Botany
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Stalking the Wild Asparagus
by Euell Gibbons
An imaginative approach to cooking, offering numerous recipes for main dishes and accompaniments made from wild berries, roots, nuts, and leaves
The Secret Life Of Plants
by Peter and Bird, Christopher Tompkins
Published in 1973, The Secret Life of Plants was written by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. It is described as "A fascinating account of the physical, emotional, and spiritual relations between plants and man. " Essentially, the subject of the book is the idea that plants may be sentient, despite their lack of a nervous system and a brain. This sentience is observed primarily through changes in the plant's conductivity, as through a polygraph, as pioneered by Cleve Backster.
Botany Books & Ephemera
Lilium concolor
by FITCH, Walter Hood
London, 1877. unbound. very good. Walter Fitch Hood. Botanical print. Lithograph with hand color. Page measures 21 7/8" x 15".<br/><br/> Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892) was born and educated in Glasgow, Scotland. He moved to London to work with W. J. Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where Fitch became the sole artist for all official and unofficial publications. This lithograph is one of a series produced for H. J. Elwes's "Monograth of the Genus...
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$400.00
Maund - Bossiaea rufa (Rufous Bossiaea)
by Miss Taylor (artist)
1838. Engraving with original hand-colouring. 240mm by 185mm (sheet). Native of New Holland' From Benjamin Maund's 'The Botanist'. 1836-1842. Benjamin Maund (1790-1863) was a British pharmacist, botanist, printer, bookseller, fellow of the Linnean Society (1827) and publisher of the Botanic Garden and The Botanist.Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow collaborated in 1837 to produce The Botanist, a botanical journal the goal of which was to educate gardeners. Augusta Innes Withers was the most...
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$79.84
Biodiversity in Scotland: Status, Trends and Initiatives
by Fleming, L Vincent; Newton, Adrian C; Vickery, Juliet A; Usher, Michael B
Edinburgh: Stationery Office Ltd. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. 1997. First Edition. Illustrated hardback laminated board cover. 250mm x 190mm (10" x 7"). xviii, 310pp. .
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$72.32
Mercurialis
by BLACKWELL, Elizabeth
Nuremberg: Jacob Trew, 1760. N.F. Eisenberger. Botanical print. Copper engraving with hand coloring. Plate 311. Page measures 13 1/2" x 8 1/2".<br/> <br/> Mercurialis is a slender woody perennial with medicinal properties. From the German edition of "A Curious Herbal" titled "Herbarium Blackwellianum" which depicts exotic plants from the New World used for medicinal purposes. This edition is a revised and enlarged format engraved by Nicolaus Friedrich...
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$250.00
Curuta-pala Fig. 46
by RHEEDE TOT DRAAKENSTEIN, Hendrik Adriaan van
Malabar, 1693. unbound. good. Botanical. Engraving with hand coloring. Page measures 14.25 x 18 1/8". Image measures 13.5" x 17.25".<br/> <br/> Beautifully colored branch from a type of pala, a large tropical tree. The name of the speciman is repeated Malabarese, Latin, Sanskrit and Arabic. Some scattered foxing. Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Draackenstein (1636-1691) was commander of Malabar and was responsible for compiling the "Hortus Malabaricus", a major...
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$500.00
Wild Orchids of Britain with a Key to the Species. New Naturalist No. 19
by Summerhayes, V S
London: Collins. VG: in very good condition with rubbed dust jacket. Text block foxed. 1951. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). xviii, 366pp + plates. 72 plates (48 in colour). .
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$59.40
A Natural History of New and Rare Ferns
by Edward Joseph Lowe
Groombridge, London, 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. [Lovely Color Plates of Ferns] Handsome contemporary green morocco binding. Ornately gilt ruled, and stamped in blind. Marbled end pages. All edges gilt. 72 chromolithographic plates, wood-engraved illustrations in text. viii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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$343.00
A Group of Carnations
by THORNTON, Robert James
Robert James Thornton, 1803. unbound. Mezzotint, aquatint, and stipple engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 19.5" x 13.75".<br/> <br/> This lovely print of a group of six carnations in different colors and patterns sets them against a river landscape. A classical-style temple to the right side suggests the Mediterranean region to which it is native. The delicate colors of blue, pink, and orange on the flowers are due to the intaglio method of printing, which combined...
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$3,000.00
The Gardener's Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Native Plants
by Cave, Yvonne & Valda Paddison
Auckland: Godwit / Random House New Zealand. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1999). First Edition. Hardcover. 1869620437 . Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Some foxing to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First printing. 320 pages. Grey boards with white lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 282 x 209mm. Colour photographic illustrations. "This encyclopaedia brings together over 1000 species, hybrids and cultivars of plants native to New Zealand. The...
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$90.00
The Ladies' Flower-Garden Of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants
by LOUDON, [Jane Webb] [1807-1858]
London: James Nelson & Co. 1860., 1860. 4to. pp. xii, 215. with half-title. 42 hand-coloured lithographed plates. with tissue guards. modern half morocco (light stain to lower gutter margin of first few leaves). Third Edition. Including depictions of various types of clematis, anemone, hibiscus, camellia, geranium, acacia, fuschsia, marigold, heath, &c. cfNissen 1236. cfSitwell & Blunt, Great Flower Books, p. 66..
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$4,612.74
Rivina canescens (Rivina humulus, Rouge Plant)
by EHRET, Georg Dionysius, attr. (1704-1770)
Bodycolour on vellum mounted on thin card with green painted frame, unsigned. Caption "Sp[ecies] Pl[antarum] p. 177 [by Linnaeus] Drawing numbered 134, lower right. Auction cutting of unknown date or auction house (though possibly Sotheby's, 1960's, 70's) on verso attributes the painting to Ehret. Rare watercolour on vellum, unsigned, attributed to Georg Ehret. The distinctive lettering, wording, numbering and painted mount, as well as the exquisite handling of the botanical portrait itself indicate...
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$5,250.00
Micranthus tubulosus (Burm.f.) N.E. Br. (1801)
by Sydenham Teast Edwards
1 leaf, verso blank. Sydm. Edwards del.; Pub. S. Curtis Walworth, July 1, 1801, Vol. 15. F. Sansom Sc. No 1472. A hand-colored engraving of Micranthus tubulosus (Burm.f.) N.E. Br., a member of the Iris family.
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$65.00
Tobacco: Its History Illustrated By The Books, Manuscripts and Engravings in the Library of George Arents, Jr
by Arents, George. Ed. Jerome Brooks
Rosenbach Company, New York, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. #230/300 copies. The five volume set in brown paper djs plus the ten supplements in wraps. 15-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Technology; Botany; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54. . This is a SET of books, therefore heavier than a standard volume, and will involve extra shipping charges to...
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$2,200.00
The Orchids of the Sikkim-Himalaya
by George King, Robert Pantling
Calcutta and London: Bengal Secretariat Press, for B. Quaritch, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Thick Folio (36 x 28 cm). Modern green cloth portfolio and clamshell box. Original front cover preserved and inlaid in portfolio. Pages loose, as issued. Includes index page. 311 lithographic plates (of 453). Hand colored. Occasional staining, particularly along the bottom edge. <br> "The drawings have all been put on the stone by natives of Bengal educated at the Government School of...
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$3,010.56
Lilium Chalcedonicum
by FITCH, Walter Hood
London, 1877. unbound. very good. Walter Fitch Hood. Botanical print. Lithograph with hand color. Page measures 21.75" x 15".<br/><br/> Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892) was born and educated in Glasgow, Scotland. He moved to London to work with W. J. Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where Fitch became the sole artist for all official and unofficial publications. This lithograph is one of a series produced for H. J. Elwes's "Monograth of the Genus...
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$400.00
Wild flowers of the Pacific coast. From original water color sketches drawn from nature
by THAYER, Emma Homan
1887 Wild Flowers Pacific Coast California Oregon Seattle Washington Botanical
Emma H Thayer was a 19th-century American artist most known for her visualizations of American wildflowers. 'Wild Flowers of the Pacific Coast' is a large folio work filled with the sketches of Thayer, illustrated with full-page color engravings of flowers from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. This work was designated as a travel narrative with specific detail paid to scientific details of the plants.
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Emma H Thayer was a 19th-century American artist most known for her visualizations of American wildflowers. 'Wild Flowers of the Pacific Coast' is a large folio work filled with the sketches of Thayer, illustrated with full-page color engravings of flowers from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. This work was designated as a travel narrative with specific detail paid to scientific details of the plants.
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$499.00
Vegetable Staticks
by Hales, Stephen
London: Macdonald, 1969 The cover has moderate wear and spotting around the edges. The edges of the book are lightly tanned with age and minorly spotted on the top. There is an ink mark on the back cover. 214 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Paper Back. Good. Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).
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$10.98
The Marine Fauna and Flora of the Solway Firth
by Perkins, E J
Dumfries: The Dumfriesshire and Galloway Antiquarian Society. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. 1973. First Edition. Green hardback boards with green cloth spine. 240mm x 180mm (9" x 7"). 112pp. .
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$30.99