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Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in British Museum (Natural History)

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[New York: Maurizio Martino. Four volumes, cloth, as new.
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The Historie of the World. Commonly called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland

by Holland, Philemon - Translator ; Plinius Secundus, Caius ; Pliny the Elder

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London: Impensis G. B[ishop], 1601. First edition. Two volumes bound as one. Folio in sixes. 32 x 21 cm. C. 19 tree calf, nicely rebacked, edges rubbed. Bookplates of Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks (withdrawn) and Francis Hubert Barclay (1869-1935) other works from his library are held by Kansas University and the Getty Research Center. Lacking initial and terminal blank leaves as usual. Clean, fresh copy. Pliny's Natural History is the largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day. It compiles information gleaned from other ancient authors. Despite the work's title, its subject area is not limited to what is today understood by natural history; Pliny himself defines his scope as "the natural world, or life". It is encyclopedic in scope, but its structure is not like that of a modern encyclopedia. It is the only work by Pliny to have survived, and the last that he published. He published the first 10 books in AD 77, but had not made a final revision of the remainder at… Read More
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Medical Flora, or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America :...

Medical Flora, or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America : containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history, &c. : and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes

by Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel)

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Philadelphia: Atkinson and Alexander, 1830. First edition. Two volumes, uncut in period style quarter green morocco. 7-1/4 x 4-1/4 inches, xii, 268, 276 pp. 100 woodcut plates printed in green, with plates 50 and 53 (the last in v. 1 and the first in v. 2) provided in excellent facsimile. Fine condition. "Beginning in 1818, with his 2,000-mile tour to the west of the Alleghenies, Rafinesque made important botanical explorations, mostly on foot, as far as Kentucky and Illinois" (DSB). "Rafinesque was a great botanist, conchologist, archaeologist, and economist,... This work describes for the first time a number of American Indian remedies". Garrison-Morton 1849; Meisel III, p. 400; Sabin 67457.
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The Natural History of Selborne....to which are added The Naturalist's Calendar, Miscellaneous Observations, and Poems.; A New Edition, with engravings

by White, Gilbert M.

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London: White, Cochrane [et al.], 1813. Two volumes, recent leather spines, old marbled boards. Old and rather faint school library stamp on title pages, offsets from the plates, a very good, clean copy. Frontispiece and one additional engraving in each volume, the one in volume 2 ("A Hybrid Bird") has colored by hand.
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