The Human Body
Owen Lankester c1892
The Human Body
Owen Lankester c1892
The Anatomy of the Human Body
by W Cheselden
Surgeon to his Majesty’s Royal Hospital at Chelsea, Fellow of the Royal Society
and member of the Royal Accademy of Surgeons at Paris
The VIth Edition [6th]
with forty copper plates - engraved by Ger. Vandergucht
London William Bowyer 1741
A True Gentlewoman’s delight printed in 1659
Rare 17th century cook book
Engraved plate from an early 18th Century Anatomy book
JAMES DRAKE
Anthropologia nova; or a new system of anatomy describing the animal oeconomy, and a short treatise of many distempers incident to human bodies.. Second Corrected Edition 1717A well illustrated and highly regarded work on anatomy which remained the standard work for many years - First published in 1707 a third edition was published in 1727.
The Beauty of Flowers in Field and Wood
containing the natural orders or families of British Wild Plants
with moral teachings illustrated
designed to make botany simple and field and wood rambles instructive and agreeable
John Thoedore Barker
Bath Binns and Goodwin - no date [1852]
London Whittaker and Co
unusual contemporary paper mache binding with a hand painted cover
Dante
by Edmund G Gardner
London J M Dent & Co First Edition March 1900, Second Edition May 1900
On the origin of Species - Charles Darwin
London Ward Lock & Co Limited 1910
Decorative endpaper design by AA Turbayne
Familiar Wild Flowers
figured and described
by F Edward Hulme
London Cassell and Company Limited - no date c1899
[catalogues show a possible date code ‘G 6.00’ June 1900?]
Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde
extracts from the Book of Magdeburg
Selected and translated by Frances A Bevan
London James Nisbet & Co. 1896