Lot 214
BOTANY, AGRICULTURE, HUSBANDRY, FISHERIES, GEOLOGY, A QUANTITY, INCLUDING
BEWICK, THOMAS. A GENERAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. NEWCASTLE, 1807
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 October 2018 at 12:00 BST
Description
8vo, wood-engravings, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, neatly rebacked retaining original spine, slightly spotted; Jardine, William The Naturalist's Library: vol. 9 (Pigeons). [n.d.], 8vo, additional hand-coloured title and 30 hand-coloured plates, original red cloth gilt; Wright, Lewis The New Book of Poultry. [c.1902], 4to, some plates coloured, contemporary green half morocco gilt; Mackenzie, Murdo View of the Salmon Fishery of Scotland. 1860. 8vo, original cloth; Johnston, George A Flora of Berwick-upon-Tweed. 1829. 2 volumes, 12mo, original quarter cloth, boards slightly soiled; Gardiner, William The Flora of Forfarshire. 1848, 8vo, plates, original cloth, plates dampstained; Johnston, George The Botany of the Eastern Borders. 1853. 2 copies of Volume 1 (Botany), plates, both original cloth; Smith, J.E. The English Flora. 1828. Second edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf gilt, morocco labels; Mackenzie, H. Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland. 1799. volume 1 only, 8vo, contemporary calf, rubbed; Spence, Magnus Flora Orcadensis. Kirkwall, 1914. 8vo, original cloth; Evans, A.H. A Fauna of the Tweed Area. 1911. 8vo, original cloth; Rintoul, L.J. & E.V. Baxter A Vertebrate Fauna of Forth. 1935. 8vo, original cloth, slightly rubbed; Department of Agriculture for Scotland Typescript reports.. on Agricultural Surveys. 1930. Volume 2 only, folio, buckram; and others (quantity)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of Larry Hutchison