The landed gentleman's useful companion: or, A sure and easy method of improving estates : By plantation of oak, elm, beech, birch, platanus, portugal chesnut, horse chesnut, walnut, lime, service, maple, sycamore, hornbeam, quickbeam, hazel, fir, pine, and all kinds of aquaticks, &c. Wherein is demonstrated, the necessity and advantage thereof; with their, manner of raising, cultivating, felling, &c. in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improved. Together with an appendix, of the mensuration of timber, after the common method; and the deceitful way of taking dimensions. Likewise geometrical rules for the true mensuration thereof. The whole being founded on above thirty years experience, and now first published for the benefit of the publick by a country gentleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Standardized Title:

Sure method of improving estates

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forests and forestry--Measurement.

Forests and forestry.

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages,xx,274 pages,plate ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for James Hodges, at the Looking-Glass, over-against St. Magnus Church, London-Bridge, 1741.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

A reissue of the 1728 edition entitled 'A sure method of improving estates, .. ', with a cancelled titlepage and with the irregular pagination in the preliminaries corrected.

Variant; the preliminary pagination is uncorrected.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T11864.

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Restricted for use by site license.