Auction No 370, Category: Natural History
3 Lots (displaying 1 - 3)
John Hill "The Family Herbal, or an Account of all those English Plants, which are remarkable for their virtues"
John Hill "The Family Herbal, or an Account of all those English Plants, which are remarkable for their virtues"
Lot 122
Lot: 122
- Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £100 - £130
SOLD £76
MORE DETAILSJohn Hill The Family Herbal, or an Account of all those English Plants, which are remarkable for their virtues, Bungay, 1812, octavo, rebound in fine 20th Century green half-calf, gilt, with raised bands, marbled boards, new endpapers; complete with 54 hand-coloured plates; few early pages & first plate a little grubby o/w fine internally; lacks index; viii,xl,366pp
William Hamilton "An Account of Certain Traces of Volcanos on the Banks of the Rhine", London, 1777,
William Hamilton "An Account of Certain Traces of Volcanos on the Banks of the Rhine", London, 1777,
Lot 124
Lot: 124
- Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
MORE DETAILSWilliam Hamilton An Account of Certain Traces of Volcanos on the Banks of the Rhine, London, 1777, 6pp article from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol.68, bound in modern half-leather, gilt; plus two other bound articles on tectonic activity comprising Forbes On the Horary Oscillations of the Barometer near Edinburgh, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol.12, 1831, pp153-190, plus plate; and Baker, Gass et al The Volcanological Report of the Royal Society Expedition to Tristan Da Cunha, 1962, 4to, 141pp plus 18 plates & folding Map; modern cloth, gilt. VG/VF (3)
James Jennings "Ornithologia, or The Birds; a Poem, in two Parts; with an Introduction to their Natural History;
James Jennings "Ornithologia, or The Birds; a Poem, in two Parts; with an Introduction to their Natural History;
Lot 125
Lot: 125
- Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
- Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £40
MORE DETAILSJames 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.