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LARGE PAPER, fine impressions, very neat in russia, marbled edges, £4. 4s IVER'S WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY, COMPLETE, 2 vols. folio, and 1 vol. 8vo. 292 plates, containing several thousand Figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Insects, Plants, Shells, &c. with additional Tracts, calf, fine copy, £2. 18s 1767 This very complete set belonged to the late Mr. Lambert, and contains more than any other which has come to sale for many years. the same, viz. Medicinal Peru Plants, 8 plates-Gazophylacii Naturæ decades X, 100 plates-Pteri-Graphia Americana, 20 plates-Plantæ Italiæ Marinæ et Gramina, 5 platesCatalogue of Ray's English Herbal, 50 platesAquatilia Animalia Amboinæ, 20 plates-Description of the Guernsey Lilly, by Jas. Douglas, 3 plates-27 UNPUBLISHED PLATES, printed off from some coppers, found in the Royal Society House, no doubt intended for a volume of Natural History, but no description could be found, who was the Author-Sam. 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