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1831. STEPHENSON, John & James Morss CHURCHILL. MEDICAL BOTANY: OR, ILLUSTRATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE LONDON, EDINBURGH AND DUBLIN PHARMACOPOEIAS; COMPRISING A POPULAR AND SCIENTIFIC ACCOUNT OF ALL THOSE POISONOUS VEGETABLES THAT ARE INDIGENOUS TO GREAT BRITAIN. VOL. IV. London: John Churchill, 1831. Unpaginated; with indexes of Latin and English names, and a glossary. This is Volume IV only. 8vo., half gilt-ruled calf, spine missing, red marbled paper covered boards, red marbled edges. Boards worn, detached. Red marbled endpapers. Light soil to title page, else a clean and tight block with forty five beautifully hand-colored plates, one double page, one folding.
DESCRIPTIO ET ADUMBRATIO PLANTARUM E CLASSE CRYPTOGAMICA LINNAEI QUAE LICHENES DICUNTUR. by HOFFMANN, D. Georg. Franc.:
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DESCRIPTIO ET ADUMBRATIO PLANTARUM E CLASSE CRYPTOGAMICA LINNAEI QUAE LICHENES DICUNTUR.
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Lipsiae, Apud Siegfried Lebrecht Crusium, 1790.. FIRST EDITION 1790, VOLUME 1 and first part of VOLUME 2 ONLY OF 3 VOLUME SET, bound in 1 volume. TEXT IN LATIN, LACKS TITLE PAGE TO VOLUME 2. Folio approximately 375 x 240 mm, 14¾ x 9½ inches, VOLUME 1, 24 hand coloured plates, engraved vignette to title page, pages: [8], [4],1-104; including list of plates. VOLUME 2, 6 hand coloured plates, pages: [4], 1-21, [1], including list of plates, bound in quarter green cloth, with part of gilt lettered leather label to spine, marbled paper boards. Binding rubbed and worn, hinges of spine cracked and repaired, marbled covers rubbed and scuffed, corners worn with board showing, shelf wear to edges with loss of marbled paper, 1 colour plate has pale browning to margins not affecting image, pastedowns and endpapers a little dusty and with light browning, light foxing to prelims, a little pale foxing to a few plates, the pink list of plates to Volume 2 has pale offset to pages either side, a few margins slightly dusty with occasional small spot, otherwise a very good copy, no loose pages, in worn binding. Georg Franz Hoffmann was a German botanist and lichenologist, After graduating from the University of Erlangen in 1786, he worked there between 1787 and 1792 as a professor of botany. Between 1792 and 1803 he was Head of the Botany Department and Director of the Botanical Garden of Göttingen University. Already a famous botanist, in particular for his work on lichens, he settled in Moscow in January 1804 and directed the Department of Botany at the University of Moscow as well as the Botanical Garden. (Wikipedia). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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MEDICAL BOTANY: OR, ILLUSTRATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MEDICINAL
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DE L'EXPLOITATION DES BOIS OU MOYENS DE TIRER UN PARTI AVANTAGEUX DES TAILLIS, DEMI-FUTAIES ET HAUTES-FUTAIES, ET D'EN FAIRE UNE JUSTE ESTIMATION. AVEC LA DESCRIPTION DES ARTS QUI SE PRATIQUENT DANS LES FORÊTS : Faisant Partie Du Traite´ Complet Des Bois & Des Forests
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Paris: H. L. Guerin & L. F. Delatour. Good+. 1764. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes bound in one. Full contemporary calf with gilt lettering & decoration within 5 raised bands. Double gilt border & dentelles on covers. Marbled endpapers & edges dyed red. [ (xlvii) 430pp and (xiv) 431-708]. Joints cracked with covers firmly attached, gilt faded, spine ends rubbed with slight loss & corners rubbed. Interior hinges & text are tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with 36 folding engraved plates (13 for volume I and 23 for volume II) , as well as many inset tables and a nice vignette of Prévost at the head of the first preface. Forestry, Trees, Wood. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 708 pages .
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RACCOLTA DI 62 FASCICOLI DI MISCELLANEA APPARTENUTTI AL BOTANICO RODOLFO PICHI SERMOLLI
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Raccolta unica di 62 pubblicazioni ed estratti di botanica appartenuti al celebre botanico Rodolfo PichiSermolli (Florence 1912-2005). Rodolfo Pichi Sermolli fu un grande botanico specializzato nelle felci Pterodofite. Viaggiò per tutto il mondo in cerca di campioni da utilizzare per il suo erbario: in Africa (Libia, Lagon Tana in Etiopia) Messico, Hawai, Nuova Zelanda, Polinesia ecc… Le più prestigiose istituzioni come il British Museum o il Smithsonian Institution di Washington cercarono di acquistare l'erbario ma lui decise di donarlo all'Università di Firenze. Le pubblicazioni sono per la gran parte studi di botanica, talvolta con descrizione dinuove scoperte di specie e riguardano numerose parti del mondo : Guinea, Mozambico, Canada, North America, Colombia, Quebec, Extremadura in Spain, Africa, Europe etc… Tutti i pezzi riportano ex libris di Sermolli con un numero consecutivo (le pubblicazioni numerate 5350, 5351, 5367, 5369, 5375, 5395 risultano…
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The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants.
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London: James Nelson & Co, 1860 A very good copy of the 3rd edition with 42 hand coloured plates. This copy has been rebound in plain buckram cloth with gilt titles to spine, and the endpapers have been replaced. The binding is sound and clean with some darkening to the spine and light corner wear. Contents: half title; title; contents and plate listings xii; introduction 2pp; text pp 3-211 with 42 plates; index pp 212-215. All the plates have tissue guards. Contents are in very good clean condition. The guard to plate 1 is torn and the bottom part is missing. Plate 13 has a wide gutter so the side edge is trimmed although the plant image is complete. There is some marking to the verso of p 215 (blank) and the occasional light mark or offsetting from the plates. The plates are clean and bright with the occasional stray paint spot or light mark.
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Flora Lapponica Exhibens Plantas Per Lapponiam Crescentes, Secundum Systema Sexuale, Collectas in Itinere Impesis Soc. Reg. Scient. Upsaliensis Anno 1732 Instituto Additis Synonymis, Et Locis Natalibus Omnium, Descriptionibus et Figuris Rariorum, Ciribus Medicatis et Oeconomics Pluriamarum.: The Lapland Flora Showing the Plants Growing Throughout Lapland, According to the Sexual System
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1792 text in Latin by Carl Linnaeus, botanist and father of modern taxonomy. Reprint of the earlier 1732 edition. Original 18th century binding. Contains twelve folding plates with slight offsetting. Front board detached. Back board loose. Spine cover missing. Foxing and age toning throughout the text. Former owner's name and date on front pages. Book plates and text still legible with delightful "long S" font script popular in the late 1700s.
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Flowers From The Upper Alps, With Glimpses Of Their Homes
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London: W. M. Thompson, 1882. Fifth Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Walton, Elijah. The illustrations are particularly attractive to alpine enthusiasts since they include mountain backgrounds by the famous alpine artist. Very scarce. 5th edition (same contents & size as first edition but different colored binding), 335mm tall x 241mm, viii + 12 chromolithograph plates each mounted on thick stock paper (blank verso), each followed by a page of descriptive text (blank versos), each chromolithograph page is preceded by a thin blank protective page. Complete with all pages and plates. NOT ex-library, previous owner name penned to the first blank protective page (blank page before first illustrated plate). AEG, original blue cloth covers, rebacked with new navy cloth spine with gilt lettering (Walton's books almost always fall apart and need rebacking), new EPs, highly gilt decorated patterns front cover, matching patterns in blind on rear cover,…
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Familiar Indian Flowers: with Coloured Plates
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Lovely copy of a rare book on Indian flora by talented amateur female artist Lena LowisWith 30 elegant botanicals by Lena Lowis, lithographed by David Blair, and printed by M. & N. Hanhart. Among the exotic flowers portrayed are poinsettia, flame lily, bougainvillea, hibiscus, clustervine, coralbush, Rangoon creeper, Nepal trumpet flower, white orchid tree, elephant creeper, oleander, Darwin pea, bottlebrush and Eastern prickly pear.No publication date, but preface dated 1878.Lena Lowis (1845-1919) was a talented writer and botanical illustrator. She was born Selina Caroline Shakespear in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India, the daughter of British Indian Army officer, Col. Sir Richmond Shakespear. She married Lt. Col. Ninian Lowis of the Bengal Staffs Corps and moved to England in 1868.David Blair (1820-1899?), was a botanical artist and lithographer who also worked on Transactions of the Linnean Society (1875), Berthold Carl Seemann and James Britten's Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1872-8),…
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AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SYSTEMATICAL BOTANY.
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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, And White, Cochrane and Co. London. 1814. THIRD EDITION. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with 15 beautifully hand coloured plates, plus one real flower mounted onto the blank leaf opposite the title page. xxiii, 407pp, Publisher advert leaf. 15 full page plates, not paginated. The plates were not isued coloured in most copies. A few pages showing some foxing but overall a very good copy in early half tan calf boards with a new calf spine to match. The spine is ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Previous owners ink initial stamp on front paste down. A handsome copy.
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Edwards's Botanical Register, Vol. 32: or Ornamental Flower-Garden and Shrubbery
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Very good copy of Volume XXXII (32) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1846Complete with all 69 (3 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1-69).
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The Botanical Register was launched by Sydenham Edwards in 1815 following his departure as main illustrator to William Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Edwards edited the magazine and drew most of the plates in 14 volumes until his death in 1828. John Lindley then took over as editor on a further 19 volumes under the title Edwards's Botanical Register from 1829 to 1847. By 1832, Miss Drake had become the main illustrator of the magazine, and she would go on to draw over 1,000 plates.
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Edwards's Botanical Register, Vol. 33: or Ornamental Flower-Garden and Shrubbery
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Very good copy of Volume XXXIII (33) of Edwards's Botanical Register, 1847.Complete with all 64 (2 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1-64).
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Includes 20 exotic species of showy orchids (Coelogyne, Dendrobium, Cattleya, Staurochilus, Bletilla, Encyclia, Pinalia, Rhynchostylis, Oncidium, Calanthe, Brassia, Ascocentrum, etc.), as well as iris, hibiscus, bindweed, ginger lily, primrose, columbine, forsythia, Oriental paper bush, Chinese snowball, Japanese snowball, etc.
The Botanical Register was launched by Sydenham Edwards in 1815 following his departure as main illustrator to William Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Edwards edited the magazine and drew most of the plates in 14 volumes until his death in 1828. John Lindley then took over as editor on a further 19 volumes under the title Edwards's Botanical Register from 1829 to 1847. By 1832, Miss Drake had become the main illustrator of the magazine, and she would go on to draw… Read More
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DESCRIPTIO ET ADUMBRATIO PLANTARUM E CLASSE CRYPTOGAMICA LINNAEI QUAE LICHENES DICUNTUR.
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Lipsiae, Apud Siegfried Lebrecht Crusium, 1790.. FIRST EDITION 1790, VOLUME 1 and first part of VOLUME 2 ONLY OF 3 VOLUME SET, bound in 1 volume. TEXT IN LATIN, LACKS TITLE PAGE TO VOLUME 2. Folio approximately 375 x 240 mm, 14¾ x 9½ inches, 30 hand coloured plates plus 1 black and white plate 13B, engraved vignette to title page, pages: [8], [4],1-104; including list of plates; [4], 1-21, [1], including list of plates, Part 2 lacks 5 colour plates and revelant text, (Part 3 published in 1801), bound in quarter green cloth, with part of gilt lettered leather label to spine, marbled paper boards. Binding rubbed and worn, hinges of spine cracked and repaired, marbled covers rubbed and scuffed, corners worn with board showing, shelf wear to edges with loss of marbled paper, 1 colour plate has pale browning to margins, not affecting image, pastedowns and endpapers a little dusty and with light browning, light foxing to prelims, a little pale foxing to a few plates, the pink list of plates to Volume 2…
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Flowers of Hawaii: Hawaii's most complete flower guide
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Mushrooms of Northern California
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Flora Brasilica, Vol. XLI, I
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Instituto de Botanica, Saõ Paolo, 1947; First Edition; Quarto, 113 pages. Detailed monograph of the family Onagraceae covering the genera Jussiaea, Oocarpon, Epilobium, Oenothera, and Fuchsia. Vol. XLI, I of the prodigious series edited by Frederico Carlos Hoehne, director of the Instituto de Botanica at Saõ Paolo, Brazil from 1940 to 1959. Authored by distinguished American botanist/taxonomist Philip A Munz. Sixty-two pages of text in Portuguese accompanied by 51 finely detailed full-page illustration plates, forty-nine in b&w and two in color, covering 5 genera and 45 species of Onagraceae. Very Good, in printed stiff wraps. A few small closed splits in the paper covering of the spine panel. Custom engraved bookplate of Pasadena, California horticulturist Charlotte Hoak on the verso of the front wrap.
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The Microscope: From the Museum of Science and Art
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A very nice volume of an extensive 19th century popular science partwork - The Museum of Science and Art - from the age of optimism."The 'Museum of Science and Art' is the most valuable contribution that has ever been made to Scientific Instruction of every class of society" - Sir David Brewster.....( Brewster of the Brewster Angle?)One hundred and Forty-Seven engravings. Front cover partly detached as shown - otherwise the binding is tight. Pages unmarked throughout. Some foxing on endpapers, otherwise very good.First owners bookplate inside front cover "Godding MBS".Includes fascinating ads at the back.
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A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Higher Cryptograms: Both Native and Introduced, Found Within about 30 Miles of Hanover, N. H. , Including a Few Cultivated Species, to Which is Appended a List of Vertebrate Animals of the Same Region
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Hanover, NH: Self Published. Good with no dust jacket; Call letters on spine, spine darkened by . shellac, corners bumped, edges rubbed, binder's label on inside of front . cover, front endpaper detached, endpapers toned, one page with small fold . and tear.. 1891. Hardcover. Green decorated cloth. vi, 91pp. Fold-out map, indexes. A highly detailed natural history study of this New Hampshire community undertaken and presented by a Dartmouth college professor. Inscribed and dated, with compliments of the author card tipped in. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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The Carrot Seed
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Krauss, Ruth: The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers FIRST EDITION. States 1945 on the title page. Beige Boards. USED. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. 6 X 8 ¼. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something, or the basis of knowledge"
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Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry 1 : Trees I
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Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag, 1986. Usual library marks. 515 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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Vienna: Schrämblischen, 1817. Image is 8 1/8 inches by 6 1/4 inches on a sheet that is 9 1/16 inches by 7 1/8 inches. Drawn and engraved by pharmacist turned naturalist Ferdinand Vietz ((1772-1815) and published in volume 7 of Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum, edited by J. L. Kerndl and published by Schrämblischen in Vienna in 1818. Original hand-coloring. Like all the plates from Vietz's classic work on medicinal uses of plants, this is a lovely original print on high-quality watermarked laid paper. Condition is very good: clean and bright. Binding edge is untrimmed. This original engraving is guaranteed to be more than 200 years old.. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good+. Illus. by Ferdinand Vietz. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Art Print.
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France
by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur; Nicolas-Martin Petit; Jacqueline Bonnemains (ed); Elliott Forsyth (ed); Bernard Smith (ed)
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and…
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The Last Days of Mankind A Tragedy in Five Acts
by KRAUS, Karl (Alexander Gode and Sue Ellen Wright, translators)
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New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co, 1974. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. 8vo. Pp. xxii; 263. Abridged and Edited by Frederick Ungar, with a several-page introduction by him. With a critical analysis by Franz H. Mautner. Bound in red cloth with lettering stamped in black and yellow on spine. Price-clipped dust jacket with a dime-size chip to front panel and slight edge-wear. Else Fine. This edition, in hardcover with jacket, is somewhat scarce. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
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