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MARTYN, Thomas. Thirty-Eight Plates with Explanations: intended to illustrate Linnaeus's system of vegetables, London: for Longman, Hurst and others, 1817. 8°, 38 hand-coloured engraved plates (occasional light spotting, hinges splitting), contemporary cloth with morocco label to spine (rubbed and faded). Nissen BBI 1292.
PERSOON, Christian Hendrik. Icones et descriptiones fungorum minus cognitorum, Leipzig: Breitkopf-Haertelian, [1798-1800]. 4°, 7 hand-coloured plates only (of 14, occasional light marginal browning), original printed wrapper (worn). Nissen BBI 1511.
THORNTON, Robert John. The British Flora, London: for the author by J. Whiting, 1812. 5 volumes, 8°, 339 engraved plates (occasional light spotting), contemporary brown morocco, covers with blind roll-tooled anthemion swirls within gilt border, spine with raised bands and gilt lettered and decorated in compartments (somewhat rubbed and scuffed), g.e.
With Richard Brook's The Cyclopaedia of Botany (London, ca. 1865), British Botany familiarly explained and described in a series of dialogues, illustrated with twenty-eight coloured plates drawn from nature (Dublin, 1835), and 3 other natural history books illustrated with hand-coloured plates by Harrison Cluse. (12)
PERSOON, Christian Hendrik. Icones et descriptiones fungorum minus cognitorum, Leipzig: Breitkopf-Haertelian, [1798-1800]. 4°, 7 hand-coloured plates only (of 14, occasional light marginal browning), original printed wrapper (worn). Nissen BBI 1511.
THORNTON, Robert John. The British Flora, London: for the author by J. Whiting, 1812. 5 volumes, 8°, 339 engraved plates (occasional light spotting), contemporary brown morocco, covers with blind roll-tooled anthemion swirls within gilt border, spine with raised bands and gilt lettered and decorated in compartments (somewhat rubbed and scuffed), g.e.
With Richard Brook's The Cyclopaedia of Botany (London, ca. 1865), British Botany familiarly explained and described in a series of dialogues, illustrated with twenty-eight coloured plates drawn from nature (Dublin, 1835), and 3 other natural history books illustrated with hand-coloured plates by Harrison Cluse. (12)
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