silva discourse forest trees propagation timber von evelyn john hunter (7 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Sixth Edition. 29.5cm x 23cm. [lvi], 649 pages, frontispiece, 40 plates (1 folding), 1 folding table. Contemporary full mottled leather, later leather label, gilt lettering. with An Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves. One of the most influential works on forestry ever published in which Evelyn implores landowners to plant trees. This, the 1776 edition, being the First Edition edited by Scottish physician Alexander Hunter and with illustrations by German engraver and botanist John Miller. This copy with the portrait frontispiece of Evelyn by Francesco Bartolozzi, 8 pages of subscribers including James Boswell, Joseph Banks, and Edward Gibbon (among many others), and the large folding explanatory table; also the armorial bookplate of William Moore and with neat marginalia to three leaves providing further commentary on remarkable oaks from the regions. Spine rubbed and with some chipping to spine crown, a later leather title label added. Minor foxing, mostly to edges and final leaves. Minor tanning and offsetting to the plates. The common Ash Tree plate with very minor marginal chip to fore-edge. Minor ink mark to the verso of The Hanthorn plate. Page 501/2 with a small open tear to the gutter margin. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-4 kilos. Category: Natural History & Resources; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 0036003.

pp., portrait frontis., [56], 649, 1 large fold-out table, index. Royal 4to. Collated and complete. With 40 copper-engraved plates (one being fold-out). Occ. minor spotting and darkening, o/w. contents fine. More recent full-calf binding with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine in fine condition. Housed in purpose made green cloth solander box in fine condition. Among his many other accomplishments, John Evelyn was well known for his knowledge of trees. 'Silva' was written as an encouragement to landowners to plant trees to provide timber for England's burgeoning Navy. This edition was revised and added to by Alexander Hunter, a medical practioner and fellow of the Royal Society, who included many additional engravings.

2 vols in 1. 4to (11¾ x 9¾ ins). Contemporary full tree calf, later re-backed, with elaborately gilt tooled spine neatly relaid and replaced label, board edges gilt tooled with gilt borders and marbled endpapers (boards a little pitted and scratched and corners bumped). Pp. [liv] + 649 + [1] blank [&] [viii] + 74 + [4] index + [9] catalogue + [1] blank + 609-648 [misbound] + [9] index + [1] blank, illus with portrait frontispiece, 41 plates (1 folding) and 2 folding tables (rear inner hinge pulled; some pages and plates toned at edges; previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down; no inscriptions).

Bound in two volumes; frontis., [56], 649, 1 large fold-out table, index. Royal 4to. Collated and complete. With 40 copper-engraved plates (one being fold-out). Neat signature dated 1873 to title-page. A little spotting or darkening to plates, o/w. contents in fine condition. Marbled fore-edges and end-papers. Very attractively bound in original full-leather boards, tree-calf design, with gilt decoration. Most of spines relaid. Some minor rubbing, o/w. in thor. vg. to nr. fine condition. Among his many other accomplishments, John Evelyn was well known for his knowledge of trees. 'Silva' was written as an encouragement to landowners to plant trees to provide timber for England's burgeoning Navy. This edition was revised and added to by Alexander Hunter, a medical practioner and fellow of the Royal Society, who included many additional engravings.

Edition : First Hunter edition., Contemporary full gilt-lined calf, tastefully rebacked spine in 6 compartments of raised gilt-tooled bands and gilt floral motifs, gilt green morocco label on two, gilt text on six, board edges and inner dentelles gilt-tooled, endpapers marbled. , Alexander Hunter (1729-1809) revised the book in 1776, indicating that "since the first edition of the Silva, in 1664, many improvements have been made in planting, and in every branch of natural knowledge. It, therefore, became my indispensable duty to bring down the improvements to the present time. These make the subject of the Notes, which are drawn from the most respectable authorities" (Hunter, preface, [1]). A very important book on the growth and management of trees in England. Hunter indicates that, "soon after the publication of the Silva, which made its appearance in 1664, under the Auspices of the Royal Society, the Spirit for Planting increased to a high degree; and there is reason to believe that many of our ships which, in the last war, gave laws to the whole world, were constructed from Oaks planted at that time" (Ibid., [3]). John Evelyn was born into a substantial Surrey landowning family. He embarked on a prolonged and formative period of travel in Italy and France, finally coming to rest in Paris in 1647. He soon established himself as one of the foremost virtuosi of his day. Evelyn?s Silva was "the first important book to be published in [Britain] on forest trees. No other work on the arboriculture exerted a greater influence on forestry in this country? and certainly no other book on the subject was so often quoted" (Henrey 101)., Size : Large 4to., Complete with 40 copper-engraved plates, including the frontispiece portrait of the author by Bartolozzi, as well as a folding plate of the Cawthorpe Oak. There is also a large folding data table., Book plate of Charles A.W. Finch., References : Henrey 101, 108; Keynes 47; Pritzel 2766., P. (6), blank, frontis, title, blank, dedication, blank, preface (3), blank, list of subscribers (8), biography (13), blank, to the king (3), blank, to the reader (17), glossary (2), epigraph, 1-649, blank, index (9), blank, (6). A desirable and handsome copy bound in decorative full calf, plates are clean and crisp.

. . . 3 Vol. . 330 pp. + 393 pp. + 88 pp. Folio Mayor. Plena Piel. . Encuadernación fatigada y puntos de óxido en el interior. Ilustrado con varios grabados en blanco y negro. Texto en ingles.