A sure and easy method of improving estates By plantation of oak, elm, ash, beech, birch, platanus, Portugal chesnut, horse chesnut, walnut, lime service, maple, sycamore, hornbeam, quickbeam, hazel, fir, pine, and all kinds of aquaticks, &c. Wherein is demonstrated, the necessity and advantage thereof; with their manner of raising, cultivating, feeling, &c. in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improved. Together with an appendix, of the mensuration of timber, after the common method; and the deceitful way of taking dimensions. Likewise geometrical rules for the true mensuration thereof. By Batty Langley
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London
Printed for F. Noble, at Otway's-Head, in St. Martin's-Court, near Leicester-Fields
1740, 1740
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Edition: | The second edition |
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Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, N34632. - First published in 1728 as "A sure method of improving estates. - Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library. - Titlepage in red and black |
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Physical Description: | Online-Ressource ([10],xx,274p.,plate) 8° |