1790 James Sowerby : English Botany (5 Vols) 360 Hand-Coloured Plates : Flowers

1790 James Sowerby : English Botany (5 Vols) 360 Hand-Coloured Plates : FlowersEnglish Botany Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth. To which will be added, Occasional Remarks. [Known also as 'Sowerby's Botany'.] By James Sowerby Printed for the Author, by J. Davis. 1790 1796. Five Volumes. 8vo, Half leather bindings, marble boards. With 360 hand coloured plates between the five volumes, each with descriptive text, the tissue guards that protect each plate are all

Studies in the Life and History of an Ancient Orkney Parish

in the publisher's original decorative cloth

There is a loosely laid in photograph of The Neebors Tryst in action

and conchology

It is clear from this whole and rather confused story that the Gunns had been a branch of the purest aborigines of the north

The story tells of the fortunes of a group of schoolboys stranded on a deserted island in the South Pacific

He is also the first historian to recognise the importance of maritime power struggles between other city-states as an integral part of Pisa's rise to power

The genealogical derivation of the clan is from Guin

The better off needed this economy in the country’s food and fuel

suggesting that "the Roman historians

With a fold-out colour map and 8 b&w plates

With 255 pages