Sales catalogue 106: Howes Bookshop Ltd.

Date:: 20th Century

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/107

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Credit: Sales catalogue 106: Howes Bookshop Ltd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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367 BOOK OF GEMS from the Poets and Artists of Great Britain ed. S. C. Hall. Numerous beautiful vigneties engraved on silver plates from designs by Mulready, Hayter, Etty, Prout, Stothard and others, 8vo, paper mache sides, leather back. 1866 6/- The binding is a phase of Victorian publisher’s book covers. 368 BOTANICAL. Guppy (H. B.). Studies in Seeds and Fruits. An Investigation with a balance. 8vo. 1912 7/6 An history of the life and actions of seeds. 369 BOTANY. Bentham (Geo.). Handbook of British - Flora, Post 8vo, backstrip defective. 1858 7/6 The First EDITION of a famous text-book. 370 — Blanchan (N.). The American Flower Garden. aaa frontis. and numerous illus., large 8vo. N.Y. 6/- 371 — British Ferns and their Allies, by T. Moore. Coloured plates, cr. 8vo. 4/- 372 — Robinson (W.). The Wild Garden or the Natural- ization and Natural Grouping of Hardy Exotic Plants with a chapter on Wild Flowers. Illus. by A. Parsons, 8vo. 1894 . 5/- 373. BRADFORD (John, 16th Cent.). 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The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1845-46. Ports. and facsimiles, 2 vols., cr. 8vo, 1899 7/6 380 BROWNING (Robt.). Poetical Works. 6 vols., fcap. 8vo. 1887 15/- 381 — The Ring and the Book. First IssUuE OF FIRST EDITION, with Arabic numerals on backstrips, 4 vols., fcap. 8vo. one joint split, scarce. 1868 30/- 382 BUCHANAN (Rob.). London Poems. First EDITION, feap. 8vo. 1866 4/- 383 BUNYAN. The Ancient Poem of Guillaume. de Guileville entitled Le pelerinage di l’homme compared with the Pilgrims Progress of Bunyan, ed. with Notes by N. Hill. Facsimiles, 4to. 1858 7/6 384 BUNYAN (John). The Pilgrim’s Progress. With many plates in colour by Byam Shaw, 8vo, fine copy. N.D. 6/- 385 — Pilgrim’s Progress; with the Poetry, hitherto omitted. Roy 8vo, embossed red morocco, g.e., fine copy. N.D. 8/6 386 BURNAND (F.C.). Very Much Abroad. With illus. by Punch artists, cr. 8vo. 1890 3/- 887 BURNS (Robert). Works, edited by the Ettrick Shepherd. 5 vols., feap. 8vo. 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