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229 HERBAL.-GERARDE (John) THE
HERBAL, or General History of Plantes, gathered by
JOHN GERARDE, master in Chirurgerie, and very
much enlarged and amended by THOMAS JOHNSON,
apothecary: illustrated with a VERY FINE ENGRAVED
TITLE-PAGE, in the several compartments of which are
a View of the Garden of Eden, Portraits of Theophrastus,
Dioscorides, Ceres, Venus, Pomona, and a FINE
PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR supported on either side
by a vase of beautiful flowers, the whole engraved on
copper by John Payne: also the text illustrated by
hundreds of large well drawn representations of the
plants, all of which are carefully engraved on wood;
newly and very handsomely full bound in the finest dark red levant morocco, crushed and
polished, tooled in the antique style, gold edges,
FINE COPY, RARE, £18s. 1835, thick folio
This is one of the most collected All Botanicals ever published, and really fine and perfect copies are
becoming most difficult to procure. Moreover, the prices of such are rapidly advancing, now that their
scarcity is generally known, and the time is not far distant when they will be much more expensive than they are now.
The book is full of quaint and fancy descriptions and cumbrous observations. It is particularly famous for the account which it gives of the "Goose Tree, Barnacle Tree, or the Tree Bearing Geese."
The author says of it, "We have heard many strange and marvelous things of this tree, and have seen and handled it ourselves, and then tells that on an Island in Lancashire, called the Pile of Fonderds, there grows a curious tree which bears a fruit which, when ripe, opens and out drops substances, "which falling into the water do become fowles, which we call geese, and are called by the name of Geese." At page 1587 is given an engraving of the process. Every leaf in the volume is clean, the margins large (a most unusual circumstance), and the impressions of the engravings are excellent.
Deerhound, the Modern Deerhound, Deerhounds in connection with the present-day Deer-stalking, proposed Deer-stalks, etc., illustrated and accompanied by 16 FINE ETCHINGS of celebrated dogs, and several excellent vignette etchings scattered throughout the text, First Edition, original cloth, 128 6d (pub 1840), scarce, 4to
230 DOBSON (Austin) Eighteenth Century Vignettes, the Large Paper Issue of the first series, illustrated with 6 nice portraits of Steely Johnson, Henry Clive, Sir William Hamilton, and Cooper, also a view of the Old Vauxhall Gardens, copied from a contemporary print, in the original half parchment binding, 10s 6d, 1842
Only 250 copies of this Specially Illustrated Large Paper Edition were printed, and this is numbered and signed by the artist.
231 DORAN (Dr.) Monarchs Retired from Business, illustrated with 2 Fine Steel Portraits of the Emperors Charles V and Christian IV, Queen of Sweden; 2 vols, First Edition, original blue cloth, uncut, clean copy, RARE, 21s, Bentley, 1857
232 DORAN (Dr.) Their Majesties' Playhouse, or Annals of the English Stage from Betterton to Kean — actors, authors, audiences — illustrated with a fine portrait of Betterton, original cloth, uncut, Scarce, 1859
232a DORAN (Dr.) Memories of Our Great Towns, with Anecdotic Gleanings concerning
their Worthies and their Oddities (1860-1877): FIRST EDITION, half bound in brown calf gilt
128 6d, 1877, 4to
233 DRAYTON (Michael) England's Heroical Epistles, written in Imitation of the Stile and Manner of Ovid's Epistles, with Annotations, and bound in dark olive green polished Morocco, gilt back, 74s, 1877, 8vo, RARE
Early 4th century edition, containing the commentaries to the author, and has interesting dedications to various persons, one preceding each epistle. The top blank margin is skilfully restored.
234 DRUMMOND (H.) Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of Man—Evolution in General, Dawn of Mind, Evolution of Language, Struggle for Life, etc., etc., original cloth, 38 7s 6d, small 8vo
1894
236 DRUMMOND (Sir W., of Hawthornden) The Works of, edited by B. Turnbull, FIRST EDITION, the handy and priced as a "Library of Old Authors" edition, illustrated with a fine portrait of the author, original cloth, scarce, 58, 1859, 8vo, crown 8vo
HARTAS, HIS DIVINE
WEEKES AND WORKES, Translated and
Dedicated to the King's Most Excellent Maiestie
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