Sales catalogue 103: Davis & Orioli

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/31/14
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 103: Davis & Orioli. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    221 Datty. Des Plantations, de leur néces- sité en France, de leur utilité dans les Départemens du Midi pour l’assainissment de |’Air, ou Traité de la Culture des Arbres forestiers, de leur usage dans l’économie, la médecine et les Arts. Arles, 1805 10s 6d 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt. 222 Decandolle (A. P.) and Sprengel (K.) Elements of the Philosophy of Plants, con- taining the principles of scientific botany. Translated from the German. Edinburgh, 1821 25s 8vo. Half calf. 486 pp. With 8 engraved plates. 223 de la Bretonnerie. L’école du jardin fruitier. Paris, Eugene Onfroy, 1784 15s 8vo. Calf. 2 vols. 224 De La Quintinye. Instruction pour les Jardins Fruitiers et Potagers, avec un traité des Oranges. Nouvelle edition. Paris, 1716 £3 3s 4to. Old calf, rebacked. 2 vols. With several engraved plates showing gardening implements, methods of pruning trees, outlays for garden beds, etc., and a few pretty engraved vignettes showing scenes from gardens. This work was translated into English in 1693 by Evelyn. 225 Duhamel de Monceau. Traité de la Con- servation des Grains et en particulier du Froment. Nouvelle edition, corrigée et augmentée. Paris, Guerin, 1754 12s 6d 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt back. 42+311 pp. With 12 large engraved folding plates. An early work recommending the storing of grain and wheat for economic reasons and giving detailed plans for the machinery and storage to be used. 226 Dyeing. Mariti (G.) Della Robbia, sua coltivazione e suoi usi. Florence, 1776. 8vo. Orig. boards, uncut. 5 folding plates showing the madder plant and dyeing operations. Rare. 227 L’ecole du jardinier fleuriste. Nouvelle edition corrigée... par un membre de la société économique de Berne. Antwerp, ea 1779 15s 8vo. Calf. Bound with : Wenckeler (J.G.) Instructions sur Le Jardi- nage. Paris, 1767 With 1 folding plate. 228 Forsyth (William) A Treatise on the Cul- ture and Management of Fruit-Trees, in which a new method of pruning and train- ing is fully described, to which is added... ‘*Observations on the Diseases ... in all kinds of Fruit and Forest Trees.’’ The second edition, with additions. London, 1803 8s 6d 8vo. Old calf. 13 engraved plates. 229 Herrera (Alonzo de) Agricoltura General que trata de la Labranza del Campo y sus particularidades Crianza de Animales, Proprietades de las Plantas. Madrid, Carlos Sanchez, 1645 £2 10s Folio. Modern vellum, gilt decorated back. Thisis the classical Spanish work on agriculture and all branches of rural life. All editions are rare, at least in this country. Title-page repaired and backed, paper slightly discoloured but a good copy. 15 230 Hill (Sir John) M.D. A General History of Plants. London, 1751 £1 10s Folio. Half calf. 642 pp. With 16 engraved plates. 231 Hupsch (Baron de) Description d’une Machine universellement utile & avan- tageuse propre a détruire entiérement d’une maniére infaillible aisée & a peu de frais les fourmis ainsi que d’autres insectes nuisibles. Cologne, Francfort and Leipzig, ’s.n. 1777 One plate. Written in French and German. Bound up with :— Dedekind (Joan. Jul.), De remediis contra Formicas lLiterae ad__ I[llustrissimam Academiam Scientiarum KRegiam Paris- iensem. Helmstedt, JIoannes Henricus Xuhnlin, 1777 15s 8vo. Orig. boards. Two rare treatises on protection. against damage caused by ants. 232 Intieri (Bartholommeo) conservazione del grano. Naples, G. Raimondi, 1754 15s Sm. folio. Boards. 7 folding plates representing the construction of a granary. An important work by a distinguished Italian 18th century inventor and economist, describing a system for storing grain. Della perfetta 233 Krocker (Antonius Johannes) Flora Silesiaca. Bratislava, 1787-1790 10s 8vo. Old calf. With 97 coloured plates. 3 vols, containing 2 vols out of four. The complete work is very rare. 234 Laurence (John) The Fruit Garden Kal- endar: or a Summary of the Art of Mana- ging the Fruit Garden....to which is added an appendix of the usefulness of the barometer. ... London, 1718 15s 8vo, Old calf, hinges weak. With 1 plate. 235 Liger (L.) Le Jardinier Fleuriste ou La Culture Universelle des Fleurs, Arbres, etc. Paris, 1754 12s 6d. Svo. Old boards, a little worn. With several plates showing gardening implements and plans _ for gardens. 236 Linné. The Families of Plants with their Natural Characters....translated from the last edition of the Genera Plantarum and of the Mantissae Plantarum of the Elder Linnaeus; and from the Supple- mentum Plantarum of the younger Lin- naeus with all the new families of plants from Thunberg and L’Heritier. Lichfield, J. Jackson, 1787 £2 10s 8vo. Half calf. 2 vols. This copy lacks the half- titles. Soulsby, No. 24. 237 Linné (Carl v.) Genera Plantarum.... editio sexta ab auctore reformata et aucta. Stockholm, 1764 15s 8vo. Old calf. 12 ll., 580 pp., 22 Il. Soulsby 305. 238 Linné ((Carl v.) — MHasselquist (Fr.) Voyages and Travels in the Levant ; in the years 1749-52 containing observations in Natural History, Physick, Agriculture, and Commerce, written originally in the Swe- dish Language by the late Fr. Hasselquist ... published ... by Charles Linnaeus. London, 1766 £1 10s 8vo. Old calf, hinges weak. With a map. Pp. 403-456 contain letters to Linné. Soulsby 3582.
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