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Loudon (John Claudius). An Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture, 1st edition, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833, xx 1138 pp., 42 lithographic plates printed on both sides (and often counted in pagination), profuse wood-engravings throughout, half-title discarded, all edges untrimmed, modern half calf, 8vo (22.8 x 13 cm), together with: Goldsmith (Oliver). A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 2 volumes, London: A. Fullarton and Co., 1847, pp. [ii] liv 536, [vi] 541, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 hand-coloured etched vignette title-pages, 46 hand-coloured etched plates numbered 1-48 (plates 31 and 38 not listed, presumed unissued), volume 1 half-title misbound, occasional spotting, contemporary half calf, large 8vo (25.1 x 16.2 cm), Anderson (James). The New Practical Gardener, and Modern Horticulturist, London: William Mackenzie [1872-4], 39 plates of which 28 hand-coloured, several double-page, pp. 63-4 stained, modern red half morocco, 4to (24.4 x 16.2 cm), Wood (John George . Homes without Hands. Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals, classed according to their Principle of Construction, 1st edtion, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1865, 21 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece, 20th-century green half morocco by Riviere, 8vo (22 x 13.4 cm) (Qty: 5) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART II Archer 184.1 (Loudon); Freeman 1354.24 (Goldsmith, with date 1848), 4098 (Wood). The lot sold as seen owing to the absence of a known collation for Loudon's work. For Goldsmith's work 46 plates are all that were originally published; the 'Directions to the Binder' leaf contains 24 asterisked plates numbered 49 to 72 described as 'supplementary plates, and as such ... not necessarily included in the present edition'.