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JOHNSON, Charles & John E. SOWERBY (illustrator). The Ferns of Great Britain, London: John E. Sowerby, 1855. 8°, 49 hand-coloured plates by and after Sowerby (one or two faint spots, occasional light offsetting), contemporary green half morocco by William Brown (a little scuffed and sunfaded), t.e.g., bookplate of Iain Ramsay of Kildalton. FIRST EDITION. Nissen BBI 994.
MCINTOSH, Charles. The Book of the Garden, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1853-5. 2 volumes, 8°, illustrations (occasional light spots, hinges cracking), original cloth gilt (sunfaded, a little rubbed and scuffed), bookplate of Iain Ramsay of Kildalton.
MAXWELL, Herbert & Mary G. W. WILSON (illustrator). Scottish Gardens, London: Edward Arnold, 1908. 4°, 32 coloured plates (one or two light spots), contemporary green half morocco, spines with raised bands and lettered in gilt in 2 compartments (lightly rubbed and scuffed), t.e.g., bookplate of Iain Ramsay. NO. 78 OF 250 COPIES.
With 5 other works on flora, including Charles Downing's The Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America (New York, 1870), William Jackson Hooker's Flora Scotica (London, 1821), and Herbert Maxwell's Trees, a Woodland Notebook (Glasgow, 1915). (9)
MCINTOSH, Charles. The Book of the Garden, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1853-5. 2 volumes, 8°, illustrations (occasional light spots, hinges cracking), original cloth gilt (sunfaded, a little rubbed and scuffed), bookplate of Iain Ramsay of Kildalton.
MAXWELL, Herbert & Mary G. W. WILSON (illustrator). Scottish Gardens, London: Edward Arnold, 1908. 4°, 32 coloured plates (one or two light spots), contemporary green half morocco, spines with raised bands and lettered in gilt in 2 compartments (lightly rubbed and scuffed), t.e.g., bookplate of Iain Ramsay. NO. 78 OF 250 COPIES.
With 5 other works on flora, including Charles Downing's The Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America (New York, 1870), William Jackson Hooker's Flora Scotica (London, 1821), and Herbert Maxwell's Trees, a Woodland Notebook (Glasgow, 1915). (9)
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