Botany

Weimar: Im Verlage des Industrie Comptoirs, 1795. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. viii, 184 pages of text including an index. Original half-leather binding with marbled paper-covered boards; minor shelfwear and rubbing. Complete with four folding plates, which contain 101 hand-colored illustrations. Minor foxing scattered throughout text. Plates are in fine condition, with a minor strip of browning to edge, not affecting images. Previous owner's name and bookplate (Bilharz) neatly on front endpapers. References: Pritzel (2nd ed.); 484..

hardback. Fine. six volumes. Large 4to. London (Andre Deutsch) 1959-76. A fine set in lightly frayed dustwrapper (one slightly torn). Will incur additional shipping.

Paris: H. L. Guerin & L. F. Delatour. Good+. 1764. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes bound in one. Full contemporary calf with gilt lettering & decoration within 5 raised bands. Double gilt border & dentelles on covers. Marbled endpapers & edges dyed red. [ (xlvii) 430pp and (xiv) 431-708]. Joints cracked with covers firmly attached, gilt faded, spine ends rubbed with slight loss & corners rubbed. Interior hinges & text are tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with 36 folding engraved plates (13 for volume I and 23 for volume II) , as well as many inset tables and a nice vignette of Prévost at the head of the first preface. Forestry, Trees, Wood. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 708 pages .

Copenhagen:: Chr. Cato,, c.1950.. First edition. Fine. A fine original color printed lithograph mounted onto buckram and coated with gum Arabic. 38.5 x 27.5 inches. Undated circa 1950. Fine condition.A fine example of a large scale mid 20th century teaching aid based on the botanical studies of noted Danish Botanist Eugenius Warming (1841-1924); Professor of Botany and Director of the Copenhagen Botanical Gardens, and Natural Historian Vilhelm Balslev (1860-1935). Originally sold through the venerable Herbert B. Palmer Gallery in Los Angeles during the early 1960's, this grand scientific illustration depicts a variety of colorful, larger than life yet finely detailed flora organized by the Linnaean classification system in an effort to encourage the study and appreciation of botany and horticulture in the classroom. mounted onto buckram

1767 FORESTRY1st ed Monceau on Transport Law Trees Wood Naval Ships Navy RARE
Duhamel du Monceau was an 18th-century French engineer and scientist who focused heavily on agriculture, horticulture, and forestry. He researched various cultivation techniques for trees and crops and published his findings in various books and reports including 'On the Strength of Wood'.
This book, first published in 1767, describes Monceau's his studies of wood, timbers, and forests and the use of wood for home construction and ship building with special attention given to the influence of forestry law on the naval industry. Also known as 'Du Transport', this work covered the general laws of tree growth and regulations for tree industry, behavior of sap, leaves, and formation of bark.
This incredibly valuable 1767 first edition is one of the earliest and best French treatises on woodworking and forestry regulations.

Item number: #15938
Price: $950
MONCEAU, Duhamel du
Du transport, de la conservation et de la force des… Read More

1876 1st ed Charles Darwin Movement & Habits Climbing Plants Botany Evolution

"One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die."
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

This book, 'Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants,' focusses primarily on his observation on climbing plants from Southern Brazil with focus on differences in grown and mechanisms of movement in twining plants. The illustrations were drawn by George Darwin, son of Charles Darwin.

Item number: #17409
Price: $750
DARWIN, Charles
The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants
London: John Murray., 1876. First edition. Second Thousand

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o viii, 208
o Illustrated throughout
· References: Freeman 836
· Provenance:
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Bookplate – Ellis R. Brockman
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Handwritten – Herbert Fryer
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~7.5in X 5in… Read More

1793 Diderot Encyclopedia Plates TOBACCO Sugar Plantations Silk Weaving Plumbing
Through the mid-18th-century, large collections of knowledge were relegated to specific areas of study like law, medicine, or religion. However, Denis Diderot's 'Encyclopedie'
changed the public's knowledge base as well as setting a standard for future generations of acquiring knowledge on many different subjects. This was the first encyclopedia to include contributions from many different named writers. It also was the first encyclopedia to describe work-related topics like agriculture, engineering, cooking, and trade.
One of the aspects that made this work so desirable was the incredible, detailed full-page engravings. In fact, the illustrations themselves were so sought-after that they were of published on their own apart from the encyclopedia.
This volume of 'De Planches', or the plates from Diderot's encyclopedia include some of the following engravings:
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Tobacco and sugar – growing, harvesting, refining… Read More

Torrey Botanical Club, 1968. Cloth bound in very good condition.. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club bound into green cloth; Inscribed by the author to Botanist and book collector George H.M. Lawrence; pp. 519-645.

Regensburg, Germany: Zacharias Romberg, 1745. 12 7/8" by 8 1/2 inches on a a sheet measuring 15 3/4" X 9 3/8". Original hand-colored engraving with mezzotint on hand-made laid paper. From PHYTANTHOZA ICONOGRAPHIA, edited by the pharmacist and botanist Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741), published 1737-1745 and referenced on page 151 of Sitwell's GREAT FLOWER BOOKS. More than half of the plates were drawn by Georg Dionysius Ehret, perhaps the most notable botanical illustrator of the 18th century; they were engraved by Bartholomew Seuter, Johann Elias Ridinger, and Johann Jakob Haid. This engraving, like the other plates in this monumental and scarce work, is characterized by a more realistic depiction than was found in earlier herbals. The print is clean and bright, with a few spots of foxing in the image's background as well as several faint smudges limited to the blank margins.. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good+. Illus. by Georg Dionysius Ehret. Folio - over… Read More

Berne: The author, 1818. First Edition. Two parts in one volume, published in July and September 1818. Recent red three quarters leather with gilt titles and red boards. Clean and tidy without major flaws. Original blue paper wrapper bound in. To the front cover paper is written "Par l'auteur" presumably by Seringe. One plate and one folding table (complete.) Rough cut page edges. A little foxing to the pages only. VI + 1 ff. + 244 pp. Text in French. 210 x 130 mm (8¼ by 5 inches). Nicolas Charles Seringe, first Teacher at the Academy of Bern then Professor of Botany and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Lyon wrote a work with the exact description, classification and history of flowers. He sought to avoid scientific language, and to arrange the objects in an easy order, through which one can easily learn about plants, how to propagate them and finally how to use them. Première édition. Deux volumes en un seul volume, parus en juillet et septembre 1818. Cuir rouge trois quarts… Read More

1853 FLOWERS Floricultural Cabinet Florist Magazine Color Botany Botanical ART
The "Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists' Magazine" was a mid-19th-century periodical published to showcase various flowers! This volume is filled with exquisite, full-page color illustrations of flowers – a fascinating tome!

Item number: #19534
Price: $499
HARRISON, Joseph
Floricultural cabinet, and florists' magazine, jan to dec, 1853.

London : Whittaker and Co., 1853. 1st edition
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Collation: Complete with all pages
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[4], 300
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12 color engravings; numerous in-text illustrations
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Language: English
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Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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Size: ~9in X 5.75in (22.5cm x 14.5cm)
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1802 1ed English Botany Plants Sowerby Flowers Illustrated Goutweed Bugloss RARE

English naturalist James Sowerby published what would become the preeminent illustrated work on English botany. Entitled simply, 'English Botany.' This work was a compendium of the native plants in Great Britain. Sowerby provided beautiful illustrations accompanied by descriptions of the various properties, natural habitat, and other characteristics of numerous plants across Britain.

This edition includes 72 beautifully hand-colored botanical plates including views of Bugloss blueweed, Hornwort, Hare's-foot Trefoil, Ramping Fumitory, Hedge-mustard, Gout-weed, Cow Parsnep, and Bitter Ladies'-smock.

Item number: #21569
Price: $599

SOWERBY, James

English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants. Vol. 14.

London: Wilks and Taylor, 1801. First edition.

Details:
• Collation: Complete
o [2], 937-1008 leaves, [6]
o 72 hand-colored plates
• References: Sitwell pg. 140
• Language: English
• Binding:… Read More

1680 1ed Scottish Morison BOTANY Plantarum Plants Classification Science FOLIOS

Robert Morison was a 17th-century Scottish botanist best-known for his book 'Plantarum Umbelliferarum Distributio Nova'. This book was an enormous work and one of best books of botany from the 17th-century. The successes of the 1672 'Plantarum' propelled Morison to write 'Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis', which became his magnum opus. Sadly, Morison was never able to finish this work before his death. This book was written to describe fifteen classes of his botanical classification system. A second (or third overall volume) was published later to include the final sections not covered in the first tome.

Item number: #22026
Price: $950

MORISON, Robert

[Plantarum umbelliferarum distributio nova…] historiae universalis Oxoniensis pars secunda [-tertia]

Oxonii: E Teatro Sheldoniano,1680-1699. First edition.

Details:
• Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes complete!
o Vol. – [6], 617, [5]
o Vol. –… Read More

Full camel beige cloth with pictorial dustjacket wrapped in plastic. English text, of which 1,000 copies were produced. A clean copy with no previous owners' names or other markings.
10 x 13.5 in

Bell and Daldy. London. 1872. SECOND EDITION, Revised and corrected. 4to. (10.3 x 7.3 inches). Illustrated with one thousand three hundred engravings. Some foxing to the first and last couple of pages otherwise a clean copy throughout. One small tear to the bottom margin of the frontispiece, not affecting the image. Recent leather binding of half dark green morocco. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Neat previous owner bookplate mounted onto the inside read endpaper. A little rubbing to the binding but overall a very good copy.