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LOT 3119
LOT 3119
BOTANY. – William RHIND. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom; Embracing the Physiology of Plants, with Their Uses to Man and the Lower Animals. London: Blackie and Son, 1855. First edition, 8vo (244 x 146mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece of Linnaeus, engraved additional title, 41 plates, including 21 hand-coloured. (Colour plates browned, marginal spotting to rest, contemporary address erased verso front endpaper.) Contemporary black half morocco, red morocco lettering piece to spine (lightly rubbed extremities). – And a further fifteen volumes relating to botany (including Joseph Harrison’s ‘The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist’s Magazine’, 5 vols., [March-December 1833- January-December 1837], 8vo, and Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie’s ‘Every Man His Own Gardener. Being a New and much more Complete Gardener’s Kalendar’, 1792, 8vo, and J.S. Henslow’s ‘Le Bouquet des Souvenirs’, 1840, 8vo, and ‘The Florist, Frutist, and Garden Miscellany 1851-1856’, 2 vols. (only), 1852 and 1856, 8vo) (16).
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