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Botany.- Withering (William) A Botanical Arrangement of British Plants, vol.2 only (of 3), second edition, with extensive neat contemporary ink annotations to text and on additional leaves bound in, contemporary tree sheep, uncut, worn, lacking most of backstrip, Birmingham, M.Sweeney, 1787; another edition, edited by W.Macgillivray, first Macgillivray edition, 10 engraved plates (foxed), contemporary cloth, stained, 1830 § Maling (E.A.) In-door Plants, and how to grow them, first edition, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, advertisement leaf at end, 1861 § Gardiner (William) Twenty Lessons on British Mosses, third edition, illustrated with mounted specimens, some a little chipped, 1847 § Law (John) Catalogue...of the Rare and Interesting Plants...of the Sheffield Botanical Gardens, second edition, 1849 § Des Cars (A.) A Treatise on Pruning Forest and Ornamental Trees, second edition, plate in red & black with card overslip mounted on stub, illustrations, Boston, 1884, the last four original cloth, a little rubbed; and c.25 others, botany, mostly later editions of Macgillivray's Withering, 8vo (c.30)