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The Magnificent Botanical Library Of D. F. Allen
26 October 2017 • New York
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Sale Number: N09659
67 lots
37. Histoire générale des insectes de Surinam et de toute l'Europe, contenant leurs descriptions, leurs figures, leurs differents metamorphoses … Troisieme edition, revue, corrigée, & considérablement augumenté par M. Buc'hoz. Paris: L. C. Desnos, 1771
Estimate: 90,000 – 120,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
38. Histoire des chênes de l'Amérique, ou descriptions et figures de toutes les espèces et variétés de Chênes de l'Amérique Septentrionale, Considérées sous les rapports de la Botanique, deleur culture et de leur usage. Paris: De l'imprimerie Crapelet, An IX—1801
Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
39. Illustratio systematis sexualis Linnæi = An Illustration of the Sexual System of the genera plantum of Linnæus. London: by the Author, [1770–] 1777
Estimate: 30,000 – 40,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
40. The Gardners Dictionary. Containing, The Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Flower, Fruit, and Pleasure Garden. … The Sixth Edition. London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by John and James Rivington, 1752
Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
41. Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful, and Uncommon Plants described in The Gardeners Dictionary, Exhibited on Three Hundred Copper Plates, accurately Engraven after Drawings taken from Nature, with the Characters of their Flowers and Seed-vessels, Drawn when they were in their Greatest Perfection. London: Printed for the Author, [1755–] 1760
Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
42. [Vases of Flowers.] Paris: Nicolas de Poilly le jeune, [ca. 1680]
Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
43. The Gardener's Magazine of Botany, Horticulture, Floriculture and Natural Science. London: William S. Orr, January–December 1850
Estimate: 2,500 – 3,500 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
44. Herbier général de l'amateur, contenant la description, l'histoire, les propriétés et la culture des végétaux utiles et agréables. Paris: Imprimerie de Didot jeune for Audot (volume 1) and Imprimerie de Fain for Audot (volumes 2–8), [1814–] 1816–1827
Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
45. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants. London: Orr & Smith and Wm. S. Orr & Co., 1834–1849
Estimate: 12,000 – 18,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
46. [Recueil des Oiellets. Paris: Imprimerie de Lasauvage, ca. 1840]
Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
47. Collection des fleurs et des fruits, peints d'après nature … avec un discours d'introduction sur l'usage de cette collection dans les arts et les manufactures, suivi d'un précis sur l'art de la broderie … par P. M. Gault-de-Saint-Germain … avec une explication des planches par Ant.-Nic. Duchesne. Paris: chez Vilquin … de l'imprimerie de Gillé fils, an XIII — 1805 (i.e., [1804] 1805 [–1806])
Estimate: 100,000 – 150,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
48. Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or, A Systematic Arrangement and Description of the Plants of North America. London: White, Cochrane & Co., 1814
Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
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