Lot 229
NATURAL HISTORY SALEROOM NOTICE: THE IMAGE IN THE PRINTED CATALOGUE IS INCORRECT
A QUANTITY, INCLUDING LOWE, E.J.
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 October 2018 at 12:00 BST
Description
Our Native Ferns. 1874. 2 volumes, 8vo, plates, original pictorial cloth gilt; Chalmers, P. Birds ashore and aforeshore. 1935. 4to, original cloth, dust-jacket; Weismann, A. Essays upon Heredity. Oxford, 1889, 8vo, original cloth, spine repaired; Pratt, A. The Ferns of Great Britain. [n.d.], 8vo, colour printed plates, original cloth, rubbed; Thompson, R. The Gardener's Assistant. Glasgow, [1859], 12 hand-coloured lithographed plates, original pictorial cloth gilt; Maxwell, Sir H. Flowers. A Garden Note Book. 1923. 4to, green quarter morocco gilt, t.e.g., dustwrapper; Tulasne, L.R. & C. Selecta Fungorum Carpologia. Oxford, 1931, 3 volumes, folio, dustwrappers; Smith, K.M. Mumps, Measles & Mosaics. New Naturalist. 1954. First edition, dustwrapper; Nethersole-Thompson, D. The Greenshank. New Naturalist. 1951. First edition, dustwrapper; Yarrell, William A History of British Fishes. London: John van Voorst, 1859. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf with red and green morocco labels to spines; Baxter, Evelyn V. & Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1953. 2 volumes, 8vo, some wear to dust-jackets; Vogt, Carl & Friedrich Specht The Mammalia in Word and Picture. London: Blackie & Son, 1887. 2 volumes, folio, original terracotta cloth with gilt leopard motifs to upper covers; and several others
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of Larry Hutchison