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Karlsruhe: Institut fur Okologie Octavo, pp 164, paperback, a very good copy.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.
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OPTIMA-Projekt "Kartierung der mediterranen Orchideen"; Teil: 1., Index der Verbreitungskarten für die Orchideen Europas und der Mittelmeerländer
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An Oak Spring Pomona
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Upperville, Virginia: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1990. Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp xxxvi, 276, a new copy in dustwrapper, still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. {A beautifully produced work charting the history of fruit culture seen through its illustrated books over three hundred years.}. First Edition. Cloth. New/New.
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An Oak Spring Sylva - a selection of the rare books on trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library
by Raphael, Sandra
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Upperville, Virginia, 1989. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp xxviii, 147, a very good new copy in dustwrapper. [A beautifully produced work which describes and illustrated 55 rare tree books, with much historical and bibliographical detail, from the collection originally formed by Paul Mellon]. Cloth. New/New.
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Oaks of California
by Pavlik, Bruce; Muick, Pamela C.; Johnson, Sharon & Popper, Marjorie
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Los Olivos: Cachuma Press and the California Oak Foundation, 1991. Well illustrated, large octavo, pp viii, 184, very clean internally, crean cloth in very good condition, in a slightly worn and torn dustwrapper.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn and torn.
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Observations Botanical and Physiological on the Potato Murrain. Together with Selections from Berkeley's Vegetable Pathology [Sir John Burnett's copy]
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East Lansing, Michigan: American Phytopathological Society, 1948. {Originally published 1846.} Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and five plates, octavo, pp 108, exceptionally clean internally, paperback, a very good copy. [Phytopathological Classics Number 8. Sir John Burnett's copy, with his signature on the upper cover.] . Paperback. Very Good.
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Observations Topographical, Moral, & Physiological; Made in a Journey Through part of the Low-Countries, Germany, Italy, and France: with a Catalogue of Plants not Native of England, found Spontaneously growing in those Parts, and their Virtues
by Ray, John
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The Bell in St Paul's Churchyard: John Martyn, 1673. Illustrated with three engraved folding plates, an engraved portrait, one engraving within the text, small thick octavo, pp xiii, (i), 499, (i), title to the Catalogus Stirpium, v, (i), 115, with the errata leaf, lacking the title page which is supplied in an old-style photo copy, the plates are a little browned and creased and one is splitting along the fold, some age-toning and signs of use throughout, signs of damp damage to the lower margins throughout, with some pages frayed and flaking, (very slight loss of text to about fifteen pages), bound in a recent very simple full calf, no title to the spine. A good working copy of a very scarce title. [John Ray FRS, 1627 - 1705, was an English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. His classification of plants in his Historia Plantarum, was an important step towards modern taxonomy. Ray rejected the system of dichotomous division by which species were…
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Observationes Phycologicae. Particula Tertia, Quarta, Quinta - De Algis Nonnullis Scandinavicus et de Conjunctione Phaeo-Zoosporarum Dictyosiphonis Hippuroidis
by Areschoug, J.E.
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Upsala, 1875. [1875 - 1881]. With three plain litho plates, quarto, pp 36; 24; 16, uncut and partly unopened, the first part rather foxed, contemporary plain paper covers. [Berling.Reg. Acad. Typographus]. {Johan Erhard Areschoug was a Swedish botanist who was a native of Göteborg. He was a member of the Arreskow family (in Swedish). His first name is sometimes recorded as "John". He studied natural sciences at the University of Lund, where in 1838 he earned his doctorate in philosophy. In 1859 he succeeded Elias Magnus Fries as professor of botany at the University of Uppsala, a position he maintained until 1876. In 1851, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Areschoug performed extensive field studies of Scandinavian cryptogams, being remembered for his work in the field of phycology. The red algae genus Areschougia from the family Areschougiaceae is named in his honor.}. First Edition. Paperback. Good.
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Observations on the Structure of Fruits and Seeds, translated from the "Analyse du Fruit" of M. Louis-Claude Richard
by Lindley, John (& Richard, M. Louis-Claude)
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London & Norwich: John Harding; Wilkin & Youngman, 1819. First and only edition, illustrated with six engraved plates drawn by the author, slim octavo, pp xx, 100, a little foxing, marking and age-toning, but overall very sound internally, original boards, a later (but still early) cloth spine, unlettered, the binding again slightly worn but sound. With the book label of the physician and botanist Thomas Bell Salter. [Of the utmost rarity. At the age of 19 Lindley was taken under the wing of William Jackson Hooker who, at that time, was still living in Halesworth before his move the following year to Glasgow. Lindley was impressed with a book he found in Hooker's extensive botanical library - Richard's "Demonstrations botaniques, ou Analyse du Fruit considere en general" of 1808. He translated the work into English, working for three days non-stop. When published, it included six plates from Lindley's original drawings. The title page claims it includes the author's…
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Observations sur Les Graminees de la Flore Belgique [Agrostographiae Belgicat Tentamen]. {The Winterbottom / Wedgewood /Hubbard copy }
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Tournay: J. Casterman, 1823. Illustrated with 16 lithograph plates, small octavo, pp 153,(i), partly untrimmed, the errata leaf pasted to the rear endpaper, the occasional blemish, lacking the front endpaper, but overall rather good internally, original boards, slightly chipped printed paper title label on the spine. From the library of the Kew grass botanist C.E. Hubbard, with both his stamp and his signature on the front enpaper; also with the signature of James Edward Winterbottom, and and the book label of the Allen Wedgewood bequest. [C.E. HUBBARD was the senior grass botanist of the twentieth century. ALLEN WEDGEWOOD was the son of M.L. Wedgewood with whom he collected until his death during the First World War at Gallipoli, aged just 22. M.L. Wedgwood created a herbarium of British plants at Marlborough College (MBH) as a permanent memorial to her son. JAMES WINTERBOTTOM, 1803 - 1854, was a British botanist and traveller. He studied medicine at St John's College, Oxford, qualifying in…
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Obst- und Beerenweine. Fachbuch der gewerbsmasigen Obst- und Beerenweinbereitung
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Braunschweig: Serger & Hempel, 1932. Illustrated, small octavo, pp 292, very clean internally, bound in library quarter leather, a label on the spine but no other markings.. Quarter leather. Good.
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Octopi, and Other Beasts Less Rude.
by Costa, Elsa
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Private printing Octavo, pp (36), original buff sewn wrappers, a little chipped and browned. A book of (only slightly !) risque poems. Privately printed, presumably in Italy as the cover price is 100 lire. A note on the rear flap states "For broad-minded adults only. A limited edition of this remarkable book, which will be published shortly in New York and London". (n.d. c.1920?). First Edition. Paperback. Good.
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Odious Child
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1971. A few illustrations, octavo, pp 218, bottom edge very slightly marked, a neat signature on the front endpaper, ptherwise clean internally, black cloth very slightly worn, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but is a little worn and marked with a small tear at the rear fold-over flap. [Taya Zinkin (1918-2003) was a prominent English journalist and author. She was born in Zurich to aristocratic White Russian parents and grew up and studied in France and the US. She wrote several book of reportage as well as books on Gandhi and caste. She was married to the ICS officer and author Maurice Zinkin. She wrote for the Economist, the Guardian, Le Monde, and Neue Zuricher Zeitung. She is famous for the statement she made in the 1950s: "Pakistan is obsessed with India, and India is obsessed with herself." She was an indirect cause of the 1962 Border War between India and China for she discovered the Chinese building a road in Aksai Chin and she related it…
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Odontoglossum and Related Genera in Mexico and Central America. Odontoglossum y Generos Afines en mexico y Centroamerica
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Asociacion Mexicana de Orquideologia A.C., 1982. A bilingual illustrated article contained in Orquidea Volume 8 part 2. Illustrated with line drawings and colour photographs, octavo, pp (87), pages becoming loose, paperback, covers slightly worn, spine head torn.. First edition. Paperback. Fair.
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Oeuvres Completes de Tacite. Tome II seulement. (Volume II only)
by Tacitus, Publius Cornelius (edited by Burnouf, J.L.)
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Paris: L. Hachette, 1828. Traduction nouvelle avec le texte en regard, des variants et des notes. Librairie Classique de L. Hachette, Paris, 1828. Octavo, pp 558, (ii), some age-toning and foxing throughout, page 555/556 creased, but otherwise sound and tight internally, slight water-staining to the upper margin of the first forty pages, a neat contemporary signature of the original owner on the title page - Ch. Bouchet, Paris 1838 - a tiny booksellers stamp on the front endpaper - Henrion a Vendome - contemporary calf and marbled boards, rubbed and dull, with loss of the surface. . Quarter calf and boards. Good.
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Of Men and Orchids - Volume 2
by Jenny, Rudolf
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Allmendingen, Switzerland: Published by the author, 2017. NEW. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 312, black cloth, a very good copy in dustwrapper. LIMITED EDITION OF 250 COPIES ONLY. A heavy book - extra postage will probably be necessary. ["This is neither a book on how humans grow orchids nor a treatise of how they classsify plants, but an extraordinary look at the bond that unites men - botanists, gardeners, plant hunters, explorers - to the names of orchids and the histories behind their discovery and scientific apprehension. The work is a great step into the realm of history, and orchids are the perfect excuse to expose the efforts, the courage and bravery, the ambition and jealousies, and the indomitable will of those men in the flesh who have made it possible to discover and name the amazing diversity of plants. Each of the 36 chapters that compose the volume tell the story of an orchid (or a few orchids) and a man, beginning with Acanthephippium sylhetense and George King,…
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Of Men and Orchids
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Allmendingen, Switzerland: Published by the author, 2015. NEW. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 303, black cloth, a very good copy in dustwrapper. LIMITED EDITION OF 250 COPIES ONLY. A heavy book - extra postage will probably be necessary. ["This is neither a book on how humans grow orchids nor a treatise of how they classsify plants, but an extraordinary look at the bond that unites men - botanists, gardeners, plant hunters, explorers - to the names of orchids and the histories behind their discovery and scientific apprehension. The work is a great step into the realm of history, and orchids are the perfect excuse to expose the efforts, the courage and bravery, the ambition and jealousies, and the indomitable will of those men in the flesh who have made it possible to discover and name the amazing diversity of plants. Each of the 41 chapters that compose the volume tell the story of an orchid (or a few orchids) and a man, beginning with Acineta beyrodtiana and Otto Beyrodt, going…
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Of Plants. (The Poetical Works, Volume III and IV).
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Edinburg (sic): The Apollo Press, by the Martins, 1777. Volumes III & IV in one volume. Two extra engvd title pages, 16mo, (measures 130mm x 80mm), pp xxii, 23-251,(i); 271, (iii), an early small signature on the first title page, and initials on the front endpaper, a little age-toned and used throughout, contemporary full calf, a little worn rubbed and bumped. . Full Leather. Good.
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Of the Nature of Things - A Metrical Translation
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London, Paris & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1916. Portrait frontispiece (offset onto title page), octavo, pp xvi, 301, slightly age-toned, the fore-edges very slightly rough, the endpapers a little marked and a short inscription on the front endpaper, green cloth dull, slightly marked and worn, the corners a little bruised and worn. VERY SCARCE. ["On the Nature of Things by Roman philosopher and poet Lucretius outlines classical theories of physics and the natural world. Drawing on the atomism theory of Democritus, which dates over 400 years prior to his masterwork, Lucretius aim with his poem is to explain various theories on why the world is as it is. Designed to be read publicly by educators and by solitary readers, the wide ranging and lengthy poem examines the nature of existence, of sensation, of human consciousness, and of the celestial bodies above us. Conversations on matter, space and reality were unusual in ancient times, with many ordinary citizens encouraged to lay the…
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Off the Leash - Memoirs of a Royal Corgi
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. Illustrated with cartoons, small slim 8vo, pp 98, slight age-toning round the margins, presentation inscription on the front endpaper, otherwise clean internally, pictorial boards very slightly worn.. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Very Good.
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The Office and Authority of a Justice of Peace for Ireland, collected from the Books of Common Law...as also from the Acts of Parliament....as well those in Force by Sir Edward Poyning's Law, as those made in this Kingdom to the end of the First Session..
by Dutton, Matt. [Matthew]
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Dublin: J. Carson for Jer. Pepyat in Skinner-Row, 1718. Thick 12mo, pp (10), 457, [45], 39, the title page a little soiled and with a faint splash mark, a little light staining, the occasional mark, lacking the front endpaper and a half-title (if called for), the joint at the title page cracked but not weak, a signature and date (1862) on the title page, the rear endpaper a bit soiled and with another early signature, otherwise remarkably clean and tight internally, full polished calf, the upper and lower covers blind-stamped marginally and with a single gilt line, the spine with blind-stamping and gilt decoration, slightly worn and rubbed. SCARCE. . First Edition. Full Leather. Good.
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