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Lot 37
Sale 1022 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 4, 2022
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[HOW, William (1620-1656)]. Phytologia Britannica, natales exhibens indigenarum stirpium sponte emergentium. London: Richard Cotes for Octavian Pulleyn, 1650.
8vo (145 x 86mm). Interleaved. (Minor browning and soiling, short wormtrack on B1-B2 affecting a few letters, first leaf [blank except for signature mark A on recto] and imprimatur leaf detached.) Contemporary calf (rebacked in sheep, flyleaves detached). Provenance: Richard Abbott (contemporary signatures on flyleaves and some annotations); A. Robertson, Brantford (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this encyclopedia of English flora, in Latin with common names in English. This is the second British flora after Thomas Johnson's Mercurius botanicus.
Henrey 290; Wing H2956; ESTC R14016.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil