834 Home's (Sir Everard) Various Tracts from the Philosophical Transactions on the Generation of the Kangaroo-Anatomy of the Sea-Otter--Dissection of an Hermaphrodite Dogon the Teeth of Graminivorous Quadrupeds-on the Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus-on the Teeth of the Wild Boar, &c. and various others in the vol. 4to. numerous plates, uncut, 18s. Lond. 1790-1802 835 Honckeny (G. A.) Synopsis Plantarum Germaniæ curante C. L. Willdenow, 2 vols. 8vo. very neat, 12s. Berolini, 1792-93 836 Hooke's (R.) Micrographia; or some Physiological Descriptions of minute Bodies made by magnifying Glasses: with Observations and Inquiries thereupon, folio, plates, very neat, 837 838 18s. Lond. 1665 Micrographia Restaurata, or the Copper-plates of Dr. Hooke's Wonderful Discoveries by the Microscope, fully explained, folio, 33 plates, uncut, 12s. Lond. 1745 Posthumous Works, containing his Cutlerian Lectures and other Discourses read at the Meetings of the Royal Society, folio, plates, fine copy in old gilt calf, 11. ib. 1705 839 Hooker's (Wm.) Paradisus Londinensis: containing Plants cultivated in the Vicinity of London, with Descriptions by Salisbury, 4to. containing 111 figures of plants, beautifully coloured, hf-bd. morocco, marb. edges, 31.3s. Lond. 1806 840 HOOKER'S (WM. JACKSON) BRITISH JUNGERMANNIE, being a History and Description, with coloured Figures, of each Species of the Genus, and Microscopical Analyses of the parts, 22 nos. royal 4to. complete, containing 88 finely coloured plates, (pub. at 81.9s. 6d.) 6l.6s. Lond. 1816 Exotic Flora, containing Figures and Descriptions of new, rare, or otherwise interesting Exotic Plants, 8 parts, royal 8vo. containing 94 beautifully coloured plates, (pub. at 4l. 10s.) 841 842 843 844 845 sd. 31. Flora Scotica, or a Description of Scottish Plants, arranged Journal of a Tour in Iceland in the Summer of 1809, Second bds. 18s. ib. 1813 "Natural History, especially Botany. The Travels of this Author, Mackenzie, and Henderson, would seem to leave nothing to be desired on the subject of this extraordinary Island and its Inhabitants." STEVENSON. 846 Hooker's (Wm. Jackson) Flora Boreali-Americana; or the Botany of the Northern Parts of British America, compiled principally from the Plants collected in the late Northern Expedition under Captain Franklin, Part I.-V., 4to. each containing 18 plates, 51. Lond. 1829-33 ET R. KAYE GREVILLE ICONES FILICUM, ad eas potissimum Species illustrandas delineatæ, quæ hactenus vel in Herbariis delituerunt prorsus incognitæ, vel saltem nondum per Icones Botanicis innotuerunt; cum Tabulis æneis, 12 parts in 2 vols. folio, 240 plates, (pub. at 15l.) 12. ib. 1827-33 847 848 another copy, 2 vols. folio, the plates finely coloured, (pub. at 251. 4s.) 201. 4s. ib. 1827-33 849 Hope's (T. C.) Account of a Mineral from Strontian, 4to. sewed, Edinb. 1793 850 Horrebow's (N.) Natural History of Iceland, folio, map, very neat and gilt, 14s. Lond. 1758 ib. 1758 850*- the same, folio, map, neat, 12s. 851 Houstounianæ Reliquiæ, seu Plantarum in America Meridionali a G. Houstoun collectarum Icones Manu propria Ære incisæ cum Descriptionibus, 4to. boards, 26 plates, privately printed, London, 1781 Norimb. 1794 12s. idem, 8vo. 26 plates, sd. 5s. 851*. 852 Howell's (James) Aeropoλoyia. Dodona's Grove, or the Vocall Forest. With a MS. Key, sm. folio, LARGE PAPER, brilliant impressions of the plates by Merian, the Master of Hollar, very neat, 16s. London, 1640 853 Howitt's (S.) British Preserve, containing Representations of 47 different Quadrupeds and Birds, usually hunted and shot in Great Britain, etched on 36 plates, 9 nos. 4to. (published at 31. 3s.) 11. 11s. 6d. 3s. London, 1824 854 Huber de Lingua et Osse Hyoideo Pici viridis, 4to. 2 plates, sewed, Stuttgard, 1821 855 Hudsoni (G.) Flora Anglica exhibens Plantas per Britanniam sponte crescentes, 2 vols in 1, 8vo. hf-bd. 8s. idem, 2 vols. 8vo. neat, 9s. 855*. London, 1778 ib. 1778 "With this book in his hand, any one conversant with the Latin language, and with the first rudiments of systematic knowledge, might reduce a wild plant to its class, order, genus, and species. 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NATURAL HISTORY. 85 HUMBOLDT (ALEXANDRE DE) ET AIMÉ BONPLAND, PLANTES EQUINOXIALES RECUEILLIES au Mexique, dans l'Isle de CUBA, &c. 2 vols. royal folio, 144 fine engravings (published at 631. 15s.) hf.-bd. Turkey morocco, uncut, top edges gilt, Paris, 1808-9 MONOGRAPHIE DES MELASTOMES ET AUTRES GENRES DU même Ordre, Y COMPRIS LES RHEXIES, 2 vols. royal folio, 120 beautifully coloured plates (published at 1081.) half-bd. Turkey morocco, uncut, top edges gilt, 241. ib. 1816-23 Essai sur la Géographie des Plantes, royal 4to. with the large folding plate, bds. scarce, 21. 2s. 861 862 863 864 865 866 867 868 869 870 871 872 ib. 1807 ib. 1807 another copy, royal 4to. wanting the plate, 15s. Containing HUMBOLDT sur l'Os Hyöide et le Larynx des Oiseaux, des Singes et du Crocodile.-De Simia Leolina-sur l'Eremophilus et l'Astroblepus-sur une nouvelle Espèce de Primelode-sur le Vultur Gryphus-sur les Gymnotes.-CUVIER sur les Reptiles regardés encore comme douteux.-LATREILLE sur les Insectes de l'Amérique Equinoxiale. Sur les Abeilles par Latreille.--HUMBOLDT sur les Singes, &c. Vues des Cordillières, et Monumens des Peuples indigènes de l'Amérique, 2 vols. royal folio, with 69 fine engravings, many exquisitely coloured (published at 504 francs) boards, 71. 7s. ib. 1810 ib. 1810 another copy, 2 vols. in 1, royal folio, half-bound, Turkey ib. 1810 ib. 1810 another copy, 2 vols. in 1, imperial folio, half-bound, Turkey Personal Narrative of Travels in Columbia: embracing De- 41. the same, 6 vols. 8vo. calf extra, 51. 5s. 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Lond. 1814 874 875 876 the same, vol. 1 and 2, 8vo. bds. 16s. ib. 1811 At a public meeting held June 21, 1824, it was declared by the executive power of the Mexican government, that "Mr. Humboldt's Polilitical Essay on New Spain, contained the most complete and the most accurate picture of the natural riches of the country, and that the reading of this great work had not a little contributed to reanimate the active industry of the nation, and to inspire it with confidence in its own powers." Geognostical Essay on the Superposition of Rocks, 8vo. (published at 14s.) bds. 10s. 6d. the same, 8vo. hf.-bd. russia, 13s. ib. 1823 ib. 1823 877 Humboldt (F. A. de) Flora Friburgensis Specimen Plantas Cryptogamicas præsertim subterraneas exhibens. Acced. Aphorismi ex Doct. Physiologiæ Chem. Plantarum, 4to. 4 plates, sewed, 12s. Berolini, 1793 878 Hunter's (A.) Georgical Essays, 6 vols. 8vo. plates (pub. at 31.3s. in bds.) calf gilt, 21. 28. 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FLORE AUSTRIACE, SIVE PLANTARUM SELECTARUM IN AUSTRIA ARCHIDUCATU sponte crESCENTIUM ICONES, AD VIVUM COLORATE, ET DESCRIPTIONIBUS AC SYNONYMIS ILLUSTRATÆ, 5 vols. folio, 500 finely coloured plates, hf.-bd. russia extra, rare 251. Vienna Aust. 1773-78 Roscoe's copy sold for 317. 10s.: L'Heritier's for 750 francs. Enumeratio Stirpium sponte crescentium in Agro Vindobonensi, Montibusque confinibus. Accedunt Obss. Centuria et Appendix de paucis Exoticis, 8vo. 9 plates, nt. 6s. Vind.1762 Observationes Botanicæ, 4 parts in 2, folio, 100 plates, bds. 885 886 887 17. 4s. Another copy, 4 parts in 1 vol. folio, nt. ll. 5s. ib. 1764-71 ib. 1764-71 888 Jacquin (N. J.) Selectarum Stirpium Americanarum Hist.in qua ad Linnæanum Systema determinatæ descriptæque sistuntur Plantæ illæ, quas in Insulis Martinica, Jamaica, Domingo, aliisque, et in vicinæ Continentis Parte, observavit rariores; adjectis Iconibus in Solo natali delineatis, 2 vols. in 1, folio, 183 plates, boards, Il.11s. 6d. 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