Philip Miller’s Figures total $14,000
SOMETHING I overlooked when compiling my principal natural history round-ups of the summer was a copy of ‘Philip Miller’s Gardener’s Dictionary’ – or at least that was how it was described in a 10 word entry in the catalogue of a May 21-23 sale held by Northeast Auctions of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
It was however identified as a folio work in two volumes dated 1771, and would thus appear to be a m…