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The Magnificent Botanical Library Of D. F. Allen

26 October 2017 • New York

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Sale Number: N09659

13. [Recueil de vingt quatre plantes et fleurs, d’après les dëssins de M. Sève. Paris, after 1772]

Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 USD

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14. Memoires pour servir à l'Histoire des Plantes. Paris: by Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy at l'Imprimerie Royale, 1676 (colophon dated 1675)

Estimate: 35,000 – 50,000 USD

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15. Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France en pleine terre. … Séconde Édition considérablement augmentée. Paris: Étienne Michel (and Arthus Bertrand), [1800–] 1804–1819

Estimate: 70,000 – 100,000 USD

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16. A Collection of Flowers drawn after Nature, & disposed in an Ornamental & Picturesque Manner. [London, 1783–1798]

Estimate: 50,000 – 70,000 USD

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17. A Monograph of the Genus Lilium [with] Supplement …. London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, [1877–] 1880, 1933–1940, 1960–1962

Estimate: 12,000 – 18,000 USD

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18. American Wild Flowers in their Native Haunts...with twenty plates of plants, carefully colored after nature; and landscape views of their localities, from drawings on the spot, by E. Whitefield. New York and Philadelphia: D. Appleton & Company, 1845

Estimate: 500 – 700 USD

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19. Encyclographie du Règne végétal. I. Sertum Botanicum, collection des plantes remarquables par leur utilité, leur élégance, leur éclat ou leur nouveauté: consistant de six cents planches soigneusement lithographiées et coloriées, accompagnées d'un texte particulier pour chaque plante … par une societé de botanistes. Brussels: Établissement Encyclographique, 1828–1832

Estimate: 12,000 – 18,000 USD

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20. Eden: or, A Compleat Body of Gardening, containing Plain and Familiar Directions for Raising the Several Useful Products of a Garden. … Compiled and Digested from the Papers of the late celebrated Mr. Hale, by the Authors of the Compleat Body of Husbandry. And comprehending the Art of Constructing a Garden for Use and Pleasure; the Best Method of Keeping It in Order; and the Most Perfect Accounts of Its Several Products. London: Printed for T. Osborne, T. Tyre, S. Crowder & Co., and H. Woodgate, [1756–] 1757

Estimate: 18,000 – 25,000 USD

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21. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits, and General Horticulture. London: The "Journal of Horticulture" office, January 1863—December 1863

Estimate: 500 – 700 USD

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22. The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya; being an Account, Botanical, and Geographical of the Rhododendrons Recently Discovered in the Mountains of Eastern Himalaya … edited by Sir W. J. Hooker. London: Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1849

Estimate: 12,000 – 15,000 USD

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23. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London. London: W. Bulmer (later W. Nicol), 1820–1818–1822–1824–1826–1830 [1st series, vols. 1–7]; London: W. Nicol for the Society, 1835–1842–1848 [2d series, vols. 1–3]

Estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 USD

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24. Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia, in qua ad Linnaeanum systema determinatae descriptaeque sistunutur plantae illae, quas in insulis Martinica, Jamaica, Domingo, aliisque, et in vicinae continentis parte, observavit rariores. Vienna: (Joseph Kurzböck for) Kraus, 1763

Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 USD

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