Natural History, approx. 50 volumes, 18th c and later, inclu...

Hammer

£130

Natural History, approx. 50 volumes, 18th c and later, including Hill (John, MD), The British Herbal [...], second edition, London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton, et al., 1756, uncollated, lacking frontispiece and all plates, some movement, contemporary calf, worn and split, folio (41 x 26cm), Pratt's Poisonous, Noxious, and Suspected Plants, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d. [1857], hand-coloured illustrations, marginal stains, original green wrappers, chipped and creased, 4to, idem., Wild Flowers, volume I only, n.d., plates, contemporary morocco over boards, square 4to, The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, volume I only, London: Charles Cox, n.d., unexamined, illustrated, later green-stained calf over cloth, 4to, The Royal Natural History [...], The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, n.d., colour plates, other b/w in-text illustrations, original morocco gilt, split with upper-cover loose, bumped, some further losses, 4to, Maling's Flowers, 1862, hand-coloured frontispiece, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, Thompson's Gardener's Assistant, six volumes, 1900-02, 8vo, Commercial Gardening, four volumes, 1913, 8vo, others, mostly botany or gardening, but including Lubbock, etc., mixed bindings and sizes