Lot 409
Botany, chemistry &c., a quantity, including Culpepper, Nicholas
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 September 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
English physician and complete herbal... London: printed by W.Lewis for the proprietor, 1813/1812. Thirteenth and fifteenth edition, 4to, 2 volumes in one, engraved portrait and 39 (of 42) hand-coloured plates, contemporary calf, pp.217-240 lacking; Berthollet, C.L. & A.B. Elements of the art of dyeing. 1824. 2 volumes, 8vo, 9 folding plates, half calf; Moore, Thomas The nature printed British ferns. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1859-60. 2 volumes, 8vo, 120 (of 122) coloured plates, some foxing, library stamps to title-pages, several inner pages and on reverse of plates, half morocco, a little foxing; Pratt, Anne The flowering plants of Great Britain. SPCK, [n.d.]. Volumes 1-3 (of 5), and The Grasses, sedges and ferns of Great Britain. SPCK. [n.d.], coloured plates, uniform green cloth gilt; Gray, Samuel F. The operative chemist. 1828. 8vo, engraved plates, lacks p.559, quarter vellum; Henfrey, A. Reports and papers on botany. 1846 & 1849. 2 volumes; Johnston, J.F.W. Lectures on agricultural chemistry and geology. 1847. 8vo, spine very worn; Gregory, William Letters to a candid inquirer on animal magnetism. 1841. 8vo, original cloth; Day, G.E. Chemistry in its relations to physiology and medicine. 1860. 8vo, 5 plates, original cloth; Knapp, F. Chemical technology. 1848. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth; Ottley, William C. A dictionary of chemistry and of mineralogy. 1826. 2 plates, half calf, covers detached; Noad, Henry M. Chemical manipulation and analysis. 1852. 8vo, original cloth; Liebig, Justus Chemistry its applications to agriculture and physiology. 1843; Roscoe, Henry E. Spectrum analysis. 1869. 8vo, original cloth; all with RCSI library stamps, some dust-soiling and spotting, many bindings worn and somewhat dust-soiled; sold not subject to return (quantity)