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Freeport, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2017.. Edition of 6 + 2 AP. 10 x 26" closed, extends to 10 x 39 x 39". Silkscreen prints and dry point prints. Text letterpress printed at Ascensius Press in Bar Mills. Interlocking binding in hinged cover. Bound in green book cloth with paper title label. Signed by the poet and the artists. Numbered. A collaboration between Rebecca Goodale and Stephen Burt with an original poem by Cathleen Miller. The prints show the growth habit of the common comfrey plant. The book is read standing and open. Rebecca Goodale: "In 2016 Stephen Burt and Rebecca Goodale decided to create an artist's book together using serigraphy and intaglio for the pages. The imagery was inspired by the common comfrey plant and a poem by Cathleen Miller. They worked collaboratively cutting stencils, and engraving the plates - passing them back and forth until together they decided the screens and plates were ready to print. The prints were made in Rebecca's…
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by JAUFFRET L.F. and [MIGER (P.A.M.) THE ARPAD PLESCH COPY.::
LE PANIER DE FRUIT bound with LA CORBEILLE DE FLEURS. Ouvrage de botanique et de litterature, orne de vingt-quatre planches coloriees, et de douze Romances graves avec accompagnement de piano, destine aux jeunes demoiselles.
by JAUFFRET L.F. and [MIGER (P.A.M.) THE ARPAD PLESCH COPY.::
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Paris, chez Perlet, 1807.. FIRST EDTIONS, 2 WORKS BOUND IN ONE VOLUME, 1807. LE PANIER DE FRUITS, ou descriptions botaniques et notices historiques des principaux fruits cultives en France; suivies de differens morceaux de litterature et de morale; ouvrage orne de vingt-quatre planches coloriees; destine aux jeunes gens. FIRST EDITION, 1807, French text, 24 fine plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, after the Pretres, pages: viii, 384; LA CORBEILLE DE FLEURS: FIRST EDITION 1807 with coloured plates after Pretre, French text, 8vo, approximately 205 x 115 mm, 8 x 4¾ inches, 12 folding leaves of engraved music, 24 fine plates printed in colours and finished by hand, after drawings by J.G. PRETRE and his daughter Mlle Josephine Pretre, pages: viii, 384. Bound in contemporary mottled sheep, narrow gilt floral border to covers, gilt decoration to spine, 2 gilt lettered red morocco labels, edges and endpapers marbled. A few hair-line surface cracks to spine, small bump to upper corner of lower cover, small oval ink stamp removed from blank area of first title page, now neatly patched, a total of 8 further ink stamps of E. Tessier throughout the 2 works, not affecting text or images, mostly to lower blank margins, large blank piece torn off lower corner of page 77/78 (first work) now neatly repaired, no loss to text, pale brown stain to lower margin of pages 267-270 (first work), lower blank margin torn off final page of second work now neatly repaired, no loss to text, very good clean copies. This is the Plesch copy with the gilt red leather bookplate of the collection of Arpad Plesch on the front pastedown. SEE: Sotheby's Catalogue of The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung fur Botanik, Collected by Arpad Plesch, Part 2, page 183, No. 532; Gordon Dunthorne, Flower and Fruit Prints, 18th & 19th centuries, Catalogue Raisonne, page 172, Numbers 15 & 16; Sandra Raphael, An Oak Spring Pomona, No. 45, pages 122-124. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Symphytum officianle, Comfrey, Knitbone.
by Goodale, Rebecca.
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The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary. Containing an account of All the known Plants in the World, arranged according to the Linnean System.
by Thomas Green
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Liverpool: Henry Fisher , 1820 A very good 2 volume set of the 1st edition, newly rebound in half calf with marbled boards. With 2 decorative frontispieces, 1 decorative title, and 106 hand coloured plates. The title pages are undated but Vol I has a preface dated 1820 and the 1st edition was produced between 1816 and 1820. This copy is in new half calf with gilt lines title labels and volume numbers to spines. The marbled paper matches the marbling on the page edges. New endpapers. All the plates are in very good clean condition and are well coloured. The paper quality varies with the paper in the first half of Vol II being noticeably toned and prone to light spotting. Contents - Vol I: frontispiece; decorative title; title; preface 2 pp; introduction, instructions on finding a plant, and text (to letters KYL) with 56 plates pp 1-790. There are a couple of ink corrections in the margins of pp 304-5 and 627. Paper lightly toned with light spotting circa p 700. Vol II: frontispiece; title; text pp…
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Le Regne Vegetal: Traite de Botanique, Flore Medicale, etc.
by Pierre Oscar Reveil, Frederick Gerard, A. Dupois, Francois Herincq
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Very good set of this important French work with over 400 elegant botanicals by Edouard Maubert.A comprehensive overview of plants and trees used for food, medicine, industry and ornament in the 19th century
Complete in 17 volumes with nine volumes of text and 8 volumes of plates.
Fine engravings by Oudet, Debray, Corbie, Lebrun, Lagesse, Pierre, and L. Noel after botanical illustrations by Edouard Maubert. The plates either showing the entire plant or tree along with details of fruits and seeds, or an elegant arrangement of fruits, flowers, leaves, roots.
The 411 engraved plates mounted on hinges, finely engraved and hand-coloured, presenting over 3,000 useful plants, garden flowers, fruits, trees, shrubs, mushrooms, etc.
The set is divided into five classes:
Traité de botanique générale (2 text volumes, 2 atlases with 53 and 50 plates of parts of flowers, roots, leaves, seeds, cells, plant biology, etc.)
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Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen: in naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit kurz erlauterndem Texte
by Hermann Adolph Köhler, Gustav Pabst
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Very good complete copy of Hermann Köhler's celebrated German study of medicinal botanyWith 283 dynamic botanical chromolithographs mainly signed W.M. (Walther Otto Muller), with others by Carl Friedrich Schmidt and K. or E. Gunther. The botanical plates are justly famous for their attractive design, with all parts of the flower, leaf, branch, fruit and seed displayed over the entire plate.This monumental German herbal was written principally by Hermann Adolph Köhler, edited after his death by Gustav Pabst, and published by Franz Eugen Köhler from 1887-1890. The third volume was published later in 1898 with the subtitle Latest medicinal plants and confusions (Neueste Medizinalpflanzen und Verwechslungen), revised by Max Vogtherr and M. Gürke, curators at the Botanical Museum in Berlin.With an advert for the fourth volume with another 100 plates (never published).Hermann Adolph Köhler (1834-1879) was a Prussian German physician and chemist. He was awarded the Iron Cross for his work as a military…
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Medical Botany: or illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh and Dublin Pharamacopoeias
by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill
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Very good complete copy of Stephenson and Churchill's medical botany.With 187 fine hand-coloured botanical illustrations drawn and engraved by William Clark (Vol. I), others drawn by G. Reid and Charles Morgan Curtis and engraved by [Edward Smith] Weddell and W.M. Maddocks.Includes the endangered plant roughbark lignum-vitae, Guaiacum officinale, Pl. 90.John Stephenson (1790-1864) was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He also wrote Medical Zoology and Mineralogy (1838). James Morss Churchill (1796-1863) was a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and Fellow of the Medico-Botanical Society of London. He also wrote the first article on acupuncture in the UK in 1821.New edition (after the first in four volumes in 1831) edited by Gilbert T. Burnett, Professor of Botany at King's College, London. William Clark (fl. 1820-1840) was botanical artist and engraver to the Horticultural Society of London, providing illustrations for the Pomological Magazine and the…
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FLORE PARISIENNE Contenant la Description des Plantes qui Croissent Naturellement aux Environs de Paris...
by Poiteau, Pierre Antoine; Turpin, Jean Francois
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Paris: F. Schoell, 1813. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Elephant Folio. The publication history of this work is difficult to determine though it would appear to have been published between 1808-1813 and then discontinued. It also seemed to have later assumed the name 'Flora Parisiensis'. This copy includes the half-title page, title page [Flore Parisienne] followed by 32 pages of text and 44 leaves of fine uncoloured stipple-engraved plates. This copy includes the original information slip which states "Les neuf premiers Livraisons renfermeront Les Nos 1-5, 7-10, 13,15, 17-20, 22-26, 28-32, 34, 35, 37-41, 45-53, 59, 61, 68 des Planches. Les Nos. 6,11,12,16, 21 formeront la dixieme Livraison. Les Nos. 27, 33, 36, 42, 43 la onzieme. Les Nos. 44 54, 55, 56, 57 la douzieme." translated thus. " The first nine Deliveries [parts] will contain the Nos 1-5, 7-10, 13, 15, 17-20, 22-26, 28-32, 34, 35, 37-41, 45-53, 59, 61, 68 of the plates. The nos. 6, 11, 12, 16, 21 will…
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A Voyage to China and the East Indies. Together with A Voyage to Suratte by Olof Toreen and An Account of the Chinese Husbandry by Captain Charles Gustavus Eckeberg.; to which are added, a faunula ad florula sinensis
by Osbeck, Peter (Pehr) [Translated by John Reinhold Forster]
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Horace's Head, Fleet Street, London: Benjamin White, 1771. First English edition. Two volumes, 13 engraved plates (of which 11 are of plants), pp xx, 396; 367, (35), lacking the half-titles, a general age-toning throughout, a few very minor marginal tears, there is some marginal staining in the second volume which I would not call offensive, otherwise this is a very good wide-margined copy, uncut and unpressed; bound in a recent full panelled calf, blind-stamped, raised bands on the spines with a red labels, very good. [Osbeck (1723 - 1805) was a Swedish explorer, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He was born in the parish of Hålanda on Västergötland and studied at Uppsala with Carolus Linnaeus. In 1750 - 1752 he travelled as chaplain on the ship Prins Carl to Asia where he spent four months studying the flora, fauna, and people of the Canton region of China. He returned home just in time to contribute more than 600 species of plant to Linnaeus' Species Plantarum,…
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Compendium e Plantis omnibus, vnà cum earum iconibus, de quibus scripsit suis in commentariis in Dioscoridem editis, in eorum studiosorum commodum, atque vsum; qui Plantis conquirendis, ac indagandis student. Accessit Præterea Ad Calcem Opusculum
by Matthioli, Petri Andreae [Matthiolus]
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Venetiis (Venice): In Officina Valgrisiana, 1571. Illustrated with many hundreds of half-page woodcuts. pp (14), 922, (13), the title page is laid down and has slight losses, the next leaf is restored at the corner with no loss of text, the preliminary index is a bit thumbed and marked, a little marginal staining to the last hundred pages, a little marginal staining and marking on occasional pages, but overall very firm and tight and in better condition than many copies. There are very neat early manuscript notes on many pages, mainly limited to the common English names. Contemporary (?) simple lined calf, rebacked and with new endpapers in the early twentieth century, with the original spine laid down. An inked paper title label on the spine. The Hartland Library copy, with labels and manuscript notes attached to the front endpapers. RARE. [The Library was formed by Edwin Sydney Hartland, and was a diverse, but major, collection of herbals, archaeology and anthropology. It was donated to…
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The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany. Illustrated by select specimens of foreign and indigenous plants
by Richard Duppa
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 A very good 3 volume set in part contemporary half leather binding with 240 plates of which 237 are hand coloured. Duppa (1770-1831) was draughtsman and writer who authored a wide range of works. The bindings have newer spines with raised bands and author and title labels. The boards are marbled and retain their original corners. The spines have become sunned but are sound; corners and edges with wear and varying degrees of surface loss. The books do not lie completely flat when opened. Internally the endpapers are marbled matching the boards. They have the bookplate of Gloria Rollinson. Contents: Vol 1: black and white frontispiece; title with part of old signature to top; intro pp iii-xxiii; systematical index xxiv-xxvii; text pp 1-196 with 85 hand coloured plates. Vol II: title with old signature to top; text in 3 sections 197-373, 376-379; 381-400 (with blanks inbetween), with 93 hand coloured and 1 black and white plate. Vol III: title with…
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The Botanist's Repository, Volume I: Comprising Colour'd Engravings of New and Rare Plants Only
by Henry Andrews
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Very good copy of the first volume of Andrews' magnus opus, with 72 stunning botanical plates.Title page dated 1797, but preface dated 1799. Complete with 72 copperplates drawn, engraved, published and hand-coloured by Henry Andrews himself, printed in black or green ink and heightened with gum arabic.Volume 1 only in a series of 10 volumes with 664 plates published from 1797 to 1814 as the first serious rival to William Curtis' Botanical Magazine. Andrews stated that it was his intent to introduce new and rare plants "as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication." This volume has herbs and shrubs from Mexico, South America, the West Indies, South Africa, Japan, Madeira, and many other exotic locations.The distinctive plates are dynamic and elegant, with brilliant and vibrant hand-colour by Andrews himself. Printed in green ink, many look like water-colour paintings rather than engravings. The image fills the page, with some trimmed right up to the plate mark.With botanical descriptions in…
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Flowers of Hawaii: Hawaii's most complete flower guide
by Allan Seiden
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Beautiful Flowers Complete Guide, an Island Heritage Book 1989, all pages clean and unmarked
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Mushrooms of Northern California
by Biek, David
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Spore Prints. Very Good+. 1984. First Edition. Softcover. 0961202009 . Very light shelfwear, slight toning to top page ends; drawings and b/w photos; 302 pages .
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Flora Brasilica, Vol. XLI, I
by Philip A. Munz (F.C. Hoehne, Editor)
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Instituto de Botanica, Saõ Paolo, 1947; First Edition; Quarto, 113 pages. Detailed monograph of the family Onagraceae covering the genera Jussiaea, Oocarpon, Epilobium, Oenothera, and Fuchsia. Vol. XLI, I of the prodigious series edited by Frederico Carlos Hoehne, director of the Instituto de Botanica at Saõ Paolo, Brazil from 1940 to 1959. Authored by distinguished American botanist/taxonomist Philip A Munz. Sixty-two pages of text in Portuguese accompanied by 51 finely detailed full-page illustration plates, forty-nine in b&w and two in color, covering 5 genera and 45 species of Onagraceae. Very Good, in printed stiff wraps. A few small closed splits in the paper covering of the spine panel. Custom engraved bookplate of Pasadena, California horticulturist Charlotte Hoak on the verso of the front wrap.
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A Naturalist in the Guianas
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London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1904. First English edition thus. Octavo, pp xii, 310, illustrated (including two chromolithographs by Keulemans), a rather poor copy, lacking the folding map, an ex-Boots library copy in red library cloth, a bit used and weak internally with cracked hinges (through front and rear hinges tight and strong), some plates a little frayed, a small stamp on the front endpaper and a library label on the rear, the cloth rather worn, marked on the upper cover, the spine torn. A useful working copy. [Andre was an explorer and collector of natural history specimens . He wrote a glossary of common and scientific names of plants and animals and put together a collection of 1800 bird skins which are held at Tring. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He travelled largely in Venezuala and Columbia and introduced the Anthurium plant to Trinidad & Tobago, 1915.]. Signed by Author. First English edition. Cloth. Fair.
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The Microscope: From the Museum of Science and Art
by Dr. Lardner
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A very nice volume of an extensive 19th century popular science partwork - The Museum of Science and Art - from the age of optimism."The 'Museum of Science and Art' is the most valuable contribution that has ever been made to Scientific Instruction of every class of society" - Sir David Brewster.....( Brewster of the Brewster Angle?)One hundred and Forty-Seven engravings. Front cover partly detached as shown - otherwise the binding is tight. Pages unmarked throughout. Some foxing on endpapers, otherwise very good.First owners bookplate inside front cover "Godding MBS".Includes fascinating ads at the back.
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A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Higher Cryptograms: Both Native and Introduced, Found Within about 30 Miles of Hanover, N. H. , Including a Few Cultivated Species, to Which is Appended a List of Vertebrate Animals of the Same Region
by Jesup, Henry G
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Hanover, NH: Self Published. Good with no dust jacket; Call letters on spine, spine darkened by . shellac, corners bumped, edges rubbed, binder's label on inside of front . cover, front endpaper detached, endpapers toned, one page with small fold . and tear.. 1891. Hardcover. Green decorated cloth. vi, 91pp. Fold-out map, indexes. A highly detailed natural history study of this New Hampshire community undertaken and presented by a Dartmouth college professor. Inscribed and dated, with compliments of the author card tipped in. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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The Carrot Seed
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Krauss, Ruth: The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers FIRST EDITION. States 1945 on the title page. Beige Boards. USED. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. 6 X 8 ¼. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something, or the basis of knowledge"
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The Pelargonium Family - the species of Pelargonium, Monsonia and Sarcocaulon
by Webb, William J
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London & Sydney: Croom Helm, 1984. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp viii, 104, edges and margins a bit browned, otherwise very sound, in a dustwrapper which is very slightly worn and browned and which has a crease on the spine. [Quite possibly from the home of a smoker, but no aroma. [Originally published at £19.95, but now becoming increasingly scarce].. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/Fair.
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CYTISUS NIGRICANS [Black Broom], Original Hand-Colored Copper Engraving (plate # 470) from Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum
by Vietz, Ferdinand Bernhard
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Vienna: Schrämblischen, 1817. Image is 8 1/8 inches by 6 1/4 inches on a sheet that is 9 1/16 inches by 7 1/8 inches. Drawn and engraved by pharmacist turned naturalist Ferdinand Vietz ((1772-1815) and published in volume 7 of Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum, edited by J. L. Kerndl and published by Schrämblischen in Vienna in 1818. Original hand-coloring. Like all the plates from Vietz's classic work on medicinal uses of plants, this is a lovely original print on high-quality watermarked laid paper. Condition is very good: clean and bright. Binding edge is untrimmed. This original engraving is guaranteed to be more than 200 years old.. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good+. Illus. by Ferdinand Vietz. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Art Print.
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France
by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur; Nicolas-Martin Petit; Jacqueline Bonnemains (ed); Elliott Forsyth (ed); Bernard Smith (ed)
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and…
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