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235 - Gardening.- Greenhouses.- Step (Edward) Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, 4 vol., first edition,Â316 chromolithographic plates, 78 plus 1 frontispiece to each volume, tissue guards (except vol 1.), marbled endpapers, light foxing, near-contemporary half morocco, heavily rubbed, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., [1896-7] § Forbes (James), Hortus Woburnesis, A Descriptive Catalogue... Cultivated at Woburn Abbey, first edition, engraved title and frontispiece, 24 engraved plates, most folding, 24 leaves of publisher's advertisements to rear, list of subscribers, heavy foxing to title and frontispiece, cloth binding, title label almost completely worn away, splitting to lower joint, bumping to tips of spine and extremities, marks to boards, hinges cracked, edges uncut, James Ridgway, 1833. § Sweet (Robert), The Hot-House and Greenhouse Manual, or Botanical Cultivator, fifth edition,Âpublisher's advertisements, foxing, modern half calf, a few scuffs,ÂJames Ridgway, 1831; and 5 others relating to Greenhouses and Hot-Houses (c.10)

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£200 (€239)

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Estimation

£300 - 500 (€350 - 600)

Sale fees

32.5%

Gardening.- Greenhouses.- Step (Edward) Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, 4 vol., first edition,Â316 chromolithographic plates, 78 plus 1 frontispiece to each volume, tissue guards (except vol 1.), marbled endpapers, light foxing, near-contemporary half morocco, heavily rubbed, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., [1896-7] § Forbes (James), Hortus Woburnesis, A Descriptive Catalogue... Cultivated at Woburn Abbey, first edition, engraved title and frontispiece, 24 engraved plates, most folding, 24 leaves of publisher's advertisements to rear, list of subscribers, heavy foxing to title and frontispiece, cloth binding, title label almost completely worn away, splitting to lower joint, bumping to tips of spine and extremities, marks to boards, hinges cracked, edges uncut, James Ridgway, 1833. § Sweet (Robert), The Hot-House and Greenhouse Manual, or Botanical Cultivator, fifth edition,Âpublisher's advertisements, foxing, modern half calf, a few scuffs,ÂJames Ridgway, 1831; and 5 others relating to Greenhouses and Hot-Houses (c.10)

Auction details

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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