steuart sir henry (6 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 238 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

Leather. Zustand: Good Only. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of Sir Henry Steuart's guide to tree planting and felling, chiefly intended for Scotland, illustrated with five plates. First edition. Bound in half calf with marbled paper-covered boards. Illustrated with five plates, one of which is folding. Collated, complete. Written by Scottish landowner and agricultural improver, Sir Henry Steuart.An informative guide surrounding arboriculture, and the most efficient ways to maintain a forest. The author highlights numerous ways of forest management, chiefly intended for the climate of Scotland, which is where he managed his own land at Allanton House in Lanarkshire. With the bookplate of John Moore Paget a landowner and Justice of the Peace. Bound in half calf with marbled paper-covered boards. Externally, sound with rubbing to the leather causing some loss to the extremities and joints. Loss to the center of the backstrip. Rear hinge is strained. Front hinge has failed after frontispiece. Bookplate to front paste down and ink inscription to rear paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, with light scattered spotting to plates and the odd page. Good Only. book.

leather_bound. 527 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Six engraved plates. Errata slip, advert dated 5th Nov. 1828 noting that unless the author has provided persons instructed by him with a hand written certificate; all others are impostors. Two bookplates, small nick backstrip head, front cover joint cracked but firm, text clean, plates toned at margins with offsetting to adjacent text, raised bands, triple gilt cover border panels, marbled endpapers and matching edges. Contemporary full brown calf. Very good Second edition. Greatly improved and enlarged.

8vo. pp. xlviii, 518, [2]ads. 7 engraved plates (incl. frontis. portrait of the author). A nice copy in original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (spine sunned, light foxing to plate margins & neighbouring leaves). Inscribed on behalf of the author's daughter on half-title. Third Edition. With a memoir of the Author, and his last additions and improvements. Steuart developed a particular method for transporting and transplanting large ornamental trees, which was used successfully throughout Great Britain although it proved to be impractical in America because of the climate. Sir Walter Scott enthusiastically reviewed the present work in the Quarterly when it was first published in 1828, and noted in his journal: "Sir Henry is a sad coxcomb, and lifted beyond the solid earth by the effect of his book's success. But the book well deserves it." cfRaphael, An Oak Spring Sylva, 44.