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Natural History – Bindings, Lydon (Alexander Francis illustrator), two works: Scripture Quadrupeds, Containing a Description of the Animals Mentioned in the Bible, with Coloured Illustrations, first edition, London: Groombridge and Sons, 1858, additional hand-coloured wood-engraved title-page, illustrated with 31 full-page hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, contemporary Mill Hill School prize binding of armorial black calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, inscribed presentation plate, 8vo, (1); [uniform with] Scripture Birds […], first edition, London: Groombridge and Sons, [n.d., ?1858], additional hand-coloured wood-engraved title-page, illustrated with 31 full-page hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, green calf gilt binding en suite with the latter, inscribed presentation plate, 8vo, (1); Botany, Hulme (F. Edward, F.L.S., F.S.A.), Familiar Wild Flowers, Series 1-5, first editions, London: Cassell & Company, Limited, [n.d., 1877-1885], each illustrated with 40 coloured chromolithograph plates, monochrome in-text illustrations, contemporary pictorial green cloth gilt, all-edges gilt, brown endpapers, 8vo, (4); Ornithology, Wood (The Rev. J.G.) & Weir (Harrison, illustrator), My Feathered Friends, London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860, illustrated with wood engravings, contemporary pictorial green cloth gilt, edges untrimmed, 8vo, (1), [8]