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18769826710John Murray 1876. Fourth Thousand With 30 b/w in-text woodcuts. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Medium 8vo. Green cloth binding with blind borders on boards and gilt lettering on backstrip. Quite shelf worn with bumped frayed corners exposing some board. Chipped spine re-attached with broad clear tape. Both hinges split. Black end papers. Library sticker at front. Title pages and first contents page secured with tape. Other contents page and errata slip are together but detached from binding. Rest of pages secure. 32 page publishers catalogue bound in at rear. Some foxing to endpapers and some of the publishers catalogue. Several pages have chipped edges. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item800grams ISBN: John Murray hardcover
19054312734John Murray 1905. 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. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item650grams ISBN: John Murray hardcover
18779261917John Murray 1877. 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. 8vo green leather boards. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Very light shelf wear. Red speckled page edges. Staining from rebounding tape on title page. White tape at back for binding. Some pages slightly age-toned and very light foxing. Pages and text are clear Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item650grams ISBN: John Murray hardcover
1888chd10bLondon: John Murray. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Contemporary rebind. Rebacked with slight loss to head of spine. Minor scuffing to leather. Label to front pastedown. Marbled eps and fore-edge. Endpapers lightly foxed. 1888. Second Edition. Burgundy hardback half-leather cover on marbled boards. 190mm x 130mm 7" x 5". xiv 377pp. With b/w illustrations. . John Murray hardcover
20005974915Humana 2000. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Library sticker on front cover.Spiral-bound. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item600grams ISBN:9780896038097 Humana paperback
19908699422Kangaroo Press 1990. 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. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1250grams ISBN:0864173237 Kangaroo Press hardcover
020994Rotterdam & Washington: A.A. Balkema and later the Smithsonian A good run of the first nine volumes with some line drawn botanical illustrations clothbound the last two volumes with dustwrappers dupicates from Cambridge University Botany School with shelf numbers on the spines and stamps on the front endpapers and on the title pages or the verso but in extremely clean bright condition. A heavy set - extra postage will be needed. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. A.A. Balkema (and later the Smithsonian) Hardcover
199624945Oxford & IBH 1996. 1st edition. Fine/Fine. Hard covers dust jacket Scarcely used. Oxford & IBH hardcover
4005New Delhi: Amerind 1995. Hard bound illustrated 482pp Very good in Very good dust jacket. New Delhi: Amerind, 1995 unknown
1909012822Penryn: F. Chegwidden 1909. First edition with 6 portraits and a folding map with one large repair and small tears at the folds large octavo pp lxxxviii 570 original cloth slightly blotched rebacked retaining the endpapers old spine neatly laid down a good sound copy. Reverend Burdon's copy who donated his plants to Oxford a presentation copy from G.C. Druce and also with the bookplate of Paul Harmes . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. F. Chegwidden Hardcover
18138235London: the author 1813. 1st edition. Good /No Jacket. Publisher's boards Donor's inscription "A present from Rev. H. Pritchard Dinas Hall Anglesea sic to Owen Price 1881" on t.p. A nicely preserved copy with untrimmed edges title blind-inscribed by hand on spine. xvi 151 xiv plate facing p. xv 153-255 pp. The first Welsh local flora particularly noted for its appendix of Welsh names of plants. London: the author hardcover
019026Burlington: Free Press Printing Co. Illustrated with two plates octavo pp 4 756 14 very clean internally attractively bound in green and brown cloth a neat circular gold owner's label on the front endpaper a very smart copy. The last 14 pages are a Supplement - Indices of States Places and Railroad Routes of Mexico. Pringle 1838 - 1911 was an American botanist who spent a career of 35 years cataloguing the plants of North America. He was a prolific collector and accomplished botanical explorer. In 1880 he received three commissions: collecting wood samples for the Jesup Collection under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History; exploring American forests and collecting data for a final report for the United States Census Bureau working for Charles Sprague Sargent; and general botanical collecting on behalf of Asa Gray. In 1884 he made a botanical survey of the northern portions of Arizona under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution. Pringle was appointed to the Gray Herbarium as a botanical collector in 1885 eventually making 39 expeditions to Mexico over the next 24 years. In April 1896 he was elected a member of the newly established New England Botanical Club and attended the meetings when in Boston. He was a charter member and later vice-president of the Vermont Botanical Club. During his 35 years of field work in the United States Canada and Mexico Pringle collected over 500000 specimens which included some 1200 species new to science. Duplicates of his own collections were distributed widely and can be found throughout many herbaria in the United States and abroad. Cloth. Very Good. Free Press Printing Co,. Hardcover
19657722Edinburgh University Press 1965. 1st edition. V.g./V.g. Hard covers dust jacket A well preserved copy of the first issue of the first edition; jacket with protective cover sl. marked. An exemplary Flora I would say that having been one of its later editorial assistants of a floristically rich part of the East Mediterranean biome. Edinburgh University Press hardcover
19677723Edinburgh University Press 1967. 1st edition. V.g./V.g. Hard covers dust jacket A well preserved ex-library copy of the first issue of the first edition in dust jacket with protective transparent cover. Covers the families Portulacaceae to Celastraceae in Boissier's arrangement. xii 581 pp. Edinburgh University Press hardcover
19677745Edinburgh University Press 1967. 1st edition. V.g./V.g. Hard covers dust jacket An ex-library copy of the first issue of the first edition in dust jacket with protective transparent cover. Fore-edge stained. xvii 628 pp. Edinburgh University Press hardcover
19794834883Cambridge University Press 1979. 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. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item300grams ISBN:0521221110 Cambridge University Press hardcover
1814020194Paternoster Row London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme & Brown 1814. Second edition. Illustrated with 10 engraved folding plates slightly foxed pp xiv 479 9 a signature and date on the title page otherwise very clean internally original leather covers rubbed re-backed with a new leather spine new cream endpapers. The final hundred pages comprise the Duke of Bedford's "Account of the results of Experiments on the Produce and Nutritive Qualities of Different grasses and other Plants Used as the Food of Animals". . Second edition. Full Leather. Good. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown Hardcover
1836023064Paternoster Row London: Longman Rees Orme Brown Green & Longman 1836. Fifth edition. Illustrated with 10 engraved folding plates slightly foxed pp x 413 otherwise clean and firm internally original half leather rubbed and a little worn the spine is more rubbed and lacking a piece at the base the joints cracking but not weak. The final 57 pages comprise the Duke of Bedford's "Account of the results of Experiments on the Produce and Nutritive Qualities of Different grasses and other Plants Used as the Food of Animals". . Fifth edition. Half Leather. Good. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman Hardcover
19757249Faber & Faber 1975. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good. Spine binding and covers all fine; robust green boards with gilt title on spine. Contents very clean and no inscription. Dustcover very good with barely any wear. Faber & Faber hardcover
1885018457Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann 1885. First edition. Illustrated with 18 small engraved figures in the text slim octavo pp vi 146 very slight age-toning otherwise extremely clean internally bound in black half leather and marbled boards speckled edges to pages. A duplicate from the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew with their cancelled label on the front endpaper and their neat circular stamp on the verso of the title page. RARE. De Bary was one of the most influential botanists of his era and the lectures contained in this work are a detailed and precise acoount of all that was then known in the comparatively modern field of bacteriology. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good. Wilhelm Engelmann Hardcover
1841018424Paternoster Row & The Strand: Houlston & Stoneman; Houlston & Hughes 1841. First British edition. Two volumes. Illustrated with 22 lithograph plates the margins are heavily oxidised - see illustrations pp xii 3216; viii 334 the text is very clean internally in original publisher's ornate blind-stamped green cloth very slightly worn a little faded unevenly. With signatures of J. Dixon Payne and of the botanist Ruby E. Dowling. RARE - ESPECIALLY IN ORIGINAL BINDING. De Candolle was also among the first to recognize the difference between the morphological and physiological characteristics of organs. He ascribed plant morphology as being related to the number of organs and their positions relative to each other rather than to their various physiological properties. Consequently this made him the first to attempt to attribute specific reasons for structural and numerical relationships amongst organs and thus to distinguish between major and minor aspects of plant symmetry. To account for modifications of symmetry in parts of different plants an occurrence that could hinder the discovery of an evolutionary relationship de Candolle introduced the concept of homology. De Candolle originated the idea of "Nature's war" which influenced Charles Darwin and the principle of natural selection. de Candolle recognized that multiple species may develop similar characteristics that did not appear in a common evolutionary ancestor; a phenomenon now known as convergent evolution. During his work with plants de Candolle noticed that plant leaf movements follow a near-24-hour cycle in constant light suggesting that an internal biological clock exists. Though many scientists doubted de Candolle's findings experiments over a century later demonstrated that "the internal biological clock" indeed exists. First British edition. Cloth. Good. Houlston & Stoneman; Houlston & Hughes Hardcover
1791018452Turici Helvetorum Zurich: Ziegleri & Filiorum 1791. Octavo pp xvi; lxxx 526 light foxing and blemishing with some light pencil marginalia contemporary full calf rubbed and scuffed with wear at the corners marbled endpapers. Edited by the Swiss botanist Paul Usteri and published within two years of the first edition. This copy was owned by the Scottish botanist and plant collector George Don - 1798-1856 - with his signature on the first blank. The pencil notes though look to be by another hand. In this study of flowering plants Jussieu adopted a methodology based on the use of multiple characters to define groups an idea derived from naturalist Michel Adanson. This was a significant improvement over the "artificial" system of Linnaeus whose most popular work classified plants into classes and orders based on the number of stamens and pistils. Jussieu did keep Linnaeus' binomial nomenclature resulting in a work that was far-reaching in its impact; many of the present-day plant families are still attributed to Jussieu. Morton's 1981 History of Botanical Science counts 76 of Jussieu's families conserved in the ICBN versus just 11 for Linnaeus for instance. Writing of the natural system Sydney Howard Vines remarked "The glory of this crowning achievement belongs to Jussieu: he was the capable man who appeared precisely at the psychological moment and it is the men that so appear who have made and will continue to make all the great generalisations of science.". Second edition. Full-Leather. Good. Ziegleri & Filiorum Hardcover
0270712461.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1778021546Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale 1778. First edition. Three volumes pp cxx 132 xxix; iv 660; 654 xx i eight folding engraved plates a folding table very clean internally contemporary binding of an unusual full calf gilt-lined on the covers full gilt spines each with a red and a black label slightly rubbed and slight surface wrinkles but overall very attractive marbled endpapers marbled edges. With a stamp on the title pages of the Bibliothek Graf Spangensche an unidentified contemporary signature in the verso of the endpaper and the bookseller's label on the front paste-down endpqper of the first volume - "Cet Ouvrage se trouve ainsi que beaucoup d'autres chez La veuve Mangot Libraire sur le Hof im blauen Haus N. 312 im 3 ten Stock" "This work can be found along with many others at La veuve Mangot bookseller on the Hof im blauen Haus N. 312 im 3 ten Stock". With the bookplate in each volume of Kenneth Lazenby on of the founding members of the Alpine Garden Society. Flore française is a book by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle that was published in 1815 in Paris. It is a work on botany classification and the plants of France. Lamarck designed the book to help identify plants using dichotomous keys which are classification tools that help users choose between opposing pairs of morphological characters. Lamarck was a botanist who became a prominent figure in French science after studying with de Jussieu and the publishing this work. He was mentored by Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon a leading French scientist at the time. Lamarck's work was well-respected by scholars and helped him gain membership to the French Academy of Sciences in 1779. He later became a founding professor at the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle where he was an expert on invertebrates. First Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good. L'Imprimerie Royale Hardcover
1857023092London: Groombridge & Sons 1857. Four volumes octavo pp 1304; 80 xxx 14; 136 iii very well illustrated with many uncoloured plates showing smaller images of over 1600 plants very clean internally several inner joints very slightly weak original green blind-stamped lozenge cloth the fourth volume the ferns is a little rubbed a little worn at the spine head and not quite matching. C.E. Salmon's copy with his signature in the first volume. A heavy set - extra postage may be necessary. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Groombridge & Sons Hardcover