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ENGLISH PLANTS, HUSBANDRY and RUSTIC POETRY]. MERRETT, CHRISTOPHER. Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum, continens Vegetabilia, Animalia, et Fossilia... London, 1667. 8vo, 155 x 93 mm., contemporary calf, spine repaired. Second Edition, printed within months of the fisrt edition of 1666 which according to Henrey is exceptionally rare, as most of the stock was probably destroyed in the Great Fire shortly after printing. Henrey 255; Wing M-1840 -- PLATT, HUGH. The Garden of Eden. An accurate Description of all Flowers and Fruits now growing in England... London, 1653. 8vo, 138 x 87 mm., contemporary calf, rebacked. First Edition, under this title. Henrey 293 -- WHATELY, THOMAS. Observations on Modern Gardening. London, 1770. 8vo, 208 x 122 mm., contemporary calf, upper cover detached. Warfield, ownership inscription; KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- BLACKSTONE, JOHN. Specimen Botanicum quo Plantarum Plurium Rariorum Angliae Indigenarum Loci Natales Illustrantur... London, 1746. 12mo, 167 x 105 mm., contemporary calf, rebacked. 2 engraved plates. Henrey 448. KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- MARKHAM, GERVASE. The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent. Or, a Direction of the Husbandman... London, 1683. 4to, half calf, defective. Fourteenth Edition. Wing M-682. HSNY, bookplate -- LAURENCE, JOHN. The Clergy-Man's Recreation: Shewing the Pleasure and Profit of the Art of Gardening...; The Gentleman's Recreation London, 1717. 2 works in one vol., 8vo, 193 x 120 mm., contemporary calf, worn. Fifth and second Edition, 2 engraved frontispieces and 3 engraved folding plates. Henrey 937 and 943; Hunt 437 and 438. HSNY, bookplate -- MORTIMER, JOHN. The Whole Art of Husbandry... London, 1716. 2 vols., 8vo, 191 x 120 mm., contemporary calf, worn. Fourth Edition -- BLITH, WALTER. The English Improver, or a new Survey of Husbandry... London, 1649. 4to, 178 x 140 mm., later calf, lacking upper cover. FIRST EDITION. Hunt 245; Wing B-3193. Austin Blomfield, bookplate -- COWLEY, ABRAHAM. Poemata Latina: In quibus continentur Sex Libri Plantarum... London, 1678. 12mo, 150 x 84 mm., contemporary calf, spine elaborately gilt, joints repaired. Second Edition, engraved portrait frontispiece. Henrey 51; Wing C-6681. Ed. Bonnet; KKM/HSNY, bookplates -- RAPIN, RENÉ. Rapin of Gardens. A Latin Poem... London, [1706]. 8vo, 190 x 115 mm., contemporary calf, rebacked. Engraved frontispiece and 4 engraved folding plates -- DARWIN, ERASMUS. The Poetical Works of Erasmus Darwin... London, 1806. 3 vols., 8vo, 213 x 129 mm., contemporary half calf, spines gilt. Engraved portrait, 3 engraved frontispieces, numerous engraved plates (some colored) and 2 engraved charts (one folding). Raslph Sneyd, bookplate; G.M. Trevelyan, ownership inscription. (14)