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3:00 AM PT - Sep 23rd, 2010

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Natural History, Manuscripts & Watercolours

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1	Abbot (Charles) Flora Bedfordiensis ,6 hand-coloured plates, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine...	200 - 300
2	Alston (R.C.) A Bibliography of the English langua ge...,vol. 17. Botany, Horticulture, Agriculture, 2 vol., original...	50 - 100
3	Andrews (James) Progressive Drawing-Book of Flower s,12 plates, plate 1 (colour samples) in duplicate, plates 2-12 in...	100 - 200
4	Arber (Agnes) Herbals ,first edition, offprints by AA inserted, original cloth...	50 - 100
5	Babington (C.) The Manual of British Botany ,[a set of the ten editions], 17 vol., some duplicates, s12 a leaf...	50 - 100
6	Babington (C.) Flora Bathoniensis ,interleaved and annotated, several letters bound in, probably the...	150 - 200
7	Babington (C.) Primitiae Florae Sarnicae ,5 copies, 1 interleaved, a dozen flower drawings tipped in at end...	200 - 300
8	Badham (C.D.) On the Esculent Funguses of England ,2 copies, 12 hand-coloured plates, original green cloth, copy...	100 - 200
9	(Katherine, later Lady Kane] The Irish Flora, firs [Bailey (Katherine, later Lady Kane] The Irish Flora, first...	100 - 150
10	Baines (H.) The Flora of Yorkshire ,2 vol. in 1, 2 copies, 3 maps, 1 hand-coloured, original half...	300 - 500
11	(John Gilbert, Botanist, 1834-1920) Botanical Pape Baker (John Gilbert, Botanist, 1834-1920) Botanical Papers, by J.G...	60 - 120
12	Baker (W.B.) Fields and Flowers ,2 copies, albumen print portrait frontispiece, original green...	100 - 150
13	Banks (George) An Introduction to the Study of Eng lish Botany,first edition, portrait of Linnaeus, later half calf...	100 - 200
14	[Banks (George, FLS)] The Plymouth and Devonport F lora,8 parts in one vol., contemporary calf, leather label, bit...	200 - 300
15	Barker (J.T.) The Beauty of Flowers in Wood and Fi eld,3 copies, 2 copies with hand-coloured additional title, the...	100 - 150
16	Barry (George) History of the Orkney Islands... ,Natural History, or Mineral, Botanical and Animal Productions...	200 - 300
17	Baxter (W.) British Phaenogamous Botany ,6 vol., first edition, 509 hand-coloured engraved plates...	400 - 600
18	Baxter (W.) British Phaenogamous Botany ,6 vol., second edition, 509 hand-coloured engraved plates...	300 - 400
19	Baxter (W.) Stirpes cryptogamae Oxonienses... ,fasiculus I (of 2) printed title and index, 50 original specimens...	50 - 100
20	[Bayton (W.)] Botanical Memoranda No.1, Directions for Collecting and Preserving Plants for an Herbarium,6pp...	100 - 150
21	(John, naturalist, of Uxbridge, Middlesex, 1821-19 Benbow (John, naturalist, of Uxbridge, Middlesex, 1821-1908) The...	150 - 200
22	Bentham (G.) Handbook of the British Flora ,1 vol. bound in 2, first edition, interleaved throughout, c...	300 - 500
23	Bentham (G.) Outlines of Botany, with Special Refe rence to Local Floras...,fourth edition, original wrappers, [1879]	60 - 120
24	Berkeley (M.J.) British Fungi: consisting of dried specimens of the species described in Vol.V...	300 - 500
25	Berkeley (M.J.) and W.G. Smith Outlines of British Fungology,2 vol., hand-coloured plates, 1860-91 Synopsis of the...	100 - 150
26	Berkenhout (J.) Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain,3 vol., 2 copies, contemporary half calf, rather...	150 - 200
27	Bewick (Thomas) Figures of British Land Birds ,vol.1 [all published], one of 500 copies, 131 wood-engraved...	60 - 120
28	Billberg (G.J.) Ekonomisk Botanik ,2 parts, all published, 12 hand-coloured plates, a fine copy in...	200 - 300
29	Birkenhead (William & John) Catalogue of Ferns ...,no.24, second edition, pp. xiv, 122, numerous illustrations...	100 - 200
30	Blackstone (John) Fasciculus Plantarum circa Haref ield Sponte Nascentium,the Bute copy, with bookplate on title...	100 - 200
31	Blackstone (John) Fasciculus Plantarum circa Haref ield Sponte Nascentium,contemporary mottled calf, worn...	200 - 300
32	Blackwell (Elizabeth) A Curious Herbal ,2 vol., 344 (of 500) hand-coloured plates, the work complete as...	3,000 - 4,000
33	Blair (Patrick) Pharmaco-Botanologia: or, an Alphabetical and Classical Dissertation on all the British...	150 - 200
34	[Boate (Gerard)] A Natural History of Ireland ,11 plates (10 engraved, one letterpress), calf, rebacked, Minto...	200 - 400
35	Bohler (John) Lichenes Britannici, or, Specimens o f the Lichens of Britain,parts 1-15 (of 16) in 3 vol...	200 - 400
36	Bolton (James) An History of Fungusses, Growing Ab out Halifax,4 vol. in 2, including Supplement, engraved...	400 - 600
37	Bolton (James) An History of Fungusses growing abo ut Halifax,4 vol. in 2, frontispiece printed in sepia...	3,000 - 5,000
38	Bolton (James) Filices Britannicae ,2 vol. in 1, 46 (on 45) hand-coloured plates, with some colour...	400 - 600
39	Bolton (James) Filices Britannicae ,2 vol. in 1, 46 (on 45) hand-coloured plates, with some colour...	300 - 400
40	Bolton (James) Beschreibung der um Halifax wachsen den Pilze,4 vol. in 2, coloured title, 182 hand-coloured plates...	200 - 400
41	Borlase (William) The Natural History of Cornwall ,folding map, 28 engraved plates, minor browning, contemporary...	200 - 400
42	Botanical Society of London Proceedings ,vol. 1, all published, 3 copies, lithographed plates, one J.E...	200 - 300
43	Boulger (G.S.) British Flowering Plants ,4 vol., coloured plates by Mrs Henry Perrin, original white cloth...	100 - 150
44	Bradley (J.D.) and Others British Tortricoid Moths ,[vol. 1], coloured plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, Ray...	50 - 100
45	Braithwaite (R.) Sphagnaceae Britannicae Exsiccata e,printed title and index, facsimile dedication from author's...	200 - 300
46	Braithwaite (R.) Sphagnaceae Britannicae Exsiccata e,printed title and index, facsimile dedication from author's...	400 - 500
47	British Bryological Society Distribution of Dried Specimens,c.350 examples in neat Herbarium parcels, includes some...	30 - 50
48	Britten (James) and R. Holland A Dictionary of Eng lish Plant-Names,3 vol., interleaved throughout, Britten's own...	300 - 500
49	Brocas (Frederick Yorke) [Bryophyte Herbarium] 50 specimens, each with printed caption, half leather worn...	100 - 200
50	Brooke (Jocelyn) The Wild Orchids of Britain ,number 13 of 40 special copies, signed by the author, original...	50 - 100

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