Adam's THE LIBRARY COLLECTION 1st May 2024

82 155 Botanical Interest: LINNAEUS, Carl [1707-1778]: Philosophia Botanica, (2nd ed.), Viennae 1783, signed ‘Benjamin Smith Bar- ton’, all calf, good condition; together with: Martyn, Thomas, Thirty-Eight Plates with Explana- tions;...to Illustrate Linnaeus’s System of Vegetables, London (White) 1799, signed ‘Tho. C. James’ Curtis, William, Lectures on Botany (2 vols.), London (Symonds and Curtis)1805, coloured plates, all calf, some cover detached € 300 - 500 156 Dr Thomas Chalkley James interest: TYSON, JOB R.: MEMOIR of THOMAS C. JAMES M.D., Philadelphia (McCarty & Davis) 1836, paper; together with Thomas C. James’s Expense Book No. 1. signed and dat- ed ‘Tho. C. James. 1800’; Handwritten scientific reference book, signed ‘Tho. C. James.’; A Compendious System of Natural Philosophy by The Rev. Dr. John Ewing. nat.phil prof. and provost of the university of Pennsylvania 1784, handwritten in ink, signed and dated ‘Tho. C. James. 1784.’ and a handwritten notebook for correspondence € 500 - 800 157 MILTON, J. A Treatise on Christian Doctrine, Complied from the Holy Scriptures Alone (2 vols.) Boston (Cummings Hilliard & Co.) 1825, includes facsimile copy of the manuscript, worn, stains and losses to spines €200-300 158 A COLLECTION OF BOOKS FROM DR THOMAS CHALKLEY JAMES’S LIBRARY: including, Ramsay, D. The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States, New York (Hopkins & Seymour) 1807; Gibbon, E., The His- tory of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (vols III, V, VI, VII, VIII), Philadelphia, 1804 and 1805; Murphy, A., The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D., New York (William Durell), 1811 (lacking volumes); Ayscough, Rev. S., Dublin, 1791; together with the remaining works €400-600