Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1905
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/197
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    158 Bowles’s Florist, 53 (should be 60) curious coloured plates, title defective and soiled, calf, 1777—Stafford (H.) - Treatise on Cyder-Making, plate, calf, 1769—Bradley (R.) History of Succulent Plants, plates, calf, 1739— Hill (J.) Review of the Works of the Royal Society, with virulent MS. notes concerning the author, uncut, 1751—Evelyn (John) Terra, with Notes by Dr. Hunter, front. 1787 ; and others, some imperfect (13) 159 Brookshaw (G.) Pomona Britannica: a collection of the most esteemed Fruits cultivated in Great Britain, 2 vol. in 1, 60 accurate and beautifully coloured plates, with Descriptions, half calf, m.e. 1817 160 Cassell’s Popular Gardening, edited by D. T. Fish, 4 vol. with numerous illustrations, half calf gilt, n.d.— Smee (A.) My Garden, its Plan and Culture, with 1300 beautiful engravings, 1872—Anderson (J.) The New Practical Gardener, finely coluured plates and woodcuts, half calf, n.d. and others (8) 161 Century Book of Gardening, edited by E. T. Cook, with numerous beau‘iful illustrations, an autograph letter of the author inserted, n.d.— Book of the Royal Horti- cultural Society, [1862-1863] numerous illustrations and borders; and others: Catalogue of Plants cultivated in the garden of John Gerard [1596-1599] privately printed, 1876 ; and another (4) 162 Chambers (R.) An Olde Thrift newly Revived : wherein is declared the manner of Planting, Preserving, and Husbanding young Trees of divers kindes for Timber and Fuell, and of sowing Acornes, Chesnuts, ete. Black Letter folding measuring board, and diagrams, rare 1612 163 Chaucer (Geoffrey) Poetical Works, edited by T. Tyr- whitt, 1860—Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford, edited by H. Coleridge, portrait and vignette, half morocco, 1869---Works of Ben Jonson, edited by W. Gifford, portrait and vignette, 1860 imp’. 8vo. (3) 164 Chronicle. The Customs of London, otherwise called, Arnold’s Chronicle, reprinted from the First Edition, half calf, 1811—Gordon (Ella M.) Aboyne Castle, printed on satin, n.d.—liber Albus: the White Book of the City of London, transl. by H. T. Riley, sin. 4to 1861 ; and another (4) 165 Clarendon (Earl of) History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, 2 vol. with 56 portraits, half morocco, g.e. 1840-—Works of Edmund Burke, edited by H. Rogers, 2 vol. portrait, calf, 1842— Martineau (H.) History of the Peace [1815-1846] 1858; and others (imp! 8vo.) (7)
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