Practical Forestry For The Agent And Surveyor

Published by The Estates Gazette Limited, London, 1962

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First Edition. Inscribed and Signed by Author. DESCRIPTION: A book from a collection owned by the Anderson family - see provenance. Illustrated black and white DJ over bright green textured cloth. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Light wear to sharp corners, edges and spine ends. Clean cloth. Tightly bound with spotted intact endpapers. Prev owners name to ffep. Short author inscription and signature. Foxing to false title and faint fox marks to title pages. Lightly toned pages with occasional marks from spotted text block fore edge. DJ Condition: Poor: Heavy wear and chipping to upper edges. 5cm tear to upper spine edge. 1.5cm tear to upper rear spine edge and lower front edge and upper front corner. 3cm tear to lower rear spine edge. Dust soiled covers with wear to fold over edges. Unclipped Pages 438. Size: 8vo 22cm by 14cm. PROVENANCE: Donald Anderson. [Nigel] Donald Anderson (Hamptworth Estate). Son of Nigel James Moffat and Daphne Anderson. Nigel James Moffatt Anderson (1920-2008). Born 1920 in Melbourne to Lieutenant Colonel John Hubback Anderson (of the Australian Imperial Force) and Ruby Clara Moffat he was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Oxford. In 1939, he joined the 4th (Territorial Army) Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Took part in the Norwegian Campaign of April to June 1940, and won one of the earliest Military Crosses of the war. He was seriously wounded in 1941. After the war became a schoolmaster at Radley College. In 1952 he inherited the Hamptworth estate from a cousin (Hugh Charles Cumberbatch and his wife Lucy Alice Moffat). Elected to Wiltshire County Council in 1953. In 1974 he was Gazetted a Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire and in 1991 appointed the 999th High Sheriff of Wiltshire. From 1981 to 1985 he chaired the committee of the Wiltshire Victoria County History, was also chairman of the Wiltshire Scouts Association and president of the Wiltshire Youth Orchestra. Nigel Anderson met his wife Daphne [nee Siggins] while serving with the British Army in Northern Ireland and they had one son, Donald Anderson, who succeeded to the estate. Hamptworth Estate (1579 - 2018). Between 1579 -1869 the estate passed between from Gifford, Stockman, Chaplin, Duncombe, Shafto families. Thereafter, it passed to; 1870 - George Morrison, 1884 - Barbara Morrison (wife of George), 1907 - H.C. Moffatt (nephew of George), 1945 - H.C. Cumberbatch (nephew of H.C. Moffatt), 1957 - N.J.M. Anderson (Grandson of H.C. Moffatt), 2012 - Donald Anderson.

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Title
Practical Forestry For The Agent And Surveyor
Author
HART, Cyril E.
Publisher
The Estates Gazette Limited, London
Publication year
1962
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Poor
Signed
Inscribed and Signed by Author
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition.
Dimensions
Size: 8vo 22cm by 14cm.

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