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2005007700Chichester: Wiley 2005. 2004 reprinted 2005. Illustrated with maps charts and a few black and white photographs large 8vo pp xiv 306 pictorial laminated boards a very good copy. Pictorial laminated boards. Very Good. Wiley Hardcover
199534265S.K. Dutta Associated Publishing Company New Delhi 1995. 1st edition. Fine/Fine. Hard covers dust jacket Jacket in transparent wrapper. Library bookplate. S.K. Dutta, Associated Publishing Company (New Delhi) hardcover
232905050X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1859021880Madrid: D. Eusebio Aguado 1859. Illustrated with nine hand coloured plates quarto pp 35 i th text a little age-toned the plates a bit foxed and the first two also rather dull and toned contemporary quarter morocco and marbled boards slightly rubbed. Includes four charming plates of Narcissus and at the rear a pressed specimen of Merendera with collecting notes dated 1878 - 1900. From the library of the nurseryman Will Ingwersen with his bookplate. There is also an earlier stamp on a blank leaf - "de Colney Courtoiseau" - possibly related to the French estate . First Edition. Quarter leather. Good. D. Eusebio Aguado Hardcover
19929786660Kangaroo Press Pty.Ltd 1992. 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. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1150grams ISBN:9780864174741 Kangaroo Press Pty.Ltd hardcover
5195México: Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural 1976. Reprint. Small bump to front outer top corner which has caused some pages to bend forward wrappers on spine a little sunned some browning to the front wrappers only the text and plates are bright and clean; overall a very good copy. Pp. iv 298 70 full page plates. Original green pictorial printed wrappers lg 4to. This is a facsimile reprint of the rare 1909 first edition. The work covers the ferns of Mexico with finely executed plates of many species. México: Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural, 1976. Reprint. unknown
19707002045Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1970. Bound in green cloth. Stamping of text and tree on cover in gold in a matching dust jacket. This is a tight clean copy. 174 pp. bibliography. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. University of Chicago Press Hardcover
53393Manière-Loquin Editeur In-8 xvi-280pp. reliure pleine toile de l'époque pièce de titre cachets de bibliothèque Bwx-07 unknown
1851014829Salzburg: Obere' schen Buchdruckerei 1851. . The Hinterhuber brothers were Austrian botanists and pharmacists. Full-Leather. Very Good. Obere' schen Buchdruckerei Hardcover
016271Stuttgart First edition 1870 - 1893. Three volumes supplement thick octavo pp xxx 316; 680; 1144; x 370 a little foxing and age-toning but otherwise extremely sound and tight a reliable set bound in recent cloth binding a little worn and faded the original wrappers bound in. . Cloth. Good. Hardcover
200344854European Orchid Conference 2003. 1st edition. Fine/No Jacket. Paper covers Scarcely used. European Orchid Conference unknown
1906c1876Bulawayo: Rhodesia Scientific Association. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Archive tape repair to title page. Foxing at eps and edges. 1906 1907 1908. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 150mm 8" x 6". 337pp. B/W plates and maps some folding. . Rhodesia Scientific Association hardcover
19824129059Springer-Verlag 1982. 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. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item600grams ISBN:3540112804 Springer-Verlag 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
191480522Batavia: International Rubbercongres 1914. First Edition. . Loose-leaf Binder. G/No Jacket as issued. 25 short pamphlets in English and Dutch in original but over-filled loose-leaf binder; Library markings; all pamphlets rubbed along spines but otherwise in vg condition except for 'Catch-Crops ith Hevea' which is worn along the leading edge. Titles are: 'Prime Technical Plantation Problems of the Next Decade' A Few Points Regarding Smoked Rubber' 'Preparation of Rubber of Light Colour' 'Manuring of Hevea' Rubber in the Gold Coast' 'Tapping and Tapping Systems' 'Green Manures and Artificial Fertilizers' 'Thinning Out of Hevea Rubber Trees' 'Wilde Rubber in de Residentie Palembang' 'Catch-crops and Inter-crops' 'Tapping and Tapping Systems for Heavea Brasiliensis' 'A System for Planting Distance and Thinning Out of Hevea' ''Diseases of Hevea' 'Fungoid Diseases of Rubber Trees in Malaya' 'Planning of Manurial Experiments' 'Catch Crops and Mixed Cultures' 'Reductie van den Kostprijs van Rubbed' 'Treatment of 3 year old Hevea Brasiliensis Attacked by Fomes Semitostus' 'Seed Selection With Hevea' 'Methods of Coagulation and Preparation of Plantation Para Rubber' 'Methods of Testing Crude Rubber' 'Die Verpackung und das Aufbewahren von Kautschuk' 'Significance of Branching in Young Hevea Trees' 'Labour Conditions in Malaya'. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall <br/> <br/> International Rubbercongres unknown
1812017894Pater-noster Row London: H.D. Symonds 1812. Fifth edition with additions by John Lawrence. Illustrated with eight hand-coloured plates - 7 of grasses and a folding plate of corn blight octavo pp 116 wide-margined and untrimmed endpapers foxed but otherwise only very slightly marked internally contemporary boards with later simple cloth spine and paper label the front hinge strengthened but a pleasing copy. Curtis was an eminent botanist born in Alton Hampshire in 1746. His book was an attempt to promote the pasture grasses and to ensure a pure supply was developed. Joseph Banks' pamphlet was first published in 1805. It was included in Curtis' work from the fourth edition onwards. Fifth edition. Cloth-backed boards. Good. H.D. Symonds Hardcover
19234312685Cambridge University Press 1923. 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 item600grams ISBN: Cambridge University Press hardcover
19253744461J. & A. Churchill 1925. 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. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item450grams ISBN: J. & A. Churchill hardcover
19582092902141900082posthumous manuscript publishing society 1958. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 21.5cm posthumous manuscript publishing society paperback
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
19919943188Wallace Smith 1991. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item350grams ISBN:0646030981 Wallace Smith paperback
19982323920Cambridge University Press 1998. 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 item850grams ISBN:9780521572057 Cambridge University Press hardcover
1527871053.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
20022286096Timber Press 2002. 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 item950grams ISBN:9780881925036 Timber Press hardcover
