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The manner of raising ordering and improving forest-trees: With directions how to plant make and keep woods walks avenues lawns hedges &c. Also rules and tables shewing how the ingenious planter may measure superficial figures divide woods or land and measure timber and other solid bodies either by arithmetick or geometry: with the uses of that excellent line the line of numbers by several new examples; and many other rules useful for most men

1717réf. BB1599London: Printed for Daniel Browne Andrew Bell John Darby Arthur Bettesworth John Pemberton Charles Rivington John Hooke R. Cruttenden and T. Cox Jer. Battley Edward Symon 1717. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Fine. Second Edition "very much corrected" of this influential treatise by the head gardener to the Earl of Essex. 8vo: xix1276pp with frontispiece depicting tree-fellers at work and two fold-out plates containing 48 figures showing ways to calculate the scale and design of landscape features. Cambridge-style paneled calf spine gilt in six compartments very skillfully relaid red morocco lettering piece gilt edges speckled red. An excellent example in a handsome contemporary binding with pages and plates fresh bright and all but free of foxing. Henrey 40 and pp. 116-118. Goldsmiths' 6265. Kress Library 3011. Originally published in 1676 going through several editions the final one in 1724. Cook gives rudimentary designs for avenues walks and lawns in the strict geometric manner of George London and Henry Wise partners at the celebrated Brompton Park Nursery which Cook helped found. After John Evelyn whose own pioneering works on tree cultivation was published in 1664 visited the Earl of Essex in the spring of 1680 and toured the gardens he praised in his diary the "incomparable collection of the choicest fruits" and called Cook "so skillful an artist." Some fifty years later another commentator and gardener noted "Cooke's is indeed an excellent book and one that has done more good in the nursery and forest way than any other that I know of." N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its code of ethics. Printed for Daniel Browne, Andrew Bell, John Darby, Arthur Bettesworth, John Pemberton, Charles Rivington, John Hooke, R. Crutte unknown

Fine Editions Ltd · États-Unis649,00 $US≈ 578,69 €

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The Manner of Raising Ordering and improving and Forest and Fruit-Trees: Also How to Plant Make and Keep Woods Walks Avenues Lawns Hedges &c

1679réf. 42560London: Peter Parker 1679. 4to. 7 1/2 x 6 inches. Reissue of the 1676 first edition with cancel title. xvi 204 4 pp. Illustrated with 4 engraved plates. Bound with: Gabriel PLATTES c.1600-1644. A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure: viz. Of all manner of Mines and Minerals at end. London: Peter Parker 1679. iv 24 pp. Period quarter calf and marbled paper boards An important early English treatise on forestry and designed woodland here in the 1679 issue with the rare addition of Plattes's tract on mines and minerals. Cook was gardener to the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury Park near Watford and laid out many woodland walks and avenues including reputedly an avenue of 296 lime trees. Cook wrote from practical experience as gardener to Arthur Capell first Earl of Essex at Cassiobury Park near Watford one of the notable Restoration landscapes outside London. His treatise treats trees both as productive estate assets and as elements of design giving directions for raising transplanting pruning grafting and ordering forest and fruit trees as well as for planting. The engraved plates and accompanying rules for measuring land and timber show the book's practical range joining arboriculture surveying estate management and landscape design. The work reflects a moment when English country-house landscapes were increasingly shaped through ordered planting axial walks avenues and managed woodland. Cook's association with Cassiobury gives the book particular interest: he is traditionally credited with laying out woodland walks and avenues there including a celebrated avenue of lime trees. His manual preserves the working knowledge behind such improvements before the broader eighteenth-century shift toward more naturalistic landscape gardening. The appended Plattes tract broadens the volume from woodland and estate improvement to the useful exploitation of natural resources. A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure gives practical directions for locating mines and minerals and for melting refining and assaying ores from gold to coal. Plattes an experimental writer on agriculture and practical science wrote for readers interested in applicable knowledge rather than scholastic theory. Bound with Cook's forestry manual the two works form a compact volume on improvement above and below ground: the ordering of trees woods and avenues followed by the discovery and testing of mineral wealth. Fussell pp.39-40; Henrey 39; Kress 1483; Wing C6033; Hoover 232. Peter Parker unknown books

Donald Heald Rare Books · États-Unis1 750,00 $US≈ 1 560,41 €

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