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1868015803Malvern: Simpkin Marshall & Co 1868. Third edition enlarged and corrected. Small octavo pp viii 166 2 pages of advertisements with a hand coloured frontispiece of a transverse section through the hills a neat signature on the front endpaper otherwise extremely clean internally green cloth with only very slight signs of use a very good copy indeed. . Third edition. Cloth. Very Good. Simpkin, Marshall & Co Hardcover
189076929Washington D.C.: Department of Agriculture 1890=95. First edition. Octavo. viii 434 pp. 35 full page botanical lithographs many folding. Nicely bound in half red morocco over marbled boards. smooth spine with two morocco gilt lettering labels gray endpapers. Frontispiece bound adjacent to the article it concerns p. 293. Deaccessioned from the Field Museum with their small perforated stamp at base of title and with stamp in copyright page along with their cancel stamp. About nine plates have old and competent repairs to the versos. Overall a clean and complete copy of this first official botanical report on the plants of Southern California and the Southwest and the founding volume of the U. S. National Herbarium.It consists of nine reports with those of Edward Palmer being the most important. The only copy listed on OCLC seems to be lacking a large portions. Department of Agriculture hardcover
1880WB19262Paris c. 1880. ALBUM OF ARTIFICIAL LEAVES AND FLOWERS PRE-A.I. Extraordinary album of artificial leaves and flowers. France ca 1880. 4to. Quarter gray linen and contemporary black impressed designed covers. Collation: 32pp. Cut out Flowers and Leaves of different species of flowering plants shrubs and trees some in natural green appearance but also including fantasy leaves in gilt and silver paper; and finally 2 pages for artificial flowers made in magical colors. Provenance: Ancienes Maisons J. Pezieux & Fils label on pastedown. The assembler has noted manuscript categories and numbers with stamped letters next to each specimen. <br /> <br /> <br/><br/> unknown
188563673London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Einrik & Binger Chromolithographers 15 Holborn Viaduct 1885. Folio. 12 x 15.5 in. 38 pp unpaginated. With 15 chromolithograph colour plates each with facing text leaf. Olive-green pictorial publisher’s cloth gilt decorative lettering front cover British ferns depicted in green & black decorative endpapers minor edgewear minor bumping to corners head & foot of spine slight occasional foxing still a VG- bright copy. First edition of this wonderful production by the noted British botanist designed to depict all British fern varieties in nearly life-size formats through the chromolithography of Einrik & Binger. This was designed to serve as a key visual reference for the legions of specimen and herbarium collectors during the Victorian fern rage or Pteridomania where enthusiastic and often zealous during the last half of the 19th Century filled ferneries created fern cabinets and herbariums. Ferns varieties illustrated within encompass Royal Fern Broad Buckler Fern Harstongue Mountain Buckler Fern Holy Fern Brittle Bladder Fern and many others. Heath 1843-1913 was a noted British botanist civil servant editor of Gilpin’s “Forest Scenery†and a pioneering force in the Open space and Green Belt movements across Victorian England. Einrik & Binger produced chromolithographs & lithographs for very few British & European illustrated works and are not included in Twymann’s History of Chromolithography. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [Einrik & Binger, Chromolithographers, 15, Holborn Viaduct], hardcover
18333409328Rio de Janeiro: Miranda & Carneiro 1833. Occasional light spotting. A fine copy. Three parts in one volume small octavo; in contemporary green quarter calf gilt. <p><p>The first edition in Portuguese of this unrecorded reference to Botany Bay.</p> <p>First published in 1789 in Paris Barère de Vieuzac's La Liberté des Mers was an invective against the British government whose maritime supremacy he described in such terms as "despotism" and "tyranny".</p> <p>This volume is a translation from a Spanish edition of Barère published circa 1820. In the Introduction Barère charges the British with a multitude of crimes including responsibility for the evils of the French Revolution; conspiring with American Indians to attack non-British settlers; aiding and abetting pirates; and exiling Irish and Scottish political prisoners to Botany Bay. This reference consists of seven lines of text which appear on p. xv:</p> <p>'"Quem concebeo e executou o terrivel plano de desterrar para o arido Solo de Botany-Bay aos Irlandezes e Escocezes e de assassinar em Hollanda Italia França e America todos os Virtuaosos patriotas que sustentavão com energia a liberdade e gloria de seu paiz". O Gevenrno Britanico'.</p> <p>Barère 1755-1841 was born in Gascony and practiced law until elected to the States-General in 1789. Elected president of the Convention in December 1792 he presided over the trial and execution of Louis XVI. This is the first edition to have appeared in Portuguese. None of the editions in Spanish or French have been traced in Ferguson.</p> </p> . Miranda & Carneiro 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
1837AQ25601London: John W. Parker 1837. 143 1 7pp 1. With an engraved frontispiece two further plates numerous woodcut illustrations in the text and four final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's dark green decorated cloth lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Occasional spoting booksellers ticket of W. Barwick of Lancaster to FEP. A revised early Victorian edition of an anonymous botany primer intended for a juvenile readership first published in 1833 'under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge'. All editions are scarce with this third being no exception; OCLC records copies at two locations Trinity College Dublin and UCL COPAC adds no further. . Third edition enlarged. 12mo. John W. Parker hardcover
189835068Three Rivers Michigan: R. M. Kellogg 1898. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Catalog. 29 pages 2 pages of order forms. Laid inside the catalog is a two page broadsheet advertisement from R.M. Kellogg. 10" X 6" illustrated wraps with lengthy title and portrait of R. M. Kellogg on the front cover. "Photograph of Rear of Residence and Our Employees Answering to Noon Day Roll Call." on the back cover. Illustrated. Light edge wear. Trade catalog. R. M. Kellogg unknown
1849D19423London: William S. Orr & Co 1849. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. Contemporary 1/2 green morocco and cloth. a.e.g. 311 pp. Beautiful color plates throughout. Complete. <br/><br/> William S. Orr & Co hardcover
183010152Philadelphia: Atkinson & Alexander 1830. Hard Cover. Fair binding. Octavo. 4 xii 268; 276 pp. plates. First edition. Imperfect copy. Lacking pp. 221-224 and plate 43 from the first volume. In later sheep over boards with 20th century leather reback; ownership stamp or inscription excised from the title page with glancing loss of words and letters on approximately nine lines repaired crudely on the verso a few missing letters added in pencil; dampstaining along the bottom half of the textblock throughout; foxing; a few of the plates have had tears neatly mended with tape. <br /> <br /> Illustrated with 99 of 100 botanical woodcuts printed in green. Illustrations in the first volume are distributed throughout the text opposite the plants' descriptions; all plates in the second volume appear together after the text. This from the library of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. C. Deam of Buffington Indiana with bookplate on the front pastedown. Charles Deam 1865-1953 was an Indiana State Forester botanist and conservationist. Sabin 67457; Garrison-Morton 1849. Atkinson & Alexander unknown
1811e7173aEdinburgh: Air / Wilson & Paul printers. G : in Good condition. Minor wear to cover commensurate with age. Some off-setting. Some pages uncut. 1811. First Edition. Original grey board cover. 230mm x 150mm 9" x 6". xxxix 357pp errata. . Air / Wilson & Paul [printers] unknown
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
182931522London: John Murray 1829. 2nd edition. V.g./No Jacket. Full leather binding gilt title on red leather label Atrractively bound with marbled end papers and matching marbled edges to text block. Presentation inscriptoin on blank page two before title page which also has traces of a pressed leaf now absent. London: John Murray hardcover
1872486Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club 1872. V.g./No Jacket. Hard covers gilt title on face A good copy somewhat shaken foot of spine frayed. A highly competent Victorian flora of the Liverpool area vi 182 pp. index. Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club 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
1839014831London: Longman & Co 1839. Small slim octavo pp 132 age-toned some foxing throughout a neat contemporary signature on the title page original cloth-backed boards rather marked and worn edges chipped the spine lacking several pieces but all still sound. RARE. An excellent provenance - the front endpaper has the signature and blind-stamp of the ping-pong playing botanist A.J. Wilmott and the later signature of John Gilmour. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Fair. Longman & Co Hardcover
18996247794H. Pole & Co. 1899. Volumes 1 2 3 4 5 6 & Index. 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. Plate XII is present but loose in volume 1. Plate LIX is missing from volume 4 Pages 1315 & 1340 torn in volume 4. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item4150grams ISBN: H. Pole & Co. hardcover
1840c4784London: Longman Orme Brown Green and Longman. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Re-bound with new eps. Cover rubbed and marked. Spine chipped. Browning to pages. Sporadic foxing and marking. Staining to fore-edge of supplement. Occasional pencil annotations. 1840. First Edition. Marbled hardback boards with black leatherette spine. 230mm x 150mm 9" x 6". viii xvi 159pp; viii 188pp. B/w maps of Yorkshire & Part of Teesdale Colour map of the North Riding of Yorkshire. Supplement published 1854 by William Pamplin. Part First 'The Flowering Plants and Ferns'; Part Second 'The Mosses of the County'. . Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman hardcover
18407328London: Longman Orme Brown Green & Longman 1840. 1st edition. V.g./No Jacket. Hard covers no dust jacket Small split affecting limited area of front hinge. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman hardcover
188510158George Bell & Sons London 1885. 1st edition. V.g./No Jacket. Hard covers Slight edge wear mainly to extremities of spine; owner's signature on ffep. iv vii viii 263 pp. George Bell & Sons, London hardcover
1889021900London: George Bell & Sons 1889. First edition. Octavo pp xii 243 the half-title foxed very slight blemishes and foxing here and there but really very good internally original green cloth the upper cover with a faint splash-mark the spine head slightly torn; a duplicate from Cambridge Botanic Garden with their stamps on the half-title and title page and traces of a label at the base of the spine. SCARCE. . First Edition. Cloth. Good. George Bell & Sons Hardcover
1888023319York Street Covent Garden London: George Bell and Sons 1888. Octavo pp xii 216 a little age-toned pages 105/122 have been trimmed sl;ightly on the fore-edge a tiny ink blot on the ofr-edge two or three slightly open hinges with very slight weakness; original blue/green cloth torn at the spine head otherwise good. RARE. From the library of the garden designer and plant collector Jim Russell with his bookplate. Also with the blindstamo of the Caledonia Nursery Guernsey on several pages. First Edition. Cloth. Good. George Bell and Sons Hardcover
18542926393William Pamplin 1854. 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. Medium 8vo with green cloth. Black lettering on brown paper panel on backstrip. Bumped corners. Minimal 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 item450grams ISBN: William Pamplin hardcover
1857021986London: T. Nelson & Sons 1857. First edition. Illustrated with 14 colour plates each showing two plants large octavo pp iv 2 54 a little age-toned and with intermittent foxing though the plates are almost completely clean a slight marginal tear to page 7/8 all edges gilt a contemporary inscription on the front endpaperwhich also ahs the bookplate of the botanists Vicky Matthews and Brinsley Burbidge. original blue embossed beveled cloth decorated gilt on the spine and with a gilt emblem on the upper cover slightly rubbed and worn. . First Edition. Cloth. Good. T. Nelson & Sons Hardcover
1852021965Bath London & Edinburgh: Binns and Goodwin; Whittaker and Co.; Oliver and Boyd 1852. Illustrated with 10 delicate colour lithographic plats and an extra colour lithographic title page octavo pp xii 228 extremely clean internally but just slightly weak original publisher's green blind-stamped cloth the spine with gilt decoration the corners slightly rubbed the spine slightly faded. "Designed to make botany simple and field and wood rambles instructive and agreeable" . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Binns and Goodwin; Whittaker and Co.; Oliver and Boyd Hardcover
