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A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear and stain on back of dust jacket. 366 pages. Foreword by Robert Creeley.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to rear corners. 304pp. A comprehensive work on the Orchidaceae botanical family. Very well illustrated in colour.
Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie. 1860. In-8 Carré. Broché. Etat d'usage. Couv. convenable. Dos abîmé. Intérieur bon état. 173 pages. Illustré de nombreuses gravures en noir et blanc dans le texte et de lettrine en noir et blanc en tête de chapitres. Pages de garde et de titre détcahées. Page de garde découpée avec plusieurs manques importants. Tampon de colportage (Seine) en page de garde. Précédé d'une Introduction par Pierre Zaccone. Le Sélam. Nomenclature des fleurs avec leurs symboles. Propriété des couleurs. Horloge de Flore. Poésies...
Third edition, with large additions, 8vo (167 x 105 mm), [2], x, [4], 278, [18]pp., with the final advert leaf and additional engraved title page, 3 engraved plates, some light browning to blank fore-edges, cont. full mottled calf, small crack to upper lower joint else a very nice copy in a nice contemporary binding. "This popular treatise, with a title-page and three plates engraved by F. H. van Hove, contains much useful advice and information for the practical gardener. The author... is generally considered one of the most enlightened of the seventeenth-century writers on gardening and husbandry."?Henry. Henry, pp.205-206; Hunt, 380; Wing, W2606.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 10 7/8"w x 12"h. Full dark blue cloth boards and dust jacket show slight wear at corners. Introduction by John Lau. 57 plates.
n.p. Ruled text. 4to. Disbound. Manuscript "Musings on the Rose" by J. Henderson, 1832. Text bound with plain color leaves for notes, sentiments, poetry and musings. Soiled and foxed. AI 17123. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! NH 1
8vo, XXII-1214-LIII p. Hard Cover + dj VG++/VG+ [P-14] Seventh Edition. Revised by H. K. Airy Shaw.
102 pages. Features: Nice ad for Kraft ice cream toppings; Two-page 1960 Chrysler ad; Vintage one-page ad for Zenith pocket (transistor) radios; Oasis cigarette ad; Color Pontiac ad features a seaside blue 1960 Bonneville convertible; Our New Hospital Crisis - many unqualified foreigners are serving in US hospitals as interns and resident physicians; The Training of a Good Doctor - Susan Cook studies at the University of Chicago - major photo coverage; The Age of Payola - have our moral standards been destroyed by the pursuit of the dollar?; Vintage two-page color ad for the new 1960 Ford Falcon Wagons (both white); Pepsi ad features scene in horse barn with dalmation; Walter Lippmann explains Why We Accept Cheating; Nice photos of Connie Stevens with hunk Bill Troy, Mike McKee, and Jerry Eagle; Farley Granger in "The Third Season" - color photos; Sanka coffee ad features illustration of lady holding humongous coffee cup; article on pancakes; Modern fake flowers are very realistic; Marlboro ad features skin diver slouching in director-style chair - no wonder they adopted the Marlboro man a few years later; The Short-sleeved suit - tasteful fashion photos; Great two-page color ad for the (cream-colored) 1960 Buick Invicta Three-Seat Estate Wagon features Navajo people and a Monument Valley driving scene; The Quakers - religions in America; Basketball All America - with photos of Walt Bellamy, Terry Dischinger, Roger Kaiser, Darrall Imhoff, Jerry Lucas, Oscar Robertson, Tom Stith, Lee Shaffer, Jerry West and Len Wilkins; Hitler's Bloody Drive to Power - the inside story, with great photos; Photo Quiz; Color ad for "Man-Tan" product which tans white skin without sun (creepy); Two Young Friends Named Ellen - Ellen Erwitt and cripple Ellen Kalman of New Rochelle, N.Y. - touching photos; Back cover color-photo Lucky Strike ad shows smiling blonde injecting tar into her lungs; and more. Average wear. Nibble and short opening at bottom of coverfold. Small piece from bottom corner of back cover. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
in-12, 165 pp., croquis in-t., broché, couverture illustrée. Très bel exemplaire. [CA33-1]
S.A. anct Vanderpoorten & Cie, Gand. 1932. In-4 Carré. Broché. Etat d'usage. 1er plat abîmé. Dos abîmé. Non coupé. Paginé de 194 à 240. Extrait de la 'Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique africaines', vol. XXI, Fasc. 3, 1932. Sous la dir. du Dr H. Schouteden (Tervueren).
81 pages plus large section of black and white plates and index. Contains brief descriptions of the native forest tree species of the province, accompanied by illustrations of their leaves, fruits, winter twigs, and in some cases of the flowers where considered useful. Some damage at each end of spine. Binding a little fragile but remains an excellent reference. Book
218 pages. Colour photographs and line drawings abound. Describes over 160 species from every geographic area of Alaska. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Good reference copy. Book
192p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition chipped d.j. fair
First edition, 8vo (210 x 130 mm), [16], 259, [1], [12], 120, [2, 'Books on Gardening, Agriculture, and Botany. Written by Richard Weston.']pp., without the Latin title page for the main work, but present for the supplement, cont. calf, rubbed, joints cracked, without spine label. "This in its time was a standard handbook, used by botanists, gardeners, nurseries, seedsmen. It lists trees and shrubs, herbaceous plates, greenhouse plants, stove plants, and seeds according to their Linnaean binomial and English names."?Hunt. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Johannes Georgius Home Drummond de Abbots Grange. Hunt, 647; Henrey, 1483; Pritzel, 10205.
First edition, 8vo (206 x 122 mm), [18], 259, [1], [12], 120pp., complete with supplement and Latin title page for both the main work and the supplement (usually lacking), cont. calf, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, a nice copy. "This in its time was a standard handbook, used by botanists, gardeners, nurseries, seedsmen. It lists trees and shrubs, herbaceous plates, greenhouse plants, stove plants, and seeds according to their Linnaean binomial and English names."?Hunt. Provenance: Bookplate of Edward Winnington, 1786; B. O. Mulligan, purchased from Blackwell's in 1945 with their invoice tipped-in at rear. Hunt, 647; Henrey, 1483; Pritzel, 10205.
in-4°, 256 pages entierement illustrees en couleurs, index, cartonnage illustre plastifie de l'editeur. Bel exemplaire. [P-34]
Pages 197-256. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: Nice Prescott Pianos ad inside front cover; A Tip-top experience on Mooshilauke - article with great photos; The birth of the White Mountains (poem); Mr. Unlukikus has Rheumatism; The Beginning of Methodist Theological Education in New Hampshire; The Lord Escutcheon; The winter is past (poem); The wild flowers of spring; The Shadow of a coming event; The Eames Family in Coos County; Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count of Rumford; The Dear Old Homestead Farm; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome plates; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at edges.
ISBN : 2841380874. ULMER.. 1998. In-4 Carré. Relié. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 137 pages augmentées de nombreuses illustrations en couleur dans et/ou hors texte.
First edition, small 8vo, xlvi, 390, 20, [2]pp., half calf, lower cover detached.
in-12 broché. Nombreuses photographies en couleurs. Excellent état. [TX-24]
Appears unread. Book and jacket in as new condition. 128pp. Step-by-step instructions on how to create a wide range of imaginative designs.
242 pages including index. A comprehensive and practical handbook picturing and describing some of the wildflowers of the four western provinces of Canada and of the American states adjoining htem. An instructive companion to the less knowledgeable amateur and a reliable reference for the serious student. Average wear to green boards. Contents clean and unmarked. Some discolouration to lower portion of front board. Nice working copy. Book
242 pages. Index. "In exquisitely detailed (colour) paintings, and with encyclopedic knowledge, Joan Ward-Harris reveals her instinctive sympathy for and understanding of the plants and flowers... she is able to impart something of them to us and to kindle in us the beginning of a similar love." - J.Fenwick Lansdowne. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Minor lean to spine. Dust jacket in very nice condition, and now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Excellent copy. Book
Delightful account of a botanical trip to Greece by Lady Vyvyan and her friend Daphne Du Maurier looking at places way off the beaten tourist track ' in search of flowers.196p+ 10 plates [ B & W] Map. Book