1985, ISBN: 9781333161491

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th - 17th December 1971. Blue printed wrappers, 8vo,. 90 pp. 708 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: … Plus…

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th - 17th December 1971. Blue printed wrappers, 8vo,. 90 pp. 708 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: English and Continental Literature and History of the 17th and 18th centuries, including Smollett, Humphrey Clinker, 3 vol., 1771; Husbands, Miscellany of Poems, 1731; Voltaire, Oeuvres Complètes, 70 vol., [Kehl], 1784-89. Natural History and Field Sports including Butler, Foreign Finches in captivity, 1899; 11 works by John Ray; Howitt, Atkinson and others, Foreign Field Sports, 1819; Harris, Portraits of the Game and Wild AnimaJs of Southern Africa, 1840; Bryden, Great and Small Game of Africa, 1899; Agricultural Surveys of Great Britain, 23 vol.; The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. I-XCV, and General Index to vol. I-LXX, 1665-1805. Travel and Topography, including Camden's Britannia, 1610, and 2 vol., 1722; Fraser, View of the Himalaya Mountains, 1820. Law Books, including Law Reports, with Statutes, 676 vol., 1865-1960; Halsbury's Laws of England, third edition, 1952-70. Botanical Books including Andrews, Botanist's Repository, 10 vol., 1797-[1814?], Coloured Engravings of Heaths, vol. I-III, 1802-09, and Geraniums, 1805; Curtis, Botanical Magazine, vol. I-XVI, 1793-1803; Desfontaines, Flora Atlantica, 2 vol., 1797-98; Edwards, The new Botanic Garden, 2 vol., 1812, and The Botanical Register, 33 vol., 1815-47; Elwes and Henry, Trees of Great Britain, 7 vol. 1906-13; Fuchs, De Historia Stirpium, 1542; Maund, The Botanic Garden, 13 vol., 1825-[52J; Crispin Vande Pass, Hortus Floridus, 1616; Redouté and de Candolle, Histoires des Plantes Grasses, 2 vol., 1790 [1805?]; Roscoe, Monandrian Plants, 1828; Sweet, The Britishsss Flower Garden, 7 vol., 1823-38, The Florist's Guide, 2 vol., 1827-32, and Cistineae, 1825-30. Very Good. List of prices realized and buyers laid in., Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th - 17th December 1971, The British Agricultural History Society, 1985. Edition Unstated. Soft cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Clean green card covers, sound binding, clean pages. Contains: Rural Change in the Dutch Province of Drenthe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by J Bieleman; Dearth and the Marketing of Agricultural Produce - Oxfordshire c 1750-1800 by W Thwaites; A Neglected Scottish Agriculturalist - the Georgical Writings of the Rev Dr. John Walker (1731-1803) by Charles W J Withers; A Fiendish Outrage? A Study of Animal Maiming in East Anglia 1830-1870 by John E Archer; Harvest Fluctuations in an Industrializing Economy - Japan 1887-1912 by P K Hall; Trade Agreements and the Evolution of British Agricultural Policy in the 1930s by T Booth; List of Books and Pamphlets on Agrarian History 1984 by VJ Morris and D J Orton. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 56116031340.., The British Agricultural History Society, 1985, Forgotten Books. Paperback. New. NEW BOOK, Forgotten Books<

ISBN: 9781333161491

Forgotten Books. Paperback. New. NEW BOOK, Forgotten Books