Botany
187 items found
Martius, [C. F. P.] Von
Beitrag zur Kenntniss der natürlichen Familie der Amarantaceen.
Halle, Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum, 1825. 4to (28.2 x 21.6 cm). 114 pp.; two folded tinted engraved maps, "Amarantacearum per Orbem distributio". Contemporary marbled, faux tree-calf boards. Label with gilt title on the spine.
Read moreLinnaeus, C. [Gmelin, J. F. (ed.)]
Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species; cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Cura Jo. Frid. Gmelin.
Lugduni (Lyon), Delamollière, 1789-1796. In ten volumes. 8vo (21.0 x 13.1 cm). 6,309 pp. [xii, 4120; 1661; xl, 476]; Three large, folded, engraved plates. Uniform contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt bands and title.
Read more[Linnaeus, C.] Manetti, X. (ed.)
Caroli Linnaei...Regnum vegetabile juxta systema naturae in classes ordines, et genera ab eodem contitutum. Curante Xaverio Manetti.
Florentiae [Florence], P. C. Viviani, 1756. 8vo (19.5 x 13.0 cm). 123 pp.; two large, folded plates. Contemporary quarter calf over blind boards. Spine with gilt ornaments and brown morocco label with gilt title. Edges speckled red.
Read moreLinnaeus, C. [Nauclér, S.]
Hortus Upsaliensis, quem cum consensu ampliss. facult. medicae in regio ad salam lyceo, sub praesidio viri celeberrimi, d:ni doct. Caroli Linnaei, med. et botan. profess. reg. et ord. acad. imper. Regg. Monspel. Stoch. et Upsal. socio hujusque secretario. Speciminis academicvi loco, publicae disquisitioni subjicit Samuel Naucler.
Upsaliae [Uppsala], [the author], 1745. Small 4to (17.7 x 14.1 cm). [iii], 48 pp.; folded view, folded map, and two engraved plates. Early 19th-century half vellum over marbled boards. Edges speckled red.
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The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Second series. Botany. Volume I - VI.
London, The Linnean Society of London, 1875-1905. Six volumes in six. Large 4to (29.1 x 23.3 cm). Text; numerous plates. Volume I in contemporary polished half calf over marbled boards. Gilt ornamental lines and black morocco label with gilt title on the spine; Volumes II-VI: uniform later (i.e., contemporary with the last volume) blue buckram with gilt title on the spines. Speckled edges.
Read moreLovassy, A.
Resultate der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Balatonsees. Mit Unterstützung der hohen Kön. Ung. Ministerien für Ackerbau und für Cultus und Unterricht. Zweiter Band. Die Biologie des Balatonsees und seiner Umgebung. Zweiter Theil. Die Flora. II. Sektion. Die Pflanzengeographischen Verhältnisse der Balatonsee-Gegend. Anhang. Die trophischen Nymphaeen des Hévizsees bei Keszthely.
Wien, Ed. Hölzel, 1909. Large 4to (29.3 x 21.2 cm). 91 pp.; four plates of which three in chromolithography. Original printed wrappers.
Read moreMarsigli, L. F. Comte de (Marsilli, L. Graave van)
Natuurkundige Beschryving der Zeeën.
's Gravenhage, De Compagnie, 1786. Folio (41.6 x 26.0 cm). Half-title, a nice hand-coloured engraved allegorical frontispiece, title page with woodcut vignette. [ii], xxvi, 216 pp.; seven mostly folded engravings, five hand-coloured engraved maps and profiles, and 40 beautifully hand-coloured engraved plates (for a total of 52 plates and maps), woodcut endpieces and capitals. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spine with six raised bands, compartments with gilt floral vignettes and burgundy morocco label with gilt title.
Read moreMeyen, F. J. F.
Observationes botanicas, in itinere circum Terram institutas. Opus posthumum.
Vratislaviae et Bonnae, Academia Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum, 1843. 4to (29.7 x 22.7 cm). Title pages in German and in Latin, to the volume and the work. xxxii, 312 pp.; 13 engraved plates of which four hand-coloured. Slightly later pebbled blue half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled red.
Read moreMiquel, F. A. W.
Illustrationes piperacearum. Cum tabulis XCII.
Breslau and Bonn, Kaiserliche Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie der Naturforscher, 1846. 4to (29.7 x 22.4 cm). Two titles (German and Latin), 87 pp.; 92 lithographed plates (several larger, folded). Near contemporary dark blue pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
Read moreMonardes, N.
De simplicibus medicamentis ex occidentali India delatis, quorum in medicina usus est. Nicolao Monardis Hispalensi Medico. Interprete Carolo Clusio atrebate. [AND] Simplicium medicamentorum ex nova orbe delatorum, quorum in medicina usus est, historiae liber tertius. Nicolao Monardes Hispalensi Medico: nunc verò primum Latio donatus, & notis illustrarus à Carolo Clusio a.
Antverpiae, Christophor Plantin, 1574-1582. Two works bound in one. 8vo (16.3 x 10.5 cm). 88, [vii] pp.; ten wood-engravings in the text of which six page-sized; 47 pp.; two text illustrations including one page-sized wood-engraving. Near comtemporary marbled wrappers. In new protective cloth box (18.2 x 12.4 x 1.9 cm) with gilt lettered label on the spine.
Read moreMonzen, K. and others
Saito Ho-On Kai. (The Saito Gratitude Foundation) Monographs 1 - 5. [AND] Reprints.
Sendai, The General Department of Scientific research Saito Ho-On Kai, 1927-1931. Two volumes in two. 4to (25.3 x 18.5 cm). Numerous pages and illustrations. Uniform blue grained half linen over marbled boards. Spines with gilt titles.
Read moreMoris, J. and J. de Notaris
Florula Caprariae sive enumertio plantarum in insula Capraria vel sponte nascentium vel ad utilitatum latius excultarum.
Torino, Reale Accademia delle Scienza di Torino, 1840. Large 4to (28.8 x 22.0 cm). 246 pp.; six elegantly lithographed plates. Marbled wrappers.
Read moreRothschild, J. (ed.)
Les plantes a feuillage coloré. histoire - description - culture - emploi des espèces les plus remarquables pour la décoration des parcs - jardins - serres - appartements. Deuxième édition ... Nouvelle série.
Paris, J. Rothschild, 1872. 4to (26.2 x 18.5 cm). viii, 124 pp.; 60 fine chromolithographed plates, 60 text engravings. Contemporary crimson quarter calf over red pebbled cloth (by J. Huss). Spine with five raised bands. Compartment rich gilt and with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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