Lot 352
Botanical & other local natural history guide books, a collection of 22 volumes, including Forster, T.F.
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
Flora Tonbrigensis, or a Catalogue of Plants growing Wild in the Neighbourhood of Tonbridge Wells. 1816. hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary calf, rebacked, corners rubbed; Pownall, Henry Some Particulars relating to the History of Epsom. Epsom, 1825, hand-coloured frontispiece & 5 plates, original cloth, plates foxed, worn; Smith, George Edwards A Catalogue of Rare or Remarkable Phaenogamous Plants, collected in South Kent. 1829. 6 hand-coloured plates, later wrappers; another copy, 5 (of 6) hand-coloured plates, later half morocco, original wrappers bound in, rubbed; Hargrove, E. The History of the Castle, Town and Forest of Knaresbrough. York, 1782, 12mo, plates, contemporary calf; Luxford, George A Flora of the Neighbourhood of Reigate, Surrey. 1838, 8vo, folding map, original cloth, rubbed; Luxford, G. Another copy, interleaved & extensively annotated, folding map, half calf, very worn, covers detached; Cowell, M.H. A Floral Guide for East Kent. Faversham, 1839, map, half morocco, 2 leaves repaired, worn; Babington, Charles C. Primitae Florae Sarnicae, or an Outline of the Flora of the Channel Islands. 1839, original quarter cloth, rubbed; [Hayling Island] The Guide to Haying Island. Hayling, [c.1843], 8vo, map, plates, half calf, worn; Buxton, Richard A Botanical Guide to the Flowering Plants, Ferns, Mosses and Algae... within Sixteen Miles of Manchester. 1849, original cloth; Cullen, W.H. Flora Sidostiensis, or a Catalogue of the plants indigenous to the Vicinity of Sidmouth. Sidmouth, 1849, contemporary cloth; Lees, Edwin The Botany of the Malvern Hills. [c.1850], inscribed "from the author", original cloth; Ravenshaw, Thomas F. A New List of the Flowering Plants and Ferns growing wild in the County of Devon. 1860, inscribed "from the author" on endpaper, original cloth; Paley, F.A. A List of Four Hundred WIld Flowering Plants being a Contribution to the Flora of Peterborough. Peterborough, 1860, later cloth; Brewer, J.A. Flora of Surrey. 1863, 2 maps in pockets, contemporary half calf, annotated, slightly rubbed; Linton, W.J. The Ferns of the English Lake Country. 1865, original cloth; Gissing, T.W. Materials for a Flora of Wakefield. 1867, presentation copy "With Compts. of the author, To the Editor of the Wakefield Free Press", original cloth;Roper, F.C.S. Flora of Eastbourne. 1875, original cloth, extensively annotated; Chanter, J.R. Lundy Island. [pc.1877], folding map, original cloth; Lobley, J.L. Hampstead Hill. 1889, plates, later cloth; Lester-Garland, L.V. A Flora of the Island of Jersey. 1903, folding map, original cloth; sold not subject to return