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London: the author, 1813. 1st edition. Publisher's boards. Good /No Jacket. Donor's inscription "A present from Rev. H. Pritchard Dinas Hall Anglesea (sic) to Owen Price, 1881" on t.p. A nicely preserved copy with untrimmed edges, title blind-inscribed (by hand) on spine. xvi, 151, xiv, plate facing p. xv, 153-255 pp. The first Welsh local flora, particularly noted for its appendix of Welsh names of plants.
Naturgeschichte des Pflanzenreichs nach dem Linnéschen System. 54 fein koloriete Doppelfoliotafeln mit über 650 naturgetreuen Abbildungen und 93 seiten erläuterndem Text. Nach G.H. v. Schuberts Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte neu bearbeitet von Moritz Willkomm... Mit einer Vorrede von Gotthilf Heinrich v. Schubert. Vierte vermehrte Auflage by WILLKOMM, (Heinrich) Moritz (1822-1895) - (1887).
by WILLKOMM, (Heinrich) Moritz (1822-1895)

Naturgeschichte des Pflanzenreichs nach dem Linnéschen System. 54 fein koloriete Doppelfoliotafeln mit über 650 naturgetreuen Abbildungen und 93 seiten erläuterndem Text. Nach G.H. v. Schuberts Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte neu bearbeitet von Moritz Willkomm... Mit einer Vorrede von Gotthilf Heinrich v. Schubert. Vierte vermehrte Auflage
by WILLKOMM, (Heinrich) Moritz (1822-1895)
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Eklingen,: J.F. Schreiber,, (1887).. [viii], vii, [i], 77 pp. Folio (23 x 33 cm.). Original half publisher's cloth with pictorial front board (faded and rubbed along the board edges; corners slightly bumped; spine discoloured, top and bottom worn). With 54 very fine double-page coloured wood engraved plates (42 x 32,5 cm.). ¶ Apart from some scattered light foxing and/or browning a good copy of this attrative atlas with clean plates.
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Welsh Botanology: part the first - a systematic catalogue of the native plants of the Isle of Anglesey (etc.)
by Davies, Hugh
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PFLANZEN-ATLAS zu Seb. Kneipp's "Wasser-Kur", enthaltend die Beschreibung und naturgetreue bildliche Darstellung van sämmlichen in dem genannten Buche besprochenen, sowie noch einigen anderen vom Volke vielgebrachten Heil-Pflanzen. Augabe II. (Farben-Lichtdruk). Vierte Auflage
by Kneipp. -- (KOLB, Otto von)
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Kempten,: Verlag der Jos. Kösel'schen Buchhandlung, 1890.. [iv], [92], [vi] pp. Small 4to. Contemporary half chagrin, spine gilt lettered. With 61 plant portraits on 41 coloured plates. A fine atlas of medicinal plants in coloured colllotype, based on early color photograph of plants. A technique rarely applied. See Nissen, BBI, 1 252 ff. The text for the foreign platns was supplied by author's brother, Max, the director of the botanical garden at München. -- (Cancelled library stamp on title and preface; lower corner of title very slightly damaged).
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The Vegetable World: Being a History of Plants with their Botanical Descriptions and Peculiar Properties
by Louis Figuier
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Great condition copy of "THE VEGETABLE WORLD" - Being a History of Plants with their Botanical Descriptions and Peculiar Properties by Louis Figuier. 1867 1st American edition; D. Appleton Co.; New York. The book features 446 engravings and 24 full-page plates. Divided into four parts, as follows (please see the photos for the complete list of contents):I. The Organography and Physiology of PlantsII. The Classification of PlantsIII. The Natural Families of PlantsIV. Geographical Distribution of PlantsCondition:Clean back cover and spine; there are a couple very small stain spots on the front cover, otherwise clean; small cloth tears at the bottom 2 corner tips. Tight binding. There appears to have been a slip of paper adhered to the front end paper at the spine and when removed, a thin strip of the paper has remained along the length of the spine. No cracks. The tissue paper over the frontispiece is present but detached. The pages are in excellent condition - clean and white with no notable condition…
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A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America.
by Johnson, Laurence
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New York: William Wood & Co, 1884. xi, 292 pp. plus nine wonderful chromolithograph plates (including frontispiece). Original mustard yellow cloth binding stamped in black, gilt lettering at spine. Very Good Plus, prior owner name front end page, minor wear at spine ends. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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[Presentation Copy] Fifth Annual Report of the State Board of Forestry, State of Indiana, 1905
by Freeman, W. H.
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Indianapolis, IN: Wm. B. Burford, Contractor for State Printing and Binding, 1905. Presentation Copy, "Compliments of W. H. Freeman, Secretary" tipped in slip at front end page. Very Good Plus, boards a bit soiled, gilt at front board a bit rubbed. Large fold-out map Fine. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants. Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1919: Twenty-Seventh Annual Report, Vol. 2, Part II
by Hedrick, U.P.
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Albany: New York Department of Agriculture, 1919. Large quarto ( x cm.), 686 pages. FIRST EDITION. Includes information on nearly 2900 edible foods, by far the largest and most complete study of its kind to the date of its publication. Very good in green cloth.
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PFLANZEN-ATLAS zu Seb. Kneipp's "Wasser-Kur", enthaltend die Beschreibung und naturgetreue bildliche Darstellung van sämmlichen in dem genannten Buche besprochenen, sowie noch einigen anderen vom Volke vielgebrachten Heil-Pflanzen. Augabe II. (Farben-Lichtdruk). Vierte Auflage
by Kneipp. -- (KOLB, Otto von)
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Kempten,: Verlag der Jos. Kösel'schen Buchhandlung, 1890.. [iv], [92], [vi] pp. Small 4to. Contemporary half chagrin, spine gilt lettered. With 61 plant portraits on 41 coloured plates. A fine atlas of medicinal plants in coloured colllotype, based on early color photograph of plants. A technique rarely applied. See Nissen, BBI, 1 252 ff. The text for the foreign platns was supplied by author's brother, Max, the director of the botanical garden at München. -- (Cancelled library stamp on title and preface; lower corner of title very slightly damaged).
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Parallel Botany (English and Italian Edition)
by Lionni, Leo
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NY: Knopf, 1977. First American edition. Trade softcover. Published NY: Knopf, 1977, first printing. Large 8vo., 6 1/4" x 9 1/4", x+181pp., illustrated with plates. Fine. . 1st. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo..
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New York State Museum 72nd Annual Report 1918: Volume 2 and 3, containing Wild Flowers of New York Parts I & II
by House, Homer D.
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Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1918. Wild Flowers of New York Parts I & II. Complete in 2 volumes. Published Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1918-1920. Folio, 9 1/4" x 11 3/4", 362pp., 264 full page color plates. Text and plates printed on heavy, bright white coated stock. Staining/abrasion to the covers, wear at the edges, damp stain to the edge of some margins, volume 2 has light waviness to bottom 2 inches of sheets, name of flyleafs, tiny mark in pencil to the headings of some entries and paltes, but pages mostly clean and bright, bindings strong and tight. A good working set, plates clean and sharp. . Hard. Good/No Jacket. 4to.
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Journal D'Horticulture Pratique De La Belgique, Revue De L'Horticulture Belge et Etrangere. Premiere Annee
by H Galcotti
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Bruxelles, Paris: F Parent, Auguste Goin , 1857 A fair copy of the 1st issue of this Journal with 24 hand coloured plates. Scarce. The binding is quarter leather with a very worn spine and cobbled cloth boards. The front board has gilt initials. The spine has what might have been gilt compartments with gilt titles. All page edges gilted. Endpapers are silk and there is some splitting at the front endpaper joint. Contents: half title; title; text pp 1-288 with 24 plates and original page marker; index pp 289-292; Society Bulletins pp 1-44. The stitching is visible at p 2 and there is small piece of text missing from the middle of p 3/4 where the page was stuck at some point to the tissue guard of the following plate. It is still on the tissue guard and could be rescued by a professional binder. Contents generally clean with beautifully hand coloured plates.
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Flowers of Hawaii: Hawaii's most complete flower guide
by Allan Seiden
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Beautiful Flowers Complete Guide, an Island Heritage Book 1989, all pages clean and unmarked
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Mushrooms of Northern California
by Biek, David
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Spore Prints. Very Good+. 1984. First Edition. Softcover. 0961202009 . Very light shelfwear, slight toning to top page ends; drawings and b/w photos; 302 pages .
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Flora Brasilica, Vol. XLI, I
by Philip A. Munz (F.C. Hoehne, Editor)
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Instituto de Botanica, Sao 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 Sao Paolo, Brazil from1940 to 1959. Authored by distinguished American botanist/taxonomist Philip A Munz. Sixty-two pages of text in Portuguese accompanied by 51 full-page finely detailed 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 Carrot Seed
by Ruth Krauss
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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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The Microscope: From the Museum of Science and Art
by Dr. Lardner
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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
by Jesup, Henry G
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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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Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry 1 : Trees I
by Y.P.S. Bajaj (editor)
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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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CYTISUS NIGRICANS [Black Broom], Original Hand-Colored Copper Engraving (plate # 470) from Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum
by Vietz, Ferdinand Bernhard
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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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Rhododendrons and Azaleas: Their Origins, Cultivation and Development
by Clement Gray Bowers
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Rhododendrons and Azaleas, Their Origins, Cultivation and Development by Clement Gray Bowers, signed first edition, 1936, warmly inscribed by the author. Illustrated in color paintings by Franck Taylor Bowers and in black-and-white pen drawings by the author. MacMillan Company, New York.Cloth cover with gilt vignette and spine lettering. In-text illustrations, 27 color plates, 12 black and white plates, colored maps endpapers. 549 pages.
Antique dust jacket in poor condition with tears, loss, and tape. Otherwise, volume in near fine condition, as photographed.
Inscription: For Herbert "Cosmic" Ray and Mabel "Violet" Ray and the little "Alpha," "Beta," and "Gamma" Rays. This copy is autographed by the author January 26, 1936 at Maine, NY.
Ephemera: Found inside is a newspaper clipping from the Binghamton Press, Rhododendrons and Azaleas by Binghamtonian Wins Praise: Publisher Failed to Anticipate Demand for Costly Authoritative Volume on Plants by Dr. Clement G Bowers.
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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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