HANHAM (FREDERICK editor) Natural Illustrations of the British Grasses, FIRST EDITION, Longman, ...

HANHAM (FREDERICK editor) Natural Illustrations of the British Grasses, FIRST EDITION, 62 plates with actual mounted specimens of grasses, publisher's blue watered silk by Astle & Sons (stamped inside upper cover), spine and cover stamped in gilt, rubbed at spine extremities but bright, small folio, Bath, Binns and Goodwin, 1846--Wild Flowers and their Teachings, second edition, 36 with actual mounted specimens of plants, publisher's blue watered silk, spine and cover stamped in gilt, slightly rubbed, large 8vo, Bath, Binns and Goodwin, 1848--Twenty Lessons on British Mosses; or First Series to a Knowledge of that Beautiful Tribe of Plants, fourth edition, 25 actual mounted samples of mosses, publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, 8vo, Longman, Brown, 1852; and another, album of mounted seaweeds (4) Footnotes: 'Dried specimens of plants, when preserved with care as to their natural appearance and character, must always be more interesting and valuable to a Botanist... than engravings; being the real or original object, which drawings are intended only to portray... there is much... that the pencil can never show' (Hanham, Preface). This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing