Author: Evelyn, John.
Title: Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions: as it was delivered in the Royal Society on the 15th day of October, 1662, upon occasion of certain quaeries propounded to that illustrious assembly, ...
Description: York: Printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley. T. Cadell, et. al. 1786, 0. Hardcover. Large quarto. Two volumes. [lvi], 649, [x]pp. []4, *b4-*d4, a4-c4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Zzz4, Aaaa4-Nnnn4, Oooo2. First Hunter edition published just over a century after the first edition. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked, retaining original spines. With Evelyn's engraved portrait by Bartolozzi, 40 botanical plates (one folding) by John S. Miller, and a folding explanatory table. Keynes 47; Pritzel 2766; Nissen, BBI 615. Good.

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