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 ingenious 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 use of that most excellent line, the line of numbers, by several new examples; with many other rules, useful for most men. By Moses Cook, gardiner to that great encourager of planting, the Right Honourable, the Earl of Essex. Whereunto is now added, that ingenious treatise of Mr. Gabriel Plattes, viz. A discovery of subterranean treasure.
Moses Cook
Category
Books
Date
1679
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3008450
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 204, [8], 24 p., [4] leaves of plates : plans, tables ; 4to. Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham (1717-1761)]. Manuscript inscription in seventeenth-century hand on front pastedown: "Will Windham" [i.e. William Windham (1647-1689)]. Manuscript former shelfmarks in pencil on front and rear pastedowns: "A3" and "B3". With manuscript marginal annotations, manicules, markings and underscoring of text [by William Windham I (1647-1689)?]. Binding: seventeenth-century full mottled calf; sewn onto five cords; blind roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title on brown leather label on spine. Red and blue marbled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Moses Cook, author Gabriel Plattes (fl.1638-1640), author