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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    Plates, with explanations intended to illus- trate Linnaeus’s system of Vegetables. London, 1788 15s 8vo. Old russia, rebacked. 38 engraved plates of plants and flowers. 240 L.S.AJ.D.A. La Théorie et La Pratique du jardinage. The Hague, Jean Martin Husson, 1739 £4 4s Large 4to. Old boards. 4 11., 383 pp., 611. With 39 folding plates and many woodcuts in text. Some slight waterstains here and there, but an uncut copy of one of the most richly illustrated 18th century gardening books. 241 Ludwig (Christlan Gottlieb) Institutiones Historico-Physicae Regni Vegetabilis, Leip- zig, J. F. Gleidschius, 1742 10s 8vo. Old half calf. 811.,224 pp., 41l. First Epirion. Pritzel 5664. 242 Mandirola (Agostino) Manuale di Giar- dinieri. Macerata, 1658 15s 12mo. Old vellum. A little spotted. Very rare, as are all Italian books on gardening of this period. 243 Manetti (Xaver) Viridarium Florentinum sive Conspectus Plantarum quae floruerunt ...hoc anno 1750 in Horto Caesareo Florentino. 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