British wild flowers. Illustrated by John E. Sowerby. Described, with an introduction and a key to the natural orders. by Johnson, C. Pierpoint, Sowerby, John E. & Salter, John W - 1863: To which is now added a supplement containing 180 figures of lately discovered flowering plants, and the ferns, horsetails, and club mosses.

G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York., 1907. First Edition (shown).. Hardcover.. VG/--. 7 1/2 x 5 x 1 1/2.. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing includes PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. Book interior VERY GOOD, Covers Very Good. Sewn binding. Boards and spine are green cloth, lettering is gilt on spine and front. Back cover has slightly bent corners, some edge wear and minor marks from adjacent book on shelf, but no rips or stains. Spine has some edge wear all four sides but no rips, is clean and quite bright, has a few small creases top and bottom. Front cover is same as back cover with a few marks from what looks like black sealing wax. Page edges are tinted, as issued, slightly sunned. Binding is a bit loose. Inside front and back covers have a bit of age darkening, also ink stamp “Property of the B.C. Mountaineering Club”. On ffep is attached the Rules of the B.C. Mountaineering Club, attached only at the top of the small green sheet. There are several places where the book has been… Read More

Sydney, Australia: New South Wales University Press, 1991. General wear to edges of jacket. Illustrated laminated boards. Contains a few university stamps. 574 pages with colour photos and line drawings. Describes 18 families, 216 genera and 1610 species including the large and well known families of Proteaceae, Myrtaceae, Rutaceae and Fabaceae with their prominent genera of Eucalyptus, Acacia, Grevillea, Banksia, Boronia and various pea flowers. Heavy book (2.2kg). . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.

Simkin and Marshall; Groombridge & Sons, [1825-1850] Two Parts bound in one volume. Small quarto. Engraved half title, Title page Part I, xvi, 240pp; Title page Part II, 13, 144pp. 3066 woodcuts. Contemporary half morocco, gilt, raised bands to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners rubbed. Index to Part II and pp141-144 originally published in smaller state (8vo), expertly relaid to quarto. Comprehensively cataloguing the origins, date of introduction and British gardens and their owners of foreign introductions during the golden age of plant-hunting, the Floral Register was the resource for all newly introduced plants.
Benjamin Maund (1790-1864) botanist and horticulturist, "he prospered as a bookseller, stationer, printer, bookbinder, publisher, and chemist in a combination normal for the time". He experimented with seeds and plants introduced from around the world and particularly with varieties of wheat. Fellow of the Linnean Society. ODNB.
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From the library of Enid Lucy… Read More

Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. Very Good +. [1], 140-203, [1] p.; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. Read before the Society on April 4, 1834. Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) was an English botanist who trained as a printer, but was encouraged to follow his interest in botany after coming to Philadelphia in the early 19th century. He spent much of the rest of his life studying the flora and fauna of the United States, publishing Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada, heading the botanical gardens at Harvard University, and working at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. This is one of several important papers of that were published in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Scarce. In Very Good+ Condition: disbound from a larger volume; final leaf largely detached from text block; minimal foxing; otherwise, clean and bright.

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1996. Signed on the title page by Richard Dawkins. First U.S. edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, pale gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.

G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York., 1907. First Edition (shown).. Hardcover.. VG/--. 7 1/2 x 5 x 1 1/2.. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing includes PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. Book interior VERY GOOD, Covers Very Good. Sewn binding. Boards and spine are green cloth, lettering is gilt on spine and front. Back cover has slightly bent corners, some edge wear and minor marks from adjacent book on shelf, but no rips or stains. Spine has some edge wear all four sides but no rips, is clean and quite bright, has a few small creases top and bottom. Front cover is same as back cover with a few marks from what looks like black sealing wax. Page edges are tinted, as issued, slightly sunned. Binding is a bit loose. Inside front and back covers have a bit of age darkening, also ink stamp “Property of the B.C. Mountaineering Club”. On ffep is attached the Rules of the B.C. Mountaineering Club, attached only at the top of the small green sheet. There are several places where the book has been… Read More

Sydney, Australia: New South Wales University Press, 1991. General wear to edges of jacket. Illustrated laminated boards. Contains a few university stamps. 574 pages with colour photos and line drawings. Describes 18 families, 216 genera and 1610 species including the large and well known families of Proteaceae, Myrtaceae, Rutaceae and Fabaceae with their prominent genera of Eucalyptus, Acacia, Grevillea, Banksia, Boronia and various pea flowers. Heavy book (2.2kg). . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.

Simkin and Marshall; Groombridge & Sons, [1825-1850] Two Parts bound in one volume. Small quarto. Engraved half title, Title page Part I, xvi, 240pp; Title page Part II, 13, 144pp. 3066 woodcuts. Contemporary half morocco, gilt, raised bands to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners rubbed. Index to Part II and pp141-144 originally published in smaller state (8vo), expertly relaid to quarto. Comprehensively cataloguing the origins, date of introduction and British gardens and their owners of foreign introductions during the golden age of plant-hunting, the Floral Register was the resource for all newly introduced plants.
Benjamin Maund (1790-1864) botanist and horticulturist, "he prospered as a bookseller, stationer, printer, bookbinder, publisher, and chemist in a combination normal for the time". He experimented with seeds and plants introduced from around the world and particularly with varieties of wheat. Fellow of the Linnean Society. ODNB.
Provenance
From the library of Enid Lucy… Read More

Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. Very Good +. [1], 140-203, [1] p.; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. Read before the Society on April 4, 1834. Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) was an English botanist who trained as a printer, but was encouraged to follow his interest in botany after coming to Philadelphia in the early 19th century. He spent much of the rest of his life studying the flora and fauna of the United States, publishing Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada, heading the botanical gardens at Harvard University, and working at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. This is one of several important papers of that were published in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Scarce. In Very Good+ Condition: disbound from a larger volume; final leaf largely detached from text block; minimal foxing; otherwise, clean and bright.

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1996. Signed on the title page by Richard Dawkins. First U.S. edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, pale gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.