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Lot 156
Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-307
Nov 9, 2021
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Nov 10, 2021
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PONTEY, William (fl 1780-1831). The Forest Pruner; Or, Timber Owner’s Assistant: A Treatise on The Training or Management of British Timber Trees; ...with Remarks on the Old and Outlines of a New System of Management of Oak Woods. London: J. Harding, 1810.
8vo (225 x 144 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 7 engraved plates (3 folding and sepia toned); 3pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. (Some spotting, staining or light toning.) Original gray paper-covered boards, paper printed lettering-piece to spine, edges untrimmed (rebacked and new spine label but preserving original endsheets, some chipping to boards, one small tear to head of spine, some toning to edges); glassine.
Third edition. Pontey was a planter and a tree pruner to Duke of Bedford, as well as a nurseryman at Lepton in Kirkheaton, Yorks.
Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum