[NATURAL HISTORY]. BOUTCHER, William (fl. 1734-1781). A Treatise on Forest-Trees: Containing not only the Best Methods of their Culture hitherto Practiced, but a Variety of New and Useful Discoveries. Edinburgh: R. Fleming for J. Murray, 1775.
4to (254 x 203 mm). Additional engraved title-page. Contemporary calf with single gilt border (rebacked to style, some edgewear and rubbing to fore-corners). Provenance: William Murray of Touchadam (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY BOUTCHER, with the additional engraved title-page only found in a few copies. Boutcher guides the reader through “plain directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of forest-trees,” “transplanting hedges of sundry kinds,” as well as the “disposition, planting, and culture of hedges” to promote more robust growth (title-page). Henrey declared that the present work is the best 18th-century treatise on arboriculture, which has practical guidance that aid forestry today. Cleveland Collections, 521; Henrey III:476.
Property from the Estate of Peter Fortsas
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