Botany - Local Association Copy, [de La Quintinie (Jean-Bapt...

Hammer

£240

Botany - Local Association Copy, [de La Quintinie (Jean-Baptiste)], The Complete Gard'ner: or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and Kitchen Gardens, Now Compendiously Abridg'd, and made of more Use, with very Considerable Improvements, fourth edition corrected, London: Printed for Andrew Bell [...], 1704, frontispiece sellotaped to pastedown, fold-out botanical and horticultural engravings, contemporary panelled calf (boards taped to spine), ink MS ownership inscriptions and stamps: Joseph Dumelow, Castle Donnington, [near Derby], Leicestershire, dated 1838 & 1851, 8vo, (1); Thompson (Robert), The Gardener's Assistant [...], London: Blackie & Son, hand-coloured plates, contemporary green quarter-calf over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers, 4to, (1); Tinley (George F.), Colour Planning of the Garden, London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, Ltd., 1924, colour and b/w plates, green cloth, 4to, (1); Burnett (Gilbert T.), Outlines of Botany, including a General History of the Vegetable Kingdom [...], Two Hundred and Fifty Wood Engravings, volume I only, first edition, London: Henry Renshaw, 1835, contemporary polished brown half-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, (1); Rhind (William), A History of the Vegetable Kingdom [...], Revised, with Supplement, Illustrated by Several Hundred Figures, Many of them Coloured, London: Blackie and Son, 1868, contemporary half-calf over cloth, 4to, (1); Adams (H. Isabel), Wild Flowers of the British Isles, Illustrated [...], two-volume set, London: William Heinemann, 1907-1910, contemporary green cloth, 4to, (2); Flora of Tropical Africa, ten volumes, various imprints and dates, cloth, 8vo, (10); etc., [19]