Botany.- Miltitz (Friedrich von) Handbuch der Botanischen Literatur, folding table, original boards, rubbed, Berlin, 1829 § Wood (William) Catalogue of an Exetnsive and Valuable Collection of the Best Works on Natural History, engraved frontispiece, advertisement leaf and list of subscribers at end, light spotting, modern cloth-backed boards, uncut, 1824 § Catalogue (A) of the Principal Botanical Authors and their Works...to the Year 1770, drop-head title, pp.xvii-lxxx extract from a larger work, with 30pp. chronological table of botanical authors at end, library stamps at beginning and end, old cloth, rebacked, [c.1770] § Barber (J.T.) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Valuable Library of Botanical and other Books..., the bookseller William Bain's copy with his bids in code and prices and some buyers' names in pencil, old cloth, damp-stained, original wrappers bound in, Sotheby's, 1900 § Crowley (Philip) [Sale Catalogue] A Catalogue of...the Collection of Birds' Eggs...containing....a Specimen of the Great Auk's Egg, Edward Bidwell's copy interleaved with prices in guineas and buyer's names/initials, wrappers, J.C.Stevens, 1902 § [Sale Catalogue] Königliche Gartenbibliothek ehemals zu Schloss Herrenhausen bei Hannover, additional material bound in at end, original boards, rebacked, Königstein im Taunus, Reiss & Sohn, 2005; and a small quantity of botanical pamphlets, booksellers' & auction catalogues including a bound volume of 3 Coxhead & 1 Rich catalogue 1837-35, others by Junk, Dulau and Quaritch, the 3 vol. Plesch catalogue bound in half calf and a bound volume of de Belder catalogues, v.s. (Qty) ⁂ Including some interesting catalogues: the Barber sale included 2 copies of Jacquin's Stapeliarum of 1806 (the last copy of which made £130,000 at auction), Bain bought all the orchid lots; the Great Auk's egg (lot A) made £304 10s.. on the last item John Collins notes at the beginning "The [Königliche Gartenbibliothek] sale never took place. Bound in at the end of this copy is the print out produced by Christies when they were trying to sell the collection en bloc to Sheikh Saud. Maggs were asked to advise him & we recommended the purchase which would have been in the region of 3K. At that stage the books were at Exbury the Rothschild house on the Solent. They had been bought by the Rothschilds for Charlotte R. on account of the music & the garden books came along for the ride. Also a fine military library - I don't know what happened to this".
Botany.- Miltitz (Friedrich von) Handbuch der Botanischen Literatur, folding table, original boards, rubbed, Berlin, 1829 § Wood (William) Catalogue of an Exetnsive and Valuable Collection of the Best Works on Natural History, engraved frontispiece, advertisement leaf and list of subscribers at end, light spotting, modern cloth-backed boards, uncut, 1824 § Catalogue (A) of the Principal Botanical Authors and their Works...to the Year 1770, drop-head title, pp.xvii-lxxx extract from a larger work, with 30pp. chronological table of botanical authors at end, library stamps at beginning and end, old cloth, rebacked, [c.1770] § Barber (J.T.) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the Valuable Library of Botanical and other Books..., the bookseller William Bain's copy with his bids in code and prices and some buyers' names in pencil, old cloth, damp-stained, original wrappers bound in, Sotheby's, 1900 § Crowley (Philip) [Sale Catalogue] A Catalogue of...the Collection of Birds' Eggs...containing....a Specimen of the Great Auk's Egg, Edward Bidwell's copy interleaved with prices in guineas and buyer's names/initials, wrappers, J.C.Stevens, 1902 § [Sale Catalogue] Königliche Gartenbibliothek ehemals zu Schloss Herrenhausen bei Hannover, additional material bound in at end, original boards, rebacked, Königstein im Taunus, Reiss & Sohn, 2005; and a small quantity of botanical pamphlets, booksellers' & auction catalogues including a bound volume of 3 Coxhead & 1 Rich catalogue 1837-35, others by Junk, Dulau and Quaritch, the 3 vol. Plesch catalogue bound in half calf and a bound volume of de Belder catalogues, v.s. (Qty) ⁂ Including some interesting catalogues: the Barber sale included 2 copies of Jacquin's Stapeliarum of 1806 (the last copy of which made £130,000 at auction), Bain bought all the orchid lots; the Great Auk's egg (lot A) made £304 10s.. on the last item John Collins notes at the beginning "The [Königliche Gartenbibliothek] sale never took place. Bound in at the end of this copy is the print out produced by Christies when they were trying to sell the collection en bloc to Sheikh Saud. Maggs were asked to advise him & we recommended the purchase which would have been in the region of 3K. At that stage the books were at Exbury the Rothschild house on the Solent. They had been bought by the Rothschilds for Charlotte R. on account of the music & the garden books came along for the ride. Also a fine military library - I don't know what happened to this".
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