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WOOD THE ALTERNATIVE FUEL
Written by Andrew Porteous.
Stock no. 1712352
Published by Hickory House Press. 1st 1978. Very good condition.

Small format. Card wraps. 48 pages. Towards self-sufficiency Series No. 1. ISBN: 0950619000.

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PLANTATION FORESTRY IN THE TROPICS
Written by Julian Evans.
Stock no. 2113408
Published by Clarendon Press. 2nd 1992. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. Second edition. Card wraps. B/w charts and photos. ISBN: 0198542577. Some creasing and wear to covers.

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CHANGES IN LAND USE AND LAND COVER: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Written by William B. Meyer; B.L. Turner.
Stock no. 1602903
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1994. Nearly fine condition.

Glazed boards. 537 pages. Colour photos and b/w illustrations. Edited by Meyer and Turner. ISBN: 0521470854. Small red pen mark to front endpaper. Spine bumped.

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THE FOREST PRUNER OR TIMBER OWNER'S ASSISTANT
Written by William Pontey.
Stock no. 818866
Published by J. Harding. 1808. Good condition.

Second Edition. Timber Owner's Assistant: A Treatise on the Training or Management of British Timber Trees. White paper spine with title block, blue paper boards. 8 plates including 4 tinted. Spine worn with loss at edges to backstrip, title block is hard to read. Covers a little grubby. Bookplate and shelf label to front pastedown. A number of small ink blots to verso of frontis which show through. A few scattered foxspots. Page crinkling. All plates present. A presentable copy.

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THE PLANTER'S KALENDAR OR THE NURSERYMAN'S & FORESTER'S GUIDE
Written by Walter Nicol; Edward Sang.
Stock no. 630511
Published by Archibald Constable And Company. 1812. Almost very good condition.

Or the Nurseryman's & Forester's Guide, in the Operations of the Nursery, the Forest, and the Grove. Three-quarter brown leather binding, blue marbled boards. Red title block to spine with gilt title. Two colour plus one b/w plate. Leather worn/split to spine edges but binding still tight. Bookplate to front pastedown. Scattered foxing throughout, heavy in places but still perfectly readable. All plates present. A decent copy of an antiquarian title.

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MANWOOD'S TREATISE OF THE FOREST LAWS
Written by William Nelson.
Stock no. 628241
Published by E. Nutt. 1717. Almost very good condition.

Shewing Not Only the Laws Now in Force But the Original of Forests, What They Are, and How They Differ from Chases, Parks and Warrens With All Such Things As Are Incident to Either. Together With the Proper Terms of Art, Collected Out of the Common and Statute Laws of This Realm; as Also From the Assises and Iters of Pickering and Lancaster and Several Other Ancient and Learned Authors. Treating Also of the Offices of Agistors, Beadles, Foresters, Keepers, Rangers, Verderors and Woodwards and of the Courts of Attachment Etc. With All the Variety of Cases Relating to Forests, Chases, Parks and Warrens and All the Laws Concerning the Game Made, Adjudged or Repealed Since the Year 1665. The Fourth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. 7.5 x 4.5 inches. Full brown leather binding. Raised bands, gilt title to spine. 435 pages + 23 pages "The Table". Endpapers browned. Contents in general very good. Boards scuffed. Top and tail of spine chipped with loss. Corners worn.

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Y MESURYDD TIR A CHOED
No author listed.
Stock no. 581745
Published by T. Gee. 1883. Good condition.

The Measurer of Land and Trees. Text in Welsh. 2 b/w plates. Numerous measurement tables. Small format. 155 pages. Full black tooled leather binding. Contents detached. Rear pastedown stained. Corners of covers bumped and rubbed.

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FORESTS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Written by H.N. Whitford; Roland D. Craig.
Stock no. 562883
Published by Commission Of Conservation Canada. 1st 1918. Slightly better than good condition.

Brown card wraps. 409 pages. B/w photos. Folding maps. Covers grubby and creased. Contents very good. Large folding colour maps present in rear pocket.

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NATURAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES
Written by Jacob Harris Patton.
Stock no. 987218
Published by D. Appleton And Company. 1st 1888. Very good condition.

First edition. XV, 523 + 3 pages. Red cloth, gilt titles. Includes: The coastline, coalmining, petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, gold, silver and other metals, building stone, health resorts, climate, timber, fruits, ocean resources and much more! Spine faded. Corners rubbed.

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