[Rarebooks] fa: BOTANY - GARDENERS KALENDAR 1814, Thornton's ELEMENTS OF BOTANY 1812, etc.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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James Donn: Hortus Cantabrigiensis; or, A Catalogue of Plants, Indigenous and Exotic. Cambridge: Printed by M. Watson; and Sold by White [et al], 1807. Fourth edition. Small 8vo (18.5 cm) in period half calf and marbled cloth; 248 pp.
An uncommon early printing of this catalogue of the plants in the Botanic Garden at Cambridge, first published in 1796. The work proved so popular that it went through thirteen editions by 1845. In later editions, Donn "enlarged the work by the addition of the names of all the ornamental plants known to be cultivated in the various gardens of Great Britain, until, by the seventh edition, this catalogue scarcely bore more relation to the Cambridge botanic garden than to the Royal Gardens at Kew" (Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800). Chipping and a horizontal crack to the spine leather, some rubbing/wear to the boards, front hinge cracked but board is secure; tanning and soiling to the title-page, a few occasional small spots, contents otherwise quite clean and sound, firmly bound.

R. J. [Robert John] Thornton: Elements of Botany. Part I. Classification. Part II. Terms of the Science. London: Printed for the Author, as Prizes in the Royal Botanical Lottery, by J. Whiting, 1812. Two volumes in one. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo (24.5 cm) in period half calf and marbled boards, rebacked; [iii]-viii, 63, [1], 73, [3]p.; 141 engraved plates.
Thornton (1768-1837), English physician and botanical writer, is best known for his British Flora as well as his ambitious, and financially ruinous, Temple of Flora. The present volume includes a synthesis and analysis of the Order of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus. Bound without the half-title; some rubbing and light wear to the binding; mild foxing to the  endpapers, occasional small spots or stains elsewhere, but contents and plates are generally quite clean and fresh, firmly bound.

Walter Nicol: The Gardener's Kalendar; or, Monthly Directory of Operations in Every Branch of Horticulture. Edinburgh: Printed by David Willison for Archibald Constable and Company…, 1814. Third Edition. Thick 8vo in nineteenth-century half calf and marbled boards, gilt-stamped morocco spine label; 640 pp.
With an index and a List of the English and Linnaean Names of Plants. Ink inscription on the half-title reads: "From William Inglis, Esquire to William Anderson, Gardener, Kirkmay House, March 1857." Additionally the name "Kirkmay" is stamped in gilt on the front cover. This is presumably the Kirkmay House in Crail, Fife, Scotland, built by Robert Inglis (the inscriber's father?) in 1817. Rubbing to the boards and some wear to the edges and corners, a crease to the spine; cracking to the front interior hinge but the front board is secure; engraved armorial bookplate and ink inscription on the front paste-down and endpaper; crease to the half-title and title-page, scattered generally mild spotting to the text throughout, otherwise sound and firmly bound.