Botany
264 items found
Bentham, G.
Catalogue des plantes indigènes des Pyrénées et du Bas Languedoc, avec des notes et observations sur les espèces nouvelles ou peu connues; précédé d'une Notice sur un voyage botanique fait dans les Pyrénées pendant l'été de 1825.
Paris, Madame Huzard, 1826. 8vo (20.7 x 12.5 cm [board size 21.3 x 13.3 cm]. 128 pp. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine rich gilt with ornamental bands and vignettes; and with red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled edges. original printed wrappers 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 moreExell, A. W.
Catalogue of the vascular plants of S. Tomé (with Principe and Annobon). [AND] Supplement Catalogue of the vascular plants of S. Tomé (with Principe and Annobon). [AND] Corrected proof of the Supplement.
London, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1944-1956. Two papers in three. 8vo (24.6 x 18.8 cm) 551 pp. [xi, 428; 58; 54]; three maps; 32 [26; 3; 3] large text illustrations. Original green buckram with gilt title on the spine (main work); green printed wrappers (Supplement), and plain brown wrappers (proof copy).
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 moreBernard, 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 hand-coloured. Original printed wrappers.
Read moreVincent, H. A.
Collection de 24 bouquets de fleurs.
Paris, Lambert, 1835. Small folio (27.0 x 20.7 cm). Hand-coloured engraved title; 24 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colour and finished by hand. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt floral ornaments and title. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreKrauss, J. C.
Colutea arborescens (Bladder-senna) [from: Afbeeldingen der fraaiste, meest uitheemsche boomen en heesters die tot versiering van Engelse bosschen en tuinen, op onzen grond kunnen geplant en gekweekt worden].
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802. Folio (visible surface 28.2 x 22.0 cm). Mounted in a fine, elegant, early 20th-century gilt-ornamented frame (57.1 x 49.7 cm).
Read moreClarke, C. B.
Commelynaceae et Cyrtandraceae Bengalenses (paucis aliis ex terris adjacentibus additis).
Calcutta, Thacker, Spink and Co., Publishers to the Calcutta University, 1874. Large folio (52.4 x 34.3 cm). Half title, title page, 133, ii (index) pp.; 95 lithographed plates (plate I-XCIII, LXXXVII bis, LXXXIX bis). Somewhat later green half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine.
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 moreDebeaux, [J.] O.
Contribution à la flore de la Chine, comprenant les algues marines récoltées en China et les florules de Shang-Hai, Tché-Fou et Tien-Tsin.
Paris, F. Savy, [1875]-1879. Four parts in one. 8vo (25.0 x 16.5 cm). 361 pp. [3-21; 3-78; 3-191; 3-79]; six lithographed plates [1;0;3;2], and two original drawings in pen, ink and pencil. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt floral bands and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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