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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. ... and how to measure timber and other solid bodies, either by arithmetick or geometry ... whereunto is now added, that ingenious treatise of Mr. Gabriel Plattes, viz. A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure. 2 parts in one. 4 engraved plates, tables; part II with separate title. Small 4o, contemporary sheep, front cover detached, still holding preliminaries through dedication; one-inch area of worming to left side of contents, heaviest though signatures D-F, but mostly marginal. Second Edition, but the first to contain the most important treatise on mining by Gabriel Plattes. Wing C6033; Hoover 232; Kress 1483. Ex-collection Smiley Brothers, Inc., dba Mohonk Mountain House. London: for Peter Parker, 1679
