Botany
205 items found
Puydt, E. de
Les orchidées. Histoire iconographique. Organographie, classification, géographie, collections, commerce, emploi, culture. Avec une revue descriptive des espèces cultivées en Europe. Ouvrage orné de 244 vignettes et de 50 chromolithographies dessinées d'après nature.
Paris, Rothschild, 1880. Royal 8vo (27.6 x 18.0 cm). viii, 348 pp.; 50 fine chromolithographed plates, finished by hand, and 244 figures in the text. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreRaunkiaer, C. [C.] and I. [M.] Raunkiaer
De Danske Blomsterplanters Naturhistorie. Første bind: Enkimbladede. Med 1089 figurer i 293 figurgrupper for størse delen.
Kjøbenhavn, Hos Gyldendal, 1895-1899. Thick 8vo (25.2 x 18.0 cm). lxix, 724 pp.; 1,089 text figures. Later green half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with green leather label with gilt title. Brown endpapers. Speckled edges. Original printed front wrapper bound in.
Read moreRedouté, J. P. and others
Annales de la Société d'Horticulture de Paris, et Journal Spécial de l'État et des Progrès du Jardinage.
Paris, Société d'Horticulture de Paris, 1827-1829. Five volumes in five. 1924 pp. [I (1827) 256 pp.; II (1828) 416 pp.; III (1828) 384 pp.; IV (1829) 440 pp.; V(1829) 428 pp.]; 12 engraved plates, of which many double-sized, two partially coloured and one finely hand-coloured. Contemporary uniform marbled boards. Spines with gilt ornamental lines and black morocco label with gilt title. Speckled edges.
Read more[Retzius, A. J.]
Nomenclator botanicus enumerans plantas omnes in Systematis Naturae edit. XII. Specier. plantarum edit. II. et mantissis binis a illustr. D. Car. von Linné arch. reg. equit. aurat. etc. descriptas.
Lipsiae, I. F. Junium, 1772. 8vo (20.3 x 12.5 cm). 140 ["279"], [xv] pp. Original blind speckled wrappers.
Read moreRichard, L. C. [M.]
Commentatio botanica de conifereis et cycadeis, charcteres genericos singulorum utriusque familiae, et figuris analyticis eximiè ab autore ipso ad naturam delineatis ornatos complectens. Opus posthumum ab Achille Richard, filio.
Stutgardiae, J. C. Cotta, 1826. Large quarto (34.5 x 26.1 cm). xv, 212 pp.; 30 lithographed plates [1-29, 3bis], of which one [Plate 27] double-sized. 19th-century polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, flat-topped bands; compartments rich gilt with floral patterns, and black morocco label with gilt title. Numerous wood-engraved tailpieces. Brown endpapers. Edges speckled red.
Read moreRoemer, M. J.
Familiarum naturalium regni vegetabilis synopses monographicae seu enumeratio omnium plantarum hucusque detetarum secundum ordines naturales, genera et species digestarum, additis diagnosibus, synonymis, navarumque vel minus cognitarum descriptionibus. Prospect. Fasc. I. Hesperides. Fasc. II. Peponiferarum. III. Rosiflorae. IV. Ensatae. [All Published].
Vimariae [Weimar], Landes-Industrie Comptoir, 1846-1847. Five parts in four. 8vo (21.7 x 13.5 cm). Drophead title and four title pages, 999 pp. [23; xii, 152; x, 222; ix, 250; vii, 314]. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
Read moreRohweder, J.
Blütendiagramme nebst Längsschnittbildern von ausgewählten einheimischen Blütenpflanzen, als Vertretern der Hauptabteilungen des natürlichen und des Linnéschen Pflanzensystems zur Einführung in das Verständnis des Blütenbaues und als Muster für das Diagramm-Zeichnen.
Gotha, E. F. Thienemann, 1893. Two parts in three. 4to (24.8 x 21.3 cm). Brochure of 16 pp.; second brochure, with 24 chromolithographed plates of flowers. Both contained in pictorial cloth portfolio. Inner boards and flaps with floral pattern.
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.
Read moreRousseau, J. J. [A. Deville (ed.)]
Letters on the elements of botany, addressed to a Lady by J. J. Rousseau. Translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus by Thomas Martyn, B.D.F.R. & L.SS, Regius professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. The eighth edition, corrected. [AND] Thirty-eight plates with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnaeus's system of vegetables, and particularly adapted to the letters on the Elements of Botany.
London, White, Cochrane, and Co., Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; B. Crosby and Co.; and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, 1815. Two works in one. 8vo (21.0 x 13.1 cm). Half title, title, xx, 434 pp., folding table. [AND] London, J. White, 1799. vi, 72 pp.; 38 hand-coloured, tissue-guarded engraved plates by F. Nodder. Full contemporay polished calf, spine with four raised, flat-topped bands with gilt ornaments; compartments with rich gilt vignettes and title; boards with elaborate double gilt borders, blind-tooled, gilt, and black ornamental lines; gilt inner and outer dentelles; marbled edges.
Read moreRue, A. De la
Entomologie forestière, ou histoire naturelle des insectes nuisibles et utiles aux forêts.
Paris, Madame Huzard; Nancy, George-Grimblot, Thomas et Raybois, 1838. 8vo (20.9 x 12.8 cm). iv, 154 pp., six engraved plates. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Edges marbled.
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