SWAYNE, GEORGE. Gramina Pascua: or, a Collection of Specimens of the Common Pasture Grasses, arranged in the Order of their Flowering, and Accompanied with their Linnaean and English Names... Bristol, 1790. 6 plates containing 19 actual specimens of dried grasses with engraved captions, several manuscript coorections possibly bt the author, with errate slip. Henrey 1399; FRASER, J. A short History of the Agrostis Cornucopiae; or the new American Grass... also some Account of a Journey to the Cherokee Nation in Search of new Plants. London, 1789. Colored engraved plate by James Sowerby. Henrey 721; Nissen BBI 650. Folio, 468 x 295 mm., contemporary calf, rebacked, using old spine. These two works both reflect the new interest in pasture grass which arose towards the end of the eighteenth century. Both are very uncommon. Arpad Plesch, bookplate -- WILLDENOW, CARL LUDWIG. Historia Amaranthorum. Zurich, 1790. Folio, 417 x 265 mm., contemporary boards, light wear to joints and edges. FIRST EDITION, 12 colored engraved plates. Dedicated to Joseph Bank. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 17652. KKM/HSNY, bookplate. (2)