2 Early English Volumes on Botany: A 1st Edition Moses Cook (1676) with a Priscilla Wakefield (1812)

1) COOK, Moses 'The Manner of Raising, Ordering and Improving Forest Trees: also, How to Plant, Make and Keep Woods, Walks, Avenues, Lawns, Hedges &c. with Several Figures proper for Avenues and Walks to End in, and Convenient Figures for Lawns' Pub. LONDON: Printed for Peter Parker, 1676. Lacking plates 1, 2 and 3.
Moses Cook (d.1715) was a landscape gardener who worked for Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, contributing to the forest garden of Cassiobury in Watford, Hertfordshire, England.
Leather binding, shelf wear, cracking overall, KF Russell tag, William Dick script, not in box or unbound, 'John Jervis White July .. 3 ..' scripted, foxing, tanning, some waving.
KF Russell tag (200x150mm)
2) WAKEFIELD, Priscilla (1751-1832) 'An Introduction to Botany in a Series of Familiar Letters with Illustrative Engravings' Pub. LONDON: Printed for Darton, Harvey... 1812 6th Edition. Collation: Title, pp[iii]-xii, 180pp :: 11 plates and one folding table.
Mrs Wakefield, a Quaker, was an author and philanthropist who Instituted a lying-in charity at Tottenham in 1791, a saving bank in 1798 and published educational books for children. She married Edward Wakefield (1750-1826) a London merchant.
Quarter vellum binding, lacking tips, boards, shelf wear, gold embossed title to spine, minor foxing and tanning.
KF Russell tag (154x97mm)


PROVENANCE:
Collection Late Kenneth F. Russell (1911-1987), Professor of Anatomy and Medical History, University of Melbourne.

Estimate $500-600