An Oak Spring Sylva Download

Author: Sandra Raphael
Edition: 1ST
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0300046529

An Oak Spring Sylva: A Selection of the Rare Books on Trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library (Oak Spring Garden Foundation Series)

An Oak Spring Sylva is the first of a series of catalogues describing selections of the rare books, manuscripts, works of art, and related artifacts in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Rachel Lambert Mellon. Download An Oak Spring Sylva: A Selection of the Rare Books on Trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library (Oak Spring Garden Foundation Series) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. The Sylva, whose subject is trees, describes nearly fifty books, manuscripts, or drawings, from a tiny 1555 book on oaks to early nineteenth-century advice on large-scale tree-planting--a range including both great books, such as Evelyn's Sylva, Duhamel's Traite des Arbres, and Michaux's North American Sylva, and more modest ones, such as Marshall's American Grove, which helped introduce the riches of American forests to European gardens in the eighteenth century. Each description makes clear the background Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.