Lot 1237 , Sowerby, George Brettingham - Popular British Conchology. A familiar history of the molluscs inhabiting the Brisish Isles. 20 hand coloured lithographed plates; original gilt pictorial and blind decorated cloth (by Westl

° Sowerby, George Brettingham - Popular British Conchology. A familiar history of the molluscs inhabiting the Brisish Isles. 20 hand coloured lithographed plates; original gilt pictorial and blind decorated cloth (by Westleys), cr.8vo. 1854; Rhind, William - A History of the Vegetable Kingdom; embracing the physiology of plants....and their application in the arts, manufactures, and domestic economy. portrait frontis., 41 plates (22 hand coloured), many engraved text illus.; contemp. half calf and marbled boards, gilt ruled panelled spine with maroon label (by Manderson of Brighton), 4to. 1857; Burbidge, F.W. - Cultivated Plants: their propagation and improvement. num. engraved illus. (some full page); original black pictorial and gilt lettered cloth. 1877; sold with a copy of Wooster's Alpine Plants (2nd series, 1874); and White's Natural History of Selborne....and the Naturalist's Calendar (edited Jesse, 1854). (5)
£60-80

Condition:
Conchology - inner hinges cracked, sm. piece missing from spine, binding loose. (1), xii, 304pp. (incl. half title) and 2 advert leaves; Rhind - some wear to spine and corners, some plain plts. soiled in margins, some soiling on end blanks, d.col. printing; xii, 720pp.; old ownership at front; Burbidge - half title spotting, o/w. clean. xii, 618pp. and 2pp. adverts.; Wooster - 54 coloured plts., publisher's pictorial cloth, split on upper joint, noticeably clean inside; White - engr. plts., orig. gilt pictorial and blind decorated cloth; some wear/fading and inner hinges cracked.

Sold for £170