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Mansfield, CT: M. Martino, [1995]. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes in one; quarto (8-1/4" x 11"); cloth. This excellent catalogue gives detailed collations of 22,000 volumes including a collection of nursery trade catalogues dating back to 1776.
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CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
by HEWETT, Mary Crane (compiler)
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CATALOGUE OF BOTANICAL BOOKS IN THE COLLECTION OF RACHEL McMASTERS MILLER HUNT
by QUINBY, Jane & STEVENSON, Allan
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(New York): (Martino Publishing), [1991]. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. Two volumes in red cloth; lxxxiv, 517; ccxliv, ix, 655 pages. Reprint of the 1958 and 1961 editions. Illustrated with a few plates. Limited to 400 copies. A useful and authoritative bibliography of one of the greatest collections of botanical books and manuscripts covering the period of the 12th through the 18th centuries.
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COMMENTARII SECUNDO AUCTI, IN LIBROS SEX PEDACII DIOSCORIDIS ANAZARBEI DE MEDICA MATERIA [with APOLOGIA ADVERSUS AMATHUM LUSITANUM]
by MATTIOLI, Pietro Andrea
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Venice: Officina Valgrisiana, 1559. Third Edition in Latin. Hardcover. Old partly scored inscriptions on title page, occasionally heavy marginal soiling and stains, scattered early underscoring, clean tear in 2G6, crude marginal restoration on last two leaves. Scratch to front cover. Very Good example of this important and well-illustrated early herbal. Folio in sixes (8-1/2" x 12-1/2") in modern leather; [98] (of [100]), 776; 46, [2] pages, including last leaf with printer's device on verso; lacks index leaf b1. Profusely illustrated with more than 700 woodcuts, about 10% of which are not botanical in nature and include various animals and sea life as well as such scenes as a beekeeper, a couple shearing sheep, a man catching snakes, etc. Mattioli's commentary on the 1st-century A.D. materia medica of Dioscorides was first published in Italian in 1544 (without illustrations) and in Latin translation in 1554 (with fewer woodcuts than in this edition). Appended to this edition is his attack on…
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[HERBAL] THE HERBALL OR GENERALL HISTORIE OF PLANTES. GATHERED BY JOHN GERARDE OF LONDON MASTER IN CHYRURGERIE Very Much Enlarged and Ammended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London
by GERARDE [GERARD], John
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London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton & Richard Whitakers, 1636. Third Edition. Hardcover. Original front blank endpaper replaced. Tasteful bookplate of Roger Gates on the front pastedown. Minor loss to the lower blank outside corner of the first dozen or so pages, not close to the text; title page with small repairs. Some old dampstaining, mostly marginal and mostly rather faint. Nice, clean copy of this important book. First published in 1597, this is the second edition edited by Thomas Johnson (a reprint of the 1633 edition) who corrected many of Gerard's errors and who improved the accuracy of the illustrations by using Plantin's woodcuts. Thick Folio (9" x 13") bound in full early calf sympathetically rebacked with a new red morocco spine label; (36), 30, (29)-30, (29)-1630, (48) pages with a list of errata on the verso of the last leaf. Illustrated with an engraved title page with a border of vignettes, decorative and historiated headpieces and initials, and 2,766 botanical woodcuts in the text…
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[Hand-Colored Plates] THE BOTANIST'S REPOSITORY, FOR NEW, AND RARE PLANTS. CONTAINING COLOURED FIGURES OF SUCH PLANTS, AS HAVE NOT HITHERTO APPEARED IN ANY SIMILAR PUBLICATION...
by ANDREWS, Henry C
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[London]: [T. Bensley for the author], [1803-1815]. First Edition. Hardcover. Fairly large copy in comparison to others sold in the recent past. Occasional minor foxing, toning, or off-setting; some light pencil notes/corrections to some leaves. In all, rather clean and attractive examples of these volumes with the plates generally bright and vivid with offsetting to text. Rubbing and light scuffs to bindings. Near Fine. Six (of 10) large quarto (8-5/8" x 11-1/8") volumes bound in half brown morocco with marbled boards and matching morocco corners, gilt-lettered spines; marbled endpapers. Volumes 5 - 10 of a ten-volume set. The letterpress title page giving publication information is usually found only in the first volume and is not present here, but all engraved title pages in each of the 6 volumes here are present as are the indices at the end of each volume. Illustrated with 375 engraved plates, some printed in colors and all lushly hand-colored, of which 60 are folding or double. The complete…
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SYMBOLORUM & EMBLEMATUM EX RE HERBARIA DESUMTORUM CENTURIA UNA COLLECTA bound with three others
by [EMBLEM BOOK] CAMERARIUS, Joachim
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Nuremberg: [Typis Voegelinianis], 1590 [1605]. Hardcover. Minor dampstaining at the upper gutter extending toward the center of the page in some instances but usually quite light and never touching any emblem. Near Fine example of this lovely book. Small quarto (5-1/4" x 7-3/4") bound in full recent antique calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering. Bound with Camerarius. Symbolorum & emblematum ex animalibus.... Nuremberg, 1595. And: Camerarius. Symbolorum & emblematum ex volitatibus et insectis.... Nuremberg, 1596. And: Camerarius. Symbolorum & emblematum ex aquatilibus et reptilibus.... [Nuremberg?], 1604. Edited by the renowned German physician and naturalist J. Camerarius's son, Ludwig Camerarius. First Collected Edition of the four volumes, this copy lacking the general title page and five pages of preliminary matter but retaining the blanks at the end of the third and fourth parts. 102 ff.; 103 ff. [1]; [2] 102 ff. [2]; [4] 100 ff. [1]. Each volume contains an original engraved title…
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THESAURUS LITERATURAE BOTANICAE...
by PRITZEL, G. A
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Mansfield, CT: M. Martino, [1995]. Reprint. Cloth. Corners a little bumped. Fine. Quarto (8-1/4" x 11"); cloth; viii, 576 pages. Limited edition reprint of 150 copies of perhaps the most useful book for tracing a botanical title before 1870. Text in Latin.
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