Botany
224 items found
Osbeck, P.
Dagbok öfwer en Ostindisk Resa, Åren 1750. 1751. 1752. Med anmärkringar uti Naturkunnigheten, främmande Folkslags Sprak, Seder, Hushallning, m.m.
Stockholm, L. L. Grefing, 1757. 8vo (11.8 x 19.6 cm). [vi], 376, [xvi] pp.; 12 engraved plates. Near contemporary full mottled calf. Spine with five raised bands, blind-tooled floral patterns and vellum label with title. Speckled edges.
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Parnell, 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.
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Patouillard, N. [T.]
Essai taxonomique sur les familles et les genres des hyménomycètes.
Lons-le-Saunier, Lucien Declume, 1900. 8vo (24.2 x 15.8 cm). 184 pp.; 74 text figures. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Marbled flyleaves. Original printed front wrapper bound in.
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Paxton, J.
Die Cultur der Georginen (Dahlien). Nach dem Englischen mit Zuziehung des Herrn Hofgärtner Fischer in Weimar und mehrerer anderer Georginenfreunde bearbeitet von Heinr. Gauss. Mit 2 der Französischen Ueberzetsung beigefügten Briefen der Herren A. v. Humboldt und A. de Jussieu.
Weimar, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, 1839. Small 8vo (18.0 x 11.1 cm). xiv, 102, [iv] pp. Original printed wrappers.
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Pitasch, J. [AND] J. Zenker
Landwirtschaftliche Tafeln. XII. Forstwirtschaft (Holzzucht). [AND] XIII. Forstwirtschaft (Forstbenützung).
Wien, Anton Hartinger & Sohn, 1867-1869. Two very large, oblong folded, chromithographed sheets, (58.7 x 71.3 cm each) in uniform printed pockets (20.5 x 12 cm each).
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Plesch, A.
Mille et un livres botaniques de la collection Arpad Plesch. [Limited series copy, with handwritten dedication by the author].
Bruxelles, Arcade, 1973. Large, square 4to (29.5 x 26.5 cm). 517, [i] pp.; mounted full-colour portrait of Plesch; mounted full-colour photograph of part of his library; several text illustrations, and 32 full-colour facsimiles of quintessential botanical illustrations. Original green cloth with gilt title on the spine and red leather gilt-lettered facsimile bookplate on the front board. Full-colour pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers.
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Plinius Secundus, C. [P. C. B. Guéroult, ed.]
Morceaux extraits de l'Histoire Naturelle de Pline.
Paris, Michel Lambert, 1785. 8vo (19.5 x 13.0 cm). 554 pp. Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine with gilt lines, floral vignettes and brown morocco label with gilt title. Gilt-lined board edges. Marbled endpapers. All edges red.
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Pollacci, G. and A. Nannizzi
I miceti patogeni dell'uomo e degli animali, descritti, delineati e preparati per l'osservazione al microscopio, con notizie sopra i rimedi per combatterli. Fasciculo I-X. [Complete].
Bologna, L. Cappelli, 1922-1930. Ten parts in eight. Folio (28.0 x 21.8 cm). Text; 100 microscopic slides with specimens under sealed cover slips, and printed labels. Uniform dark green half cloth portfolios with gilt lettering on the front boards, and small paper label on the spines.
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Pollen, F. P. L. and D. C. Van Dam
Recherches sur la faune de Madagascar et de ses Dépendances, d'apres les découvertes de François P. L. et D. C. Van Dam. I. Relation de voyage.
Leyde [Leiden], J. K. Steenhoff, 1868-1877. 4to (29.0 x 21.5 cm). 240, [2] pp.; several text engravings; 55 plates or maps, including two lithographed portraits, 48 mostly coloured and tinted lithographed plates (views), two tinted lithographed maps (one very large, multi-folded) one hand-written letter in facsimile (double-sized). Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands with gilt chains; compartments with gilt vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Prain, D.
The Species of Dalbergia of South-Eastern Asia.
Calcutta [Kolkata], Bengal Secretariat Press [for the Royal Botanical Garden, Calcutta], 1904. Folio (37.0 x 29.0 cm). 120 pp.; 91 lithographed plates. Original portfolio with black half cloth over printed boards. Handwritten label on the spine.
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[Prévost d'Exiles, A. F.]
Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection des toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusq'à présent dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connus: ... Tome dix-septième. Histoire générale des voyages, depuis le commencement du XVme siècle, dix-septième partie. Livre septième. Vies des gouverneurs généraux, avec l'abregé de l'histoire des etablissemens Hollandois aux Indes Orientales [AND] Histoire naturelle des Indes Orientales.
La Haye [Den Haag, The Hague], Pierre de Hondt, 1763. 4to (25.1 x 20.4 cm). [ii], 266, 300, 48 pp.; 56 plates (of fish, etc.). Contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spine with five raised bands. Gilt title.
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Pückler-Muskau, H. L. H. Graf von
Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei verbunden mit der Beschreibung ihrer praktischen Anwendung in Muskau. [Atlas].
Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (Louis Friedrich Sachse), 1834. Oblong folio (34.0 x 48.5 cm). 45 finely engraved and original hand-coloured plates (numbered I-XXIX, XXXI-XXXXIV, XXXIII[bis], XXXIV[bis]), of which two much larger, folded, and three with originally hand-coloured overlays, partly augmented with gum arabic. Contemporary full straight-grained green morocco. Spine with four raised, gilt-ornamented green bands, and gilt ornamental head and tail pieces; boards with quadruple gilt-lined borders with floral gilt corner-pieces. Original marbled slipcase with a red morocco label with gilt ornamental border and gilt title on the front board.
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Pursh, F.
Journal of a Botanical Excursion in the Northeastern parts of the states of Pennsylvania and New York during the year 1807.
Philadelphia, PA, Brinckloe and Marot, [1807] 1869. 8vo (18.1 x 12.3 cm) 87 pp. Contemporary (original?) limp pebbled cloth. Spine with later, elongate morocco label with gilt title.
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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.
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Ratzeburg, J. T. C.
Die Waldverderbniss oder dauernder Schade, welcher durch Insektenfrass, Schälen, Schlagen und Verbeissen an lebenden Waldbäumen entsteht. Zugleich ein Ergänzungswerk zu den Abbildung und Beschreibung des schädlichsten Forstinsekten. Zweiter Band. Tanne, Lärche, Laubhölzer, und entomologischer Anhang.
Berlin, Nicolai, 1868. 4to (28.9 x 23.1 cm). xvi, 464 pp.; 26 [numbered 34-51, 41A, 43A, 45A, I-V] engraved plates of which 13 in chromolithography with additional hand-colouring and partly heightened with gum arabic. Original green boards with raised panels with gilt floral ornaments, and gilt borders. Spine with gilt bands and title. Iridescent silk endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Redouté, 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.
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[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.
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Roemer, 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.
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Rohweder, 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.
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Rousseau, 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.
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Rue, 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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Sahni, B.
Revision of Indian fossil plants. Part I. Coniferales (a. Impressions and incrustations). [AND] Part II (b. Petrifactions).
Calcutta, The Geological Survey of India, 1928-1931. Two Parts in two. Folio (36.7 x 25.0 cm). 124 pp.; 21 text figures, 15 photographic plates. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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Saulcy, [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.
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Savulesco, T. (ed.)
Flora Republicii Populare Romine. I - IV.
Bucaresti, Academiae Reipublicae Popularis Romanicae, 1952-1956. Four volumes in four. Large 8vo (23.5 x 17.0 cm). Eight title pages (two in each volume); 3029 pp. [(1952): xlviii, 659; II(1953): 702; III(1955): 662; IV(1956): 958]; and 472 plates [96;108;104;164]. Uniform blind-stamped blue cloth with silver title on the spines and front boards.
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[Société Dendrologique de France]
Bulletin de la Société Dendrologique de France. Volumes 1-6. [= parts 1-22].
Paris, Société Dendrologique de France, 1906-1911. 22 parts (six volumes) in two. 8vo (24.2 x 15.7 cm). Six title pages; 1351 pp. [112; 237; 255; 287; 180; 280]; numerous text figures, several plates; one folded coloured map. Uniform near contemporary red half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on the pines. Marbled endpapers; speckled edges.
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[Société royale de Botanique de Belgique]
Bulletins de la Société royale de Botanique de Belgique. Volumes 1 - 25. [Bulletin].
Bruxelles, M. Hayez [later: the Société itself], 1862-1881. 25 volumes in 25. 8vo (21.2 x 13.6 cm). Over 10,000 pp.; numerous plates of which several tinted or coloured. Uniform late 19th-century pebbled cloth; spines with black morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Souza da Camara, M. De
Monographia do tabaco.
Lisboa, F. H. Da Costa Monteiro, 1896. Large 4to (29.0 x 22.4 cm). [vi], 320, lxxvi pp.; 64 text engravings (one on a large, folded sheet), one folded map. Slightly later half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments bordered with gilt lines, and with gilt title and date. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Spach, 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.
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Sturm, J.
Kupfersammlung zu Schuberts und jeder andern Naturgeschichte brauchbar. In 12 Blättern, nach der Natur gezeichnet, gestochen und gemahlt.
Nürnberg, privately published, (n.d., but circa 1825). 8vo (20.1 x 12.0 cm). pp. v-viii; 12 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary blind grey/black mottled paper covered boards. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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[Sturm, J. (AND) Frauenholz, J. M.]
Original hand-coloured proof plates for Bilder für Kinder mit Hinsicht auf die von Herrn Andre und Bechstein herausgegebenen Spaziergänge, gesammelt von I. F. Frauenholz.
Nürnberg, Frauenholz, [1792]-1793-1795. Five plates. Oblong (19.5 x 22.5 cm), and near square (22.0 x 19.0 cm). Engraved and finely coloured by hand, one with handwritten captions. On loose sheets; versos blank.
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Suter, J. R.
Helvetiens Flora, worinn alle in Hallerischen Werke enthaltenen und seither neuentdeckten schweizer Pflanzen nach Linné's Methode aufgestellt sind.
Zürich, Orell, Fuessli, 1802. Two volumes in two. 12mo (14.2 x 8.8 cm). lxiii, 345, [xviii]; 416 pp. Uniform, later vellum. Spines with contemporary red morocco label with gilt title. All edges gilt and embossed with floral pattern.
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Temminck, C. J. (ed.)
Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen, door de Leden der Natuurkundige commissie in Indië en andere schrijvers. Uitgegeven op last van de Koning.
Leiden, S. Luchtmans and J. Luchtmans, 1839-1844. Three volumes in five, including a matching drop box. Folio (42.6 x 29.1 cm). 1379 pp.; 258 plates on 257 sheets (and one double, not counted), of which all but 81 finely hand-coloured, and four maps, of which one double-sized, and all but one partly hand-coloured. Uniform contemporary dark green half morocco over grained boards. Spines with five raised bands; gilt ornaments at head and foot, and gilt title. Speckled edges.
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Tempère, J. (ed.)
Le Diatomiste. Journal spécial s'occupant exclusivement des Diatomées et de tout ce qui s'y rattache. Volumes 1 - 2. [All Published].
Paris, J. Tempère, 1890-1896. [Reprint Lochum, Antiquariaat Junk, 1974]. Two volumes in two. Large 4to. 481 pp. [180, vi, 35; 260]; numerous plates and text illustrations. Republisher's uniform printed wrappers.
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Thaer, A. [D.] (ed.)
Annalen des Ackerbaues herausgegeben von Albrecht Thaer. [AND] Annalen der Fortschritte der Landwirthschaft in Theorie und Praxis herausgegeben von Albrecht Thaer. [Together in 16 volumes].
Berlin, Realschulbuchhandlung [and Rücker und Reimer], 1805-1812. 16 volumes in 16. Small 8vo (16.7 x 10.2 cm). 12,573 pp.; 29 folding tables, ten folding plates, six folding maps. Original uniform half calf over tree-calf resembling paper boards. Spines with gilt ornamental bands, red morocco label with gilt title and green oval morocco label with gilt ornamental border and gilt volume number. All edges red.
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