Botany
264 items found
Liénard, [J.] F.
Catalogue des champignons observée et recuillis dans le dept de la Meuse et figurant dans le collection de Monsieur F. Liénard.
[Verdun], unpublished manuscript, 1855-[1871-1875]-1880. Folio (28.1 x 19.2 cm). 382 leaves of which three with a handwritten index; 23 with a handwritten half-title, and 356 with delicately drawn and coloured mushrooms. Somewhat later half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands. Compartments with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreSaulcy, [L.] F. [J. C.] de
Voyage autour de la Mer Morte et dans les terres bibliques exécuté de décembre 1850 à avril 1851. Relation de voyage; atlas. [Complete].
Paris, Gide et J. Baudry, 1852-1853. In two text volumes and one atlas volume. 8vo (24.5 x 16.0 cm [text]). 1054 pp. [399; 655]). Folio/large 4to (31.0 x 23.7 cm [atlas]). 172 pp. [4, vii, 20, i-iv, 5-19; xxvi, 96]; 15 maps on 14 sheets (one double-sized); 61 (LVII; 4) lithographed plates (several tinted). Text in near contemporary uniform half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt bands and title; Atlas in contemporary half morocco over grained, cloth with gilt title on the front board and spine. Marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers of the text volumes bound in.
Read morePuel, T.
Catalogue des plantes vasculaires qui croissent dans le département du Lot.
Cahors, J. P. Combarieu, 1852. 8vo (21.1 x 12.7 cm). 248 pp. 20th-century green half morocco over green linen boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Original printed front wrapper bound in.
Read moreFauché, B.
Histoire naturelle, botanique.
[France, unpublished, ca. 1850]. Folio (39.8 x 28.8 cm). Title page with polychrome title and vignette, heightened with gold; 15 tissue-guarded plates with watercolour images of fungi (1) and flowering plants with explanatory text leaves in fine calligraphy. Original full embossed and pebbled black calf; gilt-stippled board edges and fine gilt inner dentelles. Iridescent endpapers. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title; front board with gilt initials "B. F." (= Berthe Fauché); rear board with gilt vignette "Maison des Oiseaux". All edges gilt.
Read moreLambertye, L. de [AND] S. [N. C.] Des Etangs
Catalogue raisonné des plantes vasculaires qui crossent spontanément dans le Département de La Marne, distribuées d'après le Synopsis Florae Germanicae et Helveticae ... Avec une carte botanique indiquant les principales formations géologiques et toutes les localités citées dans l'ouvrage. [AND] Rapport sur le Catalogue Raisonnée des Plantes Vasculaires Qui Croissent Spontanément Dans le Département De La Marne, Par M. Léonce De Lambertye, fait à séance du 21 janvier 1848.
Paris, Chamerot, 1846 [AND] [Troyes], Société d'Agriculture, des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres du département de l'Aube, 1848. Two papers in one. Half-title, title page, v-xxiv, 207 pp.; one very large, multi-folded, partially hand-coloured map. [AND] 23 pp. (numbered 369-391). Near contemporary half-morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-lined bands. Compartments with gilt borders and corner pieces, gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
Read moreGray, A. and I. Sprague
Genera florae Americae Boreali-Orientalis illustrata. The genera of the plants of the United States, illustrated by figures and analyses from nature, by Isaac Sprague. Superintended, and with descriptions, &c. by Asa Gray. Vol. I. Plates 1-100, Vol. II. Plates 101-186. (Complete).
Boston, MA, James Munroe, New York, NY, George P. Putnam, 1848-1849. Two volumes in two. 8vo (23.5 x 15.1 cm). 460 (230; 230) pp.; 186 (100; 86) engraved plates. Original uniform black blind-stamped cloth. Gilt title on the spines. Yellow endpapers.
Read moreDoumenjou, J. B. [D.]
Herborisations de la Montagne-Noire et les environs de Sorèze et de Castres. Suivies du catalogue des plantes phanérogames qui végètent spontanément dans ces localités.
Castres, Veuve Challiol, 1847. 8vo (22.6 x 14.2 cm). Half-title, title page, 328 pp.; four lithographed plates of which three in contemporary hand-colouring. 19th-century half linen over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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 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 moreLaterrade, J. F.
Flore bordelaise et de la Gironde, description caractéristique des plantes qui croissent naturallement dans ce Département, avec l'indication de leurs propriétés et leurs usages, précédée de notions élémentaires de botanique. Quatrième édition, disposée d'après la méthode naturelle et avec l'indication de beaucoup d'espèces cultivées.
Bordeaux, Th. Lafargue, 1846. 16mo (17.5 x 10.7 cm). 690 pp. Contemporary pebbled, gilt-bordered half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-stippled bands; compartments with gilt floral vignettes and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Sprinkled edges.
Read moreJordan, [C. T.] A.
Observations sur plusieurs plantes nouvelles rares ou critiques de la France. Premier fragment - Quatrième fragment.
Paris, Maison; Leipzig, T. O. Weigel, 1846. Four parts in one. Tall 8vo (25.7 x 16.0 cm). 375 pp.; 22 engraved plates of which several partly hand-coloured [1: 47 pp.; five plates (four larger, folded; one partly hand-coloured); 2: 39 pp.; two large, folding, partly hand-coloured plates); 3: half-title, title page, 254 pp.; 13 large, folded plates (numbered 1-12, 1bis) of which one partly coloured; 4: 37 pp.; two large, folded plates]. Contemporary dark green half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt floral ornaments and title. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreSpach, E.
Histoire naturelle des végétaux. Phanérogames. Atlas.
Paris, Roret, 1846. 8vo (23.6 x 15.5 cm). 71 pp.; 160 engraved plates [numbered 1-8, 1-152], of which 135 finely hand-coloured. Contemporary polished half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and two polished morocco labels with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
Read morePitot, [R.] É. [De La Beaujardiere]
Etudes d'arbres et de paysages dessinés d'après nature a Maurice (Ile-de-France).
Maurice, Librairie des Écoles, J. Dureau, Ca. 1825-1830. Folio (45.0 x 31.1 cm). Title page with woodcut vignette; (ii) pp. (subscribers list); 42 lithographed plates showing trees, all in landscapes, with captions. Contemporary quarter calf over pebbled boards. Spine with gilt-rolled floral ornament and title.
Read moreFuchs, W.
Die Venetianer Alpen. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Hochgebirgte, met einen geognostischen Karte und Gebirgteprofilen in achtzehn Tafeln.
Solothurn, Jent & Gassmann, 1844. Oblong folio (29.8 x 35.5 cm), [4], 60 pp.; 18 mostly hand-coloured engraved maps and plates. Text pages bordered with putti and goddesses. 19th century iridescent blue blind cloth.
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 moreTrog, J. G.
Die essbaren, verdächtigen & giftigen Schwaemme der Schweiz.
Bern, [privately published], [1843-1850 or 1866]. Folio (38.3 x 28.5 cm). Title (mounted), 46, [ii] pp.; 36 finely hand-coloured lithographed plates. Contemporary dark green grained paper boards. Gilt lines on the spine.
Read moreParnell, R.
The grasses of Scotland. [AND] The grasses of Great Britain. [Complete].
Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1842-1845. Two volumes in two. 8vo (24.8 x15.7 cm). Half-titles and titles, 356 pp. [xxi, 1-152; xxvii, 153-311]; 142 [I-LXVI; LXVII-CXLII] fine, lithographed plates. Original uniform, green, blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spines and gilt floral vignette on the front boards. Yellow endpapers. Top edges gilt.
Read moreDufrenoy, [O. P. A.] and [J. B. A. L. L.] Élie de Beaumont
Explication de la carte géologique de la France. Volumes I-IV (text and atlas), and two maps. [Complete].
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, Imprimerie Nationale, 1841-1879. Four volumes in seven, and a large map in six folded sheets, each ca. 70 x 205 cm (including borders) with linen covers. Large 4to (four text volumes; ca. 27.5 x 21.0 cm); folio (two atlas volumes, 26.8 x 35.7 cm). Tome premier: Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1841. Large 4to. xxii, 825 pp., 71 text engravings (mainly profiles); Tome deuxième: Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1848. Large 4to. xii, 813 pp., 105 text engravings (mainly views and profiles), one large, folded chromolithographed geological map (finished by hand) of France (printed surface: 57 x 54 cm, and consisting of 15 smaller sections, mounted on linen and folded) bound in the rear; Tome troisième. Première partie (by Dufrénoy): Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1873. Large 4to. viii, 231 pp., 18 text engravings (mainly profiles). Printed wrappers. Tome quatrième. Seconde partie. Végétaux fossiles du terrain houiller (by Zeiller): Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1879. Large 4to. 185 pp. Printed wrappers; Tome quatrième. Atlas (in two volumes). Première partie. Fossiles principaux des terrains (by É. Bayle). Seconde partie. Végétaux fossiles du terrain houiller (by Zeiller): Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1878. Folio. Title page, half title to first part. 86 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves, numbered I-LXXXVI; 90 lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves, numbered LXXXVII-CLXXVI (the last 16 on plants), for a total of 176 plates. Volumes I, II, and IV plate volumes in near uniform contemporary dark-green pebbled morocco over marbled boards. Spines with five gilt-stippled bands, and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. The text volumes with top edge gilt, atlases with marbled top edges. Text volumes III and IV in original printed wrappers. The large chromolithographed map in six sheets (approximately 218 x 223 cm) is contained in a contemporary, book-like crimson box with gilt-lettered spine, with raised bands and patterned paper sides.
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