Name: Auction: Botany including Millais, J.G., Sowerby, Charles - John Johnson & C. Pierpoint Johnson
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 600 GBP
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Our September 2024 Books &amp; Manuscripts auction brings the best of Scotland with an extremely rare, first ‘Kilmarnock’ edition of <a href="/artists/robert-burns">Robert Burns</a> Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 1786.This is accompanied in the sale by an original manuscript copy of the Scottish National Covenant, 1638-9, and a beautifully presented collection of books from a Scottish gentleman’s library, collected in the early 20th century and now being offered for sale after around 100 years with the family. &nbsp;Scientific interest features strongly, with John Snow’s seminal epidemiological work, On the Mode of Communication of Cholera, leading the section, followed by an impressive selection of natural history and botanical works.In travel and topography, an extremely rare true first edition of John Webber's spectacular suite of views from Cook's third and final voyage, entitled Views in the South Seas, is expected to draw a great deal of interest, being the only complete copy of the first edition ever offered at auction, depicting scenes in New Zealand, Macao, Krakatoa, Kamchatka, Tahiti, Moorea, and Pulo Condore in what is now Vietnam.Viewing in Broadside, Edinburgh&nbsp;Viewing will begin on Monday 16 September in our rare Books department at Broadside in the Canonmills area of Edinburgh.&nbsp;<a class="ck-btn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.lyonandturnbull.com/events/books-viewing-edinburgh">Viewing Times &amp; Map&nbsp;</a>Buyer's Guide:&nbsp;

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Millais, J.G. Rhododendrons.&nbsp;London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917. Folio, original maroon cloth gilt;&nbsp; Idem. The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. 3 volumes, folio, number 776 of 1025 copies printed, original blue cloth gilt; Sowerby, Charles - John Johnson & C. Pierpoint Johnson. British Poisonous Plants. London: John van Voorst, 1861. Second edition, 8vo, 32 hand-coloured plates, later calf gilt;&nbsp; Hooker, William Jackson. Flora Scotica… London: Archibald Constable, 1821. 8vo, 2 parts in one volume, modern blue cloth gilt;&nbsp; Dictionarium Rusticum, Urbanicum & Botanicum… London: J. Nicholson, 1717. Second edition, 8vo, modern brown cloth gilt, final leaf torn with loss to text;&nbsp; Main, James. The Villa and Cottage Florists' Directory. London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., 1830. 12mo, modern blue cloth gilt;&nbsp; Lightfoot, John. Flora Scotica… London: B. White, 1777. 2 volumes, 8vo, 33 (of 35) plates, contemporary calf (10)

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