The Manner of Raising, Ordering; and Improving Forest and Fruit-Trees: Also, How to Plant, Make and Keep Woods, Walks, Avenues, Lawns, Hedges, &c. With Several Figures in Copper-Plates, Proper for the Same. Also, Rules and Tables shewing how the Ingenius Planter may measure Superficial Figures, with Rules how to divide Woods or Land, and how to measure Timber and other Solid Bodies, either by Arithmetick or Geometry, shewing the Life of that most Excellent Line, the Line of Numbers, by several New Examples; with many other Rules, useful for most Men.

Cook, Moses

Published by Printed for Peter Parker, 1679

About this Item

London: Printed for Peter Parker, 1679. Small Octavo (7 3 /4 x 5 3 /4 , 1978mm x 145mm). With 4 engraved plates and various charts and tables. Bound in quarter calf over marbled paper boards. On the spine, 5 raised bands, gilt with title and author. Lightly worn on the spine and extremities. Some foxing throughout. This is a rare copy of an early gardening book. Moses Cook (d. 1715) was gardener to the Earl of Essex, Arthur Capell, and contributed to the forrest garden of Cassioberry in Herfordshire, England. Cook outlined the manner of raising trees, as well as the rules to do so. He recommended the use of limes, elms and beech trees, and using only the best specimens.

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• Title: The Manner of Raising, Ordering; and Improving Forest and Fruit-Trees: Also, How to Plant, Make and Keep Woods, Walks, Avenues, Lawns, Hedges, &c. With Several Figures in Copper-Plates, Proper for the Same. Also, Rules and Tables shewing how the Ingenius Planter may measure Superficial Figures, with Rules how to divide Woods or Land, and how to measure Timber and other Solid Bodies, either by Arithmetick or Geometry, shewing the Life of that most Excellent Line, the Line of Numbers, by several ...
• Publisher: Printed for Peter Parker
• Publication Date: 1679
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
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