spine chipped. Rear board damp stained. Period inscription on flyleaf. An early American printing of a landscape gardening book, preceding American Andrew Jackson Downing's first book on the subject printed in 1841.

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