On naval timber and arboriculture : with critical notes on authors who have recently treated the subject of planting / by Patrick Matthew.

  • Matthew, Patrick, 1790-1874.
Date:
1831
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About this work

Publication/Creation

Edinburgh : Adam Black; London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831.

Physical description

xvi, 391 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (wood engravings) ; 22 cm (8vo)

Notes

Half title: On naval timber
Errata: p. 391
Appendix (pp. [363]-391) describes a pre-Darwinian theory of natural selection. See W.J. Dempster, Patrick Matthew and natural selection (Edinburgh, 1983)
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: J. Weber Note: Binding: Original green cloth, printed paper spine label. Some pencil annotations in Appendix. Pencil ownership inscription of George Taylor on half title. From the library of Haskell F. Norman (1915-96), with his book label

References note

GM (5th ed.) 216.3
Norman 1457

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