Geology, Fishing, Gardening, &c.
11 volumes, comprising
£550
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
Buckland, William Reliquiae Diluvianae: or Observations on the Organic Remains contained in Caves, Fissures and Diluvial Gravel. 1824. Second edition, 4to, folding table, 27 engraved and lithographed plates and maps, 3 coloured, contemporary half calf, small library stamp to title page, slightly rubbed; Scrope, William Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed. 1898. Large 8vo, plates, coloured frontispiece, modern green quarter morocco; Günther, Albert An Introduction to the Study of Fishes. Edinburgh, 1880. 8vo, illustrations, folding plate, panelled brown morocco gilt, spine gilt; McIntosh, Charles The Practical Gardener and Modern Horticulturalist. 1828, 2 volumes, 8vo, additional engraved titles, engraved plates, some hand-coloured, contemporary half calf, rubbed; Martyn, Thomas Thirty-Eight Plates with Explanations, intended to Illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables. 1788. 8vo, Robert Stevenson's copy, inscribed by him and with bookplate, 38 hand-coloured engraved plates, red quarter morocco, rubbed, upper cover detached; Mills, John A Treatise on Cattle. 1776. 8vo, contemporary calf, lacking upper board; Mawe, Thomas and John Abercombie Every Man his own Gardener. 1791. 12mo, 13th edition, engraved frontispiece, contemporary reversed calf, lacking some calf to base of upper board; and 3 others (11)