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CULPEPER, Nicholas. Complete Herbal, London: Richard Evans, 1816. 4°, engraved portrait and 40 hand-coloured engraved plates (occasional spotting and dampstaining, some creasing and fraying of endpapers), contemporary calf, spine lettered in gilt (rebacked, covers marked and scratched), bookplate of Geoffrey C. Hobbs.
GOLDSMITH, Oliver. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1857 & 59. 2 volumes, 8°, engraved portraits and titles, 37 hand-coloured plates (occasional mainly marginal light spotting), contemporary dark mauve calf, covers blind-stamped with central foliate lozenge within roll-tooled border, spines with raised bands and gilt fleur-de-lys in compartments (rubbed and scuffed). Nissen ZBI 1627.
HARRISON, Joseph. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists' Magazine, London: Whittaker and Co., 1854. 2 volumes in one, 8°, 24 hand-coloured plates (light marginal browning, a few light spots), contemporary green half calf gilt.
With 5 other works in 17 volumes, including the Rev. F. O. Morris' A History of British Butterflies (London, 1870, 3rd edition). (21)
GOLDSMITH, Oliver. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1857 & 59. 2 volumes, 8°, engraved portraits and titles, 37 hand-coloured plates (occasional mainly marginal light spotting), contemporary dark mauve calf, covers blind-stamped with central foliate lozenge within roll-tooled border, spines with raised bands and gilt fleur-de-lys in compartments (rubbed and scuffed). Nissen ZBI 1627.
HARRISON, Joseph. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists' Magazine, London: Whittaker and Co., 1854. 2 volumes in one, 8°, 24 hand-coloured plates (light marginal browning, a few light spots), contemporary green half calf gilt.
With 5 other works in 17 volumes, including the Rev. F. O. Morris' A History of British Butterflies (London, 1870, 3rd edition). (21)