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189818482Very Good. 1898. Print. This is the cover only from Forms & Fantasies which was illustrated by Henry Erkins. The red cover has a black smudge near the lower left corner and two 1/8" tears at the top edge but in very good condition. 12" x 9.5". . unknown
189818483Good. 1898. Print. This is the cover only from Forms & Fantasies which was illustrated by Henry Erkins. The red cover has water splatter stains in the upper left and bottom margins but good condition. 12" x 9.5". . unknown
1872195548New York.: Harper's Weekly. 23 November1872. Five engravings in three columns 23.5 x 10 cms; on a single newspaper leaf 28.7 x 40.8 cm unrelated text on the verso lower margin creased with a small central tear affecting the caption no loss the image sin very good condition. Engravings from Harper's Weekly in November 1872 all centred on the quinine production in Darjeeling. Production began in the 1860s from seeds sent by the famed botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. Quinine proved indispensable to British rule in India and they invested heavily in plantations to sure up supply.The anti-malarial was vital for colonial expansion "quinine coursed through the bloodstream of empire" Townsend Middleton "Becoming after: The Lives and Politics of Quinine’s Remains" in Cultural Anthropology Vol. 36 Issue 2 pp. 282-311 2014 although probably known more to the readers of Harper's Weekly as an essential for gin and tonic. <br> <br>The five engravings: <br>Foot-Bridge over the River Rungbee <br>Buttress of Suspension Bridge over the River Teestah <br>Cinchona Succirubra Thirty Feet High signed but indecipherable <br>Native of Sikkim <br>Cane Suspension Bridge over the Great Runjeet. . Harper's Weekly. unknown
1893biblio366Hartford Conn: American publishing company 1893. Fine. <p> </p><p>Chromolitography 7 3/4 x 12 1/4 Print provided from the portofolio: Our Navy Its Growth and Achievements</p><p> </p> American publishing company unknown
1850247341850. Very good condition. An archive of 27 portraits of the founding fathers of botany including Dodoens Leeuwenhoek Grew Hill Aldrovandi Smith Desfontaines Palisot Gessner Everard Bonnet Banks Buffon Gray Evelyn Linnaeus Cuvier Klein Clusius and Agassiz.<br /> <br /> 1. Rembert Dodoens born Rembert Van Joenckema 1517 – 1585 was a Flemish physician and botanist. Rembert Dodoens Rembertus Dodonaeus was one of the great botanists of the 16th century who pursued a knowledge of plants in their own right not simply for medicinal uses. Contemporary copper engraving 4 7/8 x 7" on 7 3/8 x 10 1/2".<br /> <br /> 2. Antonius Leeuwenhoek 1632 - 1723 Dutch "Father of Microbiology" with botanical importance who worked with William III of Orange and his wife Mary II of England and Tsar Peter the Great of Russia. Copper engraving 5 1/2 x 7 1/8".<br /> <br /> 3. Nehemiah Grew 1641 – 1712 was an English plant anatomist and physiologist known as the "Father of Plant Anatomy". Copper engraving 5 3/4 x 9 1/4".<br /> <br /> 4. John Hill ca. 1714 – 1775 was an English author and botanist who contributed to contemporary periodicals including the botanical compendium 'The Vegetable System'. Copper engraving 8 7/8 x 11 1/4" on 9 5/8 x 12 1/2".<br /> <br /> 5. Ulisse Aldrovandi 1522 – 1605 was an Italian naturalist professor of botany and one of the founders of the Bologna's botanical garden one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the Comte de Buffon considered Aldrovandi the father of natural history studies. 5 7/8 x 8 3/8".<br /> <br /> 6. Sir James Edward Smith 1759 – 1828 was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society 5 x 7" on 8 7/8 x 11 5/8".<br /> <br /> 7. Rene Louiche Desfontaines 1750 – 1833 was a French botanist who studied medicine. His interest in botany originated from lectures given by Louis Guillaume Lemonnier at the Jardin des Plantes 9 1/4 x 12 1/4".<br /> <br /> 8. Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel 1776 – 1854 was a French botanist and politician. He was a founder of the science of plant cytology 9 1/2 x 12 1/2".<br /> <br /> 9. Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot Baron de Beauvois 1752 - 1820 Paris was a French naturalist who was trained as a botanist and published an important paper on American entomology 9 x 12".<br /> <br /> 10. Antoine Laurent de Jussieu 1748 – 1836 was a French botanist notably the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; his system remains largely in use today 9 1/2 x 12 1/2". <br /> <br /> 11. Conrad Gessner 1516 – 1565 was a Swiss physician and naturalist regarded as the father of modern scientific bibliography zoology and botany. Gessner was working on a major botanical text at the time of his early death from the plague 3 5/8 x 5 1/8" on 6 1/8 x 7 7/8".<br /> <br /> 12. Michael Rotenbeck 1569 - 1623 physician and collector of botanical works. Copper engraving 7 5/8 x 4 3/4" on 13 x 8 1/2".<br /> <br /> 13. Dr. Giles Everard or Gilles Everaerts 16th century; active in 1580s Dutch physician who wrote works on the beneficial medicinal effects of tobacco smoking. Copper engraving 4 7/8 x 6" on 8 1/2 x 10".<br /> <br /> 14. Charles Bonnet 1720 – 1793 Naturalist and philosophical writer. He coined the term phyllotaxis to describe the arrangement of leaves on a plant. 8 1/2 x 12 1/2".<br /> <br /> 15. Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788 was a French naturalist mathematician cosmologist and encyclopediste. Buffon was the director at the Jardin du Roi now called the Jardin des Plantes. Buffon published 36 quarto volumes of his 'Histoire Naturelle' during his lifetime. Ernst Mayr wrote that "Truly Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century". 4 1/2 x 6 3/8" on 9 x 11 1/2".<br /> <br /> 16. Sir Joseph Banks 1st Baronet GCB PRS 1743 – 1820 English naturalist botanist and patron of the natural sciences. 7 x 10 3/8".<br /> <br /> 17. Asa Gray 1810 – 1888 is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. His Darwiniana was significant as an explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually exclusive. Gray was convinced that a genetic connection existed between all members of a species. He was opposed to the idea of hybridization within one generation and believed evolution was guided by a Creator. 6 x 8 5/8".<br /> <br /> 18. John Evelyn 1620 - 1706 author and botanist noted for his knowledge of trees. Evelyn's treatise Sylva or A Discourse of Forest-Trees 1664 was written as an encouragement to landowners to plant trees to provide timber for the English navy. 8 x 10".<br /> <br /> 19. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778 Carl von Linne was a Swedish botanist physician and zoologist who formalized binomial nomenclature the modern system of naming organisms. 6 images: 4 1/2 x 6 1/2" 6 x 8 1/2" 4 7/8 x 8 5 1/2 x 9" 7 x 10 1/2" 6 1/4 x 8 1/2".<br /> <br /> 20. Jean Leopold Nicolas Frederic Baron Cuvier 1769 – 1832 known as Georges Cuvier was a French naturalist and zoologist instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. 4 images: 5 x 8 1/4" 6 3/4 x 9 7/8" 6 x 9" 7 1/2 x 10".<br /> <br /> 21. Jacob Theodor Klein 1685 – 1759 was a German jurist historian botanist zoologist mathematician and diplomat in service of Polish King August II the Strong. 9 x 14 5/8" on 9 1/2 x 15 1/2".<br /> <br /> 22. Charles de l'Ecluse L'Escluse or Carolus Clusius 1526 – 1609 was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists. 4 5/8 x 6 5/8".<br /> <br /> 23. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz 1807 – 1873 was a Swiss-American biologist and geologist recognized as an innovative and prodigious scholar of Earth's natural history. 9 1/4 x 12 1/4".<br /> <br /> 24. John Lindley 1799 - 1865 English botanist and orchidologist whose orchid collection was housed at Kew's herbarium noted for his 'Theory and Practice of Horticulture'.<br /> <br /> 25. Joseph Decaise 1807 - 1882 French botanist and agronomist. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4".<br /> <br /> 26. Louis Van Houtte 1810 -1876. Belgian horticulturist. Published the "Journal Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe". 5 1/2 x 8 3/4".<br /> <br /> 27. Georg Eberhard Rumphius Rumpf 1627 - 1702 Batavian botanist best known for his work Herbarium Amboinense a catalogue of the plants of the island of Amboina Indonesia. 9 1/2 x 14".<br /> <br /> The portraits mainly steel engraved some lithographic mostly 4to. All in very good condition. unknown
1819006595London: H. R. Young; and T. H. Whitely 1819. Hardcover. Fair . Volume 1 only. xii 171 1 p. 39 leaves of engraved plates; 30 cm. Calf boards. Marbled endpapers. Bound in following the title page is a slip "To the Public" stating that two of the prints Will Ellis and William Carstairs would "be delivered in the second volume." A pencilled note below states that they were never published and that the biographical sketches of the two found here were omitted from the small paper edition. Former owner's inscription on blank page following front endpapers: "James A. Taylor Nov 1884 No. 2035." This volume contains descriptions and portraits of interesting people from the reigns of William III and Queen Anne ranging from John Gale "a singular Deaf and Dumb Man" and Harry "an Old Raree-show-man" to Yorkshire Nan "Prince George's Cap Woman" and Daniel Defoe "a Political Writer and Novelist". In Fair Condition: lacking spine; front board detached but present; first few leaves of text partially detached; shadows from plates on facing pages of text; occasional foxing; otherwise clean and bright. H. R. Young; and T. H. Whitely hardcover
1871FOSTERBI004667E. Moxon London. 1871. First edition thus: illustrated with 22 exquisite engravings by Birket Foster. Quarto. pp viii 109 1 adverts. 22 plates. Fine period binding by H. Sotheran of full straight-grain morocco with raised bands gilt decoration and rules all edges gilt.A bit of foxing here and there otherwise fine. E. Moxon, London. hardcover
1805046033New York: John Low 1805. Please read complete description. Scarce single plate volume XXI for Low's encyclopedia first such reference published in the United States in seven volumes from 1805 to 1811. Heavily worn volume containing 46 plates original total unknown numbered by section not consecutively with the following subjects: Scenography incorrectly identified as stenography on front cover; Sculpture; Shadow; Ships; Short Hand; Silk Manufactures; Steam Engine; Stereotomy; Stocking Frame; Stone Henge; Sugar Mill; Surgery. Paper covered boards with remains of leather spine two blanks at front and at rear about 10.75 x 8.5 inches. Covers heavily worn and detached spine chipping away blanks and final plate detached paper very age-browned and somewhat brittle especially nearest the edges some stray spots closed tear to one of the Steam Engines plates another plate with repair to reverse side generally very worn. . Hard Cover. Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Low Hardcover
1866biblio541Montréal: John Lovell 1866. Very Good. <p>Tinted lithograph from photograph 255x330mm margins brownished image clean</p> John Lovell unknown
1866biblio545Montréal: John Lovell 1866. Very Good. <p>Tinted lithograph after photograph 255x330 mm brownished margins not affected image</p> John Lovell unknown
1866biblio542Montréal: John Lovell 1866. Very Good. <p>Tinted lithograph after photograph 255x330 mm margins brownished image clean</p> John Lovell unknown
189218645Keystone Publishing Company. Good. 1892. Prints. Antique advertising lithograph on the reverse side of Souvenir of the Grand Review. Several short tears in margin and one longer tear of 1.25" that extends slightly into the lithograph. Toned but with 3 fold lines only 1 as issued. . Keystone Publishing Company unknown
181818667London: John Murray. Very Good. 1818. Map. This original 1818 map is toned with 2 clipped corners in the margins and a couple short tears in the margins but overall in very good condition. 4 fold lines as issued. 20" x 10.5" . John Murray unknown
181818654London: John Murray. Very Good. 1818. Print. This original 1818 aquatint is toned with very faint modest soiling near the exterior edge of the margin and shadow of text from page it faced in book but overall in very good condition. 10.5" x 8.25" . John Murray unknown
181818653London: John Murray. Very Good. 1818. Print. This original 1818 aquatint is toned with faint soiling and shadow of text from page it faced in book but overall in very good condition. 10.5" x 8.25" . John Murray unknown
181818656London: John Murray. Very Good. 1818. PRIN. This original 1818 aquatint is toned with very fain modest thumbing in margins and faint shadow of text from page it faced in book but overall in very good condition. 10.5" x 8.25" . John Murray unknown
181818652London: John Murray. Very Good. 1818. Print. This original 1818 aquatint is toned with with modest soiling in lower left margin and shadow of text from page it faced in book but overall in very good condition. 10.5" x 8.25" . John Murray unknown
181818657London: John Murray. Very Good. 1818. Print. This original 1818 aquatint is toned with very faint modest thumbing in margins and faint shadow of text from page it faced in book but overall in very good condition. 10.5" x 8.25" . John Murray unknown
181818658London: John Murray. Very Good. 1818. Print. This original 1818 aquatint is toned with very faint modest thumbing in margins and faint shadow of text from page it faced in book but overall in very good condition. 10.5" x 8.25" . John Murray unknown
181818655London: John Murray. Very Good. 1818. Print. This original 1818 aquatint is toned with faint shadow of text from page it faced in book but overall in very good condition. 10.5" x 8.25" . John Murray unknown
1866biblio546Montréal: John Lovell 1866. Very Good. <p>Tinted lithograph after photograph 255x330 mm brownished margins not affected image Small spot in the sky</p> John Lovell unknown
1866biblio543Montréal: John Lovell 1866. Very Good. <p>Tinted lithograph after photograph 255x330 mm brownished margins image clean</p> John Lovell unknown
1812004503London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . 8vo 419 pages contemporary full calf joints rehinged inked name on half-title page no spine labels. <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol. 4 of 20 : covering the Domesticated Animals especially dogs. 49 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004512London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 514 pages contemporary full calf inked name on half-title page no spine labels <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vols. 19 of 20 : being vol. 9 of The History of Birds with coverage of avocets curlews Ibis grebes plovers merganser frigate pelican sea gulls etc . 40 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004510London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 467 pages contemporary full calf joints repaired inked name on half-title page no spine labels heel of spine chipped. <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vols. 15 of 20 : being vol. 5 of The History of Birds with coverage of manikins anters flycatchers larks nightingales wheatear fauvettes. 22 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
