NATURAL HISTORY

Lot 93
21.10.2022 10:30UTC +00:00
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ID 829421
Lot 93 | NATURAL HISTORY
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£ 1 200 – 1 800
NATURAL HISTORY

A group of 5 works.

Interesting group of natural history books, some with hand-coloured plates.



Together 8 volumes, comprising: PLINY THE ELDER (23-79 C.E.). Naturalis Historiae. Leiden and Rotterdam: apud Hackios, 1669-1668-1669. 3 volumes, octavo (205 x 120mm). Additional engraved titles by G. Wingendorp. Late 19th-/early 20th-century red morocco gilt by Bedford, top edges gilt, the others uncut, gilt turn-ins and marbled endpapers (extremities faintly rubbed). [With:] EVELYN, John. Silva: or a Discourse of Forest-Trees. York: 1776. Quarto (292 x 222mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait and 40 plates, 2 of which folding, subscriber's list (occasional faint spotting mostly confined to margins). Contemporary tree calf (upper cover with ink stains, joints cracking, later spine label). Nissen BBI 615. [With:] GILPIN, William. Remarks on Forest Scenery, and other Woodland Views. London: 1791. 2 volumes, octavo (220 x 140mm). 31 engraved hand-coloured plates and 1 double-page map (occasional light offsetting). Contemporary calf (rebacked). [With:] MADDOCK, James. The Florist's Directory, A Treatise on the Culture of Flowers. London: 1810. Octavo (207 x 130mm). 8 hand-coloured plates (light spotting). Late 19th-century straight-grained morocco (extremities rubbed). [And:] PARKINSON, John. Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris... faithfully reprinted from the edition of 1629. London: 1904. Folio (374 x 240mm). Facsimile edition, half-title, vignette title, illustrations, many full-page (uncut edges faintly dust-soiled). Publisher’s linen-backed boards (covers unevenly stained, extremities rubbed with head- and tailcaps worn).





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