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O (Stack)Cook, Moses.
The manner of raising, ordering; and improving forest and fruit-trees: : also, how to plant, make and keep woods, walks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c. With several figures in copper-plates, proper for the same. 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, useful for most men
/ By Moses Cook, gardiner to that great encourager of planting, the Right Honourable, the Earl of Essex. Whereunto is now added, that ingenious treatise of Mr. Gabriel Plattes, viz. A discovery of subterranean treasure. London : printed for Peter Parker at the Leg and Star over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1679. Inscribed "A curious old work but wants part of the title page otherwise perfect - Job Lousley's Book ... 1827". Also lacks Plattes's Treatise. Gunther Loan Collection.
[1940-6/ ]
1679