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A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants (4 vols)
by Withering, William
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A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants (4 vols) |
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Withering, William |
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| Asking Price: |
£140.00 (This book has been sold. This listing is for reference purposes only.) |
| Book Condition: |
Very Good |
| Place Published: |
Birmingham |
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1812 |
| Size (Inches): |
5.25" - 8.5" Tall |
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Contempoary Full Leather |
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No Dust Jacket |
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Description / Information:
Packed weight = 02.90kg. Please note that this is a heavy item and may require extra postage. Please contact us using the 'Ask the Bookseller a Question' link before placing your order. For non UK customers special arrangements apply to parcels weighing over 5Kg (2Kg for Canada). Fifth edition 1812 in 4 volumes in very good condition overall with important annotations and 33 plates plus indices. Bianco Library website has 3 pictures of these books including both medium and large images. These can be viewed by going to world wide web biancolibrary.com/b_9829. This description is to be read in conjunction with these photographs. Please note that the pink tinge is due to the white balance in the camera not being set correctly: Internally generally clean with some foxing - this is to be expected of books of this age. Some neat annotations throughout the volumes. Many important neat inscriptions on the f.e.p. Many plates, including some fold out plates- these have some foxing on as well. Full original leather boards and spine - refurbished at top and bottom of spine. Some light bumping to corners. Bright gold on maroon name plate on spine. Vol one is numbered from page 1 as is vol 4 whereas vol 2 and three are taken together as a sequence. There are 33 plates including a number of folding plates and they are not bound in sequence and I do not know whether this is the complete number ( there is no list of plates with the indices) although there are no obvious signs of anything being torn out. The indices for vol1 and vol4 are included with the volumes, and are combined for 2 & 3 in vol 3. The foxing on the plates varies from clean to some with foxing. We have tried to judge the worst and have included that in the pictures on our website. The books were given to Elizabeth Bell by Lord (what looks like Sunto) dated Aug 11th 1815. The annotations which are neatly written and dated appear to relate to plantings at what looks like Spring Hills Frimley and plants found by Elizabeth Bell along with notes as to locations with these latter bearing dates from 1815 up to around 1850. On the verso of the front free end paper Elizabeth bell has written: Spring Hills Frimley 1850 Where the species are marked with crosses , the specimens have been given me for my collection but where dates are added to the crosses the plants have been examined and chiefly found by myself. The bindings appear to be contemporary. Please see the photograph. All are usable. Two were however loose when acquired by me and have had leather repairs carried ou t professionally at a significant cost. These books need to find a good home with a botanist or keen plant collector or someone interested in the history of plants and where they could be found. These are from my private collection and are NOT breaking copies. We have specified the packed weight so that the postage costs by Royal Mail can be ascertained from our website. We would recommend that the upgrade for insurance be added. Ray Desmond lists an Elizabeth Bell of Coldstream Berwick who died in 1876 but I have no way of knowing whether these annotations are hers or not. Very generously a botanist has kindly sent me the additional information for inclusion with thedescription: I may be able to add something to your Mis Elizabeth (Emily) Bell. The Maggs Catalogue ?Wheldon & Wesley.. in 2004 offered a herbarium volume collected by Elizabeth Emily Bell in 1865, at Clifton (Bristol) Weston Super Mare and in Ireland. David Allen, historian for the Botanical Society of the British Isles could not trace her except to say "The herbarium of Mrs. Elizabeth Emily Bell. An unknown. None of the eight male Bells who collected British specimens fits both geographically and date-wise. The Miss Bell with specimens in Watson's herbarium has been assumed to be the one with A as her initial who lived at a Norfolk vicarage c.1830-41 and whose herbarium, described by Babington as ?peculiarly rich ?, has not been traced. Desmond's Dictionary has an entry on a (Miss?) Elizabeth Bell, of Coldstream, Berwickshire, d.1876, but she seems to have been a mycologist mainly. I have a note that she was the daughter of a botanist, James Bell D.D. (d.1794), the nephew of ?Bristol Botany in 2004 ? in the Bristol Naturalists Proceedings so any relevant new info will also be published.
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Condition:
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Inventory Location:
Box 370
Our Book Reference:
9829
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