Floras
62 items found
Masclef, A.
Atlas des plantes de France. Utiles, nuisibles et ornamentales. 400 planches coloriées représentant 450 plantes communes avec des nombreuses figures en détail et un texte explicatif des propriétés des plantes, de leurs usages et applications en médecine, agriculture, horticulture, dans l'industrie, l'économie domestique, etc. Complément de la Nouvelle Flore de MM. Gaston Bonnier et Geoges de Layens. [Original, coloured edition].
Librairie des Sciences Naturelles Paul Klincksieck Editeur, Paris, [1890]-1893. Three volumes in three. 8vo (23.8 x 16.4 cm). 368 pp.; 400 full-colour plates. Unform 20th-century half cloth over marbled boards. Spines with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers to the text volume bound in.
Read moreLoiseleur Deslongchamps, J. L. A.
Flora Gallica, seu enumeratio plantarum in Gallia sponte nascentium; pars prima, pars secunda cum tabulis aeneis XXI. [AND] Notice sur les plantes a ajouter a la Flore de France (Flora Gallica); avec quelques corrections et observations.
Paris, Baillière, 1806-1810. Two works (three parts) in one. Thick 12mo (16.7 x 9.8 cm). 929 pp. [viii, 336, vi, 337-742; [i], 172]; 27 engraved, folded plates [1-21; I-VI]. Contemporary full tree calf. Spine rich gilt with broad, patterned, bands; floral vignettes, and red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreLinnaeus, C. [Murray, J. A. (ed.)]
Caroli a Linné equitis systema vegetabilium secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus et differentiis. Editio decima quinta praecedente longe correctior curante Jo. Andrea Murray, equite ord. r. de Wasa.
Paris, J. F. P. Déterville, 1798. 8vo (20.3 x 13.3 cm). 16, 822 pp. 19th-century half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and 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 moreLashkarev, A. Y.
Illustrirovannaya klassifikashya glavnishikh sortov Lugovikh Trav. S kratkim opisaniem kazhdoi travy v otdel`nosti. [Illustrated classification of the main cultivated grasses in Russia. With a short description of each herb separately].
St. Petersburg, Department of State Papers, 1898. Folio (33.8 x 25.5 cm). half title and title page in red and black; [iii], xi pp.; 108 coloured chromolithographed plates, each accompanied by one or more explanatory text leaves. Contemporary diced Russia over lined boards. Gilt title on the spine.
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 moreLambert, J. H., D. Bernouilli, and others
Acta Helvetica, Physico-Mathematico-Anatomico-Botanico-Medica, figuris aeneis illustrata & in usus publicos exarata. I-II.
Basel, J. R. Im-Hof, 1751-1755. Two volumes in one. 4to (19.6 x 16.0 cm). Title pages in red and black. 458 pp. [I (1751): vi, 104, 72; II (1755): iv, 272]; 18 [I: 6; II: 12] engraved plates, and one folded table. Near contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with black floral patterns and title. Speckled edges. In a transparent sleeve.
Read moreLamarck [J. B. P. A. de Monet de] and Candolle, [A. P.] de
Flore française, ou descriptions succinctes de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en France, disposées selon une nouvelle méthode d'analyse, et précédées par un Exposé des Principes élémentaires de la Botanique. Troisième édition, augmentée du Tome V, ou sixième volume, contenant 1300 expèces non décrites dans les cinq premiers volumes. Ouvrage accompagné d'une grande Carte Botanique coloriée, et orné de 11 planches contenant environ 200 figures. [AND] Synopsis plantarum in flora Gallica descriptarum.
Paris, Desray, 1815 [AND] Paris, H. Agasse, 1806. Six volumes in seven. 8vo (20.8 x 13.8 cm). 3717 pp.; 11 plates, one map, one table. Uniform 20th-century half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands and two red morocco labels with gilt border, authors' names and title. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreLamarck, [J. B. P. A. de Monet] de
Flore françoise ou description succinte de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en France, disposée selon une nouvelle méthode d'analyse, & à laquelle on a joint la citation de leurs vertus les moins équivoques en médecine, & de leur utilité dans les arts.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1779 ["1778"]. Three volumes in three. 8vo (19.7 x 12.7 cm). cxix, 1,720 pp.; eight engraved folding plates, one folded table. Uniform contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands and title bands. Speckled edges.
Read moreKing, G. and J. F. Duthie and D. Prain
Annals of the Royal Botanical Garden, Calcutta Vol. IX. Part I. A second century of new and rare Indian plants.
Calcutta, Royal Botanical Gardens, 1901. Folio (35.5 x 28.0 cm). Title pages to the volume and part, and to the work itself; frontispiece; ii, 80 pp.; 93 lithographed plates, of which 17 double-sized and one finely hand-coloured. All loose, in original portfolio in half morocco over printed boards.
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 moreHumbert, [J.] H.
La destruction d'une flore insulaire par le feu. Principaux aspects de la végétation à Madagascar. Documents photographiques et notices.
Tananarive, Académie Malgache, 1927. 4to (28.5 x 22.5 cm). 80 pp.; 41 plates, of which 40 with fine photographs by the author. Original printed portfolio.
Read moreHu, H. H. and W. Y. Chun
Icones Plantarum Sinicarum. Fascicle 3, 4 and 5 [of 5].
Shanghai, Commercial Press, 1933-1937. Folio (44.7 x 31.1 cm). Each fascicle with 50 pp. of text and 50 fine plates (i.e., 150 pp. and 150 plates in total). All in original, uniform printed wrappers with European and Chinese lettering.
Read moreHoola 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.
Read moreGuinier, P.
Le Roc de Chère. Étude phytographique. Essai d'application des principes de la géographie botanique à l'étude détaillée d'une région. Avec cartes botanique et géologique et vues photographiques d'associations végétales.
Annecy, J. Abry, 1906. 8vo (24.0 x 16.0 cm). 125 pp.; five plates (two with printed overlay), one large, double-folded, coloured map. Original quarter cloth over printed boards.
Read moreGuffroy, C. [É.]
L'Étude de la flore de Seine-et-Oise au XXè siècle.
Versailles, Société des Sciences Naturelles de Seine-et-Oise, 1932-1934. 8vo (22.3 x 14.0 cm). 73 pp. [numbered 49-82, 105-120; 1-15; 89-98]. 20th-century full cloth. Spine with black, printed title. Marbled endpapers. Original printed front wrapper bound in.
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 moreGaterau, [L.]
Description des plantes qui crossent aux environs de Montauban, ou qu'on cultive dans les jardins, rangées d'apr`ws la methode sexuelle, avec l'indication du lieu où elles viennent, et les vertus principales des usuelles.
Montauban, l'Auteur [AND] Charles Crosiles, 1789. 8vo (19.1 x 12.4 cm). 216, [iv] pp., interleaved with blanks, and an additional 24 blanks bound in front (12), and in the rear (12). 19th-century quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. Edges speckled red.
Read moreFeaton, E. H. and S. A. Featon
The Art Album of New Zealand Flora; being a systematic and popular description of the native flowering plants of New Zealand and the adjacent islands by Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Featon. Volume 1. Authors' edition. [All published].
Wellington, Bock & Cousins [and London, Trübner], 1889. Large 4to (29.6 x 24.6 cm). xvi, 180 pp.; chromolithographed frontispiece and 39 fine, chromolithographed plates, all tissue-guarded. Original green pebbled and embossed cloth. Gilt title on the spine and front board. Floral-pattered endpapers.
Read moreFaber, F. C. Von
Die Kraterpflanzen Javas in physiologisch-ökologischer Beziehung.
Buitenzorg, 's Lands Plantentuin - Botanischer Garten, 1927. Large 8vo (24.1 x 17.0 cm). iv, 119 pp.; 12 text illustrations, 18 fine photographic plates. A unique pattered batik-cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and front board. Original printed front wrapper bound in.
Read moreEttingshausen, C., von
Die Fossile Flora des Tertiär-Beckens von Bilin. I Theil. (Enthaltend die Thallophyten, Kryptogamischen Gefässpflanzen; Monokotyledonen, Coniferen, Julifloren und Oleraceen).
Wien, Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1867. 4to (29.6 x 23.1 cm). 95 pp.; 30 tinted lithographed plates. Later boards, printed label mounted on front board.
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