WorldCat lists no U.S. institutional holdings of this edition.

Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Goldsmiths'-Kress 9103.0-1.   19th-century quarter diced brown sheep with marbled paper sides done in imitation of tree calf; spine gilt-stamped with title and decorative bands; corners bumped and leather lightly worn, foot of spine discolored from a now-absent label, red-inked onetime price note on fly-leaf, otherwise clean and fresh. Title-page with outer portion restored and one letter supplied; some occasional light spotting or staining but text really quite clean. A nice old book.  (37453)

Front wrapper notes the work has been “revised by the Committee of Publication of the American Sunday-school Union”; back wrapper contains a hymn. Publication date is from the American Antiquarian Society OPAC.

•  Original beige printed wrappers, spotted/foxed; text with light to moderate foxing.  (36573)

•  Keynes p. 49. Not in Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering.   Publisher's green cloth, spine sunned to olive and pulled with a little loss at head. Text block split at center, though firm in binding; text clean. Withall a good copy.  (40242)

Boyer de Prébandier's translation is of An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies, first published in London in 1733.

Provenance:  From the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

Of special note, at least as far as this cataloguer (DMS) is concerned, are the references on pp. 108–12 tochocolate, coffee, and tea.

•  Wellcome Catalogue, II, 52.   Contemporary polished tan calf, round spine, raised bands, gilt spine extra; plain sides, marbled endpapers, all edges red, blue silk ribbon placemarker. Both joints (outside) open along top compartment; binding solid, however, with volume internally clean. A nice copy.  (39841)

•  Publisher's green cloth stamped and lettered in gilt, spine lightly sunned with slim discolorations to cloth around board edges. Smallest touches of a dark discoloration to base of half-title and front blank. With the limitation card. (40830)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Alexander Oswald Brodie (not, please note, the American officer and governor of Arizona Territory); title-page with Brodie's inked inscription, dated 1839, Dresden.

•  Brunet, I, 604; Gibson, Bacon, 185b; Willems 1058. On Bacon, see: Dictionary of National Biography.   Contemporary vellum with yapp edges, spine with early inked title; spine lettering rubbed, back cover darkened. Both pastedowns lifted, front pastedown with bookplate beneath; free endpapers lacking. Title-page with inscription as above; pages with a very few small scattered spots, almost entirely clean. A handsome copy.  (30360)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with early inked inscription of H.G. Monro; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  NSTC 2B2258.   Contemporary ribbon-embossed green cloth, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; spine sunned to olive, rubbing with front joint just starting from head and foot, front cover showing faint circular imprint. Pages gently age-toned with occasional small spots and smudges, some corners faintly creased. An appealing copy of the first edition, in original binding.  (41127)

•  Contemporary quarter sheep and cream paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and date; binding rubbed overall with sides darkened and leather scuffed (particularly at joints). Hinges (inside) starting from top; still holding. Back pastedown with small ticket of F. Westley, binder. Pages faintly age-toned with a few scattered small smudges, otherwise clean; one leaf with short tear from lower margin, just touching last line of text without loss. An enjoyable copy of this attractive Whittingham production, and from a good collection. (41296)

•  Publisher's green cloth. As new.  (29580)

•  Shoemaker 8196; NSTC 2B53063.   Period-style quarter light grey cloth and light blue paper–covered sides, spines with printed paper labels. One leaf with short tear from outer edge, not touching text. Pages age-toned with a scant handful of scattered small spots, otherwiseremarkably clean.  (30339)

Provenance:  Inked ownership inscriptions of Clara Gibbons, one dated 1850; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabels (“AHA”) at rear.

•  NSTC 2L8393. This ed. not in Osborne.   Vols. I and II with Gibbons inscription on front pastedown, vol. III on title-page, vol. IV without inscription; front hinge (inside) of vol. III starting from head, with text block pulling. Gentle age-toning, occasional light spotting; title-pages mildly foxed; a few leaves in vol. II affected by small spot of staining in upper margins, two of those leaves with resulting adhesion and loss of perhaps ten words (total). Pages overall clean. A very nice set on shelf and in hand. (41038)

Provenance:  W.G. Ramsay SO.CA. stamped at head of title-page; the “SO.CA.” may indicate “South Carolina” and associate this book with the physician son of David Ramsay — public official, historian of the American Revolution, and physician who introduced the smallpox vaccine in his region. (The younger Ramsay was particularly interested in racial differences, and not in what the 21st century would consider to be a good way.)

Evidence of readership: Three neatly pencilled short notes to the Introduction.

•  ESTC N10137; Garrison & Morton 1674; On Cleghorn, see: DNB (online).   Recent half navy blue buckram and blue marbled paper–covered boards, new endpapers; binding irregularly sized and half-title lacking. Title-page heavily repaired with former owner's signature excised from top right corner. Light to moderate age-toning and waterstaining with the occasional spot; first gathering darkened and partially detached. Medical practice here is an adventure.  (36126)

Provenance:  From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.

•  Osborne Collection, p. 1043 (for 1790 ed., p. 409 for first ed.); Hugo, Bewick Collector (suppl., 1970 ed.) no. 4090; ESTC T165228; Gumuchian 2091.   Contemporary mottled sheep, rebacked some time ago with tan sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, gilt-ruled compartments, and gilt-stamped compartment decorations; rubbed overall, sides with expectable acid-pitting. Light offsetting to title-page from frontispiece; minor to moderate offsetting in text throughout, with occasional spots of foxing. Well-executed work by Bewick and interesting reading to boot. (41045)

Provenance:  College of Pharmacy of the City of New York.

Evidence of readership: A reader of the late 16th century has corrected some of the text and has added interesting marginalia in Latin that expounds or expands on sections of it. A later reader, probably of the late 18th or early 19th century, has labeled some of the woodcut illustrations with the plant names using Linnaean and post-Linnaean taxonyms. For example some have “W” at the end of the Latin name, for Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765–1812), others “Schmidt” for F.W. Schmidt (1764–96), most just have an “L” at the end, for Linnaeus.

•  Pritzel 2350; Nissen, Botanische Buchillustration, 517; Hunt Botanical Catalogue 143; Nissen 517; DSB, IV,138–9. Voet, Plantin Press, 1101; Adams D722; Arents, Adds., 74; Alden & Landis 583/23; Index Aurel. 154.557; Bibliographia Belgica D117.   Recent quarter mottled brown calf with green and red stone-pattern marbled paper sides; raised bands, each accented above and below by single gilt rule and with gilt center devices in five spine compartments. Library stamp as above on title-page and three other pages. Minor worming in some, a very few, margins, most notable in upper margins of pp. 260–89; gently age-toned, and a few leaves with browning or foxing; overalla crisp, clean, decidedly desirable copy.  (34549)

The volume is illustrated with43 lithographed plates done by Weber & Co., including a portrait of “A New Mexican Indian Woman,” a fish of the Gila River, a map of “the actions fought at San Pasqual in upper California between the Americans and Mexicans Dec. 6th & 7th 1846,” and a view of cliffside hieroglyphics, as well as a series of 14 botanical images.

•  Cowan & Cowan 195; Graff 1249 (other 1848 issues only); Haferkorn 38; Howes E145; Sabin 22536 (for House ed. only); Wagner-Camp, Plains & Rockies, 148:2; Zamorano 80, 33.   Recent black cloth, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Oversized, folding map lacking. Plates and pages with some light to moderate foxing; one leaf with tear from upper margin, extending into text without loss. Clean, strong.  (27364)