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[WOBURN ABBEY]. Hortus Ericaeus Woburnensis: or a catlaogue of Heaths... at Woburn Abbey. Alphabetically and systematically arranged [by George Sinclair]. London: 1825. 4to, 297 x 236mm., contemporary green straight-grained morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt with overall decorative design, wide gilt turn-ins, pink watered-silk doublures and liners, g.e., extremities rubbed, upper joint slightly split. FIRST EDITION. Engraved title with vignette, 2 mounted lithographed views, 2 double-page aquatint plans, 4 hand-colored engraved plates, 2 hand-colored charts, engraved tail-piece. Like the other Bedfrod catalogues, this work is probably limited to no more than 50 copies. It lists 394 species of Erica then in cultivation at Woburn. Nissen BBI 1849. L.S. monogram stamped at front -- SINCLAIR, G. Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis... second edition. London: 1829. 8vo, 243 x 150mm., contemporary calf, worn, plates spotted. 60 hand-colored lithographed plates. Nissen BBI 1850. KKM/HSNY, bookplate. (2)