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Credit: Sales catalogue 42: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![j112 4113 /114 118 119 120 1121 122 84, CHARING CROSS ROAD, LONDON, W.C.2. 11 Botany, Gardening, &c.—continued. LOWIS (LENA) FAMILIAR INDIAN FLOWERS, 30 beautifully coloured full-page plates, with descriptive text, 4to., cloth [1878] 15/- Only a few copies printed. MARTYN (THoMas) THIRTY-EIGHT [Coloured] PLATES, with Expianations ; intended to illustrate LINNA&US’s System of Vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany, 8vo., calf, 1794 8/- AN UNIQUE SET. MAUND (B.) The BOTANIC GARDEN; the 1248 finely coloured illustrations (usually 4 to a page) cut out and mounted on separate leaves, together with the text, re-arranged and classified by HENRIETTA CHARLOTTE, LADY BERNERS, with specially printed title-pages, dated 1872, 13 vols extended to 18, plus a full manuscript index ; together 19 vols, sm. 4to., green morocco gilt, g.e. [1825-50] £30/-/- The system adopted of separating the 4 illustrations from each plate, mounting them within rubricated double borders, opposite the appropriate page of text, and grouping them under their species, enhances the beauty of the small but charming coloured illustrations and makes the set both interesting and attractive. MAUND (©B.), assisted by HENSLOW (Rev. J. S.) The BoTANIsT ; containing [250] accurately coloured figures, of tender and hardy Ornamental Plants ; with Descriptions, Scientific and Popular, intended to convey both Moral and Intellectual Gratification, 5 vols, sm. 4to., cloth (shabby and badly worn), g.e., [1830] £5/-/- The BOTANICAL ALBUM, with 58 (should be 60) coloured plates, sq. 8vo., cloth (spine worn), g.e. [ca. 1840] £1/5/- The above are excerpts from ‘* The Botanist,’” but no mention is made in the volume. MAXWELL (Rr. Hon. SIR HERBERT) SCOTTISH GARDENS; being a Representative Selection of Different Types, Old and New, with 23 full-page plates in colour, by MARY G. W. WILSON, roy. 8vo., buckram, 1908 £1/5/- McDONALD (ALEXANDER) A COMPLETE DICTIONARY of PRACTICAL GARDENING : com- prehending all the Modern Improvements in the Art; whether in the Raising of the various Esculent Vegetables, or in the Forcing and Managing of different Sorts of Fruits and Plants, and that of laying out, ornamenting, and planting, Gardens and Pleasure Grounds ; with 60 attractively coloured plates of the necessary apparatus, in buildings and other contrivances, as well as of the more rare and curious plants cultivated from ornament or variety, from original drawings by SYDENHAM EDWARDS, 2 vols, 4to., contemporary russia (needs rebacking), g.e., 1807 £5/10/- MEREDITH Lewis B.) Rock GARDENS ; how to make and maintain them; with an Introduction by F. W. Moore, 25 illustrations, 8vo., cloth, 1910 6/- MEREDITH (Louisa ANNE) Some of my BUSH FRIENDS in TASMANIA: Native Flowers, Berries, and Insects, drawn from Life, illustrated in Verse and briefly described ; vignette title, 11 full-page COLOURED PLATES of flowers, and border decorations to text (some in colour), folio, half roan, 1860 £1/10/- Some plates and a few leaves of text foxed. MICHAUX (F. ANDREW) The NorTH AMERICAN SYLVA; or, a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, considered Particularly with respect to their Use in the Arts and their Introduction into Commerce ; to which is added a Description of the most Useful of the European Forest-Trees ; translated, from the French, with Notes, by J. Jay SMITH, illustrated by 156 coloured engravings, 3 vols; NUTTALL (THomas) The NorTH AMERICAN SyLva; or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, NOT DESCRIBED in the work of F. ANDREW MicHAUX, and containing all the FoREST TREES DISCOVERED in the Rocky MOuNnTAINS, the TERRITORY Of OREGON, down to the SHORES of the PACIFIC, and into the CON- FINES of CALIFORNIA, as well as in Various Parts of the United States ; :Jlustrated by 121 coloured plates, 3 vols in 2; together 5 vols, roy. 8vo., uniform original blind stamped morocco, g.e., Philadelphia, 1859 £25/-/- With the important continuation by Nuttall, this work forms a reference book of un- rivalled interest and beauty.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30859359_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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