Botany

London: Cassell Petter Galpin 5 vols First to Fifth Series, all in uniform blue cloth with gilt and black titling and decoration and with an inset "window" on upper board in which in all but the first series is a different flower illustration painted onto a gilt background, In the first series the flower illustration has worn off somewhat, Each vol has 40 coloured plates, and a title vignette in line, Some of the bindings may be slightly faded or rubbed at extremities but all are still VG ,some vols may have just the earliest hints of foxing to a few pages, and the front hinges are starting on some of the vols, mainly showing in weakness where the frontis opens, tissue guards are present as are original endpapers. SECOND SERIES; endpaper and frontis detached but present. FIFTH SERIES; frontis detached but present, lacks frontis tissue guard, one 2 leaf section in the synopsis at the front is detached but present, 5 vols all all edges gilt, each vol approx xv, 160 + about 6 leaves of… Read More

Cape Town: Darter Bros. & Co. 1918, 2nd edition. (Hardcover) 139pp. plus plates. Very good, no dust jacket. Handsomely rebound in olive cloth with blind rules on the front cover and titles in gilt. Illustrations, index, 119 color plates (2 are double-page). The endpapers are tape-stained and there is a previous owner's name. Internally the book is bright. Edited by Harriet M.L. Bolus & Alice M. Greene. Locale: South Africa. (Natural History, Botanical Illustration--South Africa, Botany--South Africa, Orchids).

London: John and Arthur Arch, Cornhill. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. Paternoster Row. & C Loddiges & Sons, Hackney, 1824 A scarce complete volume of Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, with 100 hand coloured plates engraved by George Cooke. Conrad Loddiges founded a plant nursery business in Hackney and the family became famous for exotic and rare plants. The mauve rhododendron that has become common in Great Britain today was imported by Conrad Loddiges. The Botanical Cabinet showcases the rare plants that they imported and grew. This volume is volume X, dated 1824. In contemporary half leather binding with marbled boards and endpapers. Top page edges gilt. The spine has gilt compartments and elaborate gilt tooling. There are title and volume labels. Internally there is a decorative title page and then a series of plates, each followed by a brief description on a separate page. There are 100 plates of which 9 are folding. There is an index at the rear. The binding is in very… Read More

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.

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1858. Hardcover. Good. Good. Engelmann, G. Cactaceae of the Boundary. Washington, 1858 (Smithsonian Institution), 78p., 76 steelengraved plates by i.a. PICART, Rare book on cacti along the USA-Mexico border. actually almost very good considering its age., Engelmann, G. Cactaceae of the Boundary. Washington, (Smithsonian Institution), n.d. (1858), 78p., 76 steelengr. plates by i.a. PICART, contemporay. half leather w. gilt spine, 4to. - Restorations to spine. binding tight, slight browning to page edges. All pages and plates very clean. Plate 14 of a total 76 plates is missing (photocopy of page laid in) Rare book on cacti along the USA-Mexico border. Ships from Hawaii with Priority mail within US, not slow media mail.

Good copy of Volume 2 (of 2) only of this popular 19th century German herbalThe attractive hand-coloured engravings by F. Kirchner. The subjects in this volume are fruits, spices, herbs, hallucinogenics, poisons, cereals, bulbs, ferns, mushrooms, etc. Plant names in German and Latin in the plate.Artus's handbook of general medicinal-pharmaceutical plants was published in two volumes from 1846 to 1885. With title page to the 5th edition of 1876, 395 pages of text (p.363 to p.758) and 110 hand-coloured botanical engravings.Willibald Artus (1809-1880) was a pharmacist in Weimar, before moving to Jena in 1840 to become professor of chemistry and pharmacy at the university.Brown half leather binding with crack at front hinge, gilt title on spine, marble boards scuffed and worn, text pages starting to brown as usual, hand-coloured plates with some toning and occasional foxing. A few pages starting to come loose from the binding, some chipped at the edges.

1870 Rhind BOTANICAL History Vegetable Kingdom Plants Botany Illustrated Herbal
William Rhind's 'History of the Vegetable Kingdom' is a rare, 19th-century book written to help classify plants and provide comprehensive descriptions of leaves, seeds, fruits, flowers, and vegetables. This work is notable for its impressive collection of colored illustrations.
Item number: #17165
Price: $550
RHIND, William
A history of the vegetable kingdom: embracing the physiology, classification, and culture of plants, with their uses to man and the lower animals, and their application in the arts, manufactures, and domestic economy.
London: Blackie and Son..., 1870.
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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o xvi, 744
o 46 steel-engraved plates
o Hundreds of woodcut engravings throughout
· Provenance: Bookplate – Thomas Spotswood Ash.
o Motto – NON NOBIS SED OMNIBUS
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~10in X 7.25in (25.5cm x 18cm)
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1887 Wild Flowers Pacific Coast California Oregon Seattle Washington Botanical
Emma H Thayer was a 19th-century American artist most known for her visualizations of American wildflowers. 'Wild Flowers of the Pacific Coast' is a large folio work filled with the sketches of Thayer, illustrated with full-page color engravings of flowers from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. This work was designated as a travel narrative with specific detail paid to scientific details of the plants.
Item number: #19675
Price: $499
THAYER, Emma Homan
Wild flowers of the Pacific coast. From original water color sketches drawn from nature
New York : Cassell & Company, [1887]. 1st edition

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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24 stunning color illustrations
· Provenance: Handwritten – Mrs. E. W. Reynolds, 1891
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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Decorative yellow cloth
· Size: ~12.5in X 9.75in (32cm x 24.5cm)
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1844 English Botany James Sowerby Color Cryptogam Lichens Fungi Mosses Algae

"the most celebrated of all English floras" (Henrey)

In 1790, English naturalist James Sowerby published what would become the preeminent illustrated work on English botany. Entitled simply 'English Botany', this work was a complete compendium of the native plants in Great Britain providing characteristics of plants, places of growth, as well as commentary and remarks on flowers.
English botanist James Edward Smith published his own work on the subject, collaborating with and utilizing James Sowerby's popular flower illustrations. Like the first edition, this second edition volume of Smith's 'Sowerby's Botany' includes hundreds of fascinating-colored illustrations.

Item number: #19952
Price: $550
SOWERBY, James
English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants: with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth
London: Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor for the Proprietor, Judith Sowerby, 1844.
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1853 FLOWERS Floricultural Cabinet Florist Magazine Color Botany Botanical ART
The "Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists' Magazine" was a mid-19th-century periodical published to showcase various flowers! This volume is filled with exquisite, full-page color illustrations of flowers – a fascinating tome!

Item number: #19534
Price: $499
HARRISON, Joseph
Floricultural cabinet, and florists' magazine, jan to dec, 1853.

London : Whittaker and Co., 1853. 1st edition
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[4], 300
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12 color engravings; numerous in-text illustrations
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Language: English
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Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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Size: ~9in X 5.75in (22.5cm x 14.5cm)
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1837 English Botany James Sowerby Color Illustrated Flowers British Plants RARE

In 1790, English naturalist James Sowerby published what would become the preeminent illustrated work on English botany. Simply titled, 'English Botany', this work was a complete compendium of the native plants in Great Britain. Sowerby provided beautiful illustrations accompanied by descriptions of the various properties, natural habitat, and other characteristics of numerous plants across Britain.
In tandem with Charles E. Sowerby, English botanist Sir James Edward Smith would later publish his own work on the subject, collaborating with and utilizing James Sowerby's popular floral illustrations. This specific edition includes 165 exquisite, hand-colored illustrations.

Item number: #40223
Price: $499
SOWERBY, James ; SMITH, James Edward
English Botany; or, coloured figures of British plants, with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth
London: Richard Taylor for the Proprietor, C.E. Sowerby, 1837.… Read More

Longman, Rees, Cadell and Davies. London. 1803. SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.5 inches). iii-xxvii, 523pp. Bound without half title but otherwise complete, with 13 engraved plates, all but two folding. A clean copy finely bound in recent half burgundy morocco leather. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments decorated, ruled and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. A very good copy of this popular work.

1876Sowerby Wild Flowers Daisy 90 BOTANICAL Color Plates English Botany Plants

English naturalist James Sowerby published what would become the preeminent illustrated work on English botany. Entitled simply, 'English Botany.' This work was a compendium of the native plants in Great Britain. Sowerby provided beautiful illustrations accompanied by descriptions of the various properties, natural habitat, and other characteristics of numerous plants across Britain.

This edition 1876 printing of Sowerby's 'Botany', entitled "British Wild Flowers" contains hundreds of color-illustrated figures.

Item number: #24649
Price: $499

SOWERBY, James

British Wild Flowers

London: John Van Voorst, 1876.

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· Collation: Complete
o xlix, [3], 180
o 90 hand-colored plates and 2 black and white plates
· Language: English
· Provenance: Handwritten – J. A. G. Drummond-Hay, 1878
o Col. J. A. G. Richardson-Drummond-Hay was a British soldier, serving between 1892-1914 in the… Read More

Very good copy of the Botany Acotyledons volume from Cuvier's huge Dictionary of Natural Sciences
Complete with all 103 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates of seedless plants such as ferns and mosses (previously referred to as acotyledons)
Includes many species of ferns, moss, lichen, mushroom, truffle, seaweed, algae, etc.
All the illustrations drawn and directed by Pierre Jean François Turpin, engraved by Louis Massard, Madame Massard, F. Plée, Carnonkel, Dion, Madame Joyeau, Monsaldi, Gelée. etc.
Vegetaux Acotyledons: Title page, 8pp (table of plates), 103 handcoloured engraved plates
Part of Cuvier's massive Dictionary of Natural Sciences that was published in 60 text volumes and 13 plate volumes from 1816 to 1830.
Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775-1840) was a French botanist and illustrator. He is considered one of the greatest floral and botanical illustrators during the Napoleonic Era and after.
Brown cloth binding, gilt title on spine, "Library of Congress" stamp on endpaper, book block… Read More

Black calf spine with gilt banding and title. Marbled boards. Twenty-four hand coloured plates.