Sales catalogue 318: Ellis

Date:
1935
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/33/5
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 318: Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    105 106 107 108 109 110 ROTHAMSTED Experimental Station Library. Catalogue of the printed books on Agriculture. Published between 1471 and 1840. With notes on the authors by Mary S. Aslin. 1926. 8vo, numerous reproductions of title-pages, cloth, 12s. RUSSELL (Dr. Alex.),.The Natural History of Aleppu, and parts adjacent. London, Printed for A. Millar, 1756. 4to, First Epirion, with 17 folding plates, old calf, £1 10s. RUTTY (John), An Essay towards a Natural History of the County of Dublin ; accommodated to the Noble Designs of the Dublin Society. Dublin, printed by W. Sleator for the Author, 1772. 2 vols., 8vo, Firsv Eprrion, folding map, plates, and tables, original wrappers, uncut, 15s. S. (A.), The Husbandman, Farmer and Grasier’s Compleat Instructor. Containing Choice and Approved Rules and Directions for Breeding, Feeding, Chusing, Buying, Selling, well Ordering and Fatning Bulls, Cows, Calves, Rams, Ews, Lambs, Swine, Goats, Asses, Mules, &c. Also, a Treatise of Dogs and Conies, in their Breeding, Ordering and-Curing the Distempers they are subject to. To which is added, The Experienced Vermine-Killer. London, Printed for Henry Nelme, 1697. 12mo, with folding frontispiece, original sheep, £2 10s. |ST. PIERRE (J. Bernardin Henri de)], Voyage a l'Isle de France, a l’Isle de Bourbon, au Cap de Bonne-Esperance, &c. Avec des Observations nouvelles sur la nature et sur les Hommes. A Amsterdam, et se trouve a Paris, 1773. 2 vols. 8vo, First EpIrion, with 6 plates (3 of them after Moreau le Jeune) and printed folding tables, fine copy, half calf, RARE, £2 10s. The author pays considerable attention to the flora and fauna of Mauritius, and his keen observation makes this one of the most interesting travel books of the 18th century. SCHLEIDEN (M. J.), The Plant; a Biography. In a Series of Popular Lectures. Translated by Arthur Henfrey. London, 1848. 8vo, with 5 coLouRED lithographic plates, and woodcuts, original cloth, with the book-plate of Lord Battersea, by C. W. Sherborn, 12s. 6d.
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