PLATE BOOKS/NATURAL HISTORY: 1. Pratt | Lot 266 | 23 PLATE BOOKS/NATURAL HISTORY: 1. Pratt, Anne: Flowering Plants and Ferns. Five volume set and one volume each of Ferns of Great Britain and The British Grasses and Sedges. L, Soc. For the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, nd, c.1850/60s; vol. 6 is 2nd. edn., the rest are 1st edns. Original cloth, gilt. Hand coloured plates. CONDITION: Covers little worn; o/w VG ; 2. Flore des dames et des Demoiselles. Paris, nd, c.1840. With coloured plates. CONDITION: Covers worn & title page taped on; o/w G ; 3. Acheta Domestica, pseudonym (Budgen, Miss L. M.): Episodes of Insect Life. Three series/volumes. L, Reeve, 1849-1851. With hand coloured plates. Gilt decorative cloth and aeg. CONDITION: G+/VG ; 4. Crouch, E A: An illustrated Introduction to Lamarck's Conchology. With 22 highly finished lithographic plates. L, Longmans, 1827, rebound in plain cloth, but with the original binding almost intact (loosely covering it). 4to. VG; 5. Parkinson, J: Paradisi in Sole, Paradisus Terrestris. L, Methuen, 1904. Large folio, reprinted from the 1629 edition; Aberdeen University press. 100 full page plates finely reproduced from the original wood-cuts, finely bound in original linen backed boards. CONDITON: VG+ ; 6. Plus an odd volume of Buffon's Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux (14) PLATE BOOKS/NATURAL HISTORY: 1. Pratt
PLATE BOOKS/NATURAL HISTORY: 1. Pratt | Lot 266 | 23 PLATE BOOKS/NATURAL HISTORY: 1. Pratt, Anne: Flowering Plants and Ferns. Five volume set and one volume each of Ferns of Great Britain and The British Grasses and Sedges. L, Soc. For the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, nd, c.1850/60s; vol. 6 is 2nd. edn., the rest are 1st edns. Original cloth, gilt. Hand coloured plates. CONDITION: Covers little worn; o/w VG ; 2. Flore des dames et des Demoiselles. Paris, nd, c.1840. With coloured plates. CONDITION: Covers worn & title page taped on; o/w G ; 3. Acheta Domestica, pseudonym (Budgen, Miss L. M.): Episodes of Insect Life. Three series/volumes. L, Reeve, 1849-1851. With hand coloured plates. Gilt decorative cloth and aeg. CONDITION: G+/VG ; 4. Crouch, E A: An illustrated Introduction to Lamarck's Conchology. With 22 highly finished lithographic plates. L, Longmans, 1827, rebound in plain cloth, but with the original binding almost intact (loosely covering it). 4to. VG; 5. Parkinson, J: Paradisi in Sole, Paradisus Terrestris. L, Methuen, 1904. Large folio, reprinted from the 1629 edition; Aberdeen University press. 100 full page plates finely reproduced from the original wood-cuts, finely bound in original linen backed boards. CONDITON: VG+ ; 6. Plus an odd volume of Buffon's Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux (14) PLATE BOOKS/NATURAL HISTORY: 1. Pratt
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