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Forests and forestry

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  • Two views showing the new Rachitici institute and the surrounding woodland area of San Michele, Bologna, Italy. Wood engraving after a photograph by A. Belvederi, 1896.
  • Old oak tree (Quercus species) in Windsor Forest. Charcoal drawing by G. B. (or B. G.), 1852.
  • Adam and Eve are driven from Eden by an angel. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
  • A tree bearing fruit labelled with virtues; representing the life of the Christian. Coloured etching by J. Couse, c. 1780, after J. Bakewell.
  • Three men standing by the huge trunk of an Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus amygdalina), in a forest. Wood engraving, c. 1867.
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    Tree-ferns in an Australian forest with two hunters in the distance. Engraving by E. Brandard, c. 1873, after N. Chevalier.

    Chevalier, Nicolas, 1828-1902. | Date: [1873] | Reference: 20961i
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    Sylva, or a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions ... Together with an historical account of the sacredness and use of standing groves / By John Evelyn ... with notes by A. Hunter... To which is added the Terra. A philosophical discourse of earth. With the editor's last corrections and a short memoir of him.

    Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. | Date: 1812
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    Nafanua : saving the Samoan rain forest / Paul Alan Cox ; illustrated by Michael Rothman.

    Cox, Paul Alan. | Date: [1997], ©1997
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    A road by a river outside a town: a distraught woman lying by the side of a road is recognized by a man who grasps her by the wrist. Engraving by W. Woollett.

    | Date: [between 1760 and 1769?] | Reference: 3163141i
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    House-plants as sanitary agents, or, The relation of growing vegetation to health and disease : comprising also a consideration of the subject of practical floriculture and of the sanitary influences of forests and plantations / by J.M. Anders.

    Anders, James M. (James Meschter), 1854-1936. | Date: 1887
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