India, Natural History, a collection, including Hooker, J.D.
£1,188
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
A Sketch of the Flora of British India. 1904, original wrappers, wrappers inscribed "with the author's kind regards"; Hooker, J.D. The Flora of British India. 1875. 7 volumes, 8vo, original cloth; [Anon.] AA Sketch of the Life of Francis Hamilton (once Buchanan) sometime Superintendant of the Honourable Company's Botanic Garden, Calcutta. Calcutta, 1905. Large 4to., original quarter cloth, worn; Rawat, I.S. Indian Explorers of the 19th century. 1973, dustwrapper; Bor, N.L. Manual of Indian Forest Botany. 1953, presentation copy, dustwrapper; Bor, N.L. Some beautiful Indian Climbers and Shrubs [extracted from Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society]. 1939, plates, green half morocco; Brandis, Dietrich Indian Trees. 1906. Inscribed "with the author's compliments, Nov. 1906", original cloth, slight marginal dampstaining, worn; Willis, J.C. A Revision of the Podostemaceae of India and Ceylon. [extracted from Part 3 vol. 1 of the Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya], inscribed "with the author's kind regards", half calf, spine faded;Burkill, I.H. Notes from a Journey to Nepal, bound with 2 other extracts from the Records of the Botanical Survey of India. Calcutta, 1910; Coventry, B.O. Wild FLowers of Kashmir. Series 1-3, coloured plates, original pictorial cloth; Collett, Sir H. Flora Simlensis, a handbook of the flowering plants of Simla. Calcutta & Simla, 1902, folding map, illustrations, cloth, sold not subject to return (19)