36 items found

A complete set including the rare appendix and bound by Middleton

Edwards, S.

The Botanical Register: or ornamental flower-garden and shrubbery. Volumes 1-33 [AND] the appendix by John Lindley being the systematic index and sketch of the vegetation of the Swan river colony in Australia. [All published].

London, J. Ridgway, 1815-1847. 34 volumes. Large 8vo (24.2 x 15.3 cm). Text and 2,707 beautifully hand-coloured engraved plates and three plain engravings for a total of 2,710 plates, plus nine hand-coloured engraved plates in the appendix. Very nice half green morocco bindings by Bernard Middleton. Spines with five raised bands, gilt floral vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt.

€29,000.00

Complete first two series of the longest running botanical journal in history

Curtis, W.

The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed... To which are added, their names, class, order, generic and specific characters, according to the celebrated Linnaeus; their places of growth, and times of flowering: together with the most approved methods of culture. A work intended for the use of such ladies, gentlemen, and gardeners, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with the plants they cultivate. Volumes 1-53 and index.

€22,500.00

As rare as it gets: with the unobtainable 41st plate present

Hoola van Nooten, B.

Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de la flore et de la pomone de l'ile de Java. peints d'après nature. Ouvrage dédié à s majesté la reine de Hollande.

Bruxelles, Émile Tarlier, 1863. Large folio (55.6 x 40.8 cm). Title page, [ii] pp. (preface), dedication leaf; 41 chromolithographed plates, some finished by hand, with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary half calf over over burgundy linen boards. Spine blind-tooled with four low, wide bands, and dark brown morocco label with gilt title. Light, greyish green endpapers.

€18,500.00

Outstanding Cuban and Caribbean botanical illustrations by the explorer Descourtilz

Descourtilz, M. E.

Flore pittoresque et médicale des Antilles, ou histoire naturelle des plantes usuelles des colonies Françaises, Anglaises, Espagnoles et Portugaises; Peinte d'après les dessins faits sur les lieux par M. J. Th. Descourtilz.

€15,000.00

[The] Magnificent [Seven]

Descole, H.

Genera et Species Plantarum Argentinarum. I-V. [A complete set].

Buenos Aires, Guillermo Kraft, 1943-1956. Folio (49.3 x 34.3 cm), five volumes in seven. With, in total, 1936 pages of text and 811 fine plates [149, 175, 133, 221, 133], of which 141 [20, 26, 54, 22, 19] printed in full colour and tissue-guarded. Original uniform decorated green cloth, with floral patterns on spine and blind-stamped tooling on boards. Pictorial (floral) endpapers. All edges red.

€3,800.00

A rare complete set of this finely hand-coloured botanical series

Morren, C. (ed.)

l'Horticulteur Belge, Journal des Jardiniers et Amateurs. Volumes 1-5. [All published].

Bruxelles, Bureau du Journal and Établissement Encyclographique, 1833-1837. Five volumes in five. 4to (24.2 x 15.5 cm). Numerous text engravings and 119 nicely hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary uniform half calf over marbled boards, spines with four raised, gilt-ornamented bands, gilt pattered spine feet, compartments with blind-tooled vignettes and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.

€3,200.00

A very rare, large format, dried fern album with wooden panels

Cranwell, T.

New Zealand ferns. Prepared and mounted by T. Cranwell.

Auckland (Parnell), T. Cranwell, no date [before 1877]. Small folio (27.8 x 22.3 cm). 30 sheets with mounted ferns, each with a small, mounted label with the Latin name. Original green leather spine and carved rimu wood-panels. Marbled endpapers. Contained in recent clamshell box (30.6 x 24.7 x 4.9 cm) of black cloth with black morocco label with gilt ornamental bands and title on the 'spine'.

€1,750.00

Three seldom-seen works of great importance to Chinese botany

Hu, H. H. and W. Y. Chun

Icones Plantarum Sinicarum. Fascicle 3, 4 and 5 [of 5].

€1,500.00

Unique watercolours of beautiful flowering plants

Weech, S. V.

Original hand-coloured pen & ink drawings and watercolours of flowers.

€1,250.00

A plethora of new European plants, described by one of the most active and controversial botanists of his time

Jordan, [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.

€800.00

The lady must have been pleased...

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.