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1818V74806Milan: Paolo Emilio Guisti 3rd italian edition 1818. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo 10x16cm vellum-tipped marbled boards polished leather spine with gilt title and blind-stamped decorations 335pp inc. title 1p errata. A lovely clean copy of this Italian translation of Darwin's very popular English poem The Loves of the Plants based on the Linnaean system of plant classification. Darwin and members of the Lichfield Botanical Society had earlier translated Linnaeus' work from Latin into English. Paolo Emilio Guisti 3rd italian edition hardcover
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180039083Paris: L'Imprimerie De Digeon. 1800. Hardcover. Near Fine. Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.; 12mo; iv 412 pages; Translated by Deleuze. Suivi de notes et de dialogues sur la poesie par J. P. F. Deleuze. This botanical poem "The Loves of the Plants" is a description of Linnaeus' sexual system of classification in verse. It comprises the second part of a famous work by Erasmus Darwin grandfather of Charles Darwin titled The Botanic Garden. Perhaps to the surprise of modern readers this didactic poem was immediately popular as the study of botany was quite fashionable within the higher social circles who found the poetic form appealing. This is the First French edition which was published in An VIII 1800. The book is bound in half vellum over marbled boards with gilt lettering at the spine and all edges tinted green. . L'Imprimerie De Digeon hardcover
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Z1-H-026-02505General Books LLC. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. General Books LLC unknown
581981st. Ed. Printed for J. Johnson by T. Bensley Bolt Court Fleet Street. 1800. pp.viii 612 xii with 12 engraved plates two being fold-out. 4to. Hardback. Neat signature dated 1818 to title page. A very minor amount of spotting o/w. contents exceptional and in fine condition. Marbled end-papers. Original half leather over marbled boards showing minor shelf-rubbing with a more recent period style spine in fine condition. A very pleasing copy. King-Hele said that ‘Phytologia’ is the best of Darwin’s prose works.has many new ideas and some major discoveries notably the specification of photosynthesis and of plant nutrients’. hardcover
1800D18575London: J. Johnson 1800. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to. 19th century diced gilt-ruled calf. With 12 finely engraved plates. This copy has a nice provenance with early ownership signature of James Law a Lichfield resident as was Erasmus Darwin. Later bookplate of Marshall Laird to front pastedown. The content of this marvelous book ranges from a poem on broccoli to a detailing of the struggle for existence xix.7; a struggle that his grandson Charles would elaborate on sixty years later. <br/><br/> J. Johnson hardcover
1017044503.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1385244054.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1379561981.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1016897014.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1800142097London: Printed for J. Johnson 1800. viii 612pp. Quarto 220 x 270mm. Contemporary calf with gold gilt decorations to the spine and gilt lettering stamped to a black moroccoo spine label. Illustrated with 12 engraved plates 2 folding 9 with an accompanying non-paginated text leaf. Some rubbing and wear to the boards with the top corners a bit bumped. Previous owner's inscription: "REVD. WILLIAM. RUSH. CHURCHILL 1775-1847 of Colliton Dorchester". Ex-libris of Darwin bibliographer Richard Freeman. Some offsetting and light foxing to the plates otherwise a tight and clean copy. A very good copy of this work by the grandfather of Charles Darwin with an interesting provenance. Erasmus Darwin was a well known English physician having turned down the opportunity to be a physician to the King at one point as well as a natural philosopher physiologist slave-trade abolitionist inventor and poet. 1800 Printed for J. Johnson hardcover
180010635London: J. Johnson 1800. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. faded covers title page has a large cut out probably where exlibris was does not affect any letters. Interior generally clean with some browning to plates From the library of Algernon Peckover with bookplate. Paper is slightly blue shade. Fore edges with light stamp of University of Colorado`. First edition of Darwin’s valuable work on agriculture and gardening. The work is important for the understanding of plant physiology photosynthesis and plant nutrition. Darwin recognized here for the first time the key roles that nitrogen phosphorus and carbon played in plant growth. An advocate of progressive scientific agriculture Darwin stressed the continuity between plant and animal life.<br /> <br /> Darwin 1731-1802 grandfather of Charles Darwin was a remarkable polymath that worked as a physician naturalists medical botanist and inventor. He expounded one of the earliest theories of evolution and described the importance of sexual selection to continuing changes within species. In the present work Darwin laid the foundation of scientific agriculture by showing the productivity of crops could be increased. J. Johnson unknown
1806M15073Lisbon:: Joao Rodrigues Neves. 1806. 1806. 8vo. 4 vii 1 408 2 pp. 1 engraved plate facing p. 220; lacks front free endleaf. Original speckled calf; scuffed. Very good. First Portuguese edition translated by Henrique Xavier Baeta with his added notes. This is a translation of Darwin's Zoonomia and part of his Materia medica. Baeta a naval physician took his bachelor's degree in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Coimbra then his PhD in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral paper Dissertatio de Febribus Intermittentibus poecipus medendis 1800 and his work on fevers Comparative view of the Theories & Practice of Drs. Cullen Brown and Darwin in the treatment of fever and of acute Rheumatism London 1800 also touched on his interest of Erasmus Darwin. In 1800 he left Coimbra and moved to Lisbon opened his practice whereas in Coimbra he was being persecuted. In 1831 he was searched arrested and placed in jail where he remained until July 24 1833. REFERENCES: See: Ricardo Cabral de Freitas More destructive than guns: contagious epidemic fever and public health in Lisbon 1810-1812. SHS Web of Conferences 136 0 0 2022. Joao Rodrigues Neves. 1806. unknown
180441039London 1804. 468 x 376 mm. image size 282 x 241 mm. excluding caption. A few small marginal tears faint crease in lower margin but very good. Fine portrait of physician / naturalist Erasmus Darwin grandfather of Charles who himself included a statement of evolution in his poem "The Botanic Garden." The portrait was engraved by J. Heath after the portrait by James Rawlinson 1769-1848. unknown
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1824614967London: Jones & Co. 1824. Quarterbound hard cover in very good condition. No dust jacket. Tan leather binding with gilt detail to edges and gilt title author and date to spine. Complementary cloth to the remainder of the boards. Rebinding is undated and contains the content of the orginal textblooks from 1824 also in very good condition for their age. The new binding follows the arrangement of Darwin's work in volumes but retains the original pagination therefore pages 1-204 contains The Economy of Vegetation and The Love of Plants. Following on under pages 1-100 is The Temple of Nature. Finally a number of plates are included; The Beautiful Cupid The Fertilization of Egypt The Portland Vase and Tartarian Lamb The Portland Vase plus Handle and Bottom of the Vase Sections of the Earth Sections of the Strata at St Anthon's Colliery and four further Botanical plates. The boards are in fine condition as is the marbled pageblock. Four pencilled references noted on rear original free paper. The initial pages and the plates at the rear are notably tanned foxed and marked but the text within is in extremely good condition; clear bright and generally unmarked; minor and occasional foxing only. A lovely item; additional photographs or information available upon request. CN. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. Jones & Co. Hardcover
