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Archives1

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English Literature7
Brotherton Collection1

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botany6
natural history2
botany, economic1
english poetry1
flowers1

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Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)3
Bridgen, John William2
Auden, George Augustus1
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell1
British Association For the Advancement of Science. Meeting1
Clayfield, William1
Grigson, Geoffrey (1905-1985)1
Knight, Charles1
Knight, Charles (1791-1873)1
Society For the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge1

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The botanic garden : a poem, in two parts. Part I. containing The economy of vegetation. Part II. The loves of the plants. With philosophical notes

Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)

1791

With an individual title-page for each part, part II being of the third edition, dated 1791. The 'Additional notes' to part I have seperate pagination. No chain-lines or watermarks; 4 leaves per g...

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A handbook to York and district

Auden, George Augustus; Bridgen, John William; British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting

1906

Chapter XV: Botany, p. 266-314.

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A description and history of vegetable substances used in the arts and in domestic economy Timber trees : Fruits

Knight, Charles (1791-1873); Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

1830

Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

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Wild flowers in Britain

Grigson, Geoffrey (1905-1985); Bridgen, John William

1944

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William Clayfield of Bristol, autograph verses attributed to him with one by Thomas Beddoes

Clayfield, William

1820s

Comprises autograph verses by William Clayfield, including 'On a young lady's stooping at a window to examine the Arabis-Stricta recently transplanted from St Vincent's rocks' (dated 1822); 'On the Ny...

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