• The fifth edition of John Evelyn's Silva, a pioneering horticultural text described by Henrey as "the first important book to be published in this country on forest trees".
  • The fifth edition of John Evelyn's Silva, a pioneering horticultural text described by Henrey as "the first important book to be published in this country on forest trees".
  • The fifth edition of John Evelyn's Silva, a pioneering horticultural text described by Henrey as "the first important book to be published in this country on forest trees".
  • The fifth edition of John Evelyn's Silva, a pioneering horticultural text described by Henrey as "the first important book to be published in this country on forest trees".
  • The fifth edition of John Evelyn's Silva, a pioneering horticultural text described by Henrey as "the first important book to be published in this country on forest trees".
  • The fifth edition of John Evelyn's Silva, a pioneering horticultural text described by Henrey as "the first important book to be published in this country on forest trees".
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EVELYN, John.

Silva:

Silva:

or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's Dominions... the fifth edition.

Stock Code 121612

London, Printed for J. Walthoe et al., 1729.

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The fifth edition of John Evelyn's Silva, a pioneering horticultural text described by Henrey as "the first important book to be published in this country on forest trees".

Fifth edition; two parts in one volume, folio (32.5 x 21.5 cm); title printed in red and black, nine engraved illustrations in-text, additional engraved decorative devices, leaves somewhat cockled, outer margins lightly browned, dark mark to fore edge of p. 41 of second part; contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, corners restored, edges sprinkled red, later endpapers with bookplate and biographical cutting tipped in; [1], xxviii, 329; vi, [iv], 235, [5] pp.

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