Flora and Sylva. A Monthly Review for Lovers of Garden, Woodland. Tree or Flower; New and Rare Plants, Trees, Schrubs and Fruits; the Garden Beautiful, Home Woods, and Home Landscape. Three Volumes Complete. by [Color Plate Book] - 1903-05.

London: D. Brown, A. Roper & Fran. Coggan First English edition, 1707. Hardcover. Good. Allegorical frontispiece + 12 copperplates (one of which in facsimile on old paper). Frontispiece attributed to Michael van der Gucht (1660-1725) Flemish engraver working in England.. Octavo panelled calf blindtooled (tips worn, neatly rebackacked I matching leather). Frontis, titlepage +[14] +352pp some misnumbered but collated complete. Text foxed & browned but paper still quite crisp, stable & tight. The plates printed on different paper and are all unfoxed, and aside from slight marginal browning are whiter than the text. *Translated by William Fleetwood from Curiositez de la Nature et de l'Art sur la Ve�ge�tation, but author's & translator's names do not appear. This English version pre-dates the French first edition as given in British Library catalogue, and the chapter order does not correspond with the French.

LONDON : John White, 1807 A very good copy of Rousseau's Letters translated and explained by Professor Thomas Martyn, 7th corrected and improved edition bound with Thirty-Eight plates, also by Thomas Martyn, 1794. In newer half leather binding with title label to spine and marbled boards. Page edges marbled. Letters is 503 pp plus index sections, with folding table outlining Linnaeus' system. The Thiry-Eight plates, a complete work in itself with separate title page, but prepared to link with the Letters, is 72 pp with 38 beautiful hand coloured plates by Nodder. The binding is in very good condition with a little scuffing to the spine. The contents are generally in very good condition with nice clean text pages. The plates are clean and brightly coloured. There is a small stain which affects the bottom left hand corner of plates 36-8, not affecting images.

hardback. Very Good. ... To which are added An Introduction and notes, adapting the rules of the treatise to the Climates and Seasons of the United States of America. Illustrated with 13 (mostly folding) plates. Albany (D & S Whiting) 1803. This edition has an added 8pp letter from Peter W. Yates, commenting on the treatise. Some foxing, mainly of plates, but a very good copy, newly rebound in cloth-backed boards, with paper spine label.

London: R. Ackermann, Strand, 1828. Hardcover. Very Good. Hand-coloured plates including costumes, professions & trades, with children, animals, coaching scene, ships/boats, boxing etc.. 2 VOLUMES gilt tan roan (edges worn/spine of vol.2 lacks top compartment and much of the raised bands of vol.2 are missing their leather covering) All edges marbled. Frontispiece + xc (which incl.titlepage) +72pp Vol.2 frontispiece + v (which includes title) +140pp + [4]pp of publisher's Spanish works. Book plate to pastedown with coat of arms of Earl of Portsmouth. Text in Spanish but plates all captioned only in English and the colouring is original and well done. Both text and plates are in clean condition, no writing no tears and with the tissue guards in place and very minimal foxing to a very few pages. The publisher, Ackermann, lists these books as being sold through his own establishments in Maxico, Columbia, Buenos Aires, Chile, Peru, & Guatemala these volumes were obviously written for the South American trade.

London: R. Francklin, C. Davis, and 4-5 others 7th edition (Vol.1-4), 2nd edition (Vol.5-7)., 1750, 1749. Hardcover. Good. Copperplates (189 of 198 required in this edition, Vol.3 lacks 9 folding plates) - each volume has a frontis by A. Motte or R. Parr + mostly folding plates by various artists.. Seven Volumes 12mo (175x110mm), brown roan on 5 raised bands (3 front boards re-attached, spines starting to split on 2 other vols, leather scuffed). Frontis +xxiv +323pp +[12]pp index +[4]pp C. Davis publisher's list; Vol.2 Frontis + viii +312pp with index +[4]pp Davis booklist; Vol.3 Frontis +xviii +366pp with index; Vol.4 Frontis + Title + dedication to Sir Hans Sloan +356pp +[10]pp index; Vol.5 Frontis + Title + contents +329pp; Vol.6 Frontis + Title + contents + xxxii explanation of plates +308pp +[4]pp book list; Vol.7 Frontis + Title + contents +323pp. Coolated complte except for 9 folding plates lacking from Vol.3). Bindings delicate, Vol.2 with lower margin wormholes for about 90 pages but hardly… Read More

Basel: Konig printed Genathius 1st edition, 1679). Hardcover. Very Good. Copperplate map & city view of Donau + 4 full page woodcuts of plants . Quarto contemporary panelled calf (rebacked & blind-tooled with black spine label/tips worn) 336pp +(vi)index The Ae of Aquaticae & Noxae are very faintly printed on the Titlepage and there is slight paper thinning to the paper in 4 small (1cm diameter) round areas and part of 2 letters have been strengthened with ink. Wepfer was the first to analyze the pharmacological effect of hemlock and its poison. In this treatise 1679 the author also reports the discovery of the duodenal glands.

FE. DUYCKINCK, Evert A. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY OF EMINENT AMERICANS. From Original Full Length Paintings by Alonzo Chappel. With Biographical and Historical Narratives, by Evert A. Duyckinck. In two volumes. New York: Johnson, Fry & Company, (1861-1864). 4to, half leather and a.e.g, gilt rules, raised bands, gilt spine lettering, beveled brown pebbled cloth boards stamped in gilt. Rubbed, cloth stained, joints tender, inner hinges starting. Cloth frayed at bottom corner of top board, Vol. I. The 119 plates are, with very few exceptions, extremely clean and sharp. Very good overall.

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2015.. Edition of 5 . 17 x 6.5" closed, opens to 60". Accordion extending from back pastedown foreedge. Hand-colored lithographs and gelatin plate prints. Bound in cloth-covered boards. Signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Rebecca Goodale: "In this narrative a unicorn is running away with two of Maine's extirpated species: Lycaeides melissa samulelis ( Karner Blue) a small blue butterfly, which after a long absence has recently been sighted in southwestern Maine and Aletris farinosa (unicorn root) a plant that has not been seen here for over a hundred years."

1897 Life of Queen Victoria England Britain Military Opium Wars Prince Albert

An impressive, beautifully illustrated account of the life and reign of Queen Victoria of England. Written by Sarah Tytler, 'Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen' is a charming book designed to praise the Queen focusing heavily on English military campaigns such as the Opium Wars and the Crimean War. It ultimately acknowledges and glorifies the expansion of the British empire under her control.
Item number: #10394
Price: $599
TYTLER, Sarah

The life of her most gracious majesty the queen
London: [1897].
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Collation: Complete with all pages: 3 volumes
o Illustrated with numerous engravings throughout all volumes
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Language: English
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Binding: Cloth; tight and secure
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Size: ~12.5in X 10.5in (31.5cm x 26cm)
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1871 Captain Cook Voyages Australia Tahiti Hawaii Arctic Pacific Illustrated

"Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it."
– James Cook

James Cook was an 18th-century British explorer known for these three major world voyages. The initial reason for his expeditions was to seek clarification and discover unknown regions in the Southern Hemisphere, mainly Australia and the surrounding islands. While on this excursion, Cook and company were able to discern many astronomical mysteries, meet local tribes, helped develop means of determining longitude lines, and find several important sea routes.
This 1871 edition is a narrative of all three of Cook's Voyages focusing on the most interesting parts including Tahiti, crossing the Antarctic Circle, New Zealand, Sea Lions and other discoveries in the South Atlantic, Hawaii and its King, Cook slain by Natives, return journey from China, and more. This 1871 edition includes 37 full-page black and white illustrations!
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