Botany, Horticulture, Agriculture and Herbals.

1 ABERCROMBIE (J.). The Gardener's Pocket Dictionary; or, arrangement of Trees, Herbs, Flowers, etc. Linnean Method, with directions for the general practice of Gardening. 3 vols., Sm. 8vo., green morocco, gilt backs. 1786.

£1 18. 2 Rei AGRARIAE, Auctores legesque variae, cura W. Goesii, acc. Goesii Antiquitatum Agrariarum. Plates and figures in the text. 4to., old calf. Amst., 1674

3 AGRICOLA.

12s. 6d.

Miscellaneous Observations on Planting and Training Timber-Trees; particularly calculated for the climate of Scotland. In a series of Letters. Cr. 8vo., calf. Edinburgh,

1777.

15s. 6d.

An interesting account of Scottish forestry in the latter half of the XVIIIth century.

4 ALDROVANDUS (Ulysses). Dendrologiae naturalis scilicet arborum historiae LIBRI DUO Sylva Glandaria, acinosumo Pomarium. Engraved title-page and woodcuts, including many of apples and pears, a few of fungi found on fruit trees, and 2 figures of insects from Moufet, 1634. Folio, calf. Bononiae, 1668

£3 5 ALPINUS (Prosperus). De Plantis Exoticis, libri duo. Fullpage engravings throughout, and engraved title with portraits of Theophrastus and Dioscorides. Few leaves at end slightly damp-stained at corners. Sm. 4to., old calf. Venice, 1629.

£1 10s. 6 AMMANUS (Joannes). Stirpium Rariorum in Imperio Rutheno sponte provenientium Icones et Descriptiones. Numerous plates engraved on copper. 4to., calf. Petropoli, 1739. £1 10s. 7 AUBLET (Fusée). Histoire de Plantes de la Guiane Francoise ranges suivant la methode sexuelle, avec plusieurs memoires sur differens objets interessans, relatifs à la culture & au Commerce de la Guiane Francaise, et une Notice des Plantes de l'Ille de France. 392 plates, 4 vols., 4to., calf, m. e., FINE SET. Paris, 1775. £8 8s. 9 BARRELIER (J.). Icones Plantarum per Galliam, Hispaniam et Italiam observantar ad vivum exhibitarum. . . editum cura & Studio Antonii de Jussieu. Numerous plates, folio, engraved title, calf. Paris, 1714.

£2 2s. 10 BARTALINI (Prof. B.) Catalogo delle Piante che nascono spontanea intorno alla Citta di Siena. 4to., old vellum. Siena, 1776.

Ss. 6d. 11 BAUHINUS (Johannes) and CHERLER (Jean Henri). Historia Plantarum Universalis. 3 vols., engraved titles and numerous illustrations in the text, folio, calf. Iverdon, 1650-1

£6 6s.

Dulant Co., ltd

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BAZIN (M.). Observations sur les plantes et leur analogie avec les Insectes, precedées de deux discours l'un sur l'Accroissement du Corps humain, l'autre sur la cause pour laquelle les Bestes nagent naturellement, & que l'Homme est oblige d'en etudier les moyens. 8vo., calf, SCARCE. Strasbourg, 1741.

15s.

13 BERRYAIS (Abbe). Traite des Jardins, ou Le Nouveau de la Quintinye. Troisieme edition, 8vo., plates, boards, calf backed. Paris, 1789.

£1 4s. 14 BERTHELON (l'Abbc). De l'Electricité des Vegetaux. Ouvrage dans lequel on traite de l'electricité de l'atmosphere sur les plantes, de ses effets sur l'economie des vegétaux, etc. Avec 3 planches, 8vo., calf, SCArce. Lyon, 1783.

18s.

15 BLITH (Walter). The English Improved, or the Survey of Husbandry Surveyed... by Wa. Blith, a Lover of Ingenuity. The Third Impression much Augmented, with an Additional Discovery of the severall Tooles, and Instruments in their Formes and Figures promised. With engraved title and woodcuts, sm. 4to., sheepskin. London, 1653

Two or three lines cut out of title and 2 plates missing.

This was the first volume to deal with drainage in England.

£2 2s.

16 BONNET (C.). Recherches sur l'usage des Feuilles dans les Plantes et sur quelques autres sujets relatifs a l'histoire de la vegetation. Folding plates, 4to., old half calf. Gottingen, 1754

£1

17 BRADLEY (Richard). Dictionarium Rusticum, Urbanicum et Botanicum; or, a Dictionary of Husbandry, Gardening, Trade, Commerce and Country Affairs. With a number of wood and copper cuts. Second edition, improved, with additions of about 1,000 articles, 8vo., calf. 1717.

12s. 6d. 18 New Improvements of Planting and Gardening-rare secrets for improvement of Fruit-trees, Kitchen Gardens, &c. 3 parts, 8vo., old calf. 1718.

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Dictionarium Botanicum: for the use of the Curious in Husbandry and Gardening. 2 vols., 8vo., old calf, worn. 1728

15s.

20 BROSSE (Guy de la). A Letter to the King of France, commencing " Je propose a vostre Majesté la construction d'un Jardin pour cultiver les plantes medicinales." 13 pp. Memoire des Plantes... que l'on doit trouver. . au Jardin Royal des Plantes Medicinales. 11 pp. A Letter on the same subject to le Cardinal Richelieu, 15pp., and another to Monseigneur le Garde des Seaux. All bound in one vol., sm. 4to., half morocco. N.D.

£1 10s.