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NEWTON, Isaac. Opticks: or, a treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of light, London: for William and John Innys, 1721, 8°, third edition, 12 folding engraved plates, 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end (a few plates frayed), contemporary panelled calf (upper cover detatched) [Babson 135; Wallis 177] -- GUILLEMIN, Amédée. The Heavens, an illustrated handbook of popular astronomy, edited by J. Norman Lockyer, London: Richard Bentley, 1868, 8°, third edition, plates, some coloured, illustrations (frontispiece affected by damp), original blue embossed cloth (binding affected by damp) -- Anton KERNER VON MARILAUN. The Natural History of Plants, London: Blackie & Son, 1894, 2 volumes, large 8°, one hand-coloured lithographed plate and 15 chromolithographed plates with overlays, wood-engraved illustrations , contemporary half morocco (spines faded); and 19 others on natural history, including 3 volumes by Millais. (23)