Perrin, Ida Southwell and Boulger, George S.
£400
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
Description
British flowering plants. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1914. 4to, 4 volumes, number 350 of 1000 copies, 300 chromolithographed plates, original cream cloth gilt, t.e.g., some very slight dust-soiling to covers and occasional light foxing; [MacMichael, William] The gold-headed cane. London: John Murray, 1828. Second edition, 4to, engraved frontispiece, extra-illustrated, 25 plates and 85 portraits, 1 coloured, in total, contemporary red cloth, t.e.g., spine a little faded, binding slightly rubbed, bookplate of William Robinson of High Wycombe to paste-down endpaper, to whom the extra-illustration is attributed, and the owner's inscription of James Alison Glover (C.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P.), Professor of physic at Gresham College, 1935-8 (5)