647 résultats
1933k0715aLondon: Taylor & Francis / The Royal Horticultural Society. VG : in very good condition. Occasional slight foxing. 1933. Limited Edition 40. Maroon hardback leather cover. 560mm x 390mm 22" x 15". ii viii 143pp 21pp 12pp plates. 40 hand-coloured plates. Published - volume one 1933-1940; volume two 1960 - 1962. Elwes' original monograph published in 1880. . Taylor & Francis / The Royal Horticultural Society hardcover
1932g4049London: A. Zwemmer. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Boards bowed with rubbing and bumping. Foxing to prelims and page edges. Front inner hinge cracked. Bookplate to front paste down. 1932. First UK Edition. Green hardback cloth cover with gilt titles and gilt embossed leaf Nigella Damascena to front board. 320mm x 260mm 13" x 10". XIII 120pp. 120 photogravure plates. Karl Blossfeldt June 13 1866 December 9 1932 was a German photographer sculptor teacher and artist who worked in Berlin Germany. He is best known for his close-up photographs of plants and living things published in 1929 as 'Urformen der Kunst'. He was inspired as was his father by nature and the ways in which plants grow. He believed that "the plant must be valued as a totally artistic and architectural structure.". Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . A. Zwemmer hardcover
19270228281A Kensington Place London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald 1927. First edition. Illustrated with 20 wood-engraved plates a wood-engraved headpiece and tailpiece to the contents pages tall quarto pp xii 85 untrimmed edges a slight light stain to the top margin of the pages a neat inscription on the front endpaper - "Michael Stewart from M. N. 18/1/31" otherwise clean ninternallyoriginal cloth-backed boards with gilt deoration a little faded and used the corners bruised and a bump on the lower edge a splash-mark on the front cover. Limited edition of 350 copies this one being number 316 printed on Renker's Ingres paper at the Curwen Press. The work was dedicated to the nurseryman Clarence Elliott. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Good. Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald Hardcover
1921019848London: L. Reeve & Co Ltd 1921. Illustrated with 64 hand-coloured plates of which four are folding large octavo very clean and bright internally original maroon buckram slightly worn the main wear being two short tears at the head of the spine. A duplicate from the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library with stamps and labels on the front endpaper but no other markings internally and none on the spine. With a dedication on the title page - "Alfred & Nora Hartley with kindest wishes from R.V. 21/XI/21". R.V. was Rupert Vallentin the artist's husband. Alfred Hartley was a notable artist and print-maker and was one of the illustrators of W.H. Hudson's "Idle Days in Patagonia". A publisher's note in the text was that a larger work was originally planned but Mrs Vallentin became too ill to continue and the illustrations were arranged with the help of Matilda Smith at Kew. . First Edition. Buckram. Good. L. Reeve & Co Ltd Hardcover
1975009628London: The Basilisk Press 1975. Folio measures 638mm x 455mm quarter morocco and marbled boards pp 30 double page map 25 fine mounted colour plates with accompanying text one plate slightly waved. otherwise a very good copy in fitted cloth-covered box a little marked and faded. Limited edition of 515 copies - this being number 200 . Extremely heavy - extra postage will be required. First Edition. Quarter calf and boards. Very Good. The Basilisk Press Hardcover
195755825Berkeley CA: Thomas Harper Goodspeed 1957-1958. Oblong 4to. 12 x 11.5 in. 43 leaves unnumbered. on thick green-tinted paper stock. With 70 original silver gelatin photographs mounted w/ black corners all w/ pencil annotations of species & samples on versos 3 removed each w/ pencil annotation indication below. Contemporary pebbled black cloth Super-Lock post binder rounded corners typed label below glassine spine window minor shelfwear rubbing an excellent exemplar. A remarkable photo album documenting the recognized species of tobacco plants as established by Thomas Harper Goodspeed who established in his groundbreaking 1954 Genus Nicotiana 13 infrageneric sections grouping 61 then-recognized species of nicotiana by common and cytogenetic characters. Tobacco plants are widely used in plant virology due mainly to the large number of diverse plant viruses that can successfully infect them as well as serving indispensable in studies of genetic variation protein localization and purification. Goodspeed 1887-1966 originally worked as Curator of the University of California Botanical Garden and was the key figure in overseeing the Garden’s relocation to Strawberry Canyon before serving as its’ director from 1934 to 1957. He spent decades tracing the origins via hybridization of the many varieties of cultivated tobacco plants and close relatives including species of the genus drawn from the Americas Antarctica and Australasia. No similar collections located in Worldcat; See: Nicotiana: Procedures for Experimental Use Vol. 1586 pp. 13 32 106; Goodspeed The Genus Nicotiana 1954; Goodin Zaitlin Naidu & Lommel Nicotiana Benthamiana: Its History and Future as Model for Plant-Pathogen Interactions 2008 MPMI Vol. 21 No. 8 pp. 1015-1026; University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley Archives Director Thomas Harper Goodspeed Oct. 13 2016. Thomas Harper Goodspeed, hardcover
1929g4048London: A. Zwemmer. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Lacking fep. Light foxing to prelims and endpapers. Occasional marginal page tears. 1929. First UK Edition. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. 320mm x 260mm 13" x 10". xv 120pp. With 120 photogravure plates. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . A. Zwemmer hardcover
1968021660London: The Tryon Gallery 1968. Folio. Illustrated with 32 stunning colour plates each with a page of description pp 8 a double page map of collecting localities blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and with artist's name lettered in gilt on upper cover possibly the only copy with htis binding with original acetate dustcover a very bright copy inthe original green slipcase. Limited edition of 500 copies - this one being hors-series and labelled "File Copy". A large and very heavy book - extra postage will be necessary. First Edition. Cloth in slipcase. Very Good. Illus. by Margaret Mee. The Tryon Gallery Hardcover
1921019945London: L. Reeve & Co Ltd 1921. Illustrated with 64 hand-coloured plates of which four are folding large octavo very slightly used internally the fore-edgeslightly marked original maroon buckram slightly worn with the spine head a little pulled and with two short tears also a slight split to the lower joint. A duplicate from the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library with stamps and labels on the front endpaper but no other markings internally and none on the spine. A publisher's note in the text was that a larger work was originally planned but Mrs Vallentin became too ill to continue and the illustrations were arranged with the help of Matilda Smith at Kew. . First Edition. Buckram. Good. L. Reeve & Co Ltd Hardcover
1950BO-16Royal Society of Canada: University of Toronto Press 1950. Classic highly acclaimed scholarly text the final volume of the distinguished author's research work on the fungi compiled and assembled by the editior for publication after Dr. Buller's untimely death in 1943. Topics covered include: the Pycnidia and Proto-Aecidia of the Uredinales; flexous hyphae in the Uredinales; union of Pycnidiospores and flexous hyphae in Puccinia Garminis and three other rusts; Cronartium Ribicola and its sexual process; Puccinia Suaveolens and its sexual process; Genus Gymnosporangium; modes of initiating the sexual process in the rust fungi; review of cytological work on the sexual process in Heterothallic Uredinales; comparison of the sexual processes in the Uredinales with those in the Hymenomycetes; the geological time during which the Pycnidia of the Uredinales attained their present form and function with some remarks on the evolution of other Entomophilous fungi; etc. 458 pgs. Illustrated with 124 figures. Includes two short poetic works by the author titled "Pond Life" and "Sporobolomycetologist" the latter piece has the author's signature and date on the lower part of the page. Includes a portrait of the author and scientific affiliations and honours. Prior owner's small stamps to endpapers lower margin of copyright pg. and pg.99 and outer edges. Front hinge repaired tiny piece of endpaper covering the inside board missing near the spine edge; binding tight. Spine label neatly removed with very minor residue remaining; corners slightly bumped; some minor rubbing and average shelfwear. Gilt spine and front cover visible and unmarked. Scarce. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Professional Library. University of Toronto Press Hardcover
19056225z1905. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub.1905/Gd. condition - Text in French Only. Discusses the botany of Africa's Congo . L36225z paperback
192974470Brunn: Rudolf M. Rohrer 1929. First edition of the first volume of a proposed series entitled "Totius orbis flora photographica arte depicta." of which only two volumes were issued; the other was about Europe. The text in German volume octavo is 69 1 pp. and is bound in publisher's printed steel gray wrappers. The atlas included consists of 100 loose stiff cards; each with an original photograph of the plant under discussion and botanical information printed in English German. and French The photographs are mounted into slits in the cars. The whole housed in the publisher's green cloth clamshell case with gilt lettering. The box is worn but sturdy. The photographs are sharp and clear. Very good and scarce.This is a photographically illustrated discussion of the flora of Trinidad and the West Indies. The author was a member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and founded the Botanical Institute of the University of Prague. Rudolf M. Rohrer hardcover
19145789225Government of New Zealand 1914. 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. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item6100grams ISBN: Government of New Zealand hardcover
19012378600B.T. Batsford 1901. 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. Loose plates kept together within a green portfolio. One of the ties has been cut away and each plate has a round library stamp on it. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1550grams ISBN: B.T. Batsford hardcover
1951016364London: Collins 1951. Finely illustrated with 12 colour plates and 21 black and white collotype plates all with tissue guards folio pp viii 20 half brown morocco and gray boards very slightly marked the morocco lightly rubbed at the fore-edge. The endpapers are a little foxed which also affect the first preliminary pages. Number 49 of a limited edition of 250 copies specially bound and on hand-made paper; signed by the three contributors - Geoffrey Grigson Handasyde Buchanan and William Thomas Stearn. Very heavy - extra postage will be required. Half-Leather. Very Good. Collins Hardcover
1992BO-4Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1992. Comprehensive text presents detailed papers from leading international plant experts dealing with the uncertain etiology of diseases in plants and practical methods of plant diseases control. Topics covered include lethal yellowing of palms; plant viroids in Poland; tropical mollicute diseases of plants; etiological research on coconut and oil palm diseases of unknown origin; vectorless pathogens with undiscovered vectors; noninfectious diseases of uncertain etiology; coconut diseases of unknown etiology; plant diseases associated with mites as vectors of known viruses and unknown etiological agents; etc. 230 pgs. Illustrated with black/white and mostly color plates. Publisher's stamp on front endpaper. Minor tiny scuff on outer edge. Endpapers slightly recessed. Dustjacket in mylar. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Westview Press Hardcover
1984ES-103Orlando FL.: Academic Press 1984. Comprehensive revised reference text presents detailed updated topics covering the role of allelopathy in the prevention of seed decay and in the nitrogen cycle; chemical nature of allelopathic compounds; factors affecting concentrations of allelochemics in plants; mechanisms of action of alllelopathic agents; terminology and early history of allelopathy; important roles of allelopathy in forestry agriculture plant pathology and natural ecosystems; etc. Includes a listing of the phyla of plants that have allelopathic species. 422 pgs. Illustrated. Prior owner's nameplate pastedown on front endpaper. Dustjacket in mylar. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Academic Press Hardcover
1993BO-39Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1993. Comprehensive highly acclaimed reference text presents detailed topics covering the philosophy and technology of crop improvement disciplines including genetic and cytogenetic structure of plants; statistical applications and field plot technique in plant breeding; the pedigree system; backcross breeding and bulk population methods; heterosis and inbreeding cross-fertilized crops; interspecific and intergeneric hybridization; Haploid breeding systems; cell and molecular biology tools for plant breeding; mass and pure-line selection; asexual breeding systems; cultivar release seed certification and multiplication and proprietary protection; etc. 531 pp. Illustrated. Rear cover corners slightly bumped. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/ . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Westview Press Hardcover
1914022866Wellington: John Mackay Government Printer 1914. First edition. Two volumes. Large quarto pp 8 iv 122 plates with their text pages; vi 129 plates with their text pages slight foxing to the fore-edges a little foxing to the first title page which also has a vertical crease to it otherwise extremely clean and bright internally original green cloth with black embossed decoration on the front covers the spine heads a little creased otherwise in really extremely bright condition The plates are drawn by Matilda Smith. From the library of Kenneth Lazenby a founding member of the Alpine Garden Society. with his bookplate in each volume. The number of plates is regularly given as 250; this is incorrect as it overlooks the fact that there is a bis plate at 31A. This is noted in the copies at London Library and at Oxford and Cambridge. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Matilda Smith. John Mackay, Government Printer Hardcover
1905017314The Carnegie Institution of Washington 1905. First edition. Illustrated with thirty fine botanical plates of which 11 are in colour 82 text illustratione large quarto pp xiv 279 an exceptionally clean copy internally recently bound in strong blue cloth with a red label. Very good. A heavy book - extra postage may be needed. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. The Carnegie Institution of Washington Hardcover
19016247793Taylor & Francis Ltd. 1901. Volumes 1 1901 and 2 1908. First editions.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. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item3600grams ISBN: Taylor & Francis Ltd. hardcover
1949018696London: The Hand & Flower Press 1949. Illustrated with twenty delightful etched plates each one signed in pencil by Betty Shaw-Lawrence small quarto pp 90 2 a decorated title page engraved by Alfred Richard Lane top edge gilt the other edges untrimmed half-morocco and boards a slight fading to the spine otherwise a very good copy. Limited edition of 260 copies numbered and signed printed at the Ditchling Press - this one being number 12. From the library of the Kew botanist Vicki Matthews. with her bookplate in her married name - Victoria and Brinsley Burbidge. Also with the earlier bookplate of Rae Wilson designed by J. Younger. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good. Illus. by Betty Shaw-Lawrence. The Hand & Flower Press Hardcover
1929020734London: Martin Hopkinson 1929. Illustrated octavo pp 224 the fore-edge foxed scattered foxing throughout the hinge before the half-title stretched green cloth slightly marked the dustwrapper is a little worn stretched and repaired but largely complete and now protected in a removable clear cover. E.A. Bowles' copy with an inscription "from the author" on the half-title with a book review pasted in and also an obituary of Hall pasted on the front endpaper. There are just a few small annotations by Bowles. But a folder a the rear contains a frayed advertising flyer for the book a tiny pressed specimen of a tulip species preserved in Myddelton House notepaper four signed letters to Bowles from the author an offprint of an article by Hall from The Journal of Botany and a typed list of tulip species from the Dutch nurseryman Jan Roes. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Fair. Martin Hopkinson Hardcover
1965023062Gregg Press 1965. Facsimile reprint with a biographical and bibliographical introduction by William T. Stearn. Five volumes small octavo red cloth a very good set. RARE. . Cloth. Very Good. Gregg Press Hardcover
1980018727Vaduz: J. Cramer 1980. Two volumes large very thick octavo pp with 463 simple line drawings and 1300 distribution maps pp xiv 2591 a slight corner crease to the first two pages in the first volume otherwise extremely clean internally green cloth very slightly marked but overall a very good bright set. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. J. Cramer Hardcover
