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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
17341507160043Amsterdam : Pierre Mortier 1734-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Bound in contemporary mottled calf. Gilt spine. 5 raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Page ends washed red. Good binding and cover. Wear to extremities. Black staining to 3rd 5th compartments. Chipping and loss to head and 6th compartment of spine. Library stamps from the University of Georgia. Unmarked pages with some toning and foxing spots. Ships daily. <br> This volume contains De la Resistance cause'e dans les Machines tant par les frottemens des parties qui les composent que par la roideur des Cordes qu'on y employe & la maniere de calculer l'un & l'autre which published Amontons rediscovery of the laws of friction tribology first put forward by Leonardo da Vinci. Though they were received with some scepticism the laws were verified by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb in 1781. DSB I p. 138. Also contains Moyen de substituer Commodement L'Action du Feu a la Force des Hommes et des Chevaux pour mouvoir les Machines also by Amontons with the engraving of Moulin a Feu which is the first appearance of the thermic motor hot air engine historically called an air engine or caloric engine. "As early as 1699 Amontons proposed a thermic motor: a machine using hot air and external combustion with direct rotation. The experiments carried on in connection with this machine led him to note that ordinary air going from the temperature of ice to that of boiling water increases in volume by about one third."DSB I p. 139 Amsterdam : Pierre Mortier 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
20142081502111903316Bunbutsu 2014. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Bunbutsu paperback
1784biblio48vo 190 x 120mm. pp. 18 511 with 3 engraved plates. Original calf gilt spine; lightly rubbed else fine. First edition. Marks of previous owner. Pictures on demand. Please contact me ramrozzi@yahoo.fr<br /> Cuchet
1790018728The Architectural Library: I. & J. Taylor 1790. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece 28 engraved plates octavo pp 14 two-page publisher's catalogue at the rear age-toning and some signs of use internally though this is usually restricted to the margins with the contemporary signature of V. Owen Smythe of Condover Park and loosely inserted is the later armorial bookplate of Reginald Cholmondeley of Condover Hall also loosely inserted is a further publishers' catalogue of 16 pages uncut and partially unopened the first page of which is detached; finely bound in full red crushed morocco with ornate gilt decoration on both covers the spine gilt with raised bands and a small black morocco label contained in a custom-made box of marbled paper over boards a red calf spine and cloth lined; the binder is not known but the inked initials "T.A.B. 1974" on the rear endpaper may identify them. From the library of the gardening historian Anthony Huxley with his stamp on the front endpaper. RARE. First published in 1767 the Sir John Soane Library suggests this is probably the third edition of this pattern book although the second could also be possible. Apparently highly influential though nothing seems to be known of its author. New Edition. Full morocco in box. Very Good. I. & J. Taylor 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
1792018826London: J. Davis for B. White et Filiorum 1792. Engraved frontispiece twelve folding plates with slight offsetting but otherwise good octavo pp l 390 16 light age-toning and occasional light foxing bound in twentieth century brown morocco with red cloth sides slight fading and very slight wear. With the bookplate of Kenneth Lazenby a founding father of the Alpine Garden Society. In the first edition of Flora Lapponica 1737 Linnaeus's ideas about nomenclature and classification were first used in a practical way making that the first proto-modern flora. This upddate by Smith cites Linnaeus as the main author and uses Linnaeus' binomial nomenclature. Second edition. Half-Leather. Very Good. J. Davis for B. White et Filiorum Hardcover
2010SBS-9780754627531ASHGATE 2010. Hardcover. New. ASHGATE hardcover
2010SBS-9780754627531ASHGATE 2010. Hardcover. New. ASHGATE hardcover
1693016899Spread Eagle Westminster hall : Matthew Gillyflower & James Partidge 1693. First English edition. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece nine engraved plates of eleven - so LACKING two plates a few small wooducts in the text many charming engraved chapter headings folio title page printed in red and black pp 42 188 208 4 80 the top bottom and fore-edge red a few blemishes internally but overall very clean the hinge before the frontispiece cracked but sound contemprary calf rebacked probably in the ealy nineteenth century a little bumped and worn the spine with more wear and a little splitting and fraying at the head and tail. An early un-named owner obviously a knowledgeable and proficient gardener has contributed half a page of manuscript notes on the first front blank in which he questions inter alia why the author has not included mustard-seed in the list of all things that a kitchen-garden should contain; there are also neat marginal notes throughout in the same hand - these are in no way detrimental and indeed enhance the book. Blanche Henrey 218. One of the most influential books in the history of fruit culture. Evelyn's edition though almost certainly the translation work of George London not only brought the French work to an entirely new audience it added short sections on the culture of orange trees and melons which were not in the original. First English edition. Full-Leather. Good. Matthew Gillyflower & James Partidge Hardcover
1792018827London: J. Davis for B. White et Filiorum 1792. Engraved frontispiece a little browned as is ithe title page twelve folding plates with slight offsetting and more age-toning and three with a little staining but otherwise good octavo pp l 390 16 light age-toning and occasional light foxing the hinge after the title page slightly open but absolutely no weakness quite a few interesting early neat marginal notes bound in contemporary boards a bit worn and marked a recent brown leather spine slightly scuffed. With the armorial bookplate of George Augustus Thursby; it is likely that he contributed the manuscript notes. In the first edition of Flora Lapponica 1737 Linnaeus's ideas about nomenclature and classification were first used in a practical way making that the first proto-modern flora. This upddate by Smith cites Linnaeus as the main author and uses Linnaeus' binomial nomenclature. Second edition. Quarter leather. Very Good. J. Davis for B. White et Filiorum Hardcover
1773015679London: S. Hooper 25 Ludgate-Hill 1773. Second edition greatly improved. Illustrated with one plate foxed octavo pp xxxii 298 2 136 slight age-toning and blemishes heavier spotting and foxing between pages 77 and 98 possibly caused by the different paper of the plate otherwise very sound and tight contemporary half calf and marbled boards rubbed and slightly worn rebacked at some point with the old spine laid down the spine now slightly worn at head and foot. With armorial bookplate of Peter Clutterbuck and a slightly odd offset on the facing blank. RARE. Weston was originally a thread-hosier of Leicester but in some of his anonymous works describes himself as "a country gentleman". In 1773 he was living at Kensington Gore but later was living at Leicester where he was secretary of the local agricultural society. From the number of his published works it is evident he had a very wide knowledge of plants and plant literature. Blanche Henrey 1490 - "Richard Weston 1733-1806 appears to have had an excellent knowledge of nursery gardening and nurserymen's sale catalogues. He was interested in agriculture and all forms of horticulture and he also made a study of horticultural and botanical literature.Weston's first important published work appeared in 1769 anonymously. This was his Tracts on practical agriculture and gardening. At the end of this volume and in subsequent editions of the work is a very useful 'Catalogue of English authors.on husbandry gardening botany and subjects relative thereto''. This catalogue is greatly extended in this rare second edition. Second edition. Half-Leather. Good. S. Hooper, 25 Ludgate-Hill Hardcover
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
19792110502150907602Hosei University Press 1979. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 24 Hosei University Press paperback
1990x-0422801801Routledge 1990. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 358 pages. 9.21x5.98x0.94 inches. Routledge hardcover
016371No place but Champaign Illinois: Privately Printed 1991. Very scarce said to be limited to only 6 copies. Appears unread. Fine condition. NOT a library discard. A bright clean square tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh crisp and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall by 1.75" thick. Posthumously printed memoirs of Ralph Early Grim 1902-1989 geologist and Research Professor Emeritus Department of Geology University of Illinois Urbana. The February 2009 newsletter of THE CLAY MINERALS SOCIETY photocopy laid-in contains a tribute to Grim from the University of New Mexico's Dewey Moore. In it Moore writes: "The contrast between his rather humble origins and his lofty reputation as a scientist and world traveler was perhaps the stimulant for him to write his memoirs. After his death his wife Frances E. Grim had them transcribed and a few perhaps 6 copies bound. The original copy of MEMOIRS OF RALPH EARLY GRIM is in the University of Illinois Main Library archives; one copy rests in the Clay Minerals Society's archives." Handsomely bound in the original maroon pebble-grain full leather stamped in shiny gold on the spine and front cover. From Dewey Moore's tribute: "In 1951 Grim shifted to the University of Illinois Geology Department. From this base Grim put his mark on the clay minerals profession: guidance at the 1951 meeting in St. Louis that served as the incubation for what was to become The Clay Minerals Society; his 1953 publication of CLAY MINERALOGY; and the publication of his APPLIED CLAY MINERALOGY 1962. From this point on most of us are familiar with Ralph Grim's history. His books proved to be the vehicles that carried clay science into maturity as a discipline. His professional activities led to many accolades from his peers. The ultimate honor for a mineralogist is to be awarded the Roebling Medal by the Mineralogical Society of America. Ralph Grim accepted this award in 1974. For what could be called the corresponding award for consulting the Ivory Coast in western Africa bestowed on Professor Grim in 1973 the title of Chevalier Knight. Ralph Grim earned this highest honor for a non-citizen for developing local professionals to take over the duties of the Ivory Coast Geological Survey during his 15 visits to the country and for discovering a huge iron deposit in the western part of the country." This large heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments but only the standard charge for media mail. First Edition 1 of only 6 copies. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket probably as issued. vi 689pp. Privately Printed Hardcover
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
2010SBS-9780754627555ASHGATE 2010. Hardcover. New. ASHGATE hardcover
2010SBS-9780754627555ASHGATE 2010. Hardcover. New. ASHGATE 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
019713George Yard Lombard Street: William Phillips Published 1803 - 1804. First Issue. Thee volumes well illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece and 119 hand coloured plates as usual the plates are erratically bound but all are present all edges gilt in Volume 2 bound in modern blue cloth with only very slight signs of use. Despite the rather plain binding the contents are overall in remarkably bright condition. There is a little offsetting of plate on to text and occasionally of text on to plate but there are only six plates where this is really noticeable and of these plate 91 is rather poor. In Volume 1 the second plate is bound slightly on a skew so that the margin protrudes slightly at the top and fore-edge; in Volume 2 a number of the descriptive leaves are bound together at the end rather than opposite the plate they describe. Volume 3 concludes with Thortnon's "Sketch of the Life and Writings of the Late Mr William Curtis 33 pages. Ignoring the minor oddities of the set there is a remarkable freshness about the paper quality and the colouring. . First Edition. Cloth. Good. William Phillips 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