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233 - Botany.- Rennie (James, editor) The Magazine of Botany & Gardening, British and Foreign, 5 vol. in 2, 5 engraved titles, 161 plates only, all but 3 hand-coloured, some offsetting, foxing, bookplate, ink ownership inscription to free endpaper, cracking to gutter, 1 vol. upper hinge broken at preface, old tape repairs to upper hinges, contemporary half calf, rebacked in cloth, spines sunned with contemporary red roan labels, rubbed, 1833-37§ Boulger (Professor George Simmonds, editor) British Flowering Plants, 4 vol.,Âone of 1,000 copies, 300 coloured plates of drawings by Mrs Henry Perrin, tissue-guards, occasional light scattered spotting, bookplate, original cloth, spines darkened, staining, bumped, 1914; and others botany, including several vol. of. Gardeners' Gazettel; W. Robinson (editor), Flora and Sylva, 3 vol.,Âdust jackets, 1903; collection of circa early 19th century cut-out colour engravings of various botanical subjects, bound, and other loose engravings, 4to & folio (c.45)

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£300 - 400 (€350 - 480)

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32.5%

Botany.- Rennie (James, editor) The Magazine of Botany & Gardening, British and Foreign, 5 vol. in 2, 5 engraved titles, 161 plates only, all but 3 hand-coloured, some offsetting, foxing, bookplate, ink ownership inscription to free endpaper, cracking to gutter, 1 vol. upper hinge broken at preface, old tape repairs to upper hinges, contemporary half calf, rebacked in cloth, spines sunned with contemporary red roan labels, rubbed, 1833-37§ Boulger (Professor George Simmonds, editor) British Flowering Plants, 4 vol.,Âone of 1,000 copies, 300 coloured plates of drawings by Mrs Henry Perrin, tissue-guards, occasional light scattered spotting, bookplate, original cloth, spines darkened, staining, bumped, 1914; and others botany, including several vol. of. Gardeners' Gazettel; W. Robinson (editor), Flora and Sylva, 3 vol.,Âdust jackets, 1903; collection of circa early 19th century cut-out colour engravings of various botanical subjects, bound, and other loose engravings, 4to & folio (c.45)

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Books and Works on Paper
Thursday, October 29
01:00 PM
4 Ingate Pl, Nine Elms
SW8 3NS London, United Kingdom

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