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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
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
1874187377Lyon, 1849-1874. Lwdbde. m. Rsch., Rsign. u. marmor. Schnitt. S. u. Taf. teilw. braunfl. St. a. Tit. Es fehlen: Bd. 2/5 Taf. 4-9. Taf. 10 u. 11 v. 1852 (2/4) in 1853 u. Taf. 9 v. 1853 (2/5) in 1852. Ab Bd. 2/5 OBr. Unaufgeschn. St. a. Tit. Umschl. meist beschmutzt od. beschäd. S. u. Taf. teilw. braunfl. St. a. Tit. Umschl. 2/4 u. 3/8 stark beschäd. 3/8, 4/5 u. 4/6 Buchbl. gebrochen. 4/2 fehlt alles bis S. 224. In 4/5 fehlen d. Tafeln.
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
1835604776Erfurt/Weimar, 1821-1835. M. mehr. Abb., Tab. u. Taf. In 15 einheitl. Hlwdbdn. m. RTit. u. St. Abweichend Bd. 31-33 (in 1 Hldrbd. ohne Rücken). Einbde. leicht bestoßen.Seiten braunfl. u. altersgemäß nachgedunkelt. ES FEHLT: No 105 (= No. 18 v. Bd. 5).
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
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
1857426147Stuttgart/Leipzig, Expedition des Staats-Wörterbuchs, 1857-70. Insgesamt ca. 9100 S. Mit Tabellen. Schwarzes Leinen mit roten Rückenschilder (gut erhaltenes Exemplar, Stempel auf Titelblatt).
18523127CBErlangen, Enke, 1852-55. Gr.-8°. Mit 144 lith. Tafel, gedr. bei A. Kolb, Nbg. Marmor. Ppde. d. Zt. mit roten Rückenschildchen. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden + Erster - vierter Jahrgang.
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
18069095Leipzig, Friedrich Gotthelf Baumgärtner, 1797, 1801, 1806. Halbledereinbände, Lederecken, blaue [Bd.3 marmorierter] Deckel, Farbschnitt, montierte Rückenschildchen 8°, 1: XXIV, 734 S., 2 gefaltete Tafeln/ 2: 717 S., 1 Bl, 2 gefaltete Tafeln/ 3: 798 S., 2 gefaltete Tafeln/ 4.1: VI, 312 S.; 4.2: XVI, 388 S., 2 Bl; -Deckel berieben und mit kleineren Beschädigungen, Papier in Bd 4 stärker gebräunt, Tafeln und Papier überwiegend in sehr gutem Zustand, Bände 1+2 einheitlich gebunden, Bde 3+4 leicht abweichend / half leather, leather corners, a.e.m., mounted back-plates, 8vo, 1: XXIV, 734 pp., 2 folded sheets / 2: 717 pp., 1 leaf, 2 folded sheets / 3: 798 pp, 2 folded sheets/ 4.1: VI, 312 pp., 4.2: XVI, 388 pp., 2 leaves; -boards rubbed and with small damages, paper browned in vol 4, plates and paper in very good condition, vol 1+2 with a uniform binding, vol 3+4 with slight differences.
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
1806169036Weimar, Verlag d. Industrie-Comptoirs, 1801-1806. M. zahlr. Kpfr.-Taf. Verschied. geb. m. Rtit. bzw. Rsign. Einbde. bestoßen. St. a. Tit. bzw. Vorsatz. Es fehlen: Bd. 3 Taf. 1 u. Bd. 7 Taf. 9. Bd. 5 Taf. 2 fehlt rechter Rand.
18331611020024Cambridge Mass. : Charles Folsom Metcalf & Co 1833 - 1846. Hardcover. Good. Two quarto volumes. New series 1833-1846. Rebound in modern green cloth. Perforated library stamp on titles. Scattered foxing. Hand colored map of Nova Scotia and colored lithographs to rear of volume I. Foldout charts in Volume II are facsimiles on modern paper. Volume I contains Father Sebastian Rasles' Dictionary of the Abnaki Language. Rale had been a French missionary who had encourage native resistance to Yankee settlement. Abenaki is a now endangered Algonquian language which the Eastern dialects is spoken by the Micmac Maliseet Passamaquoddy Penobscot Indians of Maine New England and Quebec. Pilling 3196. <br> Contents of Vol. 1:A Discourse in Commemoration of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; Remarks on Longevity and the Expectation of Life in the United States Relating More Particularly to the State of New Hampshire with Some Comparative Views in Relation to Foreign Countries; A Table of the Longitude and Altitude; Tables of the Present Value of a Life-Annuity at Any Age According to Dr. Wigglesworth's Bill of Mortality; Occultations and Eclipses Observed at Dorchester Massachusetts; Observations on the Comparative Rates of Marine Chronometers; Remarks and Inquiries concerning the Birds of Massachusetts; A Meteorological Journal from the Year 1786 to the Year 1829; Remarks on the Mineralogy and Geology of Nova Scotia; Table Showing the Present Value of the Right of Dower of a Married Woman in Any Real Estate Provided She Survives Her Husband; Description of a New Stand for a Reflecting Telescope; Latitudes and Longitudes of Several Places in the United States as Determined by Observation; Tables Exhibiting the Number of White Persons in the United States at Every Age Deduced from the Last Census; Description of a Machine Called a Gypsey for Spinning Hemp and Flax; A Dictionary of the Abnaki Language in North America. With an Introductory Memoir and Notes. <br><br>Vol. 2: Plantae Fendlerianae Novi-Mexicanae: An Account of a Collection of Plants Made Chiefly in the Vicinity of Santa Fe New Mexico; A Memoir upon the Geological Action of the Tidal and Other Currents of the Ocean; History and Transformations of Corydalus cornutus; Internal Anatomy of Corydalus cornutus in Its Three Stages of Existence; Contributions to the Bryology and Hepaticology of North America; Description of the Observatory at Cambridge Massachusetts; On Some Applications of the Method of Mechanical Quadratures; Illustrations of Fossil Footprints of the Valley of the Connecticut. Cambridge [Mass.] : Charles Folsom, Metcalf & Co hardcover
1846022540Princes Street Soho London: John Churchill 1846. Second edition. Small octavo pp viii 205 i 10 page publisher's catalogue slightly age-toned and dusty internally the hinges at page 1 and page 2/3 a bit strained and open but not weak original red blind-stamped cloth rather dull and marked the joints rubbed lacking small pieces at the spine head the base of the spine a little bruised the binding leaning a little. With the armorial bookplate of Hunt of Aylesbury. RARE. . Second edition. Cloth. Good. John Churchill Hardcover
1867022229Basle & Geneva 1867. First edition 1867 - 1888. Latin text. Five volumes Supplement bound in seven pp xxxiv 1017; 1159; 1033; 1276; 868; xxxiv466 5 plates and a map of Geneva several taxonomic single sheet offprints by Bornmuller on new species have been tipped in at various points pages rather age-toned a very occasional early neat annotation traces of a small old label on each front endpaper strongly bound in ribbed half leather and mottled boards a little rubbed and scuffed but very firm. A duplicate from Cambridge University Botanic Garden Library with their small stamp and withdrawn stamp on each title page but no other markings. Swiss botanist and explorer Pierre Edmond Boissier was amongst the most prolific collectors of the 19th century. Travelling through much of Europe North Africa and the Middle East he produced a vast taxonomic output. The Flora Orientalis is a monumental work with Latin descriptions of 11681 species. Despite the relegation of several of his names through synonymy his publications represent pioneering work which has been used as the baseline reference for the national floras of all the regions he visited. RARE A heavy set - extra postage will be needed. First Edition. Half Leather. Good. Hardcover
1849015843London: Hippolyte Balliere 1849. The title continues.under the command of Capt. H. D. Trotter R.N. &c.; including Spicilegia gorgonea by P. B. Webb esq. and Flora nigritiana by Dr. J. D. Hooker . and George Bentham esq. with a sketch of the life of Dr. Vogel. Large octavo pp xvi 587 i with a tinted frontispiece a plain plate of views a map and 50 plates of botanical line drawings some folding on 43 leaves as the folding plates are double-numbered. The text is very clean the plates are a little foxed overall and rather age-toned on the margins. Original cloth slightly marked and very slightly worn with a new green calf spine retaining the original endpapers. Very firm and sound internally. From the library of the Kew botanist Nigel Hepper and the earlier provenance of Edgar Milne-Redhead. First Edition. Quarter leather. Good. Hippolyte Balliere Hardcover
1885173668Leipzig/Stuttgart, 1877 - 1885. M. 1 gest. Portr., 25 Taf. u. zahlr. Textholzschn. Einheitl. Hldrbde. d. Zt. m. Rückengoldpräg. Einbde. bestoßen. Ehemal. Bibliotheksex. m. St. a. mehr. S. Wenige S. braunfl.
1891035628London / New York: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1889 1891. Second Edition With Appendix . Blue Cloth. Near Fine. 360 Pp Title Page Indicates Second Edition Dated 1889; This The Enlarged 1891 Issue With 60 Pp Appendix At End New Title Page Dated 1891. Second And Best Edition With The 1891 Appendix As Issued 1891. Fisher Described The Mechanism Of Plate Tectonics In 1881 Ascribing It To Convection Currents In The Earth's Molten Interior. This Work On Continental Drift Went Unnoticed Or Ridiculed But Was More Consistent With Modern Science Than The Criticisms Of His Work. An Unopened Copy Pages Still Attached Along Top Edge. Black Endpapers Immaculate Binding Firm No Names Or Marks. Very Scarce. <br/> <br/> Macmillan & Co. Ltd. (1889) hardcover
184051268ABZürich, Honeggersche lithographische Anstalt, 1840. Folio. 4 n.n. Bl., 131 S. 1 Bl., 250 S., Vortitel, 46 Lithographien (inkl. Titel) und 91 Lithographien (inkl. Titel). Halblederband der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und Rückenvergoldung. Text- und Tafelband in 1 Band.
18993712616W. Holmes 1899. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. 4to 187 pages. Original blue cloth binding with silver title and crest to front cover. Exterior is heavily soiled and worn but there is minimal damage apart from some minor chipping to extremities. Binding is secure though there are some exposed gutters and pages are clean throughout though toned. 151 illustrations some in colour. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1400grams ISBN: W. Holmes hardcover
18475784726S. Lewis and Co 1847. Volumes 1-2 and Supplement . 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. Large black cloth 8vo with decorative blind borders on boards and gilt lettering and gilt borders on backstrip. Bumped corners and light general wear. Interior is secure clean and clear. Hinges in vol 1and 2 split. Supplementary Atlas volume is complete containing several large fold out maps. Interiors are secure clean and clear save for some foxing. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item4350grams ISBN: S. Lewis and Co hardcover