The Forester's Guide and Profitable Planter…

8vo, leather spine and corners with marbled boards, gilt label on spine, illustrated frontispiece and 15 additional full page plates, plus one folding table, 500 pp. Some extremity and binding wear, portion or rear endpaper torn away, some foxing and offset to some plates, normal browning and aging; otherwise about very good. Monteath's goal in his Forrester's Guide "was to lay down rules, and describe a method by which standing trees of all sizes may be accurately and expeditiously measured, and their value ascertained." he tries to show the value of planting trees, and includes a table that shows the profit and loss values of planting one acre of land. He also provides an illustration of his new machine for measuring trees.