1905 The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for Landowners, Land Agents, and Foresters

Name: 1905 The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for Landowners
SKU: 978Y11
Price: 65 GBP
Availability: InStock

Published: Edinburgh William Blackwood and Sons

Size: 9.5" by 6.5" Pagination: xx, 506; xv, 642, [2]pp

A complete illustrated two-volume work on forestry by John Nisbet,

£65.00

weight: 2kgs / stock code: 978Y11

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Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding

Later edition. Complete in two volumes.

Bound in quarter crushed morocco with cloth boards.

Illustrated with eleven monochrome plates to Volume I, nine monochrome plates to Volume II and numerous vignettes throughout. Collated, complete.

This comprehensive treatise serves as a guide to forestry for landowners, land agents and foresters, including chapters on climatic and physical influences, sylviculture, nursery work, protection of woodlands, management, valuation and utilisation of produce.

Written by John Nisbet.

Condition

Bound in quarter crushed morocco with cloth boards. Externally, with rubbing to the extremities and loss to the spine heads. Fading to the edges of the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with offsetting to the endpapers and flower-shaped offsetting to page xi-xiv of Vol I. Small contemporary ownership inscription to both half titles.

Overall: Good

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