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(BOTANICAL.) Philip Miller. Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful, and Uncommon Plants Described in the Gardeners Dictionary. Dedication with engraved vignette and 300 hand-colored engraved plates after John Bartram, Georg Dionysius Ehret, Richard Lancake, and others. 2 volumes. Folio, 16x10½ inches, contemporary polished calf attractively rebacked to style; occasional oxidized pigment offsetting, separate engraved text panel to the jasmine plate slightly trimmed, short closed tears to plates 199 and 222, but overall a very appealing set; Holland House and J. Roy W. Barrette bookplates to each volume. London, [1755]-1760
