Lot 8 , Nicol, Walter - The Gardeners Kalendar; or Monthly Directory of Operations in Every Branch of Horticulture,

Nicol, Walter - The Gardener's Kalendar; or Monthly Directory of Operations in Every Branch of Horticulture, advert leaf, lacks half title, contemporary calf, Edinburgh 1810; Miller, Philip, The Gardeners Kalendar ... 7th edition, half title, head and tail piece decorations, lacks frontis, old calf, rebacked with panelled spine and red label, 1745; sold with Rapin of Gardens, 2nd edition, revised and finished ..., 4 plates but lacks frontis, old gilt calf, defective - upper board present, but detached, (1718)
Estimate £80-120

Nicol - wear on spine including label, outer joints cracked / weak, title foxing and elsewhere, dd armorial back plate of Henry Hopkins; (III)-XXIV, 646pp; Miller - new endpapers, some title stains and slightly elsewhere, title verso with 19th century inscription family notes, Rapin - reasonable copy, defects as given, though interleaved throughout; pagination as Henrey 1254, i.e. (52), 200, 8pp (plus 2 adut.pp, not noted by Henrey), some title and other spotting.


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