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La Flora de Indias; South American Flora
by Maria Sybilla Merian
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Published
- 1986
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$185.00
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Floral decorated cloth with a pictorial pastedown to front cover and in a scarce dustjacket. Bilingual text of Spanish and English. No previous owners' names or other defacements.
9.75 x 13.5 in Item Price
$185.00
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Plant Hunting [Signed Two Volume Set]
by Ernest H. Wilson
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Special Autographed Edition
- Published
- 1927
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$200.00
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Signed by the author to Vol. I. Two volume green/ brown cloth set with gilt title to front covers and spines. Top edges gilt. No previous owners' names or other markings. Vol. I pp. 248. Vol. II pp. 276. Item Price
$200.00
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Original Autographed Notebook of Flora with Illustrations and Specimens
by Karl Vinson
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- Used - Fair
- Published
- circa 1910
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- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$100.00
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String-tied loose leaf paper between dark green cloth-covered boards. Collection of leaves as well as detailed botanical illustrations of flora. Includes notes on experiments. All notes and illustrations are original and done by hand; there are actual leaves pressed within the pages. Though rather loosely and delicately bound (lacking strings), the interior is entirely readable and intact. Item Price
$100.00
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Botanical Harmony Delineated: Or, Applications of Some General Laws of Nature to Plants. Illustrated with Plates.
by James Henry Bernardin De Saint Pierre. Translated by Henry Hunter.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Published
- 1797
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$150.00
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Rebacked in linen over marbled paper boards. Lacking original endpapers and fly. This copy does not contain the plates.1845 stamp to initial three pages, page 9, and the final page. Wear to corners. Notations to title page (see image). Clean interior with no other owner's names or markings. Item Price
$150.00
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The Flower People. A Token of Friendship.
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1847
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$120.00
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12 botanical plates; some colored. Brown cloth boards with gilt particulars. Ornate penciled inscription of previous owner to free fly dated 1872. Gilt edges. Slight foxing throughout. Item Price
$120.00
Agaricus glancopus mushroom print from Illustrations of British Mycology
by Mrs. T.J. Hussey [Anna Maria Hussey]
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- Used
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- 1847
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- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$95.00
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Hand-colored lithograph depicting Agaricus glancopus. The original colors remain vivid.
Plate XXX from Illustrations of British Mycology by Mrs. T. J. Hussey.
12.5 x 10 inches. Item Price
$95.00
Agaricus decussatus & Agaricus thraustus mushroom print from Icones selectae Hymenomycetum Hungariae
by Karoly Kalchbrenner
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- Used
- Published
- 1873
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$100.00
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Large chromolithograph depicting Agaricus decussatus (also known as Pholiota lubrica) & Agaricus thraustus (also known as Leratiomyces squamosus) mushrooms. The identifications of the mushrooms have been pasted to the bottom of the page. In pencil, "Karoly" (the first name of the author) has been added before Kalchbrenner in the top left, and the word "Hungariae" has been written in the… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
Inocybe asinina, Inocybe pyriodora, & Inocybe plumosa mushrooms print from Icones selectae Hymenomycetum Hungariae
by Karoly Kalchbrenner
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- Used
- Published
- 1873
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$90.00
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Large chromolithograph depicting Inocybe asinina, Inocybe pyriodora, & Inocybe plumosa mushrooms. The original colors remain vivid.
Plate XXII from Icones selectae Hymenomycetum Hungariae by Karoly Kalchbrenner.
10.25 x 14.5 inches. Item Price
$90.00
Agaricus terrigenus, Pholiota punciulatus, & Hebeloma nudipes mushroom print from Icones selectae Hymenomycetum Hungariae
by Karoly Kalchbrenner
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- Used
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- 1873
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$90.00
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Large chromolithograph depicting assorted views and cross-sections of Agaricus terrigenus, Pholiota punciulatus, & Hebeloma nudipes mushrooms. The original colors remain vivid.
Plate XIV from Icones selectae Hymenomycetum Hungariae by Karoly Kalchbrenner.
10.25 x 14.5 inches. Item Price
$90.00
Agaricus plebejus & Clitopilus carneo-albus mushroom print from Icones selectae Hymenomycetum Hungariae
by Karoly Kalchbrenner
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- Used
- Published
- 1873
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$90.00
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Large chromolithograph depicting Agaricus plebejus (also known as Entoloma plebejum) & Clitopilus carneo-albus (also known as Entoloma plebejum). The original colors remain vivid.
Plate XII from Icones selectae Hymenomycetum Hungariae by Karoly Kalchbrenner.
10.25 x 14.5 inches. Item Price
$90.00
Phlebia merismoides, var. Aurantia mushroom print from Illustrations of British Mycology
by Mrs. T.J. Hussey [Anna Maria Hussey]
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- Used
- Published
- 1847
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$95.00
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Hand-colored lithograph depicting Phlebia merismoides, var. Aurantia (now scientifically classified as Phlebia radiata), also known as the "wrinkled crust" fungus. The original colors remain vivid.
Plate XLIV from Illustrations of British Mycology by Mrs. T. J. Hussey.
12.5 x 10 inches. Item Price
$95.00
Thelaphora hirsuta mushroom print from Illustrations of British Mycology
by Mrs. T.J. Hussey [Anna Maria Hussey]
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- Used
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- 1847
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$95.00
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Hand-colored lithograph depicting Thelaphora hirsuta (now scientifically classified as Stereum hirsutum), also known as the false turkey-tail fungus. The original colors remain vivid.
Plate X from Illustrations of British Mycology by Mrs. T. J. Hussey.
12.5 x 10 inches. Item Price
$95.00
Fistulina hepatica (beefsteak fungus) mushroom print from Illustrations of British Mycology
by Mrs. T.J. Hussey [Anna Maria Hussey]
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- Used
- Published
- 1847
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$95.00
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Hand-colored lithograph depicting Fistulina hepatica, also known as beefsteak fungus, poor man's steak, ox tongue, or tongue mushroom. The original colors remain vivid.
Plate LXV from Illustrations of British Mycology by Mrs. T. J. Hussey.
12.5 x 10 inches. Item Price
$95.00
Polyporus hispidus mushroom print from Illustrations of British Mycology
by Mrs. T.J. Hussey [Anna Maria Hussey]
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- Used
- Published
- 1847
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$95.00
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Hand-colored lithograph depicting Polyporus hispidus mushroom. The original colors remain vivid.
Plate XXIX from Illustrations of British Mycology by Mrs. T. J. Hussey.
12.5 x 10 inches. Item Price
$95.00
Merulius tremellosus mushroom print from Illustrations of British Mycology
by Mrs. T.J. Hussey [Anna Maria Hussey]
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- Used
- Published
- 1847
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$95.00
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Hand-colored lithograph depicting Merulius tremellosus (now scientifically classified as Phlebia tremellosus), also known as the "Jelly Rot" fungus. The original colors remain vivid.
Plate X from Illustrations of British Mycology by Mrs. T. J. Hussey.
12.5 x 10 inches. Item Price
$95.00
Peziza coccinea mushroom print from Illustrations of British Mycology
by Mrs. T.J. Hussey [Anna Maria Hussey]
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- Used
- Published
- 1847
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$95.00
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Hand-colored lithograph depicting Peziza coccinea (now scientifically classified as Sarcoscypha coccinea), also known as the "scarlet elf cup" fungus. The original colors remain vivid.
Plate XLIV from Illustrations of British Mycology by Mrs. T. J. Hussey.
12.5 x 10 inches. Item Price
$95.00
Inocybe bongardii, Inocybe hiulca, & Inocybe tricholoma mushrooms print from Icones selectae Hymenomycetum Hungariae
by Karoly Kalchbrenner
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- Used
- Published
- 1873
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$85.00
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Large chromolithograph depicting Inocybe bongardii, Inocybe hiulca (also known as Inocybe grammata), & Inocybe tricholoma mushrooms. The original colors remain vivid.
Plate XX from Icones selectae Hymenomycetum Hungariae by Karoly Kalchbrenner.
10.25 x 14.5 inches. Item Price
$85.00
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Figures of the most Beautiful, Useful, and Uncommon Plants described in The Gardener's Dictionary, exhibited on three hundred copper plates, accurately engraven after drawings taken from Nature. With the characters of their flowers and seed-vessels, Drawn when they were in their greatest Perfection. To which are added, Their descriptions, and an Account of the Classes to which they belong, according to Ray's, Tournefort's, and Linnaeus's Method
by Philip Miller
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1760
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- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$16,500.00
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Two volume set. Original full speckled calf professionally rebacked in calf; pastedowns renewed; fly sheets and title mounted. Complete with 300 full-page hand-colored copper plates (2 folding). Miller was the chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden, where many of the engravings were made under his supervision. Drawings were taken from living plants at their greatest… Read more about this item Item Price
$16,500.00
Les Roses Aquarelles et Dessins
by Jacques Zoubaloff, Daniel Jacomet
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1929
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$200.00
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1 of only 350 copies; 50 sur blanc plates (10 in watercolor) of roses; in remnants of publisher's original slipcase. ; Folio;
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$200.00
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Freshwater Wetlands and Wildlife
by Rebecca R. Sharitz, J. Whitfield Gibbons (Ed.s)
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1989
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$200.00
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Blue cloth boards with image to front and white text to both front board and spine. Organized into 2 parts with sections within those, part 1 being Wetlands Functions and Values, and part 2 Wetlands Status and Management. The section titles are: Wetland Ecosystem Processes; Plant Community Development and Primary Productivity; Trophic Dynamics and Animal Utilization; Wetlands Status and Trends;… Read more about this item Item Price
$200.00
