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Auction No 369, Category: Natural History

3 Lots (displaying 1 - 3)

Abraham Cowley "Poemata Latina. On quibus Continentur, Sex Libri Plantarum, Viz: Herbarum, Florum, Sylvarum

Lot: 117

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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Abraham Cowley Poemata Latina. On quibus Continentur, Sex Libri Plantarum, Viz: Herbarum, Florum, Sylvarum et Unus Miscellaneorum. T. Roycroft for Joseph Martyn, London, 1668; boards missing; engraved frontispiece,title and text complete. Final page dust-affected o/w VG. 

James Jennings "Ornithologia, or The Birds; a Poem, in two Parts; with an Introduction to their Natural History;

Lot: 118

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
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James Jennings Ornithologia, or The Birds; a Poem, in two Parts; with an Introduction to their Natural History; and copious notes. Poole & Edwards, 1828 First Edition; nineteenth century cloth, gilt, backstrip a little faded o/w VG; bookplate removed from front pastedown; engraved frontispiece, and a further frontispiece to Part Two on Foreign Birds; each part with its own pictorial half-title, the foot of the half-title to Part One repaired. A small library stamp of the Islington Literary & Scientific Society in the margin of two pages in the text o/w fine internally; pp.xxix,(3),468,6. 

"Wild Flowers and Their Teachings", Binns & Goodwin, Bath, 1848, 2nd Edition, octavo, fine full red morocco

Lot: 128

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £110
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Wild Flowers and Their Teachings, Binns & Goodwin, Bath, 1848, 2nd Edition, octavo, fine full red morocco with elaborate gilt decoration; a.e.g; gift inscriptions of 1858 and 1921 to front endpaper; illustrated with 37 specimens of actual dried flowers in very good condition; offset impressions of the dried flowers on facing pages. Scarce