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Observations on the Formation and Management of Useful and Ornamental Plantations; on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening; and on Gaining and Embanking Land from Rivers or the Sea
by LOUDON ((John Claudius)
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- first
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- Seller
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Grantham, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co., 1804. First edition, 8vo, xiv, 342, [16, index]pp., presentation inscription, title page slightly browned, 10 engraved plates of which 2 are folding, marbled endpapers, contemporary diced calf with red morocco spine gilt decorated and lettered direct, a nice copy. Provenance: Presentation inscription to title page "June 1816, Eyre Evans, the gift of Emma Mansell", Small oval stamp on endpapers of the Lawes Agriculture Library, Rothamsted Research Institute.
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- Bookseller
- Forest Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40998
- Title
- Observations on the Formation and Management of Useful and Ornamental Plantations; on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening; and on Gaining and Embanking Land from Rivers or the Sea
- Author
- LOUDON ((John Claudius)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co., 1804
Terms of Sale
Forest Books
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Forest Books
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Grantham, Lincolnshire
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Morocco
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
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- Spine
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