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NATURAL HISTORY APRIL 2021 a Short List E-Catalogue Donald A NATURAL HISTORY APRIL 2021 a short list e-catalogue Donald A. Heald | Rare Books Donald A. Heald | Rare Books NATURAL HISTORY APRIL 2021 a short list e-catalogue Just click the title of each item in this illustrated short list and follow the link to a full description and images on our website. Questions? Contact us or email [email protected] DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss AGRICULTURE A Dissertation on the Nature of Soils, and the Properties of Manure; to which is added, the Method of Making a Universal Compost ... London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1833. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches). [12], 141, [1, blank], [2, blank], 3-35, [1, blank]pp., plus 12-pp publisher's ads. Half-title. Publisher's paper-backed boards, covers detached, spine per- ished. Provenance: Rothamsted Laboratory (inked stamp on title). Early work on soil and composting. (#37772) $ 100. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss JOHN FISK ALLEN Victoria Regia; or the Great Water Lily of America. With a brief account of its discovery and intro- duction into cultivation: with illustrations by William Sharp, from specimens grown at Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Boston: printed and published for the author by Dutton & Wentworth, 1854. Folio. Letterpress title, 1p. de- dication to Caleb Cope, 12pp. text (numbered [5]-16); 1p. index, plate list, note and errata. 6 chromolitho- graphed plates by Sharp & Sons of Dorchester, Mass. Publisher's cloth- backed lettered boards. Housed in a green morocco backed box. A monument to American colour printing, a work which launched the age of chromolithography as an art in the United States, and one of the most beautiful flower books ever produced. (#36684) $ 60,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss WILLIAM PAUL CRILLON BARTON A Flora of North America. Illustrated by coloured figures, drawn from nature. Philadelphia: vol.I: M. Carey & Sons; vol.II & III: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, [1820-]1821-1823[-1824]. 3 volumes, quarto (10 9/16 x 8 5/16 inches). Half-titles in each volume. To Subscribers leaf in vol.II. 106 hand-coloured engraved plates (two folding), including some partially printed in colours and finished by hand, from drawings by the author, by Cornelius Tiebout (29), G.B. Ellis (32), F. Kearney (23), J. Boyd (7), J. Drayton (6), C. Goodman (6), Jacob J. Plocher (2) and J.L. Frederick (1). (one folding plate partially backed along fold). Contemporary three quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. An important American flora, "magnificently illustrated" (DAB) with "Plates [that] are clear, soft and lovely" (Bennett). The work includes the first successful use of stipple-engraving in the United States. This set includes the rare 'To Subscribers' leaf in Volume II. (#22470) $ 17,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss GEORGE BENTHAM AND HENRY FLETCHER HANCE Flora Hongkongensis: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Island of Hong Kong ... [Bound with:] Flora Hongkongensis ... A Compendious Supple- ment to Mr. Bentham's Description of the Plants of the Island of Hong Kong ... Extracted from the Linnaen Society's Journal. London: Lovell Reeve, 1861; [London: Linnaen Society, 1872]. 2 volumes in one, 8vo (8 x 5 1/8 inches). [3]-20*, 51, [1], 482pp., plus folding map; [4], [95]-144pp. Contemporary half green morocco over green cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands in five compartments, tooled on either side of each band and lettered in the center three compart- ments, marbled endpaper and edges. The first comprehensive flora on any part of China and Hong Kong, bound with the separately-issued supplement. (#29444) $ 2,250. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss JOSEPH BLAGRAVE The Epitome of the Art of Husbandry ... by J. B. Gent. London: Printed for Benjamin Billingsley, 1675. Two parts in one, 8vo. [8], 159, 158-246; 136, [16]pp., with errors in pagination as issued. Two engraved illustrated additional titles. Publisher's ad on verso of the terminal leaf. Early manuscript receipt for horse feed to prevent costiveness on verso of the first engraved title and other manuscript receipts for cures to various horse ailments on the rear endpaper. Con- temporary calf, expertly rebacked to style. Scarce English 17th century work on husbandry. (#35335) $ 2,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss FRIEDRICH AUGUST LUDWIG VON BURGSDORFF [Versuch einer vollstandigen gesichte vorzuglicher holzarten ... Zweyter Theil]. [Berlin: Pauli, 1787]. Volume 2, part 1 only. Engraved frontispiece, 9 hand- coloured plates. Lacks the title and first three preliminary text leaves. Con- temporary half calf and patterned paper boards. A fragment from a very rare tree book. (#30943) $ 1,200. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss HENRY COLMAN First [- Fourth] Report on the Agriculture of Massachusetts. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1838-1839-1840-1841. Four volumes in two, 8vo. 3 plates, including a large, folding illustrated and hand-colored letter- press table regarding silk worms. Contemporary smooth calf, spine with semi-raised bands, green morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust (inked stamp). Scarce complete set of the first official agricultural report of Massachusetts. (#35358) $ 650. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss HENRY EELES DRESSER Eggs of the Birds of Europe including All the Spe- cies Inhabiting the Western Palaearctic Area. London: published by the author at the Office of the Royal So- ciety for the Protection of Birds, [August 1905-November] 1910. 2 volumes bound in 1, large 4to (12 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches). Vol. I: [20], 837pp; vol. II: 77 unnumbered leaves (the collation agrees with Wood although Nissen and Zimmer call for 79 ll.). 106 "three- colour photographic process" plates by Messrs. Andre & Sleigh in vol. II. Contemporary red half morocco, spine in six compart- ments with raised bands, the bands highlighted in gilt and flanked by rules in black, gilt lettered in the second and fourth compartments. A fine copy of this important work recording "the nesting habits and breeding ranges of European birds with half-tones of the nests and nesting sites; also coloured figures of the eggs ad natu- ram" (Wood). (#39452) $ 2,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss WILLIAM R. DYKES AND E. KATHERINE DYKES Notes on Tulip Species. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1930. Folio (15 x 10 3/4 inches). 54 color plates. Uncut. Publisher's green cloth, publisher's dust jacket. First edition, first printing: in the publisher's dust jack- et. (#29749) $ 350. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss WILLIAM FORSYTH A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-Trees. London: Printed by Nichols and Son for T. N. Longman, and O. Rees [and others], 1802. Quarto. viii, 371, [1]pp. 13 engraved folding plates. Contemporary speckled calf, ex- pertly rebacked to style, flat spine ruled in gilt, red mo- rocco lettering piece. First edition of a classic work on all aspects of growing fruit trees. (#35366) $ 1,400. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss GARDENING Miscellaneous Pieces. Consisting of Select Poetry, and Methods of Improvement in Husbandry, Gar- dening, and Various other Subjects, useful to Families. [Sherborne?]: Printed for R. Goadby, 1752. 8vo. 474, [8]pp. Three engraved plates (including folding frontispiece view of the Bri- tish herring fishery off Brassa in Shetland). Contemporary calf, covers ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece. Scarce 18th century compilation of gardening and husbandry advice, including an early printing of "An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard." (#35492) $ 1,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss STEPHEN HALES Statical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks; or, an Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vege- tables ... Vol. I. ... Third Edition, with Amendments ... [With:] Statical Esays: Containing Haemastaticks; or, an Account of some Hydraulick and Hydrostatical Experi- ments made on the Blood and Blood-Vessels of Animals ... Vol. II. London: W. Innys and R. Manby [et. al.], 1738-1733. 2 volumes, 8vo. [6], x, [4], [2], 376; xxii, [26], 361, [1], [22]pp. 19 engraved plates. Contemporary speckled calf, covers ruled in gilt, spines with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Sir William Foulis (armorial bookplate). A classic of experimental science. (#38701) $ 2,200. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss THOMAS HITT A Treatise on Fruit-Trees ... Second Edition. London: Printed for the Author, 1757. 8vo. viii, 392, [8]pp. 7 engraved plates (6 folding). Old repaired tears to folding plates. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece. An important 18th-century work on the care of fruit trees. (#35493) $ 850. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya; being an account, botanical and geographical of the Rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of eastern Himalaya ... London: Reeve, Benham, & Reeve, 1849-1851. Folio. Title with tinted lithographic vignette, 2 letterpress part titles, 1p. list of subscribers, 1p. preface to part II. Hand-col- oured lithographic frontispiece and 29 fine plates, drawn on stone by John Nugent Fitch from drawings by J.D. Hooker, printed by Reeve, Benham & Reeve (12), Frederic Reeve (4) and Reeve & Nichols
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