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1831021666London: Sold by the Proprietor J. Sowerby or C.E. Sowerby; latterly J.W. Salter 1831. 1831 - 1849. Four volumes octavo illustrated with approximately 366 hand coloured plates four of which are folding generally in very good condition occasionally printed on slightly duller paper recently bound in a plain but qood quality brown cloth slight markings to the upper cover of one volume. Volume I - plates 2593 - 2692 extremely clean and bright. Volume II - plates 2693 - 2796 the first ten plates and text have faint fold markings otherwise very clean and bright. Volume III - plates 2798 - 2866 lacking 2797 one plate with a paper crease probably a production fault. Volume IV - is where it gets complicated. The plates and text are now bound more or less in systematic order - 2886 2908 2951 2918 2916 2955 2943 2922 2898 2944 2928 2917 2906 2934 2905 2903 2952 2900 2935 2903 2909 2892 2893 2891 2890 2895 2887 2968 2870 2930 2946 2914 2897 2958 2875 2953 2876 2877 2904 2950 2868 2949 2960 2945 2929 2915 2884 2931 2896 2910 2885 2923 2895 2924 2880 2932 2901 2887 2919 2888 2936 2878 2871 2942 2907 2925 2947 2873 2874 2957 2902 2872 2921 2912 2882 2881 2938 2937 2889 2894 2948 2913 2879 2889 2911 2940 2920 2959 2941 2954 2926 2927 2958 2939 2933. lacking 2883 & 2940 . The paper in this last volume is of poorer quality with a little age-toning occasional scattered light blemishes or foxing. RARE. A further volume was published in 1863 but is not present here but all volumes are exceedingly scarce. A vital addition to the first edition of English Botany but rarely to be found. In the advertisement to Volume I it explains that the death of Sowerby in 1822 and Smith in 1828 delayed any possibility of the publication of these new discoveries. However Sowerby's two sons were now embarking on this venture which they originally thought would be complete in two volumes. Latterly the descriptions were completed by eminent botanists such as C.C. Babington William Borer M.J. Berkeley and William Wilson. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Sold by the Proprietor J. Sowerby or C.E. Sowerby; latterly J.W. Salter Hardcover
1898019775Dublin and London: Sealy Bryers and Walker; David Nutt 1898. A coloured folding map frontispiece with one neat repair with archival tape octavo pp xxiv. 391i with the errata leaf tipped-in at the rear a tiny adhesion damage on the last two pages a little wear to the half-title where an early price has been erased rather too enthusiastically otherwise very bright and clean internally brown decorated cloth gilt slight pulling or fraying at the spine head the spine slightly dark otherwise a rather bright and impresive copy of one of the rarest of Irish county floras. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Sealy, Bryers and Walker; David Nutt Hardcover
1819016014London & Norwich: John Harding; Wilkin & Youngman 1819. First and only edition illustrated with six engraved plates drawn by the author slim octavo pp xx 100 a little foxing marking and age-toning but overall very sound internally original boards a later but still early cloth spine unlettered the binding again slightly worn but sound. With the book label of the physician and botanist Thomas Bell Salter. Of the utmost rarity. At the age of 19 Lindley was taken under the wing of William Jackson Hooker who at that time was still living in Halesworth before his move the following year to Glasgow. Lindley was impressed with a book he found in Hooker's extensive botanical library - Richard's "Demonstrations botaniques ou Analyse du Fruit considere en general" of 1808. He translated the work into English working for three days non-stop. When published it included six plates from Lindley's original drawings. The title page claims it includes the author's latest corrections and Stearn points out that the preface rejects Linnaeus' system of classification in favour of the the natural orders of Jussieu. This is the first book and the first published illustrations of the "father of modern orchidology" - one of the most importand and dominant figures of Victorian botany. First Edition. Boards. Good. John Harding; Wilkin & Youngman Hardcover
185034546Washington Dc:: Government Printing Office. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1850. First Edition. Flexible cloth. B/w/red; Oblong folio; 65 pages; 14.5" x 11". Front end paper with creases first three leaves with quite light and minor foxing. 100 partly color numerals maps 11 folding maps/charts all collated. These folding plates are quite large- often 20 x 30" or even larger and have occasional folds but seem free of tears. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with impressed design and gilt title. Sabin 22917. The author of this work James Pollard Espy nicknamed "The Storm King" for his classic book The Philosophy of Storms was the first Meteorologist of the US Government pioneering in the use of the telegraph to assemble weather observation data. Espy designed the first American weather map for a private scientific institute in 1838 before he moved to Washington. His first official meteorological report was published in 1843 but apparently included no maps. So the 100 "Charts" in this second report represent the first weather maps published by the US Government. . Government Printing Office hardcover
186716491London: Cassell Petter & Glapin 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good . Schedule of Ores Contributed by Sundry Persons to the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867. With some information about the region and its resources." Book is Signed inscribed to Colorado territorial governor John Evans by the author commissioner from the territory. Two fold-out black white & red maps and fold-out photograph of displayed ores at front of book. Booklets in three languages were published for the exposition. This book was apparently specially bound and contains the text in English 61 pgs French and German each 71 pgs. Full leather embossed and with raised bands all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Boards are rubbed at corners and folds. Cracks in the front endpapers at the gutter. Straight and tight. <br/><br/> Cassell, Petter, & Glapin hardcover
1814020092Fleet Street London: White Cochrane & co. 1814. Two volumes 1814 1813. Octavo illustrated with 24 plain stipple-engraved plates pp xxxvi 751 ivi untrimmed age-toned and with foxing heavy on some pages and plates but almost or entirely lacking on the larger parts of the volumes one page more heavily browned from the insertion of a paper at some point with the blindstamp of the Carnegie Institution on the title pages and also the tiny stamp of the Haverford College Library; the 'sold' label of Haverford is loosely inserted. Recently bound in grey boards new endpapers the paper spine labels reading "The Plants of North America". SCARCE. "The first publication on plants from all of North America above Mexico and the first to publish plants from the Pacific Coast Pursh's Flora includes more than 3000 species and 470 genera including the first descriptions of more than 100 species collected by the Lewis and Clark expedition" ANB. Sabin 66728. Pursh a German botanist came to America in 1799 as a traveler collector gardener and landscape artist. From 1803 until about 1805 he was in charge of William Hamilton's estate near Philadelphia before becoming employed in the botanizing expeditions of Benjamin Smith Barton. From 1809 to 1810 he headed Hosack's Elgin Botanic Garden in New York. In 1811 Pursh traveled to England where he produced his Flora under the patronage of A. B. Lambert to whom the work is dedicated. Pursh relied upon the Lewis and Clark specimens entrusted to M'Mahon for many of his descriptions of the Pacific coast plants; he also consulted some forty-one other botanical collections for his research. Apperently William Hooker the artist of Salisbury's Paradisus Londinensis was responsible for a good portion of both the drawings and engravings. Printing of the Flora Americae Septentrionalis was completed in late 1813 as the Linnaean Society possesses a presentation copy dated 21 December 1813. . Nissen BBI 1570; Pritzel 7370; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 8404. . First Edition. Boards. Good. White, Cochrane & co. Hardcover
1823018730London Dublin Edinburgh & New York: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips 1823. Six volumes small octavo pp 588; 600 15; 584 10 uncut a few pages unopened a little age-toning and marking one gathering 347-350 in Volume IV detached and gatherings towards the rear of the volume becoming a bit weak and loose Volume VI has extra bis pages 343 - 354; very well illustrated with 197 engraved or wood engraved plates of which 31 are folding and 50 coloured plates of which 2 are folding and 1 folding table; bound in the original pink boards a bit worn chipped and marked original printed paper labels on the spines the upper cover of Volume V detached otherwise firm and tight a neat signature on each front endpaper. Apparently lacking one plate in Volume 1 Relative Sizes of the Planets though there is no sign of this ever having been bound in. There are several extra plates to those listed and our copy would seem to agree with the set at auction at Christie's in 2006 which contained 246 of 248 plates. A work of considerable charm and interest and despite some faults as mentioned a remarkable set in original unsophisticated state. Simeon Ackroyd Shaw 1785 - 1859 was a 19th-century English scientific writer industrial historian and teacher. He spent his working life in the Staffordshire Potteries now the city of Stoke-on-Trent England. Shaw originated in Lancashire and as a young man he arrived in the Potteries to work on the Potteries Gazette and Newcastle-under-Lyme Advertiser newspaper. After some 20 years of newspaper and printing work living in Wolstanton he then went into teaching. He ran several teaching academies in the district. His first book was this 6-volume work which was based on his obviously very comprehensive series of popular short lectures on everything from natural species to meteorites. First Edition. Boards. Good. Printed for Sir Richard Phillips Hardcover
1865036341London : Robert Hardwicke 1865. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good . 400 Pp 9 Color Plates Encompassing 75 Illustrations With Description On Facing Page Not Included In Book Pagination. First Printing 1865 Of This First And Only Edition Of This Work Prepared During The Author's Lifetime Although Reprinted In 1868 The First Posthumous Edition And Thereafter. The Author's Preface Provides The Author's Explanation Of The Many Revisions Additions And Deletions To His Previous Works. Three Quarter Green Morocco Brown Morocco Spine Label Gilt; Buff Endpapers.; 1865 Date On Title Page. All Edges With Publisher's Red Color. Wear Loss Of Paper On Edges Of Boards Pinpoint Frays At Tips But Binding Exceptionally Sturdy. Rare; Worldcat Shows No Institutional Holding Of This 1865 Edition Only The 1868 And Later Editions. Sir William Jackson Hooker1785 - 12 August 1865 Was An English Systematic Botanist And Organiser And Botanical Illustrator. He Held The Post Of Regius Professor Of Botany At Glasgow University And Was Director Of The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. He Enjoyed The Friendship And Support Of Sir Joseph Banks For His Exploring Collecting And Organising Work. His Son Joseph Dalton Hooker Succeeded Him To The Directorship Of Kew Gardens. <br/> <br/> Robert Hardwicke hardcover
1869023422New York: D. Appleton and Company 1869. Fourth American Edition First Printing . Brown Pebbled Cloth Gilt. Near Fine. Folding Chart. 116 Pp 116 - 121 117-425; 426-432 Supplement; 443-440; 2 Pp Ads At Rear. "A New Edition Revised And Augmented By The Author" Containing The Entire Fourth British Edition With Additions And Corrections From The 1869 British Fifth Edition Added As Asterisked Pages And In A Supplement At End Indicating Corrections/Insertions To Be Made Throughout The Fourth Edition To Update It To The Fifth Edition But Not Including Heading "Survival Of The Fittest" Which Occurred In That Edition. Catalog At End Beginning With Page 2 No Page One But Apparently As Bound And Issued Perhaps To Remove A Now Obsolete Listing For The Fourth Edition Of This Work Continuing With P. 3. Original Pebbled Brown Cloth Covers With No Wear No Fraying Or Tears Evenly Colored And Without The Usual Fading Gilt Bright But Now With Some Reddish Toning Original Yellow Endpapers With Solid Hinges Pages Square And Crisp. Previous Owner's Signature "G A. Hadley Sep 20Th 1869" In Pencil On Front Endpaper Possibly Dr. George A. Hadley Of Chicago Who Also Owned An 1871 Descent Of Man With His February 1887 Ownership Signature One Other Pencil Marginal Word In Same Hand No Other Marks No Bookplates. Very Light Dampstaining Along Part Of Foredge Of Pages And Endpapers Wider And Intruding A Little Into Page Block On About 100 Pages Near Center Of Book 2 1/2" X 1/2" To 1 1/2" Damp Spot On Top Edge Of Pages Near Foredge Small Losses Along Foredge Of Front Yellow Endpaper Rear Yellow Endpapers Partly Adhering And Have Not Been Separated. A Very Scarce Edition Apparently Issued For A Short Time Prior To The Regular 1870 American Printing Of The Fifth British Edition; "Darwin On Line" Shows 440 Pp. But States Same As 1863-1868 Editions And Makes No Mention Of The Asterisked Pages Or The Supplement For The Fifth Edition. <br/> <br/> D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1819020733Princes Street Corner of Gerard Street Soho: J. Callow 1819. First edition. Illustrated with 12 engraved plates several of them folding octavo pp xxiv 579 i slight age-toning to the front endpaper the half-title and the frontispiece otherwise very clean internally neatly bound in a recent brown half-leather and cloth. With the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates on the front endpaper. Sir William Lawrence 1st Baronet FRCS FRS 1783 -1867 was an English surgeon who became President of the Royal College of Surgeons of London and Serjeant Surgeon to the Queen. In his mid-thirties he published two books of his lectures which contained pre-Darwinian ideas on man's nature and effectively on evolution. In 1819 the second book known by its short title of the Natural history of Man caused a storm of disapproval from conservative and clerical quarters for its supposed atheism and within the medical profession because he advocated a materialist rather than vitalist approach to human life. He was linked by his critics with such other 'revolutionaries' as Thomas Paine and Lord Byron. It was "the first great scientific issue that widely seized the public imagination in Britain a premonition of the debate over Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection exactly forty years later". It contained some remarkable anticipations of later thought but was ruthlessly suppressed. To this day many historical accounts of evolutionary ideas do not mention Lawrence's contribution. He is omitted for example from many of the Darwin biographies from some evolution textbooks essay collections and even from accounts of pre-Darwinian science and religion. Although the only idea of interest which Darwin found in Lawrence was that of sexual selection in man the influence on Alfred Russel Wallace was more positive. Wallace "found in Lawrence a possible mechanism of organic change that of spontaneous variation leading to the formation of new species". First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good. J. Callow Hardcover
18637098132Deighton Bell and Co 1863. 1st edition Pp. viii 86. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library in tan cloth. 8vo gilt lettering on backstrip. Some light shelf wear slightly bumped corners. Binding firm pages agetoned. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item400grams ISBN: Deighton, Bell and Co hardcover
1807135159Stockholm: Henrik A. Nordström 1807-08. First edition all published of the series of "Economic Annals" of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden. The work issued in monthly parts deals with economics in the sense of practical advice and findings applicable in agriculture and business in general. 8 vols octavo. 3 folding tables and 1 folding plate. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards flat spines ruled and decorated gilt red morocco labels yellow edges. Spine ends a little worn some slight surface wear and corners rubbed the February 1807 issue lacking 2 leaves pp. 87-90; in very good condition. hardcover
18820159981882 - 1898: Various Publishers 1882. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. The Author's Personal Copies No Duplicates Of His Nineteenth Century Works On Paleontology And Related Areas Of Biology 127 Of His Published Writings Including Original Offprints Extracts Title Pages Manuscripts And Notes In German Or English With A Few Clippings And Photographs Laid In Loosely. Three Volumes Dark Brown Pebbled Cloth Over Brown Patterned Boards. Bindings Worn And Frayed Material Should Be Professionally Rebound With Archival Materials. His Obituary In The American Naturalist Sept 1898 Pp 717-718 Refers To A Total Output Of 143 Papers Being Reported By His Brother Which Possibly Includes Reprints And Translations As He Wrote In Both German And English And This Collection Appears Complete. Baur Was Last A Professor At The University Of Chicago 1892 -1898. Baur Wrote Extensively On Various Paleontological Topics. He Also Built On The Late Nineteenth Century Theory Of Evolution And Wrote Extensively On His Idea That Changes In Morphology Might Be Brought Out By A Change In Environment Including Nutrition Etc. Such That These Changed Characteristics Would Persist In Successive Generations So Long As The Changed Conditions Persisted For Which There Is Now Some Evidence For At Least Three Generations. He Cited Extensively To Personal Observations And Reports From Others. His Work Differs From Weizmann Etc. In That He Maintained That Changes In Environment Could Bring Out Changes In Morphology Without Changes In The Genetic Material Such Changes Persisting In Successive Generations When The Environmental Changes Also Persisted. In One Such 1891 Paper He Concludes With A Citation To Darwin's Letter To Wagner: "In My Opinion The Greatest Error Which I Have Committed Has Been Not Allowing Sufficient Weight To The Direct Action Of The Environment - I.E. Food Climate Etc. -Independently Of Natural Selection." Although Now Dismissed Some Because Of His Neo-Lamarckian Ideas His Departures From Rigorous Scientific Evidence In Genetics Is Perhaps Less Serious Than The Acceptance And Promotion Of The Ideas Of "Phlogiston" By Important Earlier Chemists And Of "Ether" By His Contemporaries Among Important Physicists; And The Emphasis Of The Neo-Lamarckians On Environmental Nutritional And Physiological Factors Is More In Keeping With Modern Understanding Of Individual Development Than The Emphasis Upon Purely Genetic Evolution Which Treats Only Classes Of Individuals By Arbitrary Groupings Into Classes Of Individuals . Complete Collections Of Original Manuscripts And Scientific Offprints From This Period Are Increasingly Uncommon In The Market. All Material In Excellent Condition Bound Into Three Volumes Bindings Very Worn. <br/> <br/> Various Publishers hardcover
1832036310London: Richard Taylor / Charles E. Sowerby 1832 1835 1836 1837 1838 1832. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. Seven Volumes Of 2Nd Edition So Stated In All Volumes Without Later Supplementary And Continuation Volumes. Vol. I Undated With 1832 Preface;Vol. Ii Dated 1835; Vol Iii Dated 1836; Vol. Iv Dated 1837; Volume V Dated 1838; Vol. Vi Dated 1839; Vol. Vii Dated 1840. All Volumes Contain A Mixture Of Plates With Single And Double Plate Numbers. Apparently First Printings Of Second Edition Of All Volumes; Text Reduced And Plates Omitted Which Represent Such Allied Species As May Be Readily Distinguished By The Descriptions From Those Figured. Quarter Green Diced Morocco Over Green Cloth With An Intricately And Deeply Blindstamped Floral Design. 9 1/8" Tall. All Bindings Worn; Old Repairs To Joints; Fraying At Tips And Corners Of Spine Chipping To Lower Spines Of Several Volumes; Contents Clean Slight Foxing To A Few Plates; Contemporary Ownership Signatures Of Jane ----- In Each Volume. Vol. I With Rear Board Detached. International Postage At Usps Insured Mail Rates. <br/> <br/> Richard Taylor / Charles E. Sowerby 1832 1835 1836 1837 1838 hardcover
1889028277New York: Julius Bien & Co 1889. Condition of the binding is only Fair with pest damage. Leather over the spine has perished. Front and rear outer hinges cracks have been neatly reinforced with high quality clear flexible glue. Inner hinges are OK having been reinforced by the publisher/bookbinder with sturdy maroon cloth. SEE PHOTOS. Condition of all maps is NEAR FINE - FINE. NO foxing or toning. Pages are clean and unmarked. SEE PHOTOS. Includes a title page map of New Jersey Key to the System of Mapping and 19 linen-backed double page maps. Collated and complete per table of contents -- SEE PHOTOS. The maps are lithographically printed in blue red yellow and black. The double page maps open to an impressive 26.50" across by 36.50" tall. No year of publication is stated but Phillips 2149 in A LIST OF GEOGRAPHIC ATLASES Vol. 1 says 1889. The maps themselves are variously dated up to 1888. Titles of Sheets: No. 0. New Jersey State Map Geographic; No. 1. Kittatinny Valley and Mountain No. 2. Southwestern Highlands; No. 3. Central Highlands; No. 4. Northeastern Highlands; No. 5.Vicinity of Flemington; No. 6. Valley of the Passaic; No. 7. The Counties of Bergen Hudson Essex No. 8. Vicinity of Trenton; No. 9. Monmouth Shore; No. 10. Vicinity of Salem No. 11. Vicinity of Camden; No. 12. Vicinity of Mount Holly; No. 13. Vicinity of Barnegat Bay; No. 14. Vicinity of Bridgeton; No. 15. Southern Interior; No. 16. Egg Harbor and Vicinity; No. 17. Peninsula of Cape May; Unnumbered map. "New Jersey from Original Surveys based on the Triangulation of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Relief Map." Scale of first and last doublepage maps: 5 miles to an Inch. Scale of maps No. 1 to No. 17: 1 mile to an Inch. Bound in black pebble-grain cloth with gilt-stamped brown leather title label leather spine and corners leather backstrip has perished. SEE PHOTOS. The textblock could be easily rebacked or recased with no re-sewing required since all pages/maps are still securely bound together. Oversize Hardcover. 19.50" wide by 27" tall. This massive extremely heavy book will require SUBSTANTIAL extra postage at our cost based on your location. LeGear ATLASES OF THE UNITED STATES L5609. See also Schwartz and Ehrenerg's THE MAPPING OF AMERICA pp. 310-311. Phillips 2149. This massive extremely heavy book will require SUBSTANTIAL extra postage at our cost based on your location. Second Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fair - FINE condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. Atlas folio. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Julius Bien & Co Hardcover
1850022864Amen Corner Paternoster Row London: William S. Orr & Co. 1850. Second edition not dated - 1850 is sometimes suggested. Quarto pp x 270 with 58 superb hand-coloured plates one plate with a very small mark very occasional very minor marks to the text but otherwise extremely clean intermally original green cloth blind-stamped and decorated in gilt very slightly marked the spine a little faded slight splitting to both joints towards the top recased with new endpapers. One of the most desirable of this series and extremely uncommon with the cloth binding preserved. The Lindley Library copy of the second edition has a different publisher. Interestingly Noel Humphreys' obituary in The Garden vol. 18 1881 p. xii names Humphreys as the artist for the Ladies' fFower-garden series. Second edition. Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Noel Humphreys. William S. Orr & Co., Hardcover
1842biblio642Paris: L.Curmer 1842-43. Very Good. <p>2 vols in 8 Rel demi-cuir plats percaline embosses dorures xxiv416p 664p Abondamment illustré de gravures sur acier et sur bois dont 33 planches aquarellées plans dépliants portraits taches de rousseurs clairsemées</p> L.Curmer unknown
1823g9506Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart. VG : in very good condition. Spines faded. Some Slight staining to lower margin of prelims. Occasional slight foxing. Some offsetting from plates. 1823. First Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 240mm x 150mm 9" x 6". 800pp plates. 360 hand coloured plates. Volumes published between 1823 - 1828. Heraldic book-plate of R E Duncombe Shafto. Heavy set - extra shipping needed for overseas. . Maclachlan & Stewart hardcover
1801biblio23<p>Paris. Louis 1801. Hardcover. In five parts 8vo four text parts ; oblong 4to Atlas. 2456 pp. I: lvi 495; II: 619; III: 589; IV: 593; Title page iv two tables x pp. half title 86 engraved plates. Uniform near contemporary half calf over marbled boards with pines painted yellow edges yellow text volumes and near contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards gilt title on the spine atlas.Rare first edition of a fine illustrated work by the father of modern crystallography.</p><p>Lacks first title page the atlas boards much rubbed front board fly-leaf and title detached limited spotting throughout the plates good. See DSB VI pp. 178-182; Hoover Catalogue 391; Ward & Carozzi 1027; Wilson II pp. 54-56. Please contact me ramrozzi@yahoo.fr</p><p><br /><br /></p> Louis hardcover
1817e1794Philadelphia: M Carey & Son. G: in good condition. Covers rubbed and stained. Shelf-wear. Spines worn; volume I splitting with loss at top end. Some offsetting. Foxing; sometimes heavy. Some pages and plates loosening; plate 4 entirely loose. Ex-library copy with stamping to titles and some text leaves. 1817. First Edition. Maroon leather spines with brown hardback board covers. 280mm x 220mm 11" x 9". 273pp; 243pp. 50 hand-coloured plates; 1 folding. Volume II published in 1818. Includes list of subscribers. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . M Carey & Son hardcover
1823biblio8xx 208 8 pp 4 plates folded. very fine. very rare. Pictures on demand. Please contact me ramrozzi@yahoo.fr<br />
1886021464London: Dulau & Co 1886. Large thick quarto pp viii 326 xx 10 top edge gilt two double page charts and a map 4 coloured plates lettered A to D 77 coloured plates numbered 1 - 67 11 bis plates plate 17 was not published one internal hinge slightly stretched endpaper a little oxidised the half-title and the final leaf foxed the title page lightly foxed slightly age-toned internally the rear hinge a little cracked but not weak original brown beveled cloth slightly worn and rubbed the spine pulled at head and tail with rwo short tears at each a small bruise on the lower cover. The plates are very fine chromolithographs. A very attractive wood-engraved scene usually in Turkey precedes most species section; these are by the Brothers Dalziel. The book was printed by Fawcett of Driffield. With the attractive bookplate of the Scottish author and nurseryman William Cuthbertson at one time a senior partner in Dobies Nurseries. A heavy book - extra postage will be needed. "Maw was a Fellow of the Linnean Society the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society. He became a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1864. He was a member of the RHS Scientific Committee during the 1880s and served brief terms on the Floral Committee Daffodil Committee and Library Committee. Maw made frequent plant collecting trips including to the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe. In 1871 he accompanied Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker and John Ball on a plant collecting expedition to Morocco and the Atlas Mountains and letters from Hooker to Maw give details of their preparations. A full account of the trip was published in 'Journal of a Tour in Marocco and the Atlas Mountains'. Maw wrote occasional articles for the garden press and was an accomplished artist: John Ruskin wrote of his crocus drawings that they were 'most exquisite . and quite beyond criticism'. In 1886 Maw published 'A Monograph of the Genus Crocus' the result of over ten years of collecting and research illustrated using his own watercolours. Many of the bulbs and plants he collected on his plant collecting expeditions were planted in the garden at Benthall Hall later owned by the National Trust. Correspondence between Maw and the friends and contacts who helped to collect the 67 species of Crocus detailed in his work forms a significant part of the archive. Maw retired in 1886 due to ill health and moved to live at Rangemore in Kenley Surrey changing the house name to Benthall. Frederica Mary died on 6 Feb 1894. George Maw died on the 7 Feb 1912." - British Museum. ""George Maw 1839-1912 was the industrious author and illustrator of his great 'Monograph of the Genus Crocus' 1886. A many-sided and remarkable man Maw was not a botanist by profession but a chemist and geologist a manufacturer of encaustic tiles at Broseley Staffs. His monograph the result of ten years of inquiry was the most complete work of its kind that has been published on any genus. The plates of this work are marvels of comprehensive detail and put to shame those of many more skilled draughtsmen. From a botanical point of view this work is a landmark."Blunt & Stearn". First Edition. Cloth. Good. Dulau & Co Hardcover
1816021179B. McMillan 1816. First edition. Folio approximately 29cm x 48 cm pp lxvi 316 iv all edges gilt with some foxing on the earlier and later few pages errata slip pasted to verso of the contents pages with 123 mounted specimens in good condition and 35 mounted groups of seeds half morocco and marbled boards a little rubbed and scuffed a darker stain towards the base of the spine marbled endpapers with the armorial bookplate of Henry Collins. The specimens are frequently described as all grass though this is incorrect - approximately nine of them are leguminous plants. Many of them are delicately heightened in watercolour. This copy does not have the folding plan and very few copies do. RARE. A very heavy book weighing nearly 8.5 kilos - extra postage costs will need to be added. A paper in 'Science' 25/01/2002 by Andy Hector and Rowan Hooper has called this book which influenced Charles Darwin "arguably the first ecological experiment". Darwin in his 'Origin of the Species' refers to an experiment investigating the biology of grassland plants that showed how a greater diversity of grasses planted in experimental plots was responsible for greater production of plant matter but Darwin left no clues as to where or when this experiment was done. Hector and Hooper show that it is Sinclair's 'Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis' which details this experimental garden. First Edition. Half Leather. Good. B. McMillan Hardcover
185832039AB1858. alle Bände in Originalausgabe Gotha J. Perthes 1858-1906 4° jeder Band zwischen ca. 300 und 500 S. mit zahlr. oftmals farbigen Ausklapp-Tafeln und Falt-Karten die ersten 4 Bände 1858-1863 als schwarze original Leineneinbände mit goldener Deckel- und Rückenbeschriftung sowie reicher Deckelbildprägung der Band 1868 als schlicher schwarzer Pappband der Zeit dann 1870-1906 Halbleinen-Einbände der Zeit mit Rückenschildern bzw. goldener Rückenbeschriftung und Musterpapierbezügen alle Bände unten mit Rückensignaturschildchen die Rückenkanten der ganz frühen Bände stellenw. angeplatzt wenige Bände oben am Rücken etwas angerändert beim schlichten Pappband von 1868 der Rücken beschädigt und mit Fehlstellen innen aber bindungsstabil die Vorsatz- und/oder Titelseiten aller Bände mit schönem alten Rundstempel und handschriftlicher Signaturnummer der Lehrerbibliothek eines alteingesessenen Frankfurter Gymnasiums sonst gute saubere und augenscheinlich auch vollständige sowie offenbar kaum je benutze Exemplare augenscheinlich vollständig aber nicht eingehend kollationaliert. Vorhanden die Bände 1858 4. Jahrgang 1861 1862 1863 und 1868 bis 1906 51. Jahrgang sowie 3 separat gebundene Inhaltsverzeichnisse 1865-1874 / 1875-1884 / 1885-1894. Der komplette Titel der fühen Bände lautete: 'Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt über wichtige neue Erforschungen auf dem Gesammtgebiete der Geographie'. Ohne die separat erschienen 'Ergänzungshefte'. Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main Nordend ggü. Musterschule möglich. Das spart die Portokosten. Pickup at the store in Frankfurt am Main Nordend close to Musterschule is possible. It saves the shipping costs. unknown
1860023046London: John Murray 1860. Second edition fifth thousand. Octavo pp x 502 32 page publisher's catalogue dated January 1860 slight age-toning and very slight occasional foxing several lightly creased corners a small marginal tear to page 13/14 the folding plate at page 117 is a little foxed but one part of the three sections is now detached and frayed at the bottom edge the hinge following page 120 is widely cracked but no looseness the front free endpaper very slightly marked the front hinge beginning to crack but no weakness the front paste-down endpaper has two early signatures - James Sharp and E. Byres of Claremont House Balham original green cloth the corners very slightly bruised very slight rubbing the spine slightly dull the spine head slightly pulled and similarly so at the base but with one small tear. Freeman 376 variant a . Second edition. Cloth. Good. John Murray Hardcover
