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Includes:

• Stark, Robert M. A Popular History of British Mosses. Illustrated with 20 hand-colored plates. (12mo) original green blind stamped cloth with gilt design and spine. Moderate wear and soiling to cloth; some discoloration at endpapers and scattered foxing; very good. London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge,1860. Second Edition.
• Tugwell, George. A Manual of the Sea-Anemones Commonly Found on the English Coast. Illustrated with color fold out frontispiece, 5 additional color plates and one black and white. (12mo) original blind stamped cloth with gilt spine. Much wear and soiling to cloth, including damp stain markings, rubbing to extremities; damp stains at endpapers and edges of some pages, binding cracked, a few pages loose, all plates present and in good condition; overall just good. London: John Van Voorst, 1856. First Edition.
• Pratt, Anne. The Ferns of Great Britain and their Allies the Club-Mosses, Pepperworts, and Horsetails. Illustrated with 41 hand-colored lithographs. (8vo) blind-stamped green cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Wear and soiling to cloth, rubbing to extremities, slight tattering at head and heel of spine; binding cracked, a few pages loose, scattered foxing, all plates present and in good condition; overall about good. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1855].
• Sowerby, John E. The Ferns of Great Britain. Illustrated with 49 hand colored plates bound at rear. (8vo) original blind stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering and spine. Wear and soiling to cloth, rubbing to extremities, corner bumps; hinges cracked, scattered foxing; very good. London: John E. Sowerby, 1955.

All volumes featuring lovingly rendered colored plates.