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A popular history of British sea-weeds

By: Landsborough, D.

Price: £80.00

Publisher: London: Reeve, Benham & Reeve: 1849

Seller ID: 9449

Binding: Publisher's impressed cloth

Condition: Good

Slight corner wear to extremities of spine, corners bumped, slight spotting to t.p. Plates neatly coloured. xx, 368, (8) pp.
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The museum of science and art, vol. 1

By: Lardner, D.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Walton & Maberly, London: 1854

Seller ID: 12738

Binding: Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt title on spine

Condition: Fair

Rear hinge weak, spine sunned. A set of bound issues, individually paginated.
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Pictures of nature in the Silurian region around the Malvern Hills and Vale of Severn (etc.)

By: Lees, E.

Price: £36.00

Publisher: Malvern: H.W. Lamb: 1856

Seller ID: 13099

Binding: Publisher's cloth, impressed design

Condition: Good

Pp. xii, 336. Tip of spine frayed with some loss, corners bumped. Despite its title, this book does not actually contain any plates.
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A legend of Lyme and other ballads

By: Legh, Sir P.

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Manchester: Edwin Slater: 1861

Seller ID: 26052

Binding: Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt title and

Condition: Fine

The front free end paper appears to have been removed. A collection of charming rhymes mostly relating in some way to the Legh family history, but also including 'incident in the life of a Manchester worthy, now an octogenarian' that covers their rescue of a homeless person.
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De genres Camellia, Rhododendrum, Azalea, Acacia, Epacris, Erica et des plantes de serre froide en gnral

By: Lemaire, C.

Price: £80.00

Publisher: Audot, Paris: 1844

Seller ID: 8764

Binding: Quarter leather binding

Condition: Good

Some foxingl slight edge wear. 175 pp.
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The vegetable kingdom

By: Lindley, J.

Price: £120.00

Publisher: Bradbury & Evans: 1847

Seller ID: 19253

Binding: Rebacked, preserving original front and rear

Condition: Good

With interesting ex-libris stamp ex libris ren | aldi marionis | que bircamen | sis et numer | atus: C:9:9 | omnes veniant. Scarce in this condition. Mis-numbering of prelims: p. vii is followed immediaely by p. ix (or perhaps as the previous pages are un-numbered, this is a typo for p. viii).
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The fossil flora of Great Britain etc. (3 vols.)

By: Lindley, J. & Hutton, W.

Price: £350.00

Publisher: London: James Ridgway & Sons: 1831-37

Seller ID: 23774

Binding: Quarter leather binding with bubble-texture m

Condition: Fair

Although the text is complete, the covers of each of the three volumes are partly or fully detached with significant losses to the leather spines. Edges untrimmed. A seminal work in the history of palaeontology.
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An introduction to botany

By: Lindley, John

Price: £24.00

Publisher: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans: 1839

Seller ID: 11855

Binding: Hard covers

Condition: Fair

Front hinge broken. Owner's bookplatee (W.T. Stearn, author of the memoir on Lindley). xi, 594 pp. plus advertisements at end.
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The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By: Longfellow, H.W.

Price: £24.00

Publisher: Henry G. Bohn, London: 1861

Seller ID: 21622

Binding: Full leather binding, gilt decoration

Condition: V.g.

Red leather with much gilt decoration, raised bands, front hinge weak; all edges gilt. Slight edge wear.
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The poetical works of Longfellow, including recent poems

By: Longfellow, H.W.

Price: £24.00

Publisher: Frederick Warne: n.d. (c. 1880)

Seller ID: 25597

Binding: Half leather binding, finely marbled boards

Condition: Good

Owner's signature on blank page of prelims.
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The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Price: £20.00

Publisher: George Routledge: 1877

Seller ID: 7996

Binding: Decorated full leather

Condition: V.g.

All edges gilt; prize bookplate on front pastedown. iv, 644 pp.
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The Ladies' companion to the flower garden

By: Loudon, [J.W.]

Price: £56.00

Publisher: William Smith, London: 1844

Seller ID: 19375

Binding: Publisher's cloth, impressed design, gilt tit

Condition: V.g.

Scarce edition. Corners bumped, former owner's bookplate (Edward Burrard Boyle), all edges gilt, tape repair to front hinge; an attractive compilation with hand-coloured frontispiece.
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