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Items in Sale # 363 Rare Books, including the Botanical Library of J. Roy Barrette of Brooklin, Maine Date: 09/13/2007
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Section I: Rare Books, Lots 1-112

Section II: The Botanical Library of J. Roy Barrette of Brooklin, Maine, Lots 113-176

J. Roy Barrette of Brooklin, Maine, author of A Countryman’s Journal and other works describing his life on a coastal Maine farm, gathered over many years a wonderful collection of beautiful botanical works, reflecting his great love of nature.

	Lot #	Heading	Author	Title	Place	Date	Estimate
	1	(Alchemy)	Ashmole, Elias	Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language. Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon...	London	1652	10000/15000
	2	(Alchemy)	Cooper, William	The philosophical epitaph of W.C. Esquire. For a memento mori on his tomb-stone... Also, A brief of the golden calf (the worlds idol.)... With a catalogue of chymical books.	London	1673 [i.e. 1675]	3500/4500
	3		Anson, George	A Voyage Around the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq.; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas	London	1748	4000/6000
	4		Aquinas, Thomas	Summa theologiae, secunda pars, pars seconda	Strassburg, France	Before Advent, 1463	30000/40000
	5	(Aristotle)	Taylor, Thomas	A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle, in four books. In which his principal physical and metaphysical dogmas are unfolded; and it is shown, from indubitable evidence, that his philosophy has not been accurately known since the destruction of the Greeks. The insufficiency also of the philosophy that has been substituted by the moderns for that of Aristotle, is demonstrated	London	1812	800/1200
	6	(Astronomy)	Andreas Veronensis	Tabula Pascalis diuersarum variationum temporum	Bologna	19 May 1488	18000/25000
	7		Audubon, John James	The Birds of America. A Selection of Plates Facsimile.	Leipzig and London	[1972-73]	2000/3000
	8		Augustine, Saint	Of the Citie of God: with the Learned Comments of Io. Lodovicus Vivres. Englished first by J.H. and now in this second edition compared with the Latine originall, and in very many places corrected and ammended	London	1620	1000/1500
	9		Bacon, Francis	The Essays, Or Councils, Civil and Moral, of Sir Francis Bacon...With a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil. And a Discourse on the Wisdom of the Ancients.	London	1696	700/1000
	10		Belzoni, Giovanni Battista	Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia; and of a journey to the coast of the Red Sea, in search of the ancient Berenice, and another to the oasis of Jupiter Ammon	London	1822	600/900
	11		Beveregium, Guilelm [Beveridge, William]	Institutionum Chronologicarum Libri II	London	1669	300/500
	12		Bewick, T[homas]	History of British Birds, the Figures Engraved on Wood by T. Bewick	Newcastle	1797 & 1804	600/900
	13	(Bewick, Thomas)	Hutton, Charles	A Treatise on Mensuration, both in theory and practice	Newcastle Upon Tyne	1770	1000/1500
	14	(Bewick, Thomas)	Thomson, James	The Seasons by James Thomson: With His Life by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. and a complete glossary and index	London	1805	300/500
	15	(Bewick, Thomas)	Thornton, Robert John, M.D.	A New Family Herbal: or Popular Account of the Natures and Properties of the Various Plants used in Medicine, Diet, and the Arts	London	1810	300/500
	16	(Bewick, Thomas)	Robinson, Robert	Thomas Bewick: His Life and Times	Newcastle	1887	250/350
	17	(Bible in English)	**	The Old Testament [New Testament], Embellished with Engravings, From Pictures and Designs by the Most Eminent English Artists	London	1800	3000/5000
	18		Blackstone, William	Commentaries on the Laws of England	Oxford	1766-1769	3000/5000
	19	(Blake, William)	Blair, Robert	The Grave, a Poem	London	1813	1500/2500
	20	(Bodoni Press)	Vergilius Maro, Publius	Opera	Parma	1793	6000/9000
	21		Boswell, James	An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to That Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli.	London	1768	500/800
	22	(Brando, Marlon)	Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall	Mutiny on the Bounty	New York	1947	500/800
	23	(Braque, Georges)	**	Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire. Vol. VIII, Nos. 31 et 32	Paris	1955	600/900
	24		Breydenbach, Bernhard von	Peregrinationes in Terram Sanctam	Mainz	11. Feb. 1486	3000/5000
	25		Burns, Robert	Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect	Edinburgh	1787	2000/3000
	26		Butler, Samuel	Hudibras, In Three Parts	Dublin	1744	400/600
	27		Chagall, Marc	The Jerusalem Windows	Monte Carlo	[1962]	1200/1800
	28		Cronkite, Walter L.	Remembering the Moon	[West Stockbridge, MA]	1989	700/1000
	29		[Defoe, Daniel]	A Continuation of Letters Written by a Turkish Spy at Paris	London	1718	500/800
	30		Donne, John	Letters to Severall Persons of Honour	London	1651	2000/3000
	31	(Doves Press)	Shakespeare, William	Shake-Speares Sonnets. Tercentenary Edition	Hammersmith	1909	2000/3000
	32		Euclid	Elementorum Geometricorum Libros Tredecim Isidorum et Hypsiclem & Recentiores de Corporibus Regularibus, & Procli Propositiones Geometricas...	Antwerp	1645	800/1200
	33	(Fine Bindings)	Bronte, [Charlotte, Emily & Anne]	Novels of the Sisters Bronte	London	1898-99; 1905	1200/1800
	34	(Fine Bindings)	Byron, [George Gordon Noel], Lord	The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, By Thomas Moore, Esq.	London	1832-33	1500/2500
	35	(Fine Bindings)	Byron, [George Gordon Noel], Lord	[Works]	London	1853	700/1000
	36	(Fine Bindings)	Carlyle, Thomas	History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great.	London	1859-1865	600/900
	37	(Fine Bindings)	Cooper, J. Fenimore	Cooper's Novels	New York	[c. 1860]	2000/3000
	38	(Fine Bindings)	De Kock, Charles Paul	Works	Boston	1902-1908	2000/3000
	39	(Fine Bindings)	Edgeworth, Maria	Tales and Novels	New York	1858-60	600/900
	40	(Fine Bindings)	Emerson, Ralph Waldo	The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson	Cambridge	1903-04	4000/7000
	41	(Fine Bindings)	Freeman, Edward A.	The History of the Norman Conquest of England	Oxford	1875-79	1000/1500
	42	(Fine Bindings)	Gaskell, E.C.	The Life of Charlotte Bronte	London	1857	500/800
	43	(Fine Bindings)	Gibbon, Edward	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	New York	1902	600/900
	44	(Fine Bindings)	Grote, George	A History of Greece	London	1872	1000/1500
	45	(Fine Bindings)	Hazlitt, William, Madame Junot and Louis Antoine De Bourrienne	Life of Napoleon	New York	No Date [c. 1900]	3000/5000
	46	(Fine Bindings)	Holmes, Burton	Burton Holmes Travelogues	New York	1908	500/800
	47	(Fine Bindings)	Hume, David	The History of England	Oxford	1826	700/1000
	48	(Fine Bindings)	Hume, David and Tobias Smollett	The History of England	London	1841	700/1000
	49	(Fine Bindings)	Jefferies, Richard	[Works]	London	1890s	400/600
	50	(Fine Bindings)	Pepys, Samuel	The Diary of Samuel Pepys	London	1923-29	600/900
	51	(Fine Bindings)	Prescott, William H.	[Works]	Philadelphia	1861-63	1200/1800
	52	(Fine Bindings)	Shakespeare, William	The Works of Shakespere	London	1854	500/800
	53	(Fine Bindings)	Thoreau, Henry David	The Writings of Henry David Thoreau	Boston	1906	12000/18000
	54	(Fine Bindings)	**	Two Small Sets In Period Fine Bindings	Various Places	Various Dates	800/1200
	55	(Fine Bindings)	Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler	London	1887	300/500
	56	(Fine Bindings)	**	Lot 6 Finely Bound Works	Various Places	Various Dates	800/1200
	57	(Fine Bindings)	**	Lot of 4 Finely Bound Works	Various Places	Various Dates	600/900
	58	(Fine Bindings)	**	Lot of 7 Finely Bound Works	Various Places	Various Dates	800/1200
	59		Fox, John	The Book of Martyrs, or the Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church. Being a Complete History of Martyrdom from the Commencement of Christianity to the Present Time	London	1814	1000/1500
	60		Galenus, Claudius	In Aphorismos Hippocratis Commentaria: Ex interpretatione Anvtii Foesii, & Gvlielmi Plantii, cum annotationibus ejusdem...	Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]	1633	1500/2500
	61		Goguet, Antoine Yves	De l'Origine des Lois, des Arts, et des Sciences, et de leurs progrés chez les Anciens Peuples	Paris	1758	500/800
	62		Harris, John	Astronomical Dialogues between a Gentleman and a Lady : wherein the doctrine of the sphere, uses of the globes, and the elements of astronomy and geography are explain'd in a pleasant, easy and familiar way: with a description of the famous instrument called the orrery	London	1729	500/800
	63		Harte, Walter	The History of the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, sirnamed, the Great	London	1759	500/800
	64		H[ayward], J[ohn]	The Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England William the first. William the second. Henrie the first. Written by I. H...	London	1613	600/900
	65		Herodotus	The History of Herodotus	London	1709	6000/9000
	66		Herodotus & Thucydides	[Opera - 2 volumes bound together]	Basil	1557 & 1540	2000/3000
	67		Homer	Homer His Odysses Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations, by John Ogilby, Esq	London	1669	1500/2000
	68		Horace	Q. Horatii Flacci poetae Venvsini, Omnia Poemata cvm ratione carminvm, & argumentis vbique insertis, interpretibus Acrone...	Venice	1567	600/900
	69		Indagine, Johannes ab	La Chiromance et Phisionomie, par le regard des membres de l'homme. Mises en François par Antoine du Moulin Masconnois	Paris	1662	500/800
	70	(Index of Prohibited books)	[Arias, Montanus, editor]	Index librorum prohibitorum: cum regulis confectis per Patres à Tridentina Synodo delectos, auctoritate Sanctiss. D. N. Pii IIII. Pont. Max. comprobatus	Antwerp	1570	2000/3000
	71		Jordan, David Starr, & Barton W. Evermann	The Aquatic Resources of the Hawaiian Islands	Washington, D.C.	1905	1000/1500
	72		Josephus, Flavius	The Works of Flavius Josephus which are Extant	London	1733	800/1200
	73	(Kelmscott Press)	More, Thomas	Utopia	Hammersmith	1893	5000/8000
	74		Kepler, Johannes	Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanæ usitatâ formâ quæstionum & responsionum conscripta, inq; VII. libros digesta, quorum tres hi priores sunt de doctrina sphæricâ...	Lentijs ad Danubium	1618-1622	30000/50000
	75		La Chau, Géraud de	Dissertation sur les Attributs de Vénus, qui a obtenu l'accessit, au jugement de l'Académie Royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres, á la séance publique du mois de novembre 1775	Paris	1776	600/900
	76		Laleu, Paul Yvon, Sieur de	Propositions Mathematiqves de Monsieur de Laleu. Demonstrees par I. Pvios.	Paris	1638	1000/1500
	77	(Magic & Witchcraft)	[Daugis, Antoine Louis]	Traité sur la Magie, le sortilege, les posessions, obsessions et malefices où l'on en démontre la verité & la réalité; avec une methode sûre & facile pour les discerner, & les reglemens contre les devins, sorciers, magiciens, & c. Ouvrage trés-utile aux ecclesiastiques, aux medecins, & aus juges. Par M. D ***	Paris	1732	1000/1500
	78	(Magic & Witchcraft)	Del Rio, Martin Anton	Disqvisitionvm magicarvm libri sex, qvibvs continetvr accvrata cvriosarvm artivm, et vanarum superstitionum confutatio, vtilis theologis, jurisconsultis, medicis, philologis	Coloniae Agrippinae [i.e. Cologne]	1657	700/1000
	79	(Magic & Witchcraft)	Filesac, Jean	De Idololatria Magica, dissertatio	Paris	1609	1000/1500
	80	(Magic & Witchcraft)	[Glanvill, Joseph]	[A blow at modern sadducism in some philosophical considerations about witchcraft...]	London	1668	1500/2500
	81	(Magic & Witchcraft)	Hutchinson, Francis	An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft. With observations upon matters of fact; tending to clear the texts of the sacred Scriptures and confute the vulgar errors about that point. And also two sermons: one in proof of the Christian religion; the other concerning good and evil angels	London	1720	500/800
	82	(Magic & Witchcraft)	[Scot, Reginald]	[The discouerie of witchcraft: wherein the lewde dealing of witches and witchmongers is notablie detected, the knauerie of coniurors, the impietie of inchantors, the follie of soothsaiers, the impudent fals-hood of cousenors, the infidelitie of atheists, the pestilent practises of pythonists, the curiositie of figurecasters, the vanitie of dreamers, the beggerlie art of alcumystrie, The abhomination of idolatrie, the horrible art of poisoning, the vertue and power of naturall magike, and all the conueiances of legierdemaine and iuggling are deciphered: and many other things opened, which haue long lien hidden, howbeit verie necessarie to be knowne: heerevnto is added a treatise vpon the nature and substance of spirits and diuels, &c.]	[London]	[1584]	5000/8000
	83		Maybeck, Bernard	The Juggler of Notre Dame	No place [Berkeley?]	1907	1500/2500
	84		Milton, John	Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books	London	1668	6000/9000
	85		Milton, John	Paradise Regain'd. A Poem in IV Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes	London	1671	3000/5000
	86		Newton, Isaac	Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica	London	1726	20000/30000
	87		Newton, Isaac	The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy... Translated into English by Andrew Motte. To which are added, Newton's System of the World; A short comment on, and defence of, the Principia, by William Emerson. With The laws of the moon's motion according to gravity. By John Machin ...	London	1803	1000/1500
	88		Nicols, Thomas.	A Lapidary, or, The History of Pretious Stones: With cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with Pretious Stones.	Cambridge	1652	3000/4000
	89		Nolan, E.H.	The Illustrated History of the War Against Russia	London	[c. 1857]	400/700
	90		Peale, Charles W[illson]	WITHDRAWN An Epistle to a Friend, on the means of preserving health, promoting happiness; and prolonging the life of man to its natural period...	Philadelphia	1803	3000/5000
	91		Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph	A History of Egyptian Mummies, and an Account of the Worship and Embalming of the Sacred Animals by the Egyptians; with Remarks on the Funeral Ceremonies of Different Nations, and Observations on the Mummies of the Canary Islands, of the Ancient Peruvians, Burman Priests, &c.	London	1834	700/1000
	92	(Picasso, Pablo)	**	Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire. Vol. VIII, Nos. 29 et 30	Paris	[1954]	2000/3000
	93		Plato	Les Oeuvres de Platon	Paris	1699	400/600
	94		Plato	The Phædrus of Plato; a Dialogue Concerning Beauty and Love. Translated from the Greek	London	1792	500/800
	95		Plato	The Works of Plato Abridg'd: With an Account of His Life, Philosophy, Morals, and Politicks...	London	1739	400/600
	96		Plinius Secundus, Gaius	The Historie of the World. Commonly called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland.	London	1601	3000/5000
	97	(Prayer Book)	**	Manuscript prayer book with 19 original watercolor illustrations	No Place [Germany?]	1793	4000/6000
	98		Pritchard, Thomas	The Glasse of Godly Loue. Wherein all maried couples may learne their duties, each toward others, according to the holy Scriptures: Very necessary for all maryed men and women, that feare the Lorde...	[London]	[1579]	700/1000
	99		Rantzau, Henrik	Tractatvs Astrologicvs de genethliacorvm thematvm ivdiciis pro singulis nati accidentibus...	Frankfurt	1593	1500/2500
	100		[Rowlands, Richard, alias Verstegan]	A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: In antiquities. Concerning the most noble and renovvmed [sic] English nation. By the studie and trauaile of R.V.	Antwerp	1605	1000/1500
	101	(Ruscha, Edward)	Bengston, Billy Al and Edward Ruscha	Business Cards	[Hollywood, California]	1968	4000/7000
	102		Selenus, Gustavus [pseud. of August, Duke of Braunschweig-Luneburg]	Cryptomenytices et cryptographiae libri IX. In quibus & planissima Steganographiae à Johanne Trithemio, abbate Spanheymensi & Herbipolensi, admirandi ingenij viro, magicè & aenigmaticè olim conscriptae, enodatio traditur. Inspersis ubiquè authoris ac aliorum, non contemnendis inventis...	[Lunaeburgi]	1624	5000/8000
	103		Shakespeare, William	The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens	London	1778	1500/2000
	104		Smith. Adam	The Theory of Moral Sentiments	London	1761	1500/2500
	105		Underwood, Leon	Animalia, Or Fibs About Beasts	New York	[1926]	2000/3000
	106		Vasari, Giorgio	Le Vite De' piu Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori et Architetti	Bologna	1647	2000/3000
	107		Walsh, Thomas.	Journal of the Late Campaign in Egypt: Including Descriptions of That Country, and of Gibraltar, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri; with an Appendix, Containing Official Papers and Documents.	London	1803	1500/2000
	108		Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton	The Complete Angler	London	1823	700/1000
	109		Watson, James D.	The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA	London	1969	1000/1500
	110		White, Gilbert	The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton	London	1789	1500/2500
	111		Wilson, Alexander	American Ornithology; Or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States	New York	1828-29	10000/15000
	112		Yogananda, Swami [Paramahansa]	Songs of the Soul	Boston	1923	1000/1500
	113		Andrews, H[enry] C.	The Heathery; Or a Monograph of the Genus Erica	London	1804-09	1500/2500
	114	zzg	Baker, H.A. and E.G.H. Oliver	Ericas in Southern Africa	Cape Town	[1967]	200/300
	115		Barton, William P.C.	A Flora of North America	Philadelphia	1821-23	3000/5000
	116		Bates, Henry Walter	The Naturalist on the River Amazons	London	1863	1500/2500
	117	zzg	Blanchan, Neltje	The American Flower Garden	New York	1909	200/300
	118		Blankaart, Steph.	Den Neder-Landschen Herbarius ofte Kruid-Boek	Amsterdam	1698	700/1000
	119	zzg	Bradley, Richard	New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, Both Philosophical and Practical	London	1731	200/300
	120		Buist, Robert	The American Flower Garden	Philadelphia	1841	250/350
	121		Candolle, A[ugust] P[ryamus] de	Plantarum Succulentarum Historia. Histoire des Plantes Grasses	Paris	1827	15000/25000
	122		Carpenter, Joseph	The Retir'd Gardener. In six parts. The two first being dialogues between a Gentleman and a Gardner...	London	1717	200/300
	123		Curtis, William & John Sims	The Botanical Magazine; Or, Flower Garden Displayed	London	1786-1815	20000/30000
	124		Darlington, William	Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and Filicoid Plants of Chester County, in the State of Pennsylvania	West-Chester, Penn.	1837	300/500
	125	zzg	Darlington, William	Florula Cestrica: An Essay Towards A Catalogue of the Phaenogamous Plants, Native and Naturalized, Growing in the Vicinity of the Burrough of West-Chester, In Chester County, Pennsylvania.	West-Chester, Penn.	1826	250/350
	126		Darlington, William	Memorials of John Bartram and Humphrey Marshall. With Notices of Their Botanical Contemporaries	Philadelphia	1849	300/500
	127		Darwin, Charles	On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, and On the Good Effects of Intercrossing	London	1862	1000/1500
	128		Dunthorne, Gordon	Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and early 19th centuries	Washington DC	1938	300/500
	129		Edwards, Sydenham	The New Botanic Garden, illustrated with one hundred and thirty-three plants, engraved by Sansom, from the original pictures, and coloured with the greatest exactness from drawings by Sydenham Edwards	London	1812	4000/7000
	130		E[velyn], J[ohn]	Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets	London	1699	1000/1500
	131		E[velyn], J[ohn]	Sylva, Or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber In His Majesties Dominions. To Which is annexed Pomona, Or, An Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in Relation to Cider...Also, Kalendarium Hortense...	London	1664	1000/1500
	132		Evelyn, John	Silva: Or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions...together with An Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves... to which is added, Terra: A Philosophical Discourse of Earth	York	1786	600/900
	133		Forsythe, William	A treatise on the culture and management of fruit trees;...To which are added an introduction and notes, adapting the rules of the treatise to the climates and seasons of the United States of America. By William Cobbett.	Albany	1803	300/500
	134		Hogg, Thomas	A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Carnation	London	1839	200/300
	135		Hooker, William Jackson	Exotic Flora, Containing Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare or Otherwise Interesting Exotic Plants...	Edinburgh	1823-27	4000/7000
	136		Hunt, P. Francis	Orchidaceae	[London]	1973	400/600
	137		Jacquin, Nicolaus Joseph von	Oxalis. Monographia, Iconibus Illustrata	Viennae, etc.	1794	7000/10000
	138		Jones, Paul	Flora Superba	London	[1971]	300/500
	139		[Knapp, John Leonard]	Journal of a Naturalist	London	1830	300/500
	140		Loudon, Mrs. [Jane Webb]	British Wild Flowers	London	1844-45	1000/1500
	141		Loudon, Mrs. [Jane Webb]	The Ladies' Flower-Garden	London	[c. 1855-59]	12000/18000
	142		Maund, B[enjamin]	The Botanic Garden; Consisting of Highly Finished Figures of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants Cultivated in Great Britain...	London	1878	800/1200
	143		Mawe, Thomas	Every Man His Own Gardener. Being a new, and much more complete, Gardener's Kalendar, and General Director, than any one hitherto published...	London	1787	200/300
	144		Maw, George	A Monograph of the Genus Crocus	London	1886	4000/6000
	145		McDonald, Alexander	A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening	London	1807	4000/7000
	146		McIntosh, Charles	The Greenhouse, Hot House, and Stove	London	1840	300/500
	147		Meehan, Thomas	The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States in their Botanical, Horticultural, and Popular Aspects	Boston / Philadelphia	1878-80	1000/1500
	148		Michaux, F[rancois] Andre & Thomas Nuttall	The North American Sylva; Or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia...	Philadelphia	1859	3000/5000
	149		Miller, Phillip	Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful, and Uncommon Plants described in the Gardeners dictionary, exhibited on three hundred copper plates, accurately engraved after drawings taken from nature. With the characters of their flowers and seed-vessels, drawn when they were in their greatest perfection	London	1760	15000/25000
	150		Miller, Phillip	The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, and flower-garden, as also the physic-garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard ... Abridg'd from the two volumes lately published in folio...	London	1741	300/500
	151		Morris, Richard	Flora Conspicua: A Selection of the Most Ornamental Flowering, Hardy, Exotic and Indigenous Trees, Shrubs, and Herbaceous Plants, for embellishing Flower-Gardens and Pleasure-Grounds	London	1826	1500/2500
	152		Parkinson, John	Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up: with a Kitchin-Garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sauce used with us, and An Orchard of all sorte of fruit-bearing Trees and shrubbes fit for our Land together with the right ordering planting & preserving them and their uses & vertues...	London	1629	3000/5000
	153	zzc	Paul, William	The Rose Garden	London	[c. 1888]	500/800
	154	zzc	Paxton, Joseph	Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Flowering Plants	London	1834-1849	10000/15000
	155	zzc	Paxton, Joseph and John Lindley	Paxton's Flower Garden	London	1850-53	3000/5000
	156	zzc	Perrin, Mrs. Henry and Professor Boulger	British Flowering Plants	London	1914	300/500
	157	zzc	Phillips, Alfred A., editor	The Bouquet, For 1847	New York	1847	300/500
	158	zzc	Pratt, Anne	Flowering Plants of Great Britain	London	[c. 1885]	500/800
	159	zzc	Redouté, Pierre	La Botanique de J.J. Rousseau, Ornée de Soixante-Cing Plances, Imprimées en Coleurs d'apres les Peintures de P.J. Redouté	Paris	1805	4000/6000
	160	zzc(Redouté, Pierre Joseph)	Sitwell, Sacheverell and Roger Madol	Album de Redouté	London	1954	300/500
	161	zzc	Repton, H[umphry]	Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening	London	1805	4000/7000
	162	zzc	Rickett, Harold William	Wild Flowers of the United States	New York	[1966-73]	500/800
	163	zzc	Robinson, W[illiam], Editor	Flora and Sylva	London	1903-05	600/900
	164	zzc	Roscoe, Mrs. Edward	Floral Illustrations of the Seasons, Consisting of Drawings From Nature of Some of the Most Beautiful, Hardy and Rare Herbaceous Plants...	London	1838	10000/15000
	165	zzc	Sitwell, Sacheverell & Wilfred Blunt	Great Flower Books 1700-1900: A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books	London	1956	500/800
	166	zzc	Smith, Frederick W.	The Florists' Museum: A Register of the Newest and Most Beautiful Varieties of Florists' Flowers	London	[c. 1836]	1000/1500
	167	zzc	Sowerby, James	Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms	London	1797; 1799; 1803; & 1809	8000/12000
	168	zzc	Sweet, Robert	The British Flower Garden	London	1838	10000/15000
	169	zzc	Sweet, Robert	Cistineae: The Natural Order of Cistus, or Rock-Rose, illustrated by coloured figures & descriptions of all the distinct species, and the most prominent varieties, that could be at present procured in the gardens of Great Britain, with the best directions for their cultivation and propagation	London	1825-1830	3000/5000
	170		Sweet, Robert	Flora Australasica; or a selection of handsome or curious plants, natives of New Holland, and the South Sea Islands; containing coloured figures and descriptions of some of the choicest species...	London	1827-1828	4000/6000
	171	zzc	Sweet, Robert	The Florist's Guide and Cultivator's Directory; Containing coloured figures of the choicest flowers cultivated by florists; including ranunculus, carnations, picotees, pinks, georginas, polyanthus, auriculas, hyacinths, and tulips, with their descriptions and an account of the most approved methods of culture	London	1827-1832	10000/15000
	172	zzc	Sweet, Robert	Geraniaceae. The Natural Order of Gerania, Illustrated by Coloured Figures and Descriptions; Comprising the Numerous and Beautiful Mule-Varieties Cultivated in the Gardens of Great Britain, with Directions for their Treatment	London	1820-28	8000/12000
	173		Ventenat, E[tienne] P[ierre]	Description des plantes nouvelles et peu connues, cultivées dans le jardin de J.M. Cels	Paris	An VIII [1800]	25000/35000
	174	zzc	Walcott, Mary Vaux	North American Wild Flowers	Washington, D.C.	1925	500/800
	175	zzc	Woodville, William	Medical Botany, containing Systematic and General Descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...	London	1790-1794	2000/3000
	176	zzc	Wooster, David	Alpine Plants	London	1872	200/300