EVELYN, JOHN HUNTER, JOHN Sylva: or, a Discourse of Forest-trees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesty’s Dominions… with notes by A. Hunter…to which is added the Terra: A Philosophical Discourse of Earth. York: A. Ward for J. Dodsley, T. Cadell and others, 1786
Contemporary red morocco. 4to (30.4 x 23.4 cm). Collation:[46]311, [2] [9] [1] [2]343,[1] [10] [8] 74 [4] p. + Engraved portrait after Bartolozzi, 43 hand-colored plates on thick paper, one double-page, 2 folding letterpress tables. Some light spotting to portrait, first title and some margins. Minor to moderate foxing mainly to edges of text. Contemporary red morocco, raised bands with gilt border, Boards with gilt ruled borders, spine gilt in six compartments, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (lightly rubbed), with a contemporary fore-edge painting of a country house set in wooded parkland. Provenance: Bertram Mitford Freeman (amoral bookplate, pasted over earlier bookplate) and bookplate of W.A. Foyle on front free end paper. Fine copy with all plates’ hand colored on thick paper. (Nissen 615; Henrey 137; Keynes 47)
$US19000
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