The unauthorized reprint of the second edition of this classic work. The first edition appeared in 1788 and the second authorized edition was published by the author in 1790 in Berlin. Due to the enormous success of this book, it was pirated and published again in Frankfurt and Leipzig, without any publisher named, in 1792. There were later editions, authorized and pirated, through a fifth edition in 1812 and a French translation.

This is, according to A.D.B., Burgsdorf’s most important book. “Burgsdorf’s Bedeutung ist doppelter Art. Er war Naturforscher, bez. Forstbotaniker und Forstwirth zugleich und wirkte in beiden Richtungen durch Wort, That and Schrift.”–A.D.B., Vol. 3, pp. 613-14.

Burgsdorf (1747-1802), was manager of the forests of the Kurmark Brandenburg and a member of the Berlin Académie des Sciences and many other societies. The author wrote a number of “highly esteemed” (N.B.G. in trans.) books on arboriculture and forestry.

The handcolored plate is a map of an idealized forest, depicting by use of different colors, the various sections and types of trees.

Fine copy and very rare with no copy in the U.S., according to OCLC. Finely engraved contemporary bookplate of “Le Comte de Seinsheim.”

❧ Mantel, I, p. 15. N.B.G., Vol. 7, col. 836.