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(BIRDS.) Salvin, Osbert.
On the
Avifauna of the Galapagos Archipelago.
5
hand-colored lithographed plates. 4to, early
1
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4
morocco, joints rubbed; internally clean. Extracted
from the Transactions of the Zoological Society
of London. London, 1876
[150/250]
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(BOTANICAL.) Badger, C. M.; Mrs.
Wild Flowers Drawn and Colored from
Nature.
22 hand-colored lithographed plates. 4to,
publisher’s morocco, very neatly rebacked with
morocco to match; small repair to frontispiece at
fore-edge, else clean throughout.
NewYork, 1859
[800/1,200]
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(BOTANICAL.) Culpeper, Nicholas.
The English Physician Enlarged withThree
Hundred and Sixty-Nine Medicines, made
of English Herbs.
[12], 345, [3] pages. 12mo,
modern panelled calf; contents toned with some
marginal soiling, foxing, and minor dampstains.
London: Printed for the Booksellers,
1785
[150/250]
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(BOTANICAL.) Gerard, John.
The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes.
Edited byThomas Johnson. 2791 botanical text woodcuts. [38] (of [40]), 1630 [i. e., 1634],
[48] (of [50]) pages, including initial blank and engraved title; lacks initial and final blanks.
Folio, 336x225 mm, modern panelled calf in period style with red morocco lettering
piece; some light marginal dampstaining, mainly in second half of volume, B4.5 possibly
supplied from another copy. London: Adam Islip et al., 1633
[2,500/3,500]
Second edition of Gerard’s 1597 work, and first edited by Johnson, “who corrected many of
Gerard’s more gullible errors, and improved the accuracy of the illustrations” (Hunt). Cole
358; Henrey 155; Hunt 223; Nissen BBI 698; STC 11751.
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