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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 some countries.
LE PANIER DE FRUIT bound with LA CORBEILLE DE FLEURS. Ouvrage de botanique et de litterature, orne de vingt-quatre planches coloriees, et de douze Romances graves avec accompagnement de piano, destine aux jeunes demoiselles. by JAUFFRET L.F. and [MIGER (P.A.M.) THE ARPAD PLESCH COPY.::
by JAUFFRET L.F. and [MIGER (P.A.M.) THE ARPAD PLESCH COPY.::
LE PANIER DE FRUIT bound with LA CORBEILLE DE FLEURS. Ouvrage de botanique et de litterature, orne de vingt-quatre planches coloriees, et de douze Romances graves avec accompagnement de piano, destine aux jeunes demoiselles.
by JAUFFRET L.F. and [MIGER (P.A.M.) THE ARPAD PLESCH COPY.::
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Paris, chez Perlet, 1807.. FIRST EDTIONS, 2 WORKS BOUND IN ONE VOLUME, 1807. LE PANIER DE FRUITS, ou descriptions botaniques et notices historiques des principaux fruits cultives en France; suivies de differens morceaux de litterature et de morale; ouvrage orne de vingt-quatre planches coloriees; destine aux jeunes gens. FIRST EDITION, 1807, French text, 24 fine plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, after the Pretres, pages: viii, 384; LA CORBEILLE DE FLEURS: FIRST EDITION 1807 with coloured plates after Pretre, French text, 8vo, approximately 205 x 115 mm, 8 x 4¾ inches, 12 folding leaves of engraved music, 24 fine plates printed in colours and finished by hand, after drawings by J.G. PRETRE and his daughter Mlle Josephine Pretre, pages: viii, 384. Bound in contemporary mottled sheep, narrow gilt floral border to covers, gilt decoration to spine, 2 gilt lettered red morocco labels, edges and endpapers marbled. A few hair-line surface cracks to spine, small bump to upper corner of lower cover, small oval ink stamp removed from blank area of first title page, now neatly patched, a total of 8 further ink stamps of E. Tessier throughout the 2 works, not affecting text or images, mostly to lower blank margins, large blank piece torn off lower corner of page 77/78 (first work) now neatly repaired, no loss to text, pale brown stain to lower margin of pages 267-270 (first work), lower blank margin torn off final page of second work now neatly repaired, no loss to text, very good clean copies. This is the Plesch copy with the gilt red leather bookplate of the collection of Arpad Plesch on the front pastedown. SEE: Sotheby's Catalogue of The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung fur Botanik, Collected by Arpad Plesch, Part 2, page 183, No. 532; Gordon Dunthorne, Flower and Fruit Prints, 18th & 19th centuries, Catalogue Raisonne, page 172, Numbers 15 & 16; Sandra Raphael, An Oak Spring Pomona, No. 45, pages 122-124. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Tobacco: Its History Illustrated By The Books, Manuscripts and Engravings in the Library of George Arents, Jr
by Arents, George. Ed. Jerome Brooks
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Symphytum officianle, Comfrey, Knitbone.
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Freeport, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2017.. Edition of 6 + 2 AP. 10 x 26" closed, extends to 10 x 39 x 39". Silkscreen prints and dry point prints. Text letterpress printed at Ascensius Press in Bar Mills. Interlocking binding in hinged cover. Bound in green book cloth with paper title label. Signed by the poet and the artists. Numbered. A collaboration between Rebecca Goodale and Stephen Burt with an original poem by Cathleen Miller. The prints show the growth habit of the common comfrey plant. The book is read standing and open. Rebecca Goodale: "In 2016 Stephen Burt and Rebecca Goodale decided to create an artist's book together using serigraphy and intaglio for the pages. The imagery was inspired by the common comfrey plant and a poem by Cathleen Miller. They worked collaboratively cutting stencils, and engraving the plates - passing them back and forth until together they decided the screens and plates were ready to print. The prints were made in Rebecca's…
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The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary. Containing an account of All the known Plants in the World, arranged according to the Linnean System.
by Thomas Green
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Liverpool: Henry Fisher , 1820 A very good 2 volume set of the 1st edition, newly rebound in half calf with marbled boards. With 2 decorative frontispieces, 1 decorative title, and 106 hand coloured plates. The title pages are undated but Vol I has a preface dated 1820 and the 1st edition was produced between 1816 and 1820. This copy is in new half calf with gilt lines title labels and volume numbers to spines. The marbled paper matches the marbling on the page edges. New endpapers. All the plates are in very good clean condition and are well coloured. The paper quality varies with the paper in the first half of Vol II being noticeably toned and prone to light spotting. Contents - Vol I: frontispiece; decorative title; title; preface 2 pp; introduction, instructions on finding a plant, and text (to letters KYL) with 56 plates pp 1-790. There are a couple of ink corrections in the margins of pp 304-5 and 627. Paper lightly toned with light spotting circa p 700. Vol II: frontispiece; title; text pp…
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The Floral Cabinet, and Magazine of Exotic Botany - 3 Volumes
by Knowles, G.B. & Westcott, Frederic
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Fleet Street and Bride Court, London: William Smith and J.M. Knott [1837 - 1840]. Three volumes, small quarto, pp viii, 96, (6); iv, 188; iv, 188, three vignette title pages, an extra hand-coloured title page in the first volume, with 137 fine hand coloured plates, all edges gilt, bound in a Victorian half morocco and cloth, the spines highly decorated in gilt, a little rubbed at the joints and corners, the cloth sides slightly marked and very slightly bubbled in a few small places. In Volume 3 title page and the first two plates and text are a little stained at the upper corner, the subsequent three plates and text pages very faintly marked; otherwise this is a remarkably clean and bright set internally - the plates all have their protective tissues which very occasionally have a faint spot of foxing, but nothing has transfered to the surface of the plate. With the book label of Carl Wendell Carlsmith [1904 - 1932] on each of the first blank pages in each volume. RARE, AND EXCEPTIONALLY DIFFICULT…
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THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF FLOWERS ON PLANTS OF THE SAME SPECIES.
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London, John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1892 .. Fourth thousand 1892, 8vo,195 x 125 mm, 7¾ x 5 inches, woodcuts and tables in the text, pages: xxiv, 1-352 plus 32 pages of adverts at rear, dated February 1891, in original publisher's dark green cloth, gilt decoration and lettering to spine, blind stamped decoration to covers, original endpapers, edges untrimmed, pale age-browning to blank endpapers, tiny ink inscription to top corner of second blank page, binding tight and firm. A very good copy. See Freeman, The Works of Charles Darwin, page 156 and No.1286. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Tobacco: Its History Illustrated By The Books, Manuscripts and Engravings in the Library of George Arents, Jr
by Arents, George. Ed. Jerome Brooks
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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 some countries.
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Symphytum officianle, Comfrey, Knitbone.
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Freeport, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2017.. Edition of 6 + 2 AP. 10 x 26" closed, extends to 10 x 39 x 39". Silkscreen prints and dry point prints. Text letterpress printed at Ascensius Press in Bar Mills. Interlocking binding in hinged cover. Bound in green book cloth with paper title label. Signed by the poet and the artists. Numbered. A collaboration between Rebecca Goodale and Stephen Burt with an original poem by Cathleen Miller. The prints show the growth habit of the common comfrey plant. The book is read standing and open. Rebecca Goodale: "In 2016 Stephen Burt and Rebecca Goodale decided to create an artist's book together using serigraphy and intaglio for the pages. The imagery was inspired by the common comfrey plant and a poem by Cathleen Miller. They worked collaboratively cutting stencils, and engraving the plates - passing them back and forth until together they decided the screens and plates were ready to print. The prints were made in Rebecca's…
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The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary. Containing an account of All the known Plants in the World, arranged according to the Linnean System.
by Thomas Green
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Liverpool: Henry Fisher , 1820 A very good 2 volume set of the 1st edition, newly rebound in half calf with marbled boards. With 2 decorative frontispieces, 1 decorative title, and 106 hand coloured plates. The title pages are undated but Vol I has a preface dated 1820 and the 1st edition was produced between 1816 and 1820. This copy is in new half calf with gilt lines title labels and volume numbers to spines. The marbled paper matches the marbling on the page edges. New endpapers. All the plates are in very good clean condition and are well coloured. The paper quality varies with the paper in the first half of Vol II being noticeably toned and prone to light spotting. Contents - Vol I: frontispiece; decorative title; title; preface 2 pp; introduction, instructions on finding a plant, and text (to letters KYL) with 56 plates pp 1-790. There are a couple of ink corrections in the margins of pp 304-5 and 627. Paper lightly toned with light spotting circa p 700. Vol II: frontispiece; title; text pp…
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The Floral Cabinet, and Magazine of Exotic Botany - 3 Volumes
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Fleet Street and Bride Court, London: William Smith and J.M. Knott [1837 - 1840]. Three volumes, small quarto, pp viii, 96, (6); iv, 188; iv, 188, three vignette title pages, an extra hand-coloured title page in the first volume, with 137 fine hand coloured plates, all edges gilt, bound in a Victorian half morocco and cloth, the spines highly decorated in gilt, a little rubbed at the joints and corners, the cloth sides slightly marked and very slightly bubbled in a few small places. In Volume 3 title page and the first two plates and text are a little stained at the upper corner, the subsequent three plates and text pages very faintly marked; otherwise this is a remarkably clean and bright set internally - the plates all have their protective tissues which very occasionally have a faint spot of foxing, but nothing has transfered to the surface of the plate. With the book label of Carl Wendell Carlsmith [1904 - 1932] on each of the first blank pages in each volume. RARE, AND EXCEPTIONALLY DIFFICULT…
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THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF FLOWERS ON PLANTS OF THE SAME SPECIES.
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London, John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1892 .. Fourth thousand 1892, 8vo,195 x 125 mm, 7¾ x 5 inches, woodcuts and tables in the text, pages: xxiv, 1-352 plus 32 pages of adverts at rear, dated February 1891, in original publisher's dark green cloth, gilt decoration and lettering to spine, blind stamped decoration to covers, original endpapers, edges untrimmed, pale age-browning to blank endpapers, tiny ink inscription to top corner of second blank page, binding tight and firm. A very good copy. See Freeman, The Works of Charles Darwin, page 156 and No.1286. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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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, 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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A Naturalist in the Guianas
by Andre, Eugene
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London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1904. First English edition thus. Octavo, pp xii, 310, illustrated (including two chromolithographs by Keulemans), a rather poor copy, lacking the folding map, an ex-Boots library copy in red library cloth, a bit used and weak internally with cracked hinges (through front and rear hinges tight and strong), some plates a little frayed, a small stamp on the front endpaper and a library label on the rear, the cloth rather worn, marked on the upper cover, the spine torn. A useful working copy. [Andre was an explorer and collector of natural history specimens . He wrote a glossary of common and scientific names of plants and animals and put together a collection of 1800 bird skins which are held at Tring. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He travelled largely in Venezuala and Columbia and introduced the Anthurium plant to Trinidad & Tobago, 1915.]. Signed by Author. First English edition. Cloth. Fair.
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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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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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The Pelargonium Family - the species of Pelargonium, Monsonia and Sarcocaulon
by Webb, William J
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London & Sydney: Croom Helm, 1984. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp viii, 104, edges and margins a bit browned, otherwise very sound, in a dustwrapper which is very slightly worn and browned and which has a crease on the spine. [Quite possibly from the home of a smoker, but no aroma. [Originally published at £19.95, but now becoming increasingly scarce].. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/Fair.
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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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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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