Botany
206 items found
Admiraal, K. [AND Hugo de Vries]
De kankerziekte der boomen. Met een voorwoord van Prof. Hugo de Vries. Verhandeling, bekroond door de Nederlandsche Maatschappij voor Tuinbouw en Plantkunde. Met 5 platen.
Amsterdam, M. M. Olivier, 1889. 8vo (23.7 x 25.3 cm). xii, 103 pp.; five lithographed plates (of which four in colour lithography, including one very large, folded) with explanatory text leaves. Slightly later blind pebbled half cloth over marbled boards.
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Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh, C. R. W. K. van
Malayan Ferns. Handbook to the determination of the ferns of the Malayan Islands (incl. those of the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines and New Guinea). [AND] Correcting sheet.
Batavia, The Department of Agriculture Netherlands India, 1909. Two parts in two. 8vo (26.2 x 17.5 cm). 948 pp. [xl, 899; 9]. Uniform printed wrappers.
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Anonymous Bavarian botanist
Herbarium. "Souvenir".
Germany, Bavaria, ca. 1848. One cardboard "Title" with printed, and finely hand-coloured pictorial vignette, with a rectangular gilt paper border (verso pink), and 39 cards with dried (flowering) plants mounted (16.0 x 10.5 cm). Loose in a contemporary cardboard box (17.4 x 12.0 x 3.6 cm) resembling a book with the "spine" and "boards" covered in blue, white and silver patterned paper, and the "edges" full gilt. Front (top) board with diamond shaped vignette titled souvenir. Interior covered with iridescent pink paper. Preserved in a contemporary iridescent green wrapper and green paper covered slipcase with gilt edges (17.7 x 12.3 x 4.0 cm).
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Baker, J. G.
Contributions to the Flora of Madagascar. Part I. Polypetalae. Part II. Monopetalae. Part III. Incompletae, Monocotyledones, and Filices. [All published under this title].
London, Longman, Green, Reader and Dyer [for the Linnean Society of London], 1883. Three parts in three. 8vo (22.2 x 14.1 cm). 218 pp. [numbered: 87-158; 159-236; 237-304]; six lithographed plates [numbered: 22-23; 24-27; none in the third part]. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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Barbey, W.
Lydie, Lycie, Carie. 1842, 1883, 1887. Études botaniques revues.
Lausanne, George Bridel, 1890. Large 4to (31.3 x 25.3 cm). 84 pp.; five lithographed plates, made by Becquet in Paris, of which two double-sized, all tissue-guarded and with explanatory text leaves. Original quarter cloth over printed boards. Gilt title on the spine.
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Bel, J.
Les champignons supérieurs du Tarn. Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie des Sciences de Toulouse (Medaillon d'or).
Paris, J. B. Baillière et fils, 1889. 8vo (21.5 x 14.5 cm). 198 [i] pp.; 32 chromolithographed plates. Later half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. Marbled endpapers.
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Bernard, G. E.
Champignons observés dans le département de la Charente-Inférieure. Planches. [Atlas].
La Rochelle, Académie de La Rochelle, Société des Sciences Naturelles de la Charente-Inférieure, 1882. 8vo (25.2 x 16.0 cm). 4 pp.; 56 fine lithographed plates of which 12 originally hand-coloured. Original printed wrappers.
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Bischoff, G. W.
Lehrbuch der Botanik. Mit 16 lithographirten Tafeln. [AND] Abbildungen zum Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Botanik. [Including the rare Atlas].
Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart, 1833-1840. Three parts in six text volumes and one atlas. Text (1834-1840): 8vo (21.0 x 12.6 cm). 3523 pp., several wood-engravings in the text. Contemporary uniform half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt ornamerts and title. Marbled endpapers. Edges sprinkled green. Atlas (1837): 4to (26.3 x 21.1 cm). 16 engraved plates of which four partly hand-coloured. Contemporary quarter roan over marbled boards. Blind paper label on front board. Original printed front wrapper bound in.
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