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
de LOUDON ((John Claudius)
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Grantham, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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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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- 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
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- LOUDON ((John Claudius)
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- Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co., 1804
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