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Journal of Arid Environments. Volume 1 (1978) through to Volume 71 (2007) [lacking a few parts)

Journal of Arid Environments. Volume 1 (1978) through to Volume 71 (2007) [lacking a few parts)

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Journal of Arid Environments. Volume 1 (1978) - Volume 71 (2007) [LACKING Volumes 55 part 2 through to Volume 58 part 1, and parts 42 (4), 46 (3), 51 (3) and 54 (2 & 4). Extremely scarce - an almost complete set to 2007. Paperbacks, in parts as issued, very good condition. {Because of the extreme weight, delivery can really only be contemplated within most of mainland UK.}. Paperback. Very Good.
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Theatrum botanicum the theater of plants or An herball of large extent Containing therein a more...
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Theatrum botanicum the theater of plants or An herball of large extent Containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many

by Parkinson, John

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London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. First edition. Large thick folio, title page, dedication page, preface two pages, author's tributes ten pages, then (ii), 1734 (but actually slightly less as there are several errors of pagination), illustrated with over 2,100 woodcut figures, lacking the extra engraved title page, the 20-page addenda at the rear and the errata leaf, but otherwise complete and very sound. The contents are extremely clean and tight, there is the odd crease and an occasional tiny corner missing but overall in impressive condition. The front and rear endpapers are a little browned and marked, both front and rear hinges are cracked and showing a little silver-fish damage but there is no weakness at all. Full panelled calf, probably eighteenth century but possibly earlier, a little rubbed, a little worn at the edges, scuffed on the upper cover, rebacked fairly recently with a leather spine and red morocco label. Blanche Henrey 286. { Very heavy - extra postage will be required.}. [John… Read More
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A Voyage to China and the East Indies. Together with A Voyage to Suratte by Olof Toreen and An...
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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,… Read More
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Lectures on the Morbid Anatomy of the Serous and Mucous Membranes. Two volumes. [Volume I - On...

Lectures on the Morbid Anatomy of the Serous and Mucous Membranes. Two volumes. [Volume I - On the serous membranes .Volume II, Part I - On the mucous membranes ]. {All published}.

by Hodgkin, Thomas

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London: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper. Simpkin, Marshall & Co. [1836 - 1840]. Two volumes, octavo, pp ix, (11), 402; viii, (16), 541, rather age-toned, slight marginal staining, the first title page is repaired and strengthened to its fore-edge, pages 305 - 346 in the first volume are slightly bruised to the fore-edge with resulting slight tears to a few of those pages, otherwise this set is clean and sound internally, recently bound in a very attractive black half calf and marbled boards, the spines with raised bands, panelled, blind-stamped. Presentation copy to Thomas Young, inscribed on the second title page "with the author's kind regards". RARE. [Hodgkin {1798 -1866} was a British physician, considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. He is now best known for the first account of Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphoma and blood disease, in 1832. Hodgkin's work marked the beginning of times when a pathologist was… Read More
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Compendium e Plantis omnibus, vnà cum earum iconibus, de quibus scripsit suis in...
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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… Read More
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Opera quae extant omnia, hoc est Commentarii in VI libros Pedacii Dioscorides Anazarbei de medica...
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Opera quae extant omnia, hoc est Commentarii in VI libros Pedacii Dioscorides Anazarbei de medica materia; adjectis in margine variis Graeci textus lectionibus a Casparo Bauhino. ... Editio altera

by Mattioli, P.A. [Matthioli, Petri Andreaea]. Edited by Caspar Bauhin

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Bauhini. Bauhinus.herbal.: Joannis Konig Latin text. Folio, a fine engraved title page, pp. (120), 236, (6), 1027, 24, with a fine full page engraving of Bauhin ( engraved by Peter Aubry), over 1000 woodcut illustrations, some age-toning and discoloration, heavy on a few pages (mainly early text pages) but overall a very clean and tight copy internally, original blue speckled edges, half-vellum (probably contemporary ?), titled in ink on spine, rubbed and a little worn, a tear to the spine head, slight wear to the base of the spine, one stab-hole near the lower joint. The Hartland Library copy, with labels on the front endpaper; and probably Sir Frank Crisp's before that. RARE. [Hunt 332. Nissen BBI 1309 . The second edition of the 'Opera' edited by Caspar Bauhin, the final and most complete form of Mattioli's texts. It contains also Mattioli's medical writings, including the most complete edition of the "Commentarii in Dioscoridem", with many notes and additions by… Read More
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I discorsi.... nelli sei libri di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo della materia Medicinale, hora di...
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I discorsi.... nelli sei libri di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo della materia Medicinale, hora di nuovo dal suo istesso autore ricorretti, & in piu di mille luoghi aumentati

by Matthioli, A.. Mattioli Pietro Andrea

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Venice: Heredi di Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1573. Large thick quarto, title page with woodcut device, pp (172), 971, (i), (11), illustrated with many hundreds of woodcuts of plants and animals, the title page has a very old paper repair where a name had been excised, worm hole affects the lower margin of fourteen pages of the preliminaries, without loss of text, ten pages of the preliminaries have a very old neat paper restoration, very occasional age-spotting and foxing, some occasional browning due to paper quality variations, one light tear to pages 257/258 without loss, one ink smear on page 259, a few ink spots on pages 32/33 with very slight loss of text. Overall, however, this is an exceptionally clean, tight copy. Bound in full speckled calf (probably early twentieth-century), with one gilt line around upper and lower cover, raised bands on the spine; the upper joint is cracking but still firm and sound. The Hartland Library copy, with bookplate, stamp and ticket pocket on the front endpaper. Also… Read More
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The Floral Cabinet, and Magazine of Exotic Botany - 3 Volumes

The Floral Cabinet, and Magazine of Exotic Botany - 3 Volumes

by Knowles, G.B. & Westcott, Frederic

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Fleet Street and Bride Court, London: William Smith and J.M. Knott [1837 - 1840]. Three volumes, small quarto, pp viii, 96, (6); iv, 188; iv, 188, three vignette title pages, an extra hand-coloured title page in the first volume, with 137 fine hand coloured plates, all edges gilt, bound in a Victorian half morocco and cloth, the spines highly decorated in gilt, a little rubbed at the joints and corners, the cloth sides slightly marked and very slightly bubbled in a few small places. In Volume 3 title page and the first two plates and text are a little stained at the upper corner, the subsequent three plates and text pages very faintly marked; otherwise this is a remarkably clean and bright set internally - the plates all have their protective tissues which very occasionally have a faint spot of foxing, but nothing has transfered to the surface of the plate. With the book label of Carl Wendell Carlsmith [1904 - 1932] on each of the first blank pages in each volume. RARE, AND EXCEPTIONALLY DIFFICULT… Read More
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The Garden of Health: containing the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes...
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The Garden of Health: containing the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants. Together with the manner how they are to bee used and applied in medicine for the health of mans body, against divers diseases

by Langham, William

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London: Thomas Harper, 1633. Thick square octavo, pp (6), 702, (66), printed in black letter. The title page is mounted and heavily restored from a much earlier time; it is age-toned and there is much staining of the surface, possibly from the glue used to repair ? The first few pages are fragile at the leading edge and lacking a few small pieces; the remaining pages are age-toned and occasionally slightly marked or stained, certainly used but overall quite sound with no tears or loss. Later calf with simple gilt decorated line, with some cracking and wear, fairly recently re-backed with a new calf spine, blind-stamped. Front and rear hinges cracked, but no weakness. The front endpaper has a tiny neat inscription dated 1917, and also the heraldic bookplate of Lady Violet Beaumont. [Second edition of this charming guide to herbal remedies with the plants "set down in order of the Alphabet, so that thou mayest without any difficulties finde them by the titles of the pages" ("To the… Read More
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Flora Sardoa seu Historia Plantarum in Sardinia et adjacentibus insulis vel sponte nascentium vel...
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Flora Sardoa seu Historia Plantarum in Sardinia et adjacentibus insulis vel sponte nascentium vel ad utilitatem latius excultarum [+ Carta della Sardegna, annessa alla 1a parte del viaggio in cetta Isola del Colonello A. della Marmora. 2da Edizione.

by Moris, J.H. [+ Alberto della Marmora)

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Taurini: Ex Regio Typographeo Three volumes, 1837 - 1843. A partial set of one of the rarest of Mediterranean floras. Illustrated with 96 very fine engraved plates (including 3 bis plates - XXXIII, LXXVII, LXXXVIII], a double-page engraved map of Sardinia (rather foxed), quarto, pp xii, 606; 562. (ii], + plates volume (96 plates of 114), remarkably clean internally, contemporary half calf and cloth, the spines with raised bands and black morocco labels, slightly rubbed and scuffed, a little wear at the corners. The engravings are by by L. Fea,, S. Botta, H. Mil and A. Nizza after drawings by M. Lisa and J.C. Heyland; there is a presentation inscription, in Latin, in the first volume, from the author to Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury. [Lacking the final volume, which was not published until 1857. The fact that the plates volume is here labelled Volume III suggests that Bunbury received these from the author in 1843, and the final volume was never presented. The author was a botanist at Cagliari,… Read More
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Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera
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Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera

by Horace

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London: Johannes Pine, 1733. [1733-1737]. Two volumes, large octavo, pp [15], 264; [20], 191, [15], light occasional foxing, otherwise clean and sound internally, in a fine later Victorian binding by Francis Bedford, red crushed morocco, covers with triple lines, ornate gilt decorated spines, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, very slightly marked, very slight rubbing, the spines a little faded. A beautiful set of "Pines Horace ". There are two states of this edition - this is the first issue, which seems to be scarcer. It is identified by the misprint 'post est' in the medallion of Caesar on p. 108 in Volume II. [John Pine (1690-1756) was an English designer, engraver, and cartographer notable for his artistic contribution to the Augustan style and Newtonian scientific paradigm that flourished during the British Enlightenment. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 620: "This edition of Horace was printed wholly from copper plates engraved by John Pine. The text was… Read More
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Flora: Overo Cultura Di Fiori
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Flora: Overo Cultura Di Fiori

by Ferrari Battista, Giovanni

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Roma: Pier Ant Facciotti, 1638. Small thick quarto, pp (12), 520, [26], illustrated with an engraved title page, an engraved frontispiece (though here bound in after the preliminary pages) and 45 plates (of 46 - lacking the plate which occupied pages 55/56), some age-toning and slight foxing throughout, the plates a bit more browned but without the intense browning often found in this book, overall quite tight internally, one preliminary page and pages 395-398 protruding slightly and a little chipped and frayed at the margins, full vellum binding (probably original), rather used and marked but quite sound and firm, the upper and lower cover a bit warped and bowed, the front hinge cracked but firm and showing traces of old glue. The first Italian edition. [Ferrari 1584 - 1655), was an Italian Jesuit and professor in Rome, and a botanist. He devoted himself till 1632 to the study and cultivation of ornamental plants, and published De Florum Cultura, which was illustrated with copperplates by, amongst… Read More
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Nature Displayed in the Heavens and on the Earth, according to the latest observations and...
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Nature Displayed in the Heavens and on the Earth, according to the latest observations and discoveries

by Shaw, Simeon

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London, Dublin, Edinburgh & New York: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips, 1823. Six volumes, small octavo, pp 588; 600, (15); 584, (10), uncut, a few pages unopened, a little age-toning and marking, one gathering (347-350) in Volume IV detached and gatherings towards the rear of the volume becoming a bit weak and loose, Volume VI has extra bis pages (343* - 354*); very well illustrated with 197 engraved or wood engraved plates (of which 31 are folding) and 50 coloured plates (of which 2 are folding) and 1 folding table; bound in the original pink boards, a bit worn, chipped and marked, original printed paper labels on the spines, the upper cover of Volume V detached, otherwise firm and tight, a neat signature on each front endpaper. Apparently lacking one plate in Volume 1 (Relative Sizes of the Planets) though there is no sign of this ever having been bound in. There are several extra plates to those listed, and our copy would seem to agree with the set at auction at Christie's in 2006 which… Read More
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Eden: or. a Compleat Body of Gardening, Both in Knowledge and Practice; Directing the Gardener in...
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Eden: or. a Compleat Body of Gardening, Both in Knowledge and Practice; Directing the Gardener in His Work, for Every Distinct Week in the Year, in the Kitchen-Ground, Flower-Garden, and Nursery; and Shewing the Proprietor those Shrubs, Plants, and Flower

by Hill, J.

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London: Printed for the author, 1773. Second edition, "corrected and enlarged". Folio, pp iv, ii, 716, with an engraved frontispiece, 60 engraved plates + plates 66 - 80 in the appendix (i.e. LACKING five plates in the appendix), some age-toning internally, the odd blemish here and there, the frontispiece with two earlier minor repairs, a partly unpressed copy which has resulted in a horizontal crease to the last sixty pages or so (see illustration) and a slight depression to earlier ones, bound in a recent half calf with very slight signs of use, with marbled endpapers. Plate 31 is bound slightly out of order, and plate 59 has a small ink scribble in the margin and has the plate number corrected in ink. [Blanche Henrey 805, mentioning a portrait as well as an allegorical frontispiece; the portrait is not present in our copy. Sir John Hill was an English composer, actor, author and botanist. He contributed to contemporary periodicals and engaged in literary battles with poets, playwrights… Read More
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Three physico-theological discourses, concerning I. The primitive chaos, and creation of the...
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Three physico-theological discourses, concerning I. The primitive chaos, and creation of the world. II. The general deluge, its causes and effects. III. The dissolution of the world, and future conflagration

by Ray, John

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The Princes Arms in St. Paul's Churchyard: Sam Smith, 1693. Second edition. With four engraved plates, small octavo, t.p., 20,132,[6], 133-406, + 2-page publisher's catalogue, browning and age-toning with occasional blotching, a corner torn from the first blank, a worm-hole in the margin of the early pages but only really noticeable on the first eleven pages, tight internally, original calf, rubbed and pocked, neatly re-backed with new unlettered leather spine, the original endpapers retained. [In Ray’s time understanding of creation was governed by the account in the Bible. It was thought that the earth dated from about 5000BC and that fossils were formed in nature as imitations of shells, fish or other creatures, but were not a genuine creature. Ray’s observations of the changing coastlines around Britain and his fossil excavations led him to question both of these. He published his work on Fossils in his ‘Miscellaneous Discourses’, 1692. The work quickly sold out, and a… Read More
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