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First edition, 8vo (190 x 130 mm), a very good ex-library copy, orig. cloth, gilt.
Second edition, 8vo (220x 145 mm), lix, 472pp., maps, a very good ex-library copy, orig. cloth.
First edition, small 8vo (165 x 105 mm), xix, [1], 176 + 4pp., of publishers' ads, ex-library, orig. pebble patterned cloth, upper joint torn and worn.
First edition, 8vo (220 x 145 mm), [12], 310pp., folding map at rear, a very good ex-library copy, orig. cloth.
First and only edition, iv, [2], [5]-170pp., disbound. Scarce. Simpson, p.336; Freeman, 1771.
First edition, small 8vo, vi, 62, [6]pp., orig. green cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, a nice copy.
First edition, small 8vo, xx, [4], 134, [2pp., list of subscribers], orig. green blind-stamped cloth, title and floral border stamped in gilt on upper cover, a little rubbed.
First edition, 2 works in one, 166, [2]; 23, [1]; 27, [1]pp., orig. cloth, lightly stained, with short tear to upper joint, orig. printed label to spine.
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 132pp., ex-library copy with stamps, orig. cloth-backed boards, printed paper label to spine, uncut.
8vo, [2], 209-254pp., frontis., plates, maps and plans, orig. printed wrappers. Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club; 14.3.
First edition, 8vo (230 x 150 mm), lxx, 324pp., large coloured folding map at rear, orig. green cloth, bevelled boards, spine gilt, uncut, a fine copy. Provenance: Charles Edgar Salmon (ownership signature on half-title). Simpson, 413.
Second enlarged edition, folio (395 x 240 mm), iv, 110pp., printed in double-column, engraved portrait and 24 engraved plates on 13 sheets, recent quarter red morocco, new marbled endpapers, spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt, lettered direct in gilt in second and third compartments, a fine copy with some minor browning and offsetting from the plates. Richard Pulteney (1730-1801) was principally known as a botanist, but started out life apprenticed for seven years to an apothecary in his local town of Loughborough, Leicestershire. After which he practised as a surgeon and apothecary at Leicester; but he met with little success owing to his nonconformist convictions. He eventually secured a practice as physician at Blanford, Dorset, and occupied his leisure time with the study of botany, conchology, etc. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1790 and bequeathed to them his museum and herbarium. First published in 1799 in a limited number, many of which were destroyed by a fire at Nichols' warehouse in 1808. This second enlarged edition, edited with additions by Reckett, was the first to be illustrated. A republication of Da Costa's Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniae 1778 plates, with six additional ones, omitting some of Da Costa's figures, and inserting others, corresponding with the locality of the subject. The plates contain about 230 figures of British shells, and the letter-press gives a brief description of them. Nissen ZBI, 3250.
First edition, 2 vols., bound as one, small 8vo, vi, 62, [2]; [2], lxiii-lxv, 67-105, [7]pp., interleaved with blank paper, several cont. entries added in ink in a neat hand, cont. green half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, label o upper cover. With the rare supplement which is seldom found.
First edition, 8vo (206 x 122 mm), [18], 259, [1], [12], 120pp., complete with supplement and Latin title page for both the main work and the supplement (usually lacking), cont. calf, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, a nice copy. "This in its time was a standard handbook, used by botanists, gardeners, nurseries, seedsmen. It lists trees and shrubs, herbaceous plates, greenhouse plants, stove plants, and seeds according to their Linnaean binomial and English names."?Hunt. Provenance: Bookplate of Edward Winnington, 1786; B. O. Mulligan, purchased from Blackwell's in 1945 with their invoice tipped-in at rear. Hunt, 647; Henrey, 1483; Pritzel, 10205.
First edition, 8vo (196 x 116 mm), [6], 17, [1], 272, [8, index]pp., 2 woodcut plates, new endpapers, recent quarter calf, marbled boards, spine tooled in blind and gilt, leather label. A work based upon Ray's Synopsis methodica stirpium Britannicarum, though not a translation of it, but is the first systematic account of British Plants in English. Wilson was a man in humble circumstances, a shoemaker, at Kendal. There is a good story about him in Pulteney's 'Sketches,' of how he was once sorely tempted to sell his own cow to buy a copy of Morison's 'Historia Plantarum,' and how a benevolent lady intervened and made him a present of it. In later life he became a teacher of botany, and removed to Newcastle, where his book was published. Henrey, 1501.
First edition, 8vo, lxxxviii, 570pp., large folding map, 6 portraits, orig. green publishers cloth.
4to, vi, 66pp., coloured and black & white plates, orig. cloth, d.w. a little worn.
First edition, 8vo, [2], xxxiv, 519, [1], viiipp., (list of subscribers), one of 500 copies signed and numbered by the author, folding map in pocket at rear, orig. publishers blue cloth, a nice copy.
1826PP. 221, CM. 15,5X10, LEG. COEVA MEZZA PELLE FREGI ORO AL DORSO, RITRATTO DEL TASSONI IN ANTIPORTA, FIORITURE NATURALI, SCRITTE E QUALCHE STRAPPETTO CHE NON PREGIUDICA IL TESTO.
2004PP. 188, CM. 20,5X14, BROSS.
1991PP. 61, CM. 33X25, CART., FOTOGRAFIE A COLORI.
2001PP. 446, CM. 23,5X15,5, BROSS., IMMAGINI ESPLICATIVE, I ED. "GLI ADELPHI". IL LIBRO CHE SVELA TUTTO DEI GATTI - TRANNE IL LORO MISTERO.
1992PP. 168, CM. 30,5X24, CART., FOTOGRAFIE.
1998PP. 181+SCHEDE DELLE SPECIE VEGETALI E ANIMALI PIU' FREQUENTEMENTE CITATE, CM. 21X11, BROSS.CON BANDELLE, ILL., TIRATURA FUORI COMMERCIO. VENTOTTO ITINERARI NATURALISTICI IN EMILIA-ROMAGNA: DOVE SONO, QUANDO E' MEGLIO ANDARCI, COME SI RAGGIUNGONO, CHE EQUIPAGGIAMENTO RICHIEDONO, COSA C'E' DA VEDERE E DA SCOPRIRE. E ANCHE: CARTINE DETTAGLIATE, INFORMAZIONI SUI LUOGHI DI RISTORO E DI PERNOTTAMENTO, NUMERI DI TELEFONO PER I SOCCORSI.
