Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS. THE EXTENSIVE AND WELL-KNOWN BOTANICAL LIBRARY of the late Charles Carmichael Lacaita, Esq., J.P. Selham House, Petworth., 09Apr1934,

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Auction Date: April 09, 1934 - April 09, 1934

Page Size: 622 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ASCHERSON, P.; P. Graebner	Synopsis der Mittel-Europaischen Flora, 6 vol. in 9		1898-1929	GBP -	3.05
2	Battandier, J. A.; Muschler, R.	et Trabut. Flore de L'Algerie; Manual Flora of Egypt		1888-90, 1912	GBP -	3.00
3	Bean, W. J.	Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles		1929	GBP -	2.05
4	BENTHAM, G.; J. D. HOOKER	Genera Plantarum		1862-83	GBP -	11.10
5	Bertolonius, A.	Flora Italica		1835-54	GBP -	0.05
6	Bicknell, C.	Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Riviera		1885	GBP -	1.15
7	Boissier, E.; Gussone, J.	Diagnosis Plantarum Orientalium Novarum; Florae Siculae Synopsis		1843, 1842-54	GBP -	8.05
8	Boisser, E.	Flora Orientalis		1867-88	GBP -	31.00
9	Bonavia, E.	The Cultivated Oranges and Lemons of India and Ceylon		1888	GBP -	1.00
10	Briquet, J.; Thellung, A.	Prodrome de la Flore Corse; La Flore Adventice de Montpellier		1910-12, 1912	GBP -	1.08
11	Britton, N. L.; A. Brown	An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States	New York	1896	GBP -	2.00
12	Brotero, F. A.; Philippe, M.	Flora Lusitanica; Flore des Pyrenenees		1804, 1859	GBP -	1.18
13	Brown, R., Colla, A.	Botanische Schriften; Herbarium Pedemontanum		1825	GBP -	4.10
14	Bubani, P.	Flora Pyrenaea	Mediolani	1897-1902	GBP -	3.15
15		Bulletino de L'Herbier Boissier		1893-1908	GBP -	2.05
16		Bulletino Bibliographico della Botanico Italiana		1927-1904	GBP -	0.05
17	Burbidge, F. W.; J. G. Baker; Veitch, J.	The Narcissus; A Manual of the Coniferae		1875	GBP -	5.15
18	Burnat, E.; Briquet, J.	et J. Briquet et F. Cavillier. Flore des Alpes Maritimes; Les Labiees des Alpes Maritimes		1892-1931, 1891	GBP -	5.00
19	Cesati, V. G. Passerini, E. C.; Fiori, A.	Gibelli. Flora Italiana; Nuova Flora Analitica d'Italia		1870, 1823-29	GBP -	4.05
20	Clusius, C.; Hermann, P.	Rariorum aliquot Stirpium per Hispanias Historia; Horti Regii Paris iensis Catalogus		1576	GBP -	2.05
21	Cutanda, V.; Penzig, O.	Flora Compendiada de Madrid y su Provincia; Flore Popolaee Italiana	Madrid	1864, 1924	GBP -	1.02
22	De Candolle, A. P.; Deslongchamps, J. L. A. L.; Balbis, J. B.	Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale; Flora Gallica; Flore Lyonnaise	Paris	1828, 1827	GBP -	2.05
23	De Candolle, A.	Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis		1824-73	GBP -	6.00
24	Endlicher, S.	Genera Plantarum		1836-42	GBP -	2.08
25	Gaudin, J.; Host, N. T.; Nyman, C. F.	Flora Helvetica; Flora Austriaca; Conspectus Florae Europaeae		1828, 1827, 1878	GBP -	4.00
26	Grenier, M.; Boreau, A.	et M. Gordon. Flore de France; Flore du Centre de La France	Paris	1848-55	GBP -	3.00
27	Gunther, R. T.; Jackson, B. D.	Early British Botanists; Linnaeus	Oxford	1922	GBP -	3.15
28	Gussone, J.; Durand, T.; Beguinot, A.	Florae Siculae; Index Generum Phanerogamorum; Archivo Botanico		1827, 1888	GBP -	3.05
29	Haláesq, E. De; Velenovsky, J.	Conspectus Florae Graecae; Flora Bulgarica		1901-4, 1891-8	GBP -	5.05
30	Hayek, A.	Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Balcanicae		1927-33	GBP -	8.10
31	HOOKER, J. D.	Flora of British India		1875-97	GBP -	15.00
32		Journal of Botany.		1917-32	GBP -	15.00
33	Koch, E. D. J.; Schlosser, J. C.; Kerner, A.	Synopsis Florae Germanicae et Helveticae; Flora Croatica; Schedae ad Floram Exsiccatam Austro-Hungaricarn		1857, 1869, 1881	GBP -	2.05
34	Krocker, A. J.; Gmelin, C. C.; Bieberstein, L. B. F.	Flora Silesiaca; Flora Badensis Alsatica; Flora Taurico-Caucasia		1787, 1805	GBP -	2.08
35	Kukenthad, G.	Cyperaceae-Caricoideae		1909	GBP -	3.12
36	Kuntze, O.	Revisio Generum Plantarum		1891-3	GBP -	2.05
37	Lamarck, Chevalier de; Gouan, A.	Flore Françoise; Hortus Regius Monspeliensis		1778, 1762	GBP -	0.18
38	Coste, H.	Lamarck et Decandolle; Flore de La France	Paris	1805-15	GBP -	6.10
39	Lamarck, J. B. de; Jordan, A.	et A. P. Candolle. Synopsis Plantarum in Flora Gallica descriptarum; Flore du Plateau Central de La France	Paris	1806, 1841, 1887	GBP -	1.08
40	Ledebour, C. F.	Flora Rossica sive Ennumeratio Plantarum in totius Imperii Rossici		1842-53	GBP -	6.00
41		Linnean Society Journal.		1884-1913	GBP -	7.00
42	Linnaeus, C.	Amoenitates Academicae, seu Dissertationes variae Physicae		1749-85	GBP -	8.10
43	Linnaeus, C.	Species Plantarum		1797-1810	GBP -	11.10
44	Linnaeus, C.	Species Plantarum		1840	GBP -	4.00
45	Linnaeus, C.	Systema Vegetabilium		1817-30	GBP -	0.12
46	Linnaeus, C.	Systema Vegetabilium, curante C. Sprengel		1907	GBP -	2.05
47	Loudon, J. C.; Deakin, R.	Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum; Florigraphia Britannica		1838	GBP -	0.10
48	Luerssen, C.; Richter, K.	Die Farnpflanzen; Plantae Europeae		1889	GBP -	1.02
49	Mackay, J. T.; Blomfield, W. A.; Townsend, F.	Flora Hibernica; Flora Vectensis. Flowering Plants and Ferns etc., of the Isle of Wight; Flora of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight		1856, 1836	GBP -	5.00
50	Magnol, P.; Pollich, J. A.	Botanicum Monspeliense; Historia Plantarum		1776, 1768, 1776	GBP -	2.18
51	Maratti, D. J.; Sommier, S.	Flora Romana; et A. C. Gatto. Flora Melitensis Nova		1822, 1915	GBP -	3.00
52		Miscellaneous Books, etc.			GBP -	21.00
53	Moggridge, J. T.; Briquet, M. J.; Sweet, R.	Contributions to the Flora of Mentone; Opuscula Botanica, 16 tracts in 1 vol; Opuscula Botanica; Cisitneae : or Rock-Rose		1889-1906, 1871	GBP -	13.10
54	Mueller, F. von; Moore, C.	Key to the System of Victorian Plants; Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales		1887-88	GBP -	2.02
55		Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano		1903-1932	GBP -	1.00
56	Koch, W. D. J.	Oesterreichische Botanische Zeitschrift		1892-1907	GBP -	3.00
57	Parlatore, F.	Flora Italiana		1848-1893	GBP -	2.10
58	Picto de Lapeyrouse, M.; Gautier, G.; Barcelo y Combis, F.; Bonnet, E.	Histoire des Plantes des Pyrenees; Flore des Pyrenees-Orientales; Flora de las Islas Baleares; et G. Barratte. Plantes Vasculaires de la Tunisie		1813, 1870-81	GBP -	4.05
59	Ray, John	Observations made in a Journey through part of the Low Countries, Germany, etc.		1694	GBP -	2.00
60	Rohling, J. O.; Neilreich, A.; Beck, G. R.	Deutschlands Flora; Flora von Nieder-Oesterreich; Flora von Nieder-Osterreich		1823, 1859, 1890	GBP -	2.12
61	Rouy, G.	Flore de France		1893-1913	GBP -	5.00
62	Roxburgh, W.	Flora Indica		1832	GBP -	2.05
63	Saint-Lager, Dr.; Beguinot, A.	Flore du Bassin du Rhone; Flora Padovana	Lyon	1883	GBP -	1.12
64	Sebastianus, A.; Pollinius, C.	et E. Maurius; Flora Veronensis, quam in prodromum Florae Italiae septen-trionalis		1818	GBP -	2.10
65	Sibthorpe, J.; J. E. Smith; Vandas, C.	Florae Graecae Prodromus; Reliquiae Formanekianae		1806-13, 1909	GBP -	3.10
66	Sibthorpe, J.; Pospichal, E.	Florae Graecae Prodromus; Flora des Oesterreichischen Kustenlandes		1806-13, 1897-99	GBP -	1.00
67	Sowerby, J.; Sir J. E. Smith	English Botany, with the Supplement		1790-1863	GBP -	36.00
68	Steudel, E. T.; Celakovsky, L.; Hayek, A. von	Nomenclator Botanicus; Flora von Bohmen; Flora von Steirmark		1841, 1867	GBP -	4.04
69	Sturm, J.	Flora von Deutschland		1906	GBP -	1.15
70	Tenore, M.; Groves, E.; Baldacci, A.	Sylloge Florae Neapolitanae; Flora della Costa Meridionale della Terra d'Otranto; Opuscula Botanica		1801, 1887, 1878-1901	GBP -	5.05
71	Tenore, M.; Terracciano, N.	Sylloge Plantarum Vascularium Florae Neapolitanae; Peregrinazioni Botaniche		1831, 1872	GBP -	3.10
72	Teriacciano, N.	La Flora dei Campi Flegrei		1910	GBP -	3.00
73	Villars, M.; Debeaux, M. O.	Histoire des Plantes de Dauphine; Flore de Gibraltar	Paris	1889, 1786	GBP -	4.15
74	Vitman, F.; Aiton, W.; W. T.	Summa Plantarum; Hortus Kewensis, or Catalogue of the Plants in the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew		1789-1792	GBP -	3.05
75	Wahlenberg, G.; Loert, H.; Ibiza, B. L.	Flora Suecia; et A. Barrandon; Flora Espanola		1824, 1876, 1920	GBP -	3.05
76	Walpers, G. G.	Repertorium Botanices Systematicae		1842-7	GBP -	2.00
77	Willkomm, M.	et J. Lango.		1870-93, 1905-9	GBP -	6.15
78	Bautinus, C.; Boccone, P.	Theatri Botanici; Muses de Pianti Rare		1671, 1697	GBP -	7.05
79	Beddome, R. H.; Clarke, C. B.	Ferns of Southern India; Ferns of Northern India	Madras	1863-4	GBP -	0.15
80	Bertoloni, A.	Amoenitates Italicae		1820-52	GBP -	0.16
81	Bunge, A.	Generis Astragali species Gerontogeae		1896	GBP -	1.15
82	Buxbaum, J. C.; Pritzel, G. A.	Plantarum minus cognitarum; Thesaurus Literaturae Bontanical		1728	GBP -	1.00
83	Cambessides, J.; Barbazita, D. F.; Murbeck, S.	Enumeratio Plantarum quas in Insulis Balearibus collegit; Saggio sulla Flora Lucana; La Flore du Nord-Ouest de l'Afrique		n. d., 1840	GBP -	3.08
84	Chodat, R.	Monographia Polygalacearum		1891	GBP -	1.05
85	Crantz, H. J. N.; Boorhave, H.	Stirpium Austriacarum; Index Plantarum in Horto Academico Lugduno-Batavo		1769	GBP -	2.15
86	De Candolle, A.; Briquet, J.; Chavannes, E.	Monographic des Campanulees; Monographie du Genre Galeopsis; Mono graphie des Antirrhinees	Paris	1830	GBP -	3.00
87	Desfontaines, R.; Beauvois, A. M. F., Palisot de	Choix de Plantes du Corollaire des Instituts de Tournefort; Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie	Paris	1808, 1812	GBP -	1.05
88	Don, George	General History of Dichlamydeous Plants		1831-8	GBP -	0.10
89	Fauche, M.; Lauge, J.	Expedition Scientifique de Moree-Botanique; Description Plantarum novarum, praceipue Flora Hispanica		1832, 1864-66	GBP -	3.05
90	Fiori, A.	Flora Analitica d'Italia, with vol. of plates		1896-1909	GBP -	3.15
91	Forskal, P.; Schrader, H. A.	Flora Ægyptiaco-Arabica; Monographia Generis Verbasci		1873	GBP -	4.10
92	Gaertner, J.	De Fruelibus et Seminibus Plantarum		1788-91	GBP -	Not Sold
93	Gmelin, J. G.	Flora Siberica, sive Historia Plantarum Sibiriae		1747-69	GBP -	7.00
94	Gussone, J.	Plantae Rariores		1826	GBP -	2.00
95	Halacsy, E.; Hayek, A.; Petrak, F.	Botanische Ergebnisse; Monographische Studien über die Gattung saxifrage; Cirsium Eriophorum		1905	GBP -	2.15
96	Hegi, G.	Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa		n. d.	GBP -	9.10
97	Hooker, J. D.; B. D. Jackson	Index Kewensis, with supplements and indices		1893-1929	GBP -	16.00
98		Iconum Botanicarum Index Londonensis		1929-31	GBP -	11.00
99	Lamarck, M.	Encyclopedic Botanique, with supplement	Paris	1783-91	GBP -	1.01
100	Lehmann, C.; Clarke, C. B.; Aitchison, J. E. T.	Revisio Potentillarum; Review of the Ferns of Northern India; Botany of the Afghan Delimitation Commission		1856, 1880	GBP -	0.10

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