The manner of raising, ordering; and improving forrest-trees: . also, how to plant, make and keep vvoods, vvalks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c. With several figures proper for avenues and walks to end in, and convenient figures for lawns. 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, usefull for most men. By M. Cook.
Moses Cook
Category
Books
Date
1676
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3141939
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],204,[4]p., [4] leaves of plates . plans . 4to.. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signed 'P. Mazell': 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7705 2nd state- fine text) [Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Seventeenth-century full sprinkled leather binding; double blind fillet border; four raised bands; spine blind ruled and spine label gilt lettered: "Cook on forest trees".
Makers and roles
Moses Cook