This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...bring high prices, but I think it is safe to assume that it happens rarely. A large part of the tree is usually left in the woods anyway and if the wood had such value it would pay to make a special trip to the spot just to get the stump. It will be seen from the statistics quoted above that 34.5 per ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...bring high prices, but I think it is safe to assume that it happens rarely. A large part of the tree is usually left in the woods anyway and if the wood had such value it would pay to make a special trip to the spot just to get the stump. It will be seen from the statistics quoted above that 34.5 per cent of our mahogany comes from South America, Africa, Asia and through Europe. Just what trees yield this wood I am, of course, unable to say. I am also, I think, quite safe in saying that nobody knows. There is a whole lot of wood which sells for mahogany, which looks like mahogany, and which brings just as much money as mahogany and may be just as good, but it is not all mahogany from a botanical standpoint. Nobody can tell the species of tree that yields a tropical timber by merely looking at the log. Without leaf, flower or fruit, or even bark, the naming of the tree which yielded the timber is simply the purest kind of guesswork. English tramp ships are running to all parts of the world. They pick up here and there small lots of anything marketable. A mahogany log, using the term "mahogany" in a commercial and not a botanical sense, on the wharf of an English port may come from one of many places and may be the product of a tree which looks no more like the mahogany tree than a peach resembles an apple. Mahogany in a commercial sense applies to any wood that will sell under that head; in a botanical sense it applies only to Swietenia mahagoni. I have heard of expert mahogany dealers in England, and I presume we have the same in the United States, who can. as it were, look right through a mahogany log, tell to a surety the kind of grain it will yield and the country which grew it. There is not the man living who from the...
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Book. 12mo, 134 pages. In Good condition. Bound in the publisher's brown/green cloth bearing dark brown lettering to pictorial front. Boards have moderate wear including sunned spine, some whitish smudges and slight rubbing wear to the edges. Text block has age toning to the edges. Pictorial end papers. Slight sticker residue offsetting to the front pastedown. Mild wear interiorly including light foxing. Frontispiece. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column M, ND-M. 1386947. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall Very good in original green cloth with pictorial cover. No markings. No bookplate. No jacket. 2nd edition. 232 pages, indexed, illustrated with b&w photos.
