(Children's Botany)    HALSTED, Caroline A.   THE LITTLE BOTANIST;   Or Steps To The Attainment Of Botanical Knowledge.     &nbspLondon: John Harris...,   1835.          First edition. A petite two-volume set with illustrations drawn and engraved by J. D. Sowerby from sketches by the author, Caroline Halsted. The two frontispiece illustrations are colored by hand. The book is dedicated to a little girl named Louisa Atherley, a friend of the author, whose questions led Halsted to write the book. The text is organized around a series of conversations between a young girl and an adult, and proceeds in orderly fashion to define botany and plant parts, explain artificial and natural systems of classification and examine the numerical classes of plants. While this item seems to be well represented in library holdings, it is much scarcer on the market, usually with one or the other volume appearing alone.   Two volumes, 16mo (13.2 x 10.5 cm); xiv + 243; vi + 271 pp. + 2 hand-colored engraved frontispieces + 24 uncolored engraved plates by Sowerby + 3 unnumbered plates.   Moon 29.          Quarter leather with pebble-grained cloth over boards; gilt title lettering on spine; spines scuffed with small chips at head of spine and slight separation along spine edge at head of Vol II; slight discoloration to cover cloth; internally very good to fine, with a few of the numbered plates in the text partially colored, neatly, and probably by a previous owner. $300.00

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