Observations on the propagation and management of oak trees in general : but more immediately applying to His Majesty's New-Forest, in Hampshire, with a view of making that extensive tract of land more productive of timber for the use of the navy : in a letter addressed to the Right Honourable John Earl of Chatham ...

Observations on the propagation and management of oak trees in general : but more immediately applying to His Majesty's New-Forest, in Hampshire, with a view of making that extensive tract of land more productive of timber for the use of the navy : in a letter addressed to the Right Honourable John Earl of Chatham ...

Southampton : Printed by T. Baker, [1791]

42, [2] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)

L2012F4 1791

(OCoLC)06629709

Signatures: A-E4 F2.
"A table, shewing the number of trees that will stand upon an acre of land at different distances ...": p. [43]
Author was "purveyor of the navy for Portsmouth dock yard", the principal dockyard of the British navy. To privide all materials to build warships, author suggests necessary methods to increase the production of timber in the New Forest.
With: Methods proposed for decreasing the consumption of timber, in the Navy ..., 1793.
Bound in half calf with marbled boards; spine gilt.
Ms. corrections & additions (p. [44]) by the author.
Library copy: Author's inscribed presentation copy: "T. Nichols's respectful compliments to W. Sloane."

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