Ray (John) Catalogus Plantarum circa Cantabrigiam first edition first issue title with `qua` and `Anglo`and black rule above imprint with the rare appendix bound at the end a nice copy in contemporary panelled calf RC in blind on covers and Kinnaird bookplate Cambridge 1660; the same first edition second issue title with two text corrections and red rule contemporary calf 18th century bookplate of Beilby Thompson Escrick ib. 1660; the same 2 copies first and second issue titles both present old green boards the HC Watson-JG Baker-JE Lousley copy/ contemporary calf very worn the 1685 appendix bound at the end ib. 1660 [Keynes 1-4] 8vo (4)Condition report:first edition first issue title(with `qua` and `Anglo`and black rule above imprint) with the rare appendix bound at the end a nice copy in contemporary panelled calf RC in blind on covers and Kinnaird bookplate Cambridge 1660; the same first edition second issue title(two text corrections red rule) contemporary calf 18th Cent. bookplate of Beilby Thompson Escrick ib. 1660; the same 2 copies first and second issue titles both present old green boards the HC Watson-JG Baker-JE Lousley copy/ contemporary calf very worn the 1685 appendix bound at the end ib. 1660 8vo [Keynes 1-4](4)
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Ray (John) Catalogus Plantarum Angliae first edition contemporary calf rebacked bookplate removed contemporary name Robt. Pierce on title 1670; the same second edition 2 engraved plates contemporary calf very worn contemporary name John Brown then E. Tucker Decbr. 27 [16]89 later name C.E. Manley 1677; Stirpium Europaerum extra Britannias portrait a nice crisp copy in contemporary continental calf gilt spine bit worn 1695 [Keynes 7 8 97] 8vo (3)(3)
Ray (John) Observations Topographical Moral & Ph made in a Journey through part of the Low-Countries 2 parts in 1 vol. 4 engraved plates minor soiling contemporary calf rebacked inscriptions including Jon Fenn 1768 bookplate of William Frere Downing Lodge Camb. 1673; the same second edition 2 vol. 2 copies 3 engraved plates one a large copy in russia rebacked the other contemporary sprinkled calf worn 1693; bound with A collection of curious travels some leaves browned first issue with dated publishe`rs catalogue on last 2 leaves 1693 [Keynes 21 22 22a & 92]; and 3 others similar 8vo (8)(8)
Ray (John) Miscellaneous Discourses concerning th first edition contemporary sprinkled calf bit worn signature of Godfrey Bosville [17]92 (1745-1813 reformer of Yorkshire) on half-title 1692; the same second edition (title `Three physico-theological discourses`) 4 engraved plates (3 fossils 1 of coins) contemporary calf gilt spine rather worn 1693; the same third edition portrait 4 engraved plates some browning contemporary calf joints cracked 1713; the same fourth edition 4 engraved plates but perhaps lacking a portrait contemporary calf joints cracked signature of Catherine Williams 1721 [Keynes 81 82 85 & 86] 8vo (4)(4)
Ray (John) --- John Wilkins An Essay Towards a Rea first edition 2 folding engraved plates 2 full-page engraved illustrations in the text 3 folding tables (on 2 leaves) a nice copy in contemporary calf bit rubbed and worn [Keynes 6 not mentioning the engraved plates] 1668; and a copy of the second edition of Wilkins Mercury 1694 8vo and folio (2) *** Chapters IV-V `the regular enumeration and definition of all the families of plants and animals` were contributed by Ray and John Willoughby.(2)
Ray (John) and J.Willoughby. De Historia Piscium first edition engraved title 187 engraved plates few minor repairs (eg R3 corner torn off and replaced) few marginal stains particularly at the beginning generally a nice large and crisp copy contemporary calf somewhat worn later label John Evelyn`s copy with inscription Catalogo J Evelyni Inscriptus Evellendo Cultior pressmarks e2-4 and F8.18 (another deleted) JE booklabel bought from W&W [Keynes 46] folio Oxford 1686. *** Keynes p.67 prints the contemporary accounts; 500 copies were printed but proved difficult to sell.When sold by Christies in the Evelyn sale (12 July 1978 lot 1581) this was catalogued as imperfect lacking pl.L. However there is no pl.L tout court and the book is complete conforming to Keynes.
Ray (John) and J.Willoughby. De Historia Piscium engraved title 187 engraved plates the 18th century re-issue with later printed title and captions pasted on to a number of plates marginal worming in first few gatherings one or two plates just trimmed contemporary mottled calf gilt spine somewhat worn front flyleaf loose engraved bookplates of Fitzgerald and (perhaps) Manning families sold at Hodgsons in 1947 and bought by Maggs with their cost code at the end [Keynes 47] folio 1686 (engraved title) London Davis 1743 (printed title).
Botanic Society of London.- Sowerby (James De Carl Botanic Society of London.- Sowerby (James De Carle naturalist and artist 1787-1871) & others. [Subscription book for the foundation of the society] signed by Philip Barnes first Chairman of the society manuscript in several hands 79pp. excluding blanks reverse entries browned bookplate of W. Sowerby on front pastedown original green vellum soiled covers splayed red morocco label gilt rubbed 25th May 1838; Home (The) Scientific & Literary Society [Account and subscription book] manuscript 85pp. 1f. loose browned another small notebook relating to an earlier society and mentioning several members of the Sowerby family including George Brettingham Sowerby the second (1812-84) conchologist and artist loosely inserted hinges weak original straight-grain leather notebook rubbed spine with tears 1875-1900; small 4to & 8vo *** First mentioned: “Mr. [Philip] Barnes having shewn the importance and great want of Botanical Gardens in this Metropolis - proposed as the best means of supplying such a desideratum to all lovers of that branch of natural history... the formation of a Society for the purpose of establishing Botanical Gardens in the Inner Circle of Regents Park now occupied as a Nursery Ground by Mr. Jenkins... .” - Subscription Book. The Royal Botanical Society was founded in 1838 and “had gardens occupying a portion of the inner circle in Regent`s Park formerly Jenkins`s Nursery. They consisted of 18 acres and were laid out by Robert Marnock with rock winter and landscape gardens also a lake and an artificial mound all made in the style of the `natural` school. For 30 years the Society`s Secretary was J. de. C. Sowerby eldest son of the author of Sowerby`s English Botany.” - Weinreb and Hibbert. The London Encyclopaedia. (3)
Sowerby (J.) English Botany first edition a collection of c.320 loose plates about a third of which are uncoloured the others hand-coloured and a third are original pattern plates so marked and a number with extensive and interesting directions to the colourists soiling and marks of use including colour samples pencil notes and sketches on some versoes some margins folded in (perhaps to make sending in the post easier) unbound [c.1850-60]. *** Numbered between 2868 and 2990 these belong to the last two volumes of the very rare supplement which was edited by William Salter a Sowerby son-in-law. The instructions give a vivid impression of the to-and-fro between the editor the artists and the colourists: “very carelessly & badly done must be altered”; “Add a bit of dead old stem in the middle where I have put it in pencil”; “Mr Lees wil oblige Mr. Salter by returning this with remarks as to color &c”; “Color 50 first & send home Monday evening.”
Sowerby (J.) English Botany 42 vol. first edition 2998 hand-coloured plates 41 vol. in uniform half green morocco gilt some scuffing to spines the unfinished 5th volume of the supplement in 8 parts all published original wrappers a very nice clean set 1790-1866.*** The unfinished fifth volume is extremely rare and lacking in most sets.(42)
(Mary Anne botanist and illustrator 1845-1927 w (Mary Anne botanist and illustrator 1845-1927 wife of T.R.R. Stebbing zoologist and Church of England clergyman 1835-1926) [2 Albums of seedlings] c.530 watercolours and drawings recording the growth of seedlings and cuttings autograph manuscript captions and many with notes giving a brief history of the seedlings mounted on album leaves most dated some with locations various sizes laid down 1 vol. ink inscription: “Mary A. Stebbing Ephraim Lodge on The Common Tunbridge Wells” slightly browned and foxed in a few places original half roan gilt corners and edges rubbed lacks spines oblong 4to 6th May 1882 - 29th May 1920. *** “Mary Anne Stebbing... a capable botanist and illustrator.” (Oxford DNB). Youngest daughter of W.W. Saunders author of Refugium botanicum was married to the zoologist T.R.R. Stebbing. She was one of the first women to become and FLS and was an enthusiastic botanist attempting to illustrate British flora in watercolour. Most of her drawings were destroyed by fire but there are some at Kew. The commonest caption is Tunbridge Wells several weeds were gathered at the High Rocks an attractive feature of the common. Other captions include: “sown in hot bed at Mrs. Coulson`s seeds from Ceylon”; “from Cyprus WPDS”; “4 Cleveland Gardens Ealing” “seeds from ditch nr. Ipswich” etc. Seedlings include: Plum Sloe Cherry Tree Lupin Acacia Laburnam Red Chestnut Geraneum etc Provenance: Bought from Wheldon & Wesley in 1986.
[Stephens (Philip) and William Browne Catalogus Ho 2 parts in 1 vol. lacking the title to the first part next few leaves slightly defective (first repaired) interleaved throughout and with copious medical annotation both on the text and interleaves inscription of George Dab...1840 on first leaf contemporary vellum repaired bought from W&W with their note inserted 8vo [Henrey 281] Oxford 1658; sold not subject to return
![Strickland (Charlotte and Juliana Sabina of Apperley Court Deerhurst Gloucestershire c. 1759-1833 and c. 1765-1849) [Select]](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2800085/438-20109295918_468x382.jpg)
Strickland (Charlotte and Juliana Sabina of Apperley Court Deerhurst Gloucestershire c. 1759-1833 and c. 1765-1849) [Select] Specimens of British plants vol. 5 from a series of 12 53 fine botanical watercolours on `papier-velin` manuscript captions at head of watercolours tissue guards autograph manuscript 50pp. and 2pp. index very slight browning and offsetting original blue morocco gilt Greek key pattern border slightly rubbed and faded lettered as “British Botany vol. 5” on spine folio [c. 1797-1809]. *** “Select specimens of British plants is a large folio sized work dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks. The editor Strickland Freeman intended that it should be issued in periodical numbers each to contain five plates accompanied by descriptive letterpress. Only two numbers appear to have been published. All the plates are by the editor`s sisters-in-law Charlotte and Juliana Sabina Strickland.Regarding these illustrations Freeman tells us that some beautiful drawings of British plants executed by these two ladies had frequently attracted his attention. Strickland Freeman (1754-1821) lived at Fawley Court Hambledon Buckinghamshire and was the author of several books on horses and horsemanship. In 1781 he married his cousin Elizabeth the eldest daughter of Sir George Strickland Bart. of Boynton Yorkshire. His sisters-in-law Charlotte and Juliana Sabina Strickland never married.At the beginning of the nineteenth century they left Boynton and established themselves at Apperley Court Gloucester where they remained until Charlotte died on 2 June 1833 and Juliana Sabina on 21 September 1849 at the ages of seventy-four and eighty-four respectively. The work of these two talented sisters was highly praised by Sir J.E. Smith who referred to `those exquisite elaborate plates published by Strickland Freeman Esq. and said to be the performances of two ladies who certainly rank as artists in the first line.`“ - Henrey.Another vol. located at The University of Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
Thornhill (John) A Fasciculus of Thirty-Five dried 35 original specimens nos 1-12 & 26 lacking the small packet of seeds (cut out in first 12 examples) errata slip pasted to pasted to p.iv original marbled wrappers (worn back cover lacking most of the marble) printed label on front cover folio Gateshead 1806. *** The list of subscribers accounts for 77 copies and the author announces in his introduction that he has not been able to gather more than 100 specimens of each grass. Copac records 3 copies (Durham Birmingham & NHM).
Townsend (F.) Flora of Hampshire first edition 3 copies 2 plates 1 hand-coloured coloured map one W.A. Clark`s copy with annotation original cloth 1883; another copy second edition 4 copies each with the supplement 2 plates 1 hand-coloured folding map 1 with a rather anguished A.Ls. from Frederick Stratton to Lovell Reeve the publisher about a third edition which never materialised original cloth 1909-29; and c.40 others Hampshire v.s. (c.50)(c.50)
Turner (William) The First and Seconde Partes of t lately oversene and enlarged with the Thirde Parte...joyned also a bookke of the bath of Baeth in England; [Brunschwig (Hieronymus)] A most Excellent and Perfecte Homish Aopthecarye...translated out the Almaine speche into English by Jhon Hollybush 5 parts in 1 vol. first complete edition black letter numerous woodcuts of plants without all but one of the blank leaves or the pasted-in errata slip with the early errata no. 2 rather than the three leaves A1-2 & *1 which superseded them with the 2 leaves of errata GG2 which were perhaps printed in England a sophisticated copy with minor repairs in places the worst leaf is 2D5 (last of the herbal) where half a dozen words seem to have been made good in skilfull facsimile title to Apothecary with old stain partly washed out and tear repaired bought from Hammond in 1973 (invoice enclosed) calf antique g.e. folio [STC 24367 & 13433; Henrey 368] Cologne [heirs of] Arnold Birckman 1568-61. *** Rare in complete state; of the 12 copies sold at auction in the last 35 years only 2 were complete (Plesch 1976 parts. This was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. Turner died in July of the same year in his home in Crutched Friars...” Chapman & Tweddle p.12. The sheets of the second part seem to be the original 1562 edition with new prelims.
Turner (William) A New Herball; The Seconde Parte joyned also a book of the bath of Baeth in Englande; [Brunschwig (Hieronymus)] A most Excellent and Perfecte Homish Apothcarye...translated out of the Almaine specehe into English by Jhon Hollybush 3 vol. in 1 black letter first title within fine woodcut border (just trimmed at head; as is the copy used for the Chapman & Tweddle reprint) with the reading `Cum` in the imprimatur (ESTC records only 2 copies thus probably due to incorrect reporting) 2nd part with the blank leaf but without the errata slip sometimes pasted in numerous text woodcuts of plants (copied from those in the octavo Fuchs of 1542) early manuscript prices of 20s and 5s on first title with 18th century name: John Howard on the last page of the Apothecary an index of diseases in a contemporary English hand few waterstains but nice copies 18th century English calf spine somewhat worn and chipped at head slightly wormed at foot folio [STC 24365; 24366; 13433; Henrey 366 & 367] London S. Mierdman [sold by John Gybken] 1551; Cologne [heirs of] Arnold Birckman 1562-61 (4) *** “Turner was the first in Britain to light his torch at the flame of the pioneer herbalists on the continent and breaking away from authority and supersition to describe British plants from his own observation and experience” J.S.L. Gilmour quoted by Henry p.21. According to Chapman and Tweddle in their recent reprint (a copy of which is included in the lot) for first records of British flora it is useless to go behind Turner and some 300 British plants were first described by him; “the father of British botany”. (4)
Turner (William) The Names of Herbes in Greeke La first edition title within woodcut border black letter some stains h3 torn across and repaired but with little loss without the final blank early signature Godfrey Widlake on title (a man of this name is recorded as a barber surgeon in Bristol in 1659; if this is he then he must have a rather old fashioned hand) the Evelyn library copy (sale 12 July 1978 lot 1493
[Warner (Richard)] Plantae Woodfordienses first issue without the Latin index which was added later minor worming in first few leaves original wrappers uncut printed for the author 1771; another copy with the rare Latin index added later to a few copies (see Dryander quoted by Henrey 1477) bookplate removed contemporary calf gilt spine joints cracked ib. 1771 8vo (2)(2)
![[White (Gilbert)] The Natural History and Antiquit first edition engraved frontispiece additional vignette title 7 plates (pl](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2800085/485-20109295938_468x382.jpg)
Willmott (Ellen Ann) Genus Rosa 2 vol. 132 chromolithograph plates 83 uncoloured illustrations all after Alfred Parsons (“his best botanical illustrations” - Blunt) bought at Sotheby`s 14.v.63 (“The Distinguished Natural History Collection of the late A.W.H. Harvey”) lot 531 by W&W for MW with letter inserted publisher`s quarter dark green morocco t.e.g. original wrappers bound in small stain on front cover of first vol. otherwise a nice set 4to 1910-14. *** The plates are possibly German; the printers are not mentioned in the acknowledgements or on the illustrations; Parsons appears only on the title-pages.
Withering (W.) A Botanical Arrangement of all the 2 vol. first edition 12 engraved plates contemporary boards uncut worn covers off [Henrey 1597] Birmingham 1787-92; another copy vol.2-3 only second edition interleaved and very extensively annotated in a neat contemporary hand by Edward Rudge (1763-1846 botanist; lot 152 in the Evesham sale in 1979) a few leaves torn out contemporary sheep very worn ib. 1787-92; another copy 4 vol. in 3 third edition 31 plates presented by the author to Edward Robson (1763-1813 Botanist) and with considerable annotation by him (by the Tees near Boro`bridge; Patricks Inn head of Ullswater 8/1797 etc.) recent half calf ib. 1796; another copy vol.3 only fourth edition interleaved and annotated a London botanist perhaps half russia very worn London 1801; the lot sold not subject to return 8vo (8)(8)
Withering (W.) A Botanical Arrangement of all the [a set of the seven editions] 26 vol. plates various bindings Birmingham 1776-London 1830; A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants condensed by MacGillivray 20 vol. comprising editions 1-11 13 and 14 various bindings 1830-77 8vo (46)*** The first run comprises first edition 2 vol. 1776; second edition 3 (of 4) vol. lacking vol. 4 1787; third edition 4 vol. 1796; fourth edition 4 vol. London 1812; fifth edition 4 vol. Birmingham 1812; sixth edition 4 vol. in 2. 1818; seventh edition 4 vol. 2 sets 1830.(46)
Allen (Timothy F.) The Encylopedia of Pure Materia 11 vols first edition rebound in black buckram New York & Philadelphia 1874-1880; A Handbook of Materia Medica & Homoeopathic Therapeutics first edition contemporary cloth joints repaired new endpapers rubbed Philadelphia 1889 ð Dudgeon (R.E.) The Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann frontispiece contemporary half morocoo gilt rubbed inner front hinge cracked 1851 ð Gentry (William D.) The Concordance Repertory of the more characteristic symtoms of the Materia Medica 6 vol. second edition original cloth slightly rubbed at head and tail of spines New York 1892 [vol. 1 only] 1890 ð Hahnemann (Samuel) ðtudes de Mðdecine Homoeopathique 2 vol modern half morocco gilt original wrappers bound-in uncut Paris 1855 ð Hempel (Charles J.) A New & Comprehensive System Materia Medica and Therapeutics later black cloth 1861 ð Hering (C.) The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica 10 vol first edition modern blue cloth 1879-1891; and a large quantity of c.200 titles similar v.s. (7 boxes) (7 boxes)
Ronalds (Hugh) Pyrus Malus Brentfordiensis: or A Concise Description of Selected Apples first edition 42 hand-coloured lithographed plates after drawings by Elizabeth Ronalds a few minor spots or finger-marks but plates generally clean and bright modern half calf spine slightly faded a very good copy small folio 1831.
Swedenborg (Emanuel) Prodromus or the Forerunner designed principally as an introduction to the economy of the animal kingdom first English edition old name cut from blank corner of title old stamps of the Swedenborg Soc. of London calf worn Manchester printed for the editor [William Cowherd] 1795. *** Only one other copy recorded by ESTC; Academy of the New Church Bryn Athyn PA; not on World Cat.
![[Lewin (William)] [Birds Of Great Britain] Grasshopper Wartler; Black-cap Warbler; Dartford Warbler; Long-Tailed Titmouse 4 w](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2800085/589-2010921014_468x382.jpg)
[Lewin (William)] [Birds Of Great Britain] Grasshopper Wartler; Black-cap Warbler; Dartford Warbler; Long-Tailed Titmouse 4 watercolours from The Birds of Great Britain numbered in pencil and with titles verso loose sheets 4to [1789-94] (4) ***William Lewin 1747-95 used original watercolours to illustrate the first edition of The Birds of Great Britain and painted 323 illustrations 60 times for his subscribers. He later etched and hand-coloured the plates in preparation for a second edition of the work. He was thought to be `the best zoological painter and one of the most practical naturalists of his day.` [Jackson p.336-7](4)
(Lord) Birds of the British Islands 8 vol. first (Lord) Birds of the British Islands 8 vol. first edition list of subscribers photogravure portrait and 421 chromolithographed or hand-coloured lithographed plates mostly after Thorburn and Keulemans mounted on linen stubs throughout armorial bookplate of Herbert Massey to the front paste-down volume 8 containing all the original wrappers and index original publisher`s red morocco gilt t.e.g. others uncut [Nissen IVB 563; Fine Bird Books p.119] 8vo 1885-97.
Millais (John Guille) Game Birds and Shooting-Sket first edition half-title portrait frontispiece of Thomas Bewick 16 chromolithographic plates and others illustrations occasional spotting contemporary half straight-grained morocco by Sotheran & Co rubbing to spine corners and boards 4to [Nissen IVB 634] 1892.
Seebohm (Henry) The Geographical Distribution of t Or the Plovers Sandpipers Snipes and their Allies first edition first issue with the list of plates without pagination references and frontispiece of Slender-Billed Dotterel 21 hand-coloured lithographs by Keulemans illustrations bookplate of Sir Giles Loder Bart. to paste-down occasional spotting modern half morocco gilt 4to [Nissen IVB 850] [1887-88]. *** One of 220 copies with colour plates.
Woodward (John) An Essay Toward a Natural History first edition initial imprimatur f. 2pp. advertisements at end small burnhole to B1 loss or part loss of a few letters verso but not affecting sense of text partially repaired tear to I3 within text but with no loss contemporary calf rebacked corners repaired [Wing W3510; DSB pp.500-503] 8vo for Ric. Wilkin 1695.*** Scarce. Woodward believed that the Earth had originally been submerged under a universal deluge suspending stones minerals and animals which then subsided into a stratigraphic succession dependent on the gravity of the individual components. His work despite its flaws helped to create a wider interest in fossils and earth sciences.
![(Katherine later Lady Kane] The Irish Flora firs (Katherine later Lady Kane] The Irish Flora first edition 3 copies original](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2800085/9-20109210145_468x382.jpg)
(Katherine later Lady Kane] The Irish Flora firs (Katherine later Lady Kane] The Irish Flora first edition 3 copies original cloth printed label bit worn one repaired Dublin 1833; another copy third issue 3 copies one (only) with attractive hand-coloured additional title original cloth one with printed label ib. 1846 (9)
Bentham (G.) Handbook of the British Flora 1 vol. bound in 2 first edition interleaved throughout c.350 watercolours on the interleaves by the Rev. A.C. Smith (1822-98 Naturalist Rector of Yatesbury Wilts) with manuscript notes of date and location half calf rubbed 8vo 1858. *** For another book similarly extra-illustrated see first Walpole sale lot 50. Smith is best known as the author of The Birds of Wiltshire 1887. Many of the plants were named by the Rev. T.A. Preston author of The Flowering Plants of Wilts 1888.
[Boate (Gerard)] A Natural History of Ireland 11 plates (10 engraved one letterpress) calf rebacked Minto booklabel without the first leaf (probably blank) and the final leaf(certainly blank) agrees with the collation in ESTC n72296 (only 2 copies; but the distinction from t55095 (41 copies) is unlikely to be valid) 4to Dublin 1726; Histoire Naturelle d`Irelande contemporary calf worn Paris 1666 8vo and 4to (2)(2)
Bolton (James) Filices Britannicae 2 vol. in 1 46 (on 45) hand-coloured plates with some colour printing possibly a large paper copy (c. 23 x 29cm; Hall & Rickard suggest 22 by 28.5 standard; 24 by 31 LP) errata slip pasted to last page of first part contemporary mottled calf rather badly worn rebacked bookplate of member of the Blow family pasted over where another has been roughly removed sigature of May Anna Wynne 1865 on flyleaf 4to [Henrey 464 (her collation to be preferred to H&R] Leeds [1785]-90. *** The first British book on ferns; uncommon in complete coloured state.
Bolton (James) Filices Britannicae 2 vol. in 1 46 (on 45) hand-coloured plates with some colour printing errata slip pasted to last page of first part some browning recent cloth [Henrey 464] Leeds [1785]-90; and 2 others (a copy of Bolton`s Fungusses (4 vol. in 1) with uncoloured plates; an uncoloured copy of the first vol. of the Ferns) 4to (3)
Braithwaite (R.) Sphagnaceae Britannicae Exsiccata printed title and index facsimile dedication from author`s handwriting 53 actual specimens with ms. labels mounted on card the author`s copy with 3 leaves of family cdv portraits mounted at the front an envelope with a specimen addressed to him inserted original half red leather g.e. by Fisher & Stidstone of 13 Moorgate St. with their label mounted opposite the specimens are sphagnum lithographs from The Monthly Microsopical Journal (where Braithwaite`s book first appeared) minor wear but in good state folio London Clapham Rise 1877. *** Compared with the standard issue the specimens are more copious and are mounted on card the binding is half leather. Packer (unusually) has no record of [Arthur] Fisher & Stidstone.
![(John Stuart Earl of)] The Tabular Distribution o (John Stuart Earl of)] The Tabular Distribution of British Plants. Part I c](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1574/2800085/57-20109210039_468x382.jpg)
(John Stuart Earl of)] The Tabular Distribution o (John Stuart Earl of)] The Tabular Distribution of British Plants. Part I containing the Genera pp. 11(12) folding leaf `General plan of the tables` tables I-XXVII (VIII omitted as it contains no British plant) mostly folding 11 leaves of index contemporary half russia spine lettered “Genera” perhaps lacking a second part of species bought from Maggs with their partial description inserted oblong 8vo printed by J. Davies 1787. *** The preface is unsigned but is clearly by Lord Bute “The following distribution is the same followed in the former edition without any abridgment though reduced into a small compass...for the convenience of those who have the work in quarto and who may wish to carry it with them into the field...”. By “the former edition” is meant Bute`s celebrated Botanical tables 9 vol. 1785 printed in 12 or possibly 14 copies and a well known botanical rarity; Henrey 1398 collates the first volume of this and comments “Table VIII is omitted as it contains no British plant” just as here. Henrey 1419 records Bute`s A tabular distribution of Biritsh plants 1780 from a single copy in NHM and this is all that is found on ESTC. However Cambridge and Kew have copies of our edition perhaps with a second part though the collations do not make this clear (the Cambridge copy is mis-attributed to Sir John Hill). We have been able to trace no other copies anywhere. If as Bute`s introduction suggests our book was intended to accompany copies of the Botanical tables then its exteme rarity is explained.
Callaway (Arthur) A Memorial of his First Botanica 40 hand-coloured plates by Sowerby interleaved with manuscript comments and quotations half leather rubbed bookplate of Cardross Grant with `stand sure` motto 8vo 1847. *** Subtitle; List of Forty of the Plants found near the Railway Station at Reigate. William Tiffin Iliff 1798-1876 MD FLS collected plants also in Syria and the West Indies which are at Kew.
Childey (Joshua) Britannia Baconica; or the Natur second edition without the initial blank reading `found` in title line 6 a rather used and slightly frayed copy from the library of Quenby Hall [Leicestershire] with old stamp on title verso recent calf bought from K books with invoice inserted [Wing C3871] 1661; another copy third edition some foxing but a good copy in 19th century calf gilt spine ducal crest (?Sutherland) on covers front cover off [Wing C 3872] 1662 8vo (2) *** Of the first edition dated 1660 only the BL copy is recorded. Thomason`s annotation suggests that this is the real date of the 1662 edition (or issue).(2)
Clare (John) Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and S original boards rather worn covers detached 1820; The Village Minstrel 2 vol. portrait later half morocco by Ramage 1821; The Shepherd`s Calendar frontispiece boards 1827; The Rural Muse publisher`s cloth repaired 1835 first editions and 4 others Clare 8vo and folio (9) *** “Collecting local floras posts...problems of inclusion and exclusion. Does one for example include Clare`s poems for their records of Northamptonshire plants? Druce did and listed 25 pages of them in his Flora of the Country 1930.” J.S.L. Gilmour The Book Collector 1962 p.185.(9)
Curtis (William) Flora Londiensis...A New Edition 5 vol. (vol. 4-5 the descriptions by William Jackson Hooker) the first vol. inscribed “Viro optimo amico suo suavissimo Francesco Boott” by Hooker 1830 647 hand-coloured plates tear in first 2 leaves of vol. 4 mended minor soiling but a large and clean copy contemporary calf rebacked worn several covers off folio [Henrey 596] 1817-28. *** “The five volumes may contain a total of 648 plates” - Henrey; of the 5 copies on ABPC in the last 35 years 4 have had 647 plates only the Botfield copy had 648; the extra plate is very likely to be a cancel.Francis Boott 1792-1863 was an American who graduated MD at Edinburgh in 1824 and later went on to become the world expert on sedges which plants are said to have driven him mad.
Curtis (William) An Abridgement of the Flora Londi 6 parts all published engraved title 36 hand-coloured plates original printed wrappers uncut `for Charlotte Curtis` on the first cloth case (bought by MW from Viner & Hart this copy cited by Henrey 598) 8vo 1792-93. *** Very rare; no copy on ABPC (which means the last 35 years) though there was a copy at Phillips in Bristol about 5 years ago bound with something else.
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