Jun 06, 2013 - Sale 2317

Sale 2317 - Lot 252

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(BOTANICAL.) Hill, John, "Sir." The Family Herbal; or, An Account of All Those English Plants, which are remarkable for their Virtues, and of the Drugs which are produced by Vegetables of other Countries. 54 hand-colored engraved plates. viii, xl, 376 pages. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, rebacked; minor stains, soiling, or offsetting on some plates. Bungay: C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, circa 1810?

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with: Brook, Richard. A Plain and Easy Introduction to the Science of Botany according to the System of Linnaeus. 22 hand-colored wood-engraved botanical plates; 2 uncolored full-length anatomical figures after Vesalius. xxxvi, 416 pages. Small 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf; contents generally clean, plates slightly cropped with minimal image loss. London: S. Y. Collins, mid-19th century.