Leigh's New Picture of London; or, a View of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral State of the British Metropolis; presenting a luminous Guide to the Stranger, on all Subjects connected with general Information, by Leigh, Samuel - 1823

London & Stamford: Houlston and Stoneman; H. Johnson, 1844. First edition. An engraved frontispiece showing drainage implements, four folding plans of fields, octavo, pp viii, 207, a little age-toning on some pages, some offsetting from frontispiece on to title page, but most of the contents are clear, bound in an attractive and probably contemporary half calf and marbled boards, very slightly worn. SCARCE. With the small contemporary book label of J. Bailey. [The author is described on the title page as Land-Agent and Professor of Draining, Walcot, near Stamford. The plates of fields are all in Northamptonshire.]. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good.

Gottingen: Sumptibus Dieterichianis, 1827. Small quarto, pp 54, very age-toned, but otherwise good, illustrated with four attractive folding engraved plates, slightly foxed, contemporary black boards with red board spine, rather bumped, bruised and scuffed, but quite firm and tight. Inscribed, in Latin, "from the author, May1828", on the front endpaper. RARE. [Schrader was Professor of Botany at Gottingen University, and Director of the Botanical garden for over thirty years. A prolific writer, this was one of his last works.]. First Edition. Boards. Good.

Paris, London & Brussels: J.B. Bailliere, 1828. Second edition, revised. Thick octavo, pp xxxiv, 407; 394, (ii), illustrated with 31 folding engraved plates of simple botanical line drawings, pages rather age-toned and browned, slightly curled, the hinge at the title page cracked, but holding, the half-title nearly detached, contemporary hard cloth, very rubbed and bumped, the fore-edge of the lower cover damaged. [With the blind-stamp of the ping-pong playing Kew botanist A.J. Wilmott.]. Second edition. Cloth. Fair.

Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells, 1949. Large octavo, pp 338, a very occasional light and discrete pencil note in a margin, otherwise incredibly clean internally, paperback, the covers in very good condition. RARE - a fine copy. [Macer Floridus is the alleged pseudonym of Odo de Meung, a French cleric and physician who lived during the 11th century and was the presumed author of the herbal poem De Viribus Herbarum (On the properties of plants). The use of "Macer" alludes to the Roman poet, Aemilius Macer (16 B.C.), who authored a poem on remedies for those afflicted with wounds from poisonous serpents. The herbal, commonly referred to as the Macer Floridus, was written in Latin hexameter verse and presented the medicinal uses of plants. The rhyming verse aided doctors and apothecaries in memorizing medicinal recipes and treatments, which made the herbal popular among those who practiced medicine during the Middle Ages. The Macer Floridus is recognized as a signal of revival in botanical… Read More