Search Results: Botany and Floras from Natural History Books

Calcutta: Royal Botanic Garden, 1905. First edition.. The leather spine of the portfolio case is lightly scuffed, the boards are browned with a few worm holes; the text is generally clean with some tanning to the first few pages only, there are a few marginal worm holes (also called pin holes due to their small size) to the text; overall a good solid copy of a rare work.. Pp. (i-iv), i-ii, 115-197, (1), i-lxxv, 1-2; 25 full page plates (fine line-drawings). Publisher's original portfolio case in one-quarter dark green leather over printed pale green boards, with three internal black flaps that hold the monograph, folio (14 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches). Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, Volume X, Part II. This is the original and complete work published in Calcutta in 1905. Aconitum (Aconites) is a genus of over 250 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae; these herbaceous perennial plants are chiefly native to the mountainous parts of the northern hemisphere. Most… Read More

Chelsea, MI: Ann Arbor Press, 1998. First edition.. A near fine copy.. Pp. xxiii, 357, numerous text-figures. Publisher’s printed pictorial laminated boards, lg 8vo. This book develops a more ecological approach to food production. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the front endpaper.

Indianapolis: published privately by the author, 1940. Third edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. (7), 285. Publisher's original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and on the front cover, 8vo. No ownership marks.

Springfield: State of Illinois, 1966. First edition.. Light sunning to spine, a near fine copy.. Pp. 142, numerous text-figures. Publisher’s pictorial printed olive-green wrappers, lettered in white on cover, 8vo. From the series: Illinois State Museum Popular Science Series, Vol. VI. The collection and identification of plants was jointly undertaken by the Illinois State Museum and the Illinois Department of Conservation in 1964-1965. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his name stamp on front endpapers, rear endpapers, titlepage, page 86, and page edges.

Pittsburgh: Hunt Botanical Library, 1968. No ownership marks, a fine (as new) copy.. Pp. 1063. Publisher's forest green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, original brown paper dust jacket, lg 4to. Original prospectus from publisher is laid in at front. This work presents a compendium of some 12,000 titles comprising the world's periodical literature important to the plant sciences.

Ottawa, Canada: International Development Research Centre, 1980. First edition.. Slight rubbing to the edges of the wrappers, a clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 228; black-and-white photos and graphs. Original yellow printed stiff wrappers, lg 8vo. Presents a report on the country by country on bamboo in Bangladesh, India, Japan, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia as well as papers on the taxonomy, anatomy, and cultivation of bamboo. No ownership marks and few signs of use.

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1878. First edition. Small paper repair to one outer corner of the title page, both the cloth binding and the text are bright, clean and unused; a near fine copy.. Pp. vi, 476, (index). Later blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt and with gilt panel lines, lg 8vo. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, no. 258. This is the complete work; no other parts were ever published. This is a detailed taxonomic guide to all groups within the Polypetalae.

Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von B.G. Teubner, 1911. First edition. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. iv, 436, (6, ads), 159 text-figures. Early gray cloth, spine with red morocco label lettered in gilt (original decorated wrappers bound in), speckled page edges, lg 8vo. This book describes the interdependence of flowers and insects and adaptations that each have developed. This the personal copy of Harvard entomologist W.M. Wheeler with his signature on the title page and a few of his neat pencil annotations in margins of the text.

Coimbra: Instituto Botanico Da Universidade de Coimbra, 1969-1970, 1976. First edition.. A fine (as new) set.. Pp. 1450+, numerous full page photo-plates and text-figures (line-drawings). Original printed cream-colored wrappers, 8vo. A science journal published in Coimbra, Portugal with many articles on botanical articles. The text is in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese. Name stamp of Reading Public Museum on the front wrapper of one volume, no other ownership marks and no signs of use.

New York: A.T. De La Mare, 1924. Second edition (revised).. Some light edge wear to cloth along the outer borders of the front and rear boards; overall a tight and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 205; 90 black and white photographs (two are double-page). Publisher's original textured dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, gilt motif of water lilies on the front cover, sm 4to. Peter Bisset (1869-1951) was an American horticulturist who specializes in water gardening among other areas of horticulture. Signature of Samuel Murray of Kansas City, MO, dated Sept. 26, 1925.

Tucson: University of Arizona, 1940. First edition.. Light wear to wrappers, bump to lower corner, a very good copy.. Pp. 134, 52 plates. Publisher’s printed brown wrappers, lettered in black on the cover, 8vo. From the series: University of Arizona Bulletin Biological Science Bulletin no. 5. This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his name stamp on the titlepage.

New York: New York Botanical Gardens, 1900. First edition.. Light edge wear to the front wrapper, some loss to blue wrapper at the top edge of the spine; a tight and clean copy in very good condition.. Pp. xi, 492, folding map at rear. Publisher's original printed blue front wrapper (rear wrapper is missing), lg 8vo. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, volume 1. An important early flora of Montana and northern Wyoming. This is the scarce first edition. Many text pages are uncut and unopened. No ownership marks.

New York: Torrey Botanical Club, 1920. First edition.. Rear wrapper chipped around edges, top outer corner of text is bumped, a very good copy.. Pp. 57-118. Extract with rear tan wrapper present, 8vo. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club, volume 16, no. 2. No ownership marks.

Brest: Imprimerie Commerciale et Administrative, 1943.. The pages are uncut and unopened, a bright copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 1106. Original printed wraps, lg 8vo.

Vlaeberg, South Africa: Fernwood Press, 1992. Limited edition.. A fine (new) copy.. Pp. (1, limitation), (8), 9-272; 750+ color photographs of species of Erica and its habitats (some are full page plates), double-page color map of the major distribution area of Ericas in South Africa, single page color map of the highest concentration of Ericas in the south-western Cape Province, full page color drawing of the anatomical parts of Erica. One half black morocco leather, spine is lettered in gilt with the title and author, set off by gilt panel lines, base of spine is illustrated with a gilt leaf, over turquoise-blue cloth boards illustrated with central gilt Erica plant, endpapers with central embossed leaf design, in a turquoise-blue cloth-covered slipcase with a color photo of Erica flower inset into the front slipcase cover, 4to (305 x 235mm). This fine binding is by Sangorski and Sutcliffe and Zaehnsdorf of London. The limitations page reads: Collectors' Edition. A special edition limited… Read More

San Francisco: The California Academy of Sciences, 1911-1912. First edition.. Small indentation (1/4 inch long) near the margin of pages 255-262 (likely caused during the printing process); otherwise, a bright and clean copy in fine condition.. Pp. 1-288; 375-404; 431-445; 23 full page plates (1 map, 3 line-drawings, 19 black-and-white photographs). Early green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, lg 8vo. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, volume 1, January 20, 1911. This is the first comprehensive flora (including lichens) of the Galapagos Islands that lay 1000km off the coast of Ecuador and of the flora of Cocos Island, off the coast of Costa Rica. All three parts are authored by Alban Stewart, botanist of the 1905-1906 expedition. No ownership marks.

London: Lovell, Reeve, and Co., 1909. . Near fine copy.. Publisher's gray-green cloth with gilt decorations, thick lg 8vo.

London, Frederick Warne, 1899. New edition (revised).. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. xiv, (1), 1-269; xii, 1-279; xi, 1-258; xi, 1-213 with 319 fine colored plates after paintings by Anne Pratt. Original one-half black morocco leather over dark green leather-covered boards, spine with five raised bands each decorated with small gilt horizontal lines and sent off by double gilt panel lines, red morocco title label in one compartment lettered in gilt, volume numbered stamped in gilt in one other compartment and with gilt floral design vignette in the remaining four other compartments, all page edges are spectacled in red, lg 8vo. According to Edward Step, who revised the volume: "All the coloured plates have been specially compared for this edition with the carefully hand-coloured originals; and the colour printing has been thereby improved." Indeed, the colored plates are bright with crisp edges to the flowers and leaves and with vivid coloration. This copy is… Read More

Cape Town: A. S. Robertson, 1838. First edition.. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. lxvi, 429. Contemporary one-half green morocco leather, spine with 5 raised bands lettered in gilt in 2 compartments and with gilt panel lines and decorations highlighting each raised band, over green cloth-covered boards, top page edge in gilt, other page edges are deckled, original marbled endpapers, 8vo. This volume is the first substantial botanical work published in South Africa. The work provided an introduction to the flora of South Africa and paved the way for Harvey's massive seven volume treatise, Flora Capensis. Inscribed by the author to Mr. Macqueen, dated 1838. No other ownership marks. See also Stafleu and Cowan 2436.

Johannesburg: Aloe Books, 1985. Limited edition.. A fine (as new) copy.. Pp. (i)-xl, 2-150; frontispiece portrait of Adrian H. Haworth, 120 color photographs, 31 black-and-white photos and half-tones, 24 distribution maps. Publisher's original dark green morocco leather, spine with five raised bands, red morocco title/author label in one compartment, two-color map endpapers, in gray cloth-covered slipcase with green marbled paper on the top, side and bottom of the slipcase and dark green morocco flange at the opening of the slipcase, sm 4to (11 x 8 1/4 inches). This is Sponsors' edition, limited to 27 signed copies lettered A-Z, signed by the author on the limitation page; this is copy letter V. The subscriber's page shows that there were sixteen sponsors to this work, presumably, they received letters A-Q; this left only eleven copies available for sale. The copy offered here is one of these eleven available for sale. Haworthia is a large genus of small succulent plants endemic to… Read More