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Printed Books and Maps

Session: Natural History

Oxford
25 Sep 2012, session starting at 10:30 BST
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CURTIS (WILLIAM) Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed, vol. 43-53 only
Sold for £1,625 inc. premium
CURTIS (WILLIAM) Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed, vol. 43-53 only
DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU (HENRI LOUIS) Traité des arbres fruitiers; contenant leur figure, leur description, leur culture, vol. 2 only, 118 plates, 1768
Sold for £937 inc. premium
DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU (HENRI LOUIS) Traité des arbres fruitiers; contenant leur figure, leur description, leur culture, vol. 2 only, 118 ...
WILLMOTT (ELLEN ANN) The Genus Rosa, 2 vol.
Sold for £750 inc. premium
WILLMOTT (ELLEN ANN) The Genus Rosa, 2 vol.
WOODWARD (JOHN) Fossils of All Kinds, Digested into a Method, Suitable to their Mutual Relation and Affinity, 1728
Sold for £687 inc. premium
WOODWARD (JOHN) Fossils of All Kinds, Digested into a Method, Suitable to their Mutual Relation and Affinity, 1728

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BACON (FRANCIS) Sylva Sylvarum: or a Naturall Historie, 1628
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BACON (FRANCIS) Sylva Sylvarum: or a Naturall Historie, 1628
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CULPEPER (NICHOLAS) Complete Herbal, 1823
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CULPEPER (NICHOLAS) Complete Herbal, 1823
Sold for £137 inc. premium
CURTIS (WILLIAM) Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed, vol. 43-53 only
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CURTIS (WILLIAM) Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed, vol. 43-53 only
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CURTIS (WILLIAM) Botanical Magazine, 3 vol. only (vol. 9; New Series, vol. 1; Third Series, vol. 5); and others (7)
Sold for £812 inc. premium
DICKSON, R.W. Practical Agriculture; or, A Complete System of Modern Husbandry: with the Methods of Planting, and the Management of Live Stock, 2 vol., 1805
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DICKSON, R.W. Practical Agriculture; or, A Complete System of Modern Husbandry: with the Methods of Planting, and the Management of Live Stock, 2 vol., 1805
Sold for £212 inc. premium
ORNITHOLOGY DIXON (CHARLES) Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Isles
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DIXON (CHARLES) Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Isles
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DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU (HENRI-LOUIS) Gesthcithce, 1775
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DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU (HENRI-LOUIS) Gesthcithce, 1775
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DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU (HENRI LOUIS) Traité des arbres fruitiers; contenant leur figure, leur description, leur culture, vol. 2 only, 118 plates, 1768
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DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU (HENRI LOUIS) Traité des arbres fruitiers; contenant leur figure, leur description, leur culture, vol. 2 only, 118 plates, 1768
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GREW (NEHEMIAH) The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants. And Several Other Lectures, Read before the Royal Society, 1682
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GREW (NEHEMIAH) The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants. And Several Other Lectures, Read before the Royal Society, 1682
Sold for £312 inc. premium
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JARDINE (WILLIAM) The Naturalist's Library, 11 vol. [1830s/40s]
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KLEIN (THEODOR JACOB) Descriptiones tubulorum marinorum. In quorum censum relati lapides caudae cancri, gesneri, & his similes; belemnitae; forumque alveoli, 1731; and 9 others (10)
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LETTSOM (JOHN COAKLEY) The Natural History of the Tea-Tree, with Observations on the Medical Qualities of Tea, 1799
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LETTSOM (JOHN COAKLEY) The Natural History of the Tea-Tree, with Observations on the Medical Qualities of Tea, 1799
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LINDLEY (JOHN) Rosarum Monographia; or, a Botanical History of Roses, 1820; and others (22)
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LYDEKKER (RICHARD, editor) The Royal Natural History, 6 vol., 1893-4
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LYDEKKER (RICHARD, editor) The Royal Natural History, 6 vol., 1893-4
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MARTIN (HORACE) Castorologia or the History and Traditions of the Canadian Beaver, 1892; and a quantity of others (c.70)
Sold for £687 inc. premium
MARTYN (THOMAS) Thirty-Eight Plates with Explanations; Intended to Illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables, and Particularly Adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany
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MARTYN (THOMAS) Thirty-Eight Plates with Explanations; Intended to Illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables, and Particularly Adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany
Sold for £112 inc. premium
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MILLAIS (JOHN GUILLE) British Diving Ducks, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 360 OF 450 COPIES, 1913
Sold for £525 inc. premium
MILLAIS (JOHN GUILLE) The Natural History of the British Surface-Feeding Ducks, NUMBER 434 of 600 COPIES ON LARGE PAPER, 1902
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MILLAIS (JOHN GUILLE) The Natural History of the British Surface-Feeding Ducks, NUMBER 434 of 600 COPIES ON LARGE PAPER, 1902
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£300 - 500
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€350 - 580
MILLAIS (JOHN GUILLE) Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches, 1892; British Deer and Their Horns, 1897 (2)
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MILLAIS (JOHN GUILLE) Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches, 1892; British Deer and Their Horns, 1897 (2)
Sold for £400 inc. premium
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MILLAIS (JOHN GUILLE) The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, 3 vol., NUMBER 982 OF 1025 COPIES, 1904; and others (7)
Sold for £375 inc. premium
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