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• Du transport, de la conservation et de la force des bois ou l'on trouvera des moyens d'attendrir les bois, de leur donner diverses courbures, sur-tout pour la construction des vaisseaux et de former des pieces d'assemblage pour suppléer au défaut des pieces simples : faisant la conclusion du Traité complet des bois et des forets (de l'imprimerie de L. F. Delatour, 1767), by Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Benoît Louis Prevost, Louis-François Delatour, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber Wachsthum, Bewirthschaftung und Behandlung der Buch-Waldungen : Ein beytrag zur forstwissenschaft (Im Verlage der Stettinischen Buchhandlung, 1799), by Johann Georg Seutter von Lötzen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber Forstwirthschaft, besonders über Erhaltung, Abtrieb und Wiederanbau der Wälder (Bey Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius, 1796), by C. P. Laurop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sylva, or, A discourse of forest-trees and the propagation of timber in His Majesties dominions : as it was deliver'd in the Royal Society the XVth of October, MDCLXII ... Terra, a philosophical essay of earth, being a lecture in course : to which is annexed Pomona, or, An appendix concerning fruit-trees in relation to cider, the making and several ways of ordering it, published by express order of the Royal Society : also, Kalendarium hortense, or, The gard'ners almanac, directing what he is to do monthly throughout the year (Printed for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society ... , 1679), by John Evelyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sylva; Or, A Discourse of Forest Trees. Vol. 1 (of 2), by John Evelyn, contrib. by John Nisbet (Gutenberg ebook)
• The manner of raising, ordering, and improving forrest-trees also, how to plant, make and keep woods, walks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c. : with several figures proper for avenues and walks to end in, and convenient figures for lawns : also rules by M. Cook. (London : Printed for Peter Parker ..., 1676), by Moses Cook (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Lady's Recreation: or, The Third and Last Part of the Art of Gardening Improv'd (Dublin: Reprinted for G. Grierson, 1717), by Charles Evelyn and John Laurence, contrib. by John Evelyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on Modern Gardening, Illustrated by Descriptions (second edition; London: Printed for T. Payne, 1770), by Thomas Whately (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la composition des paysages (Chez P.M. Delaguette, libraire-imprimeur ..., 1777), by René Louis Girardin and P. M. Delaguette (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theorie de l'art des jardins (Weidmann, 1779), by Christian Cajus Lorenz Hirschfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur les haies : destinées à la clôture des prés, des champs, des vignes & des jeunes bois : ou l'on traite des différentes espèces de haies, de leur construction & de leurs avantages : couronné par l'Académie des sciences, belles-lettres & arts de Lyon, dans la séance publique du 31 août 1784 (Chez Cuchet, libraire ..., 1787), by Pierre Joseph Amoreux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allerhand neue parterre und blümen Stück. bestehend in Broderie als Mosaique, Crothesque und gaçons, wie solche in grosse Lustgärten können employirt und angeleget werden (J.C. Wiegel, 1730), by Johann David Fülck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on modern gardening, illustrated by descriptions. (Printed for T. Payne ..., 1770), by Thomas Whately and Thomas Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Planting and rural ornament : being a second edition, with large additions, of planting and ornamental gardening, a practical treatise : in two volumes. (Printed for G. Nicol ..., G.G. and J. Robinson ..., and J. Debrett ..., 1796), by Mr. Marshall, John Debrett, G. Nicol, and London G. G. and J. Robinson (Paternoster Row (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des moyens d'embellir la nature autour des habitations, en joignant l'agréable à l'utile (Chez Mayer, imprimeur, rue Neuve-Augustin, nos. 580 et 29, 1794), by René Louis Girardin, 18th cent Mayer, and Pierre-Méri Delaguette (page images at HathiTrust)
• La theorie et la pratique du jardinage : , comme sont les parterres, les bosquets, les boulingrins, &c. : contenant plusieurs plans et dispositions generales de jardins, nouveaux desseins de parterres ... & autres ornemens servant à la decoration & embélissement des jardins : avec la maniere de dresser un terrain ... (Chez Jean Mariette ..., 1709), by A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville and Jean Mariette (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la distribution des maisons de plaisance, et de la decoration des edifices en general. (Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1737), by Jacques-François Blondel, Pierre Soubeyran, Charles Nicolas Cochin, and Charles-Antoine Jombert (page images at HathiTrust)
• A review of The landscape, a didactic poem : also of An essay on the picturesque : together with practical remarks on rural ornament (Printed for G. Nicol ..., G.G. and J. Robinson ..., and J. Debrett ..., 1795), by Mr. Marshall, John Debrett, G. Nicol, and London G. G. and J. Robinson (Paternoster Row (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on modern gardening, and laying out pleasure-grounds, parks, farms, ridings etc., illustrated by descriptions : to which is added, an essay on the different natural situations of gardens. (Printed for West & Hughes, Pater-Noster Row, 1801), by Thomas Whately, James Walker, William Wise, William Wollet, and Horace Walpole (page images at HathiTrust)
• La theorie et la pratique du jardinage : où l'on traite a fond des beaux jardins appellés communément les jardins de plaisance et de propreté : avec les pratiques de géométrie nécessaires pour tracer sur le terrein toutes sortes de figures : et un traité d'hydraulique convenable aux jardins (Chez Pierre-Jean Mariette, rue S. Jacques, aux Colonnes d'Hercule, 1747), by A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville, Pierre Jean Mariette, Jean Mariette, Claude Lucas, and Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Le Blond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plans de jardins dans le goût anglais & instructions dans l'art de distribuer & planter de petits terrains (Chés Frideric Brummer, 1798), by Johan Ludwig Mansa and G. N. Angelo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discours servant d'explication (chez G. Griffin; T. Davis; Wilson & Nicol, & P. Elmsley; & J. Walter, 1773), by William Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theorie der Gartenkunst ([s.n.], 1777), by Christian Cajus Lorenz Hirschfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on modern gardening, illustrated by descriptions. (Printed for T. Payne ..., 1770), by Thomas Whately and Thomas Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le jardin de plaisir : contenant plusieurs desseins de jardinage tant parterres en broderie, compartiments de gazon, que bosquets & autres : avec vn abbregé de l'agriculture, touchant ce qui peut estre le plus vtile & necessaire a la construction & accompagnement dudict jardin de plaisir : composé & divisé en onze chapitres (Chez Henry Kayser, 1651), by André Mollet, Jean Baptiste Colbert, Henrik Keyser, Wolffgang Hartmann, Jan van de Velde, and Michel Lasne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vier und zwanzig Gärten-Grundrisse (Verlegt von Johann Andreas Pfeffel ..., 1740), by Franz Anton Danreiter and Johann Andreas Pfeffel (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Dialogue upon the Gardens of the Right Honorouble the Lord Viscount Cobham at Stow in Buckinghamshire, by William Gilpin, ed. by John Dixon Hunt (Gutenberg ebook)

• Collins's paradise retriev'd (Printed for John Collins ..., and sold by him, and R. Burleigh ..., 1717), by Samuel Collins (page images at HathiTrust)

• The British gardener's new director : chiefly adapted to the climate of the northern counties: directing the necessary works in the kitchen, fruit and pleasure gardens, and in the nursery, greenhouse, and stove ... (printed at the request ... of several Gentlemen ... by John Exshaw ..., 1771), by James Justice and John Exshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art des jardins anglois (Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert pere ..., 1771), by Thomas Whately, Charles-Antoine Jombert, and François de Paule Latapie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plans de jardins dans le goût anglais & instructions dans l'art de distribuer & planter de petits terrains (Chés Frideric Brummer, 1798), by Johan Ludwig Mansa and G. N. Angelo (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Explanatory Discourse by Tan Chet-qua of Quang-chew-fu, Gent., by William Chambers, contrib. by Richard Quaintance (Gutenberg ebook)
• The garden of pleasure containing several draughts of gardens, both in embroyder'd-ground-works, knot-works of grass, as likewise in wildernesses, and others : with their cuts in copper / by Andrew Mollet. (In the Savoy : Printed by T.N. for John Martyn, at the Bell without Temple-Barr, and Henry Herringman at the Anchor in the New-Exchange, 1670), by André Mollet (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Vollständiges Garten-Buch : darinnen sowohl von einheimischen als ausländischen Gewächsen, Blumen und Bäumen gründliche Nachricht gegeben wird : nebst einem nützlichen Unterricht von der Bienen Wartung : vom Baumbeschneiden : und der rechten Baum-Zucht : samt einem Verzeichniss des besten Frantz-Obsts : mit nöthigen Kupffern gezieret, an vielen Oertern verbessert, von Druckfehlern gesäubert, und mit einem nützlichen Register versehen (Siegmund Heinrich Hoffmann, 1743), by René Dahuron and Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vollständiger Garten-Bau : darinnen sowohl von einheimischen als ausländischen Gewächsen, Blumen und Bäumen gründliche Nachricht gegeben wird, nebst einem nützlichen Unterricht von der Bienenwartung; vom Baumbeschneiden; und der rechten Baumzucht; samt einem Verzeichniss des besten Frantz-Obsts. Mit nöthigen Kupfern gezieret, an vielen Oertern verbessert, von Druckfehlern gesäubert, und mit einem nützlichen Register versehen. (Carl Ludolph Hoffmann, 1769), by René Dahuron (page images at HathiTrust)

• Instructions agreed upon in Parliament, for Commissioners, for surveying the forest of Sherwood; the forest, or chase of Needwood; the forest, or chase of Kingswood; the forest, or chase of Ashdown, or Lancaster great park; and Endfield chase : in pursuance of an act of this present Parliament, entituled, An act and declaration, touching several acts and ordinances made since the twentieth of April 1653. and before the third of September 1654. and other acts, &c. : at the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th day of September, anno Domini, 1656. (Printed by Henry Hills and John Field, printers to His Highness, 1657), by England and Wales Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)
• A modest vindication of the case of John Giffard gent· And an answer to the reply of the preservators of Deane Forest. With certain reasons why those iron works should not be demolished untill his stock be wrought out. ([London : s.n., 1646]), by John Giffard (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By the trustees for the deafforestation, sale and improvement of the forests, &c. all maner [sic] of persons that do pretend any interest in the forest are hereby summoned to put in their claims, either by themselves or some others in their behalfs, to the said trustees sitting at Worcester house in the Strand Middlesex within thirty days after the publication thereof. (London : Printed for John Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, 1653), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons humbly offered for the encrease and preservation of the timber in the new forest. ([London? : s.n., 1670]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons humbly offered to the consideration of Parliament, agaist the passing of a bill, intituled, An Act for the better preservation of the wood in Deane-Forrest, so far as it related to in inclosure of the moorish land, called Wall moore. ([London? : s.n., 1690]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Miscellaneous Documents. 1653-12-01 (London : printed by John Field, printer to the Parliament of England, 1653), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Articles to be performed by vertue of our commission of sale annexed, touching forrests, parkes, and chases. (Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie., Anno Dom. 1609), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) and King of England James I (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the gentlemen freeholders and others, who have the right of common in the forest or chace of Needwood in the county of Stafford. ([S.l. : s.n., 1680?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Sylva (Printed for Jo. Martyn, and Ja. Allestry ..., 1670), by John Evelyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• An order of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning His Maiesties forrests, parks, and chases: commanded to be published in all parishes where they are. (London : Printed for John Wright, 1642), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The commons complaint. VVherein is contained tvvo speciall grieuances: The first, the generall destruction and waste of woods in this kingdome, with a remedy for the same: also how to plant wood according tyo the nature of euery soyle, without losse of any ground; and how thereby many more and better cattel may be yeerely bred, with the charge and profit that yeerely may arise thereby. The second grieuance is, the extreme dearth of victuals. Fovre remedies for the same. ... (London : Printed by William Stansby, 1611), by Arthur Standish (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• New directions of experience to the Commons complaint by the incouragement of the Kings most excellent Maiesty, as may appeare, for the planting of timber and fire-wood. With a neere estimation what millions of acres the kingdome doth containe; what acres is waste ground, whereon little profit for this purpose will arise. : What millions hath bin woods, and bushy grounds, what acres are woods, and in how many acres so much timber will be contained, as will maintaine the kingdome for all vses for euer. : And how as great store of fire-wood may be raised, as may plentifully maintaine the kingdome for all purposes, without losse of ground; so as within thirty yeares all spring-woods may be conuerted to tillage and pasture. / Inuented by Arthur Standish. ([S.l. : N. Okes], Anno Domini. MDCXIII. [1613]), by Arthur Standish (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An olde thrift nevvly reuiued VVherein is declared the manner of planting, preserving, and husbanding yong trees of diuers kindes for timber and fuell. And of sowing acornes, chesnuts, beech-mast, the seedes of elmes, ashen-keyes, &c. With the commodities and discommodities of inclosing decayed forrests, commons, and waste grounds. And also the vse of a small portable instrument for measuring of board, and the solid content and height of any tree standing. Discoursed in a dialogue betweene a surueyour, woodward, gentleman, and a farmer. Diuided into foure parts, by R.C. (London : Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby] for Richard Moore, and are to be sold at his shop in St. Dunstanes Churchyard, 1612), by Rooke Churche, fl. 1612 R. C. (Robert Chambers), and R. Churton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Naredjenje priusviscenoga Kollegia Vard Duravah ... (Per li figliuoli del qu. Z. Antonio Pinelli ..., 1778), by Italy) Collegio Sopra Boschi (Venice, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, and Giulio Cesare Vittori (page images at HathiTrust)

• L'arpenteur forestier; ou, Méthode nouvelle de mesurer, calculer & construire toutes sortes de figures, suivant les principes géométriques & trigonométriques, avec un traité d'arpentage appliqué à la réformation des forêts, trèsutile tant aux arpenteurs & géographes, qu'aux marchands & propriétaires des bois. (Paris, 1770), by Guiot (page images at HathiTrust)

• An olde thrift nevvly reuiued VVherein is declared the manner of planting, preserving, and husbanding yong trees of diuers kindes for timber and fuell. And of sowing acornes, chesnuts, beech-mast, the seedes of elmes, ashen-keyes, &c. With the commodities and discommodities of inclosing decayed forrests, commons, and waste grounds. And also the vse of a small portable instrument for measuring of board, and the solid content and height of any tree standing. Discoursed in a dialogue betweene a surueyour, woodward, gentleman, and a farmer. Diuided into foure parts, by R.C. (London : Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby] for Richard Moore, and are to be sold at his shop in St. Dunstanes Churchyard, 1612), by Rooke Churche, fl. 1612 R. C. (Robert Chambers), and R. Churton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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