Author: GÜNTHER, R.T., M.A., FELLOW OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD [ GUNTHER ]
Title: Oxford Gardens based upon Daubeny's Popular Guide to the Physick Garden of Oxford: With Notes on the Gardens of the Colleges and on the University Park.
Description: Oxford & London, Parker & Son, & Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 1912, First Edition. Decorated Cloth, Sm 8vo. Hardback, 130mm x 193mm tall (5" x 7.5" tall approx.). Pp xv, 280 + a frontispiece and 16 further plates, with a total of 18 b/w photos, and with 14 plans and figures in the text and blue-printed photograph endpapers. Light rubs to hd/tl of spine and board corners, and with the neat signatures of two previous owners, otherwise very good, in the original gilt-decorated, dark-blue cloth-covered boards/gilt spine title. [Gunther was Curator of the Lewis Evans Collection at the Old Ashmolean, Oxford and Author of "Early Science in Oxford" - - "Early Science in Cambridge", and the important "Astrolabes of the World".]. Very Good/No d/w.

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