The Profitable Planter. A Treatise on the Cultivation of Larch Scotch Fir Timber: showing that Their Excellent Quality (Especially that of the former) will Render Them so Extensively Useful, as greatly to promote the Interest of th Country. With Direction
by Pontey, William
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About This Item
London: John Harding, 1809. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Third Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 3rd edition (enlarged), xiipp +230pp 1 engraved plate frontispiece of tools but lacks title page, In contemporary quarter leather with marbled boards, a good sound copy. Owner's name to page of testimonies wirth a few contemporary ink notes. Some browning to paper but a good copy. William Pontey, British ornamental gardener, planter and forest pruner to the Duke of Bedford. "The Author gives Directions and Designs in every Department of Ornament Gardening; and, likewise, Instructions for the Management of Timber Trees generally, as well as the Objects of the present Treatise, in every Part of Great-Britain.".
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- Title
- The Profitable Planter. A Treatise on the Cultivation of Larch Scotch Fir Timber: showing that Their Excellent Quality (Especially that of the former) will Render Them so Extensively Useful, as greatly to promote the Interest of th Country. With Direction
- Author
- Pontey, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Publisher
- John Harding
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1809
- Keywords
- Natural History Planing Gardening Horticulture Huddersfield
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- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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