Botany. [Wirt (Elizabeth)], Flora's Dictionary, Baltimore: P...

Botany. [Wirt (Elizabeth)], Flora's Dictionary, Baltimore: Published by Fielding Lucas Jr., 1835, black-ruled, additional lithographed 'calligraphy' title page printed on blue paper, further letterpress title, interleaved with colour paper leaves, contemporary tan calf, blocked in gilt with flowering urns, blind-rolled borders, split and scuffed, upper-cover off, spine chipped, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers, 4to; Americana: Brandon (Constance E.), Common-Place Book, Oct. 21. 1877, [further kept and inscribed by her descendant] Edith Poor, May 25, 1896, Volume I, a quarter of the manuscript by the former, the remainder by the latter, contemporary roan over boards, retailed by Burnton & Corey of New York, label, split, 4to; Mach (Edmund von, PhD), Greek Sculpture: Its Spirit and Principles, signed dedicated presentation copy from the author, first edition, Boston: Ginn & Company, 1903, frontispiece and plates, finely bound in contemporary green morocco gilt over boards by McNamee of Cambridge Massachusetts, signed, upper-cover: lettered in gilt Edith Poor, Jan. 5, 1904, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, (3)

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