Spermophyta - Flowering Plants
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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.
Read morePuydt, 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.
Read moreRaunkiaer, C. [C.] and I. [M.] Raunkiaer
De Danske Blomsterplanters Naturhistorie. Første bind: Enkimbladede. Med 1089 figurer i 293 figurgrupper for størse delen.
Kjøbenhavn, Hos Gyldendal, 1895-1899. Thick 8vo (25.2 x 18.0 cm). lxix, 724 pp.; 1,089 text figures. Later green half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with green leather label with gilt title. Brown endpapers. Speckled edges. Original printed front wrapper bound in.
Read moreRedouté, 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.
Read moreRohweder, 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.
Read moreRousseau, 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.
Read moreSavulesco, 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.
Read moreShivotovski, N. [Shivotovskii, Shivotovsky]
Botanicheskiy Atlasŭ [Botanicheskiy atlas; Russian botanical atlas]
St. Petersburg, Izdanie Kartograficheskago Zavedeniya A. Il'ina, 1883. Small folio (32.6 x 24.2 cm). 22 pp.; 20 chromolithographed plates. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands.
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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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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.
Read moreSturm, 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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