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18779602489Government of India 1877. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on backstrip. Large part of backstrip missing rest held in place with tape. Pages age toned with some light foxing towards front of book but rest of pageblock is clear. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item900grams ISBN: Government of India hardcover
18729635853Liverpool Naturalists Field Club 1872. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. 8vo. Cloth boards. Gilt lettering on front. Text block split from boards. Light foxing. Pages otherwise clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item400grams ISBN: Liverpool Naturalists Field Club hardcover
1868017950London: The Linnean Society 1868. With 6 engraved litho plates foxed and frayed quarto pp 157i loose and detached some foxing margins frayed and chipped the first few pages rather more so unbound. Extracted from Transactions of the Linnean Society Volume XXVI part the first. Munro 1818 - 1880 was a senior English Army officer and plant collector botanist and agrostologist. His botanical works included Hortus Bangalorensis and Hortus Agrensis. From the library of James Sykes Gamble with his signature on the title page and various annotations throughout; Gamble was an English botanist who specialized in the flora of the Indian sub-continent and author of The Bambuseae of British India. . First Edition. Unbound. Poor. The Linnean Society Paperback
18836732689John Murray 1883. 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. Cloth bound gilt lettering on backstrip shelf wear bumped corners tight binding slight foxing throughout. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1400grams ISBN: John Murray hardcover
18724312505Hermann Dabis 1872. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Super 8vo quarter-bound in marbled boards with blue cloth spine. Some general shelf wear discolouration/staining to exterior. Bumped corners. Moderate foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1150grams ISBN: Hermann Dabis hardcover
1833020203Oxford and London: Henry Slatter; Longman Rees Orme Brown Green & Longman; Whittaker Treacher & Arnot 1833. Illustrated with 12 plates and a large folding able octavo pp cxxxiii 338 the plates ae rather badly foxed the text is a little age-toned and very slightly foxed original green publisher's decorated cloth at some time neatly re-cased with original cream endpapers retained. With the book plate of Paul Harmes. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Henry Slatter; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman; Whittaker, Treacher & Arnot Hardcover
1867tnh101London: Williams & Norgate. VG : in very good condition. Cover rubbed. Slight foxing. 1867. First Edition. Half-leather marbled board cover. 220mm x 140mm 9" x 6". 462pp. 22 plates 1 in colour. Covers the years 1865 to 1867. Includes extensive section on Mollusca Crustacea Zoophytes and other marine papers. . Williams & Norgate hardcover
18865156530Parker & Co 1886. 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. Small octavo size. Cloth bound. Gilt lettering on spine. Tape across spine. Includes map of Oxfordshire. Clean and tight inside. Tape across inside binding. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item800grams ISBN: Parker & Co hardcover
1803e6725pParis: Chez Deterville. G : in good condition with marbled eps. Cover rubbed with loss to spine. Hinges weak. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. 1803. First Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 140mm x 90mm 6" x 4". 325pp plate. 2 hand-coloured plates. Text in French. . Chez Deterville hardcover
1803e6725bParis: Chez Deterville. G : in good condition with marbled eps. Cover rubbed with loss to spine. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. 1803. First Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 140mm x 90mm 6" x 4". xvi 324pp. Text in French. . Chez Deterville hardcover
1803e6725nParis: Chez Deterville. G : in good condition with marbled eps. Cover rubbed with loss to spine. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. 1803. First Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 140mm x 90mm 6" x 4". 323pp plates. 15 b/w plates. Text in French. . Chez Deterville hardcover
1831e6495Edinburgh: Daniel Lizars. Cover worn. Contents firm. Scattered browning. 1831. First Edition. Brown board cover. 160mm x 90mm 6" x 4". xxxiv 399pp. . Daniel Lizars unknown
185913815Simpkin Marshall & Co. London 1859. 2nd edition. V.g./No Jacket. Publisher's navy cloth Some abrasion to tip of spine and front hinge but a tidy copy overall. Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London hardcover
18832930792William Blackwood and Sons 1883. 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. Medium 8vo with brown cloth. Gilt lettering on front board and backstrip. Black border on front board. Interior is secure clean and clear. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item450grams ISBN: William Blackwood and Sons hardcover
184913630William Pamplin London 1849. 1st edition. Fair/No Jacket. Publisher's cloth Interior of front hinge stained by adhesive from a former repair; ffep absent. That apart a tidy copy containing both supplements. William Pamplin, London hardcover
1839021835London Cambridge Bath Paris & Leipzig: Longman & Co; H. Bailliere; G. Barraclough; E. Collings; J.A.G. Weigel 1839. 12mo pp xvi 132 rather age-toned and a bit marked internally pp xiii/xiv curiously spotted one tiny hole on the title page pencil notes on the rear endpaper and occasionally internally original cloth-backed boards a bit worn lacking the label. Ther are two tiny bookseller's tickets on the front endpaper - the original one of C. Le Feuvre Jersey and a later one of J.W. Mason & Son St Leonards on Sea. A contemporary owner's small stamp on the preface page and also on verso of the title page through which it can be seen. . First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Fair. Longman & Co; H. Bailliere; G. Barraclough; E. Collings; J.A.G. Weigel Hardcover
18924312728Thacker Spink and Co 1892. 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. Large 12mo dark green cloth binding with black decoration. Heavy shelf wear bumped corners. Front hinge split binding relatively firm. Illustrative frontispiece. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1000grams ISBN: Thacker, Spink, and Co hardcover
1896023396London: Sampston Low Marston & Company Limited 1896. With 15 text illustrations small octavo pages viii 135 iv a contemporary signature on the front endpaper - Thomas Sheppard very clean internally. Pictorial printed boards the corners worn a little slightly rubbed; red cloth spine very slightly worn. 16 pages of the main text are devoted to detailed descriptions of recommended cultivars. Farini then lists cultivar descriptions extracted from the catalogues of specialists such as John Laing & Sons H.J. Jones Sutton's John R. Box and Clibrans. The date of 1896 is confirmed in the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library Catalogue. RARE. Farini Guillermo Antonio 1838-1928 = William Leonard Hunt also known by the stage name The Great Farini was a well-known nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian funambulist entertainment promoter and inventor as well as the first known white man to cross the Kalahari Desert on foot and survive. He also published under the name Guillermo Antonio Farini. He performed many feats on high wires above the Niagara Falls but had to be rescued when attemting to do it on stilts! His life story reads like a Boys Own adventure novel ! Horticulture appears to have come late when he retired to Forest Hill London in 1890. He obviously bred his own Begonias as many bear his name. After 1899 he and his second wife the first had fallen from his shoulders from a high-wire! moved to Germany USA and finally settled in Canada. One of his unpublished works is a twenty-volume history of the first world war. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Good. Sampston Low, Marston & Company, Limited Hardcover
1881021714Breslau: J.U. Kern 1881. Octavo pp 571i a little age-toned but otherwise tight and clean contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards slightly worn the spine creased. A flora of Silesia. From the library of the nurseryman Will Ingwersem with his bookplate and also the cancelled label of Botaniska Institutionernas Bibliotek. First Edition. Quarter leather. Good. J.U. Kern Hardcover
18752928447Henry George Bohn 1875. 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. Large 8vo with green cloth. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Moderate foxing on some pages. Interior is secure clean and clear. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1150grams ISBN: Henry George Bohn hardcover
18955789352Clarendon Press 1895. Volume 1-2. 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. Large green cloth 8vo with brown leather half binding bordered with gilt. Gilt lettering borders and publisher motif on sun faded backstrip. Bumped corners and some general wear. Several tears in backstrip ends. Black end papers. Interior is secure clean and clear save for some light foxing. Trimmed. Ink stain on dore egde of vol. II. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item9100grams ISBN: Clarendon Press hardcover
1897016127Ilfracombe: Twiss & Sons 1897. Square 12mo measures 113mm x 147mm pp 2 68 slightly foxed and very slightly used internally but still very sound and firm paperback covers age-toned and very slightly worn. With the signature on the upper cover of the Devon botanist William Philip Hiern. VERY SCARCE. . First Edition. Paperback. Good. Twiss & Sons Paperback
1841018048Shrewsbury & London: John Davies & John van Voorst 1841. Thick octavo pp xii 573 illustrated with 20 simple engraved plates some small pencilled notes but otherwise clean internally but becoming weak an early signature and bookseller's embossed stamp on the front endpaper endpapers slightly marked but otherwise clean internally original publisher's quarter cloth and boards a bit rubbed and worn lacking small strips at the head and tail of the spine original paper spine label very dull and age-toned. . First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Good. John Davies & John van Voorst Hardcover
1868017397Vienna: Wilhelm Braumuller 1868. Octavo pp xii 303 fore-edge and lower edge untrimmed upper edge marbled a little age-toned but otherwise very good bound in later buckram faded leather title label on the spine the front hinge cracking but not weak. With the bookplate of Charles Carmichael Lacaita which is partially obscured by the bookplate of the nurserymen Walter and Will Ingwersen and also with Will Ingwersen's own later bookplate. Lacaita was a notable gentleman botanist who collected many plants. He developed a fine garden at Selham West Sussex during which he no doubt developed contact with the Ingwersens who inherited some of his library. A flora of Styria - Central Austria. Maly was an Austrian physician and botanist. First Edition. Buckram. Very Good. Wilhelm Braumuller Hardcover
1885014051Vienna: Karl Gerold's Sohn 1885. Two parts quarto pp 47 iii; 39 uncut contents a little marked and age-toned but sound the original wrappers rather worn chipped and frayed. RARE. From the library of the botanist and Director of Kew Gardens W.B. Turrill with his very faint signature on the upper cover. Felix Ritter von Luschan was an Austrian doctor anthropologist explorer archaeologist and ethnographer. . First Edition. Paperback. Good. Karl Gerold's Sohn Paperback