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321 - « The first important book [ ] on forest trees » [EVELYN (John)]. Silva: Or, A Discourse Of Forest-Trees, And The Propagation of Timber in his Majesty's Dominions Together With An Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves With Notes by A Hunter, The Fifth Edition. London, Henry Colburn, 1825 , 2 vol. in-4, veau marron glacé, encadrement de deux filets dorés et roulette à froid sur les plats, dos à nerfs plats orné de motifs dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison noires, tranches marbrées, [Rel. de l'époque], accrocs aux coiffes, mors fendus. Portrait en frontispice, 45 figures hors texte, dont 2 repliées, gravés sur cuivre. Dabord publié en 1664, le Silva dEvelyn est « the first important book to be published in [Britain] on forest trees. No other work on arboriculture exerted a greater influence on forestry in this country, and certainly no other book on the subject was so often quoted. » (Henrey, p. 101). Piqûres. Ex-libris héraldique gravé et manuscrit Francis Hastings Toone
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