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[BOTANY GRAMMARS AND MANUALS]. FELL, John. Grammatica rationis, sive Institutiones logicae. Oxford: Sheldon, 1697. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece, engraved plate. Contemporary calf. Fourth edition. ESTC R34912. – SMITH, John, editor. Profit and Pleasure United: or, the husbandman’s Magazine. London: for J. Blare, 1704. 12mo. (One leaf torn with the loss of a few lines of text.) Modern green morocco. Second edition. ESTC N12502. – THORNTON, Robert John. A Grammar of Botany; Containing an Explanation of the System of Linnaeus. New York: James Eastburn, 1818. 12mo. 45 engraved plates. Modern morocco. First edition. – Natural History of Remarkable Trees, Shrubs, and Plants. Dublin: G. Bull. 1821. 12mo. Woodcut frontispiece, full-page woodcuts and woodcut devices throughout. Contemporary calf. – The Botanist’s Manual: comprising a complete list of the British Flowering Plants and Ferns. London: R. Groombridge, n.d. 8vo. A list of British flowering plants and ferns with lines to record the place and date each specimen was collected. Original cloth. – Together, 5 works, all rare.