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Page 80 - London's Encyclopaedia of Agriculture: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo. 21s. London's Encyclopaedia of Gardening: comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape Gardening.
Page 80 - ENCYCLOPAEDIA of AGRICULTURE: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo.
Page 80 - Encyclopaedia of Plants : Comprising the Specific Character, Description, Culture, History, Application in the Arts, and every other desirable Particular respecting all the Plants found in Great Britain.
Page 103 - Fodinae regales; or the history laws and places of the chief mines and mineral works in England and Wales.
Page 56 - COL. HAWKER'S INSTRUCTIONS to YOUNG SPORTSMEN in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.
Page 81 - Edition, corrected, 1 large vol. 8vo. £3. 13s. 6d. boards. " The most useful and popular botanical work that has ever appeared in the English language."— JAMESON'S PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL. HORTUS BRITANNICUS : a Catalogue of all the Plants Indigenous to, Cultivated in, or Introduced into Britain.
Page xiv - Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, tant des espèces que l'on trouve aujourd'hui vivantes, que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n'existent plus ; classés d'après les caractères essentiels que présentent ces animaux et leurs coquilles; dédiée à SAR Msr le duc d'Angoulême, œuvre posthume de M.
Page 125 - The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia, including their Systematic Characters, the Particulars of their several Metamorphoses, and the Plants on which they feed. Collected from the observations of Mr. John Abbot, many years resident in that country, by James Edward Smith, MD, FRS...
Page 5 - REPOSITORY for New and Rare Plants. Containing coloured figures of such plants as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters...
Page 41 - The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany. Illustrated by Select Specimens of Foreign and Indigenous Plants. 3 vol.