Lot 2714
Remaining Books from the Library of Robert Desmond Meikle, OBE, BA, LlB, comprising upwards of 500 volumes, mostly pertaining to algae, moss, lichens, seaweeds and other flora, including species monographs, regional surveys, specialist journals and works of general botanical interest, the majority in original bindings, the earlier works in contemporary calf or morocco, those from the mid-nineteenth century in cloth and the more recent in original wrappers or cloth, various sizes (c.500)
Works include the following; Braithwaite, R. The British Moss-Flora, 3 volumes, original cloth, London: L. Reeve & Co., 1887; Loudon, J.C. An Encyclopedia of Plants, 2 volumes, half calf, 8vo, London: Longman, Rees, Orme et al, 1829; Deslongchamps, J.L.A. Loiseleur. Flora Gallica, 2 volumes, half morocco, 8vo, Paris, 1828; Withering, William. An Arrangement of British Plants, 4 volumes, third edition, half calf, uncut, 8vo, Birmingham: For the Author, 1796; Wade, Walter. Plantae Rariores in Hibernia, half calf, 8vo, Dublin: Graisberry and Campbell, 1804; Turner, Dawson. Muscologiae Hibernicae Spicilegium, calf, 8vo, Yarmouth: J. Black, 8vo, 1804; Hooker, William Jackson. Muscologia Britannica, second edition, original boards, London: Longman et al, 8vo, 1827; Murray, Richard Paget. The Flora of Somerset, half calf, Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 8vo, 1896; Greville, Robert. Algae Britannicae, hand-coloured plates, half calf, 8vo, Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart, 1830; Martyn, Thomas. Elements of Natural History, contemporary calf, Cambridge, 1775; Smith, Annie Lorrain. A Monograph of the British Lichens, 2 volumes, original cloth, London: Longmans, et al., 1918; Davis, P.H., editor. Flora of Turkey, 9 volumes, original cloth, 8vo, Edinburgh: University Press, 1965-85; Flora Mediterranea, volumes 1-17, original wrappers, Palermo: Optima, 1991-2007.
