Botany

I.N. Kushnerev & Ko., Moskva (Moscow), 1892. Printed boards, no dust jacket. Good /No Jacket. A well-used copy of the rare first edition of a popular Russian flora. The author was Piotr Feliksovich Maevsky (1851-1892). Significant edgewear to cover, internally sound with minimal tanning of paper. Owner's signature and oil spot on ffep (M. Kirshbaum?), another on end paper (V. Rikovshky?) with oaktree bookplate of Heino Ross. Spine sl. frayed at top edge, some insect damage to glued areas. The text contains keys to genera and species, generic descriptions and Russian and Latin names of genera and species, summaries of distribution (by local government region) and habitat, flowering times, and selected line drawings mostly showing both the whole plant and flowers or fruits. A compact yet comprehensive flora which went through several editions, a third (edited by B. Fedchenko) in 1902 and another in 1917, an 8th (with a slightly different title) in 1954 and a 9th (edited by B.K. Shishkin) in 1964.… Read More

Sydney: Gray's Publishing, 1973. Book. Near Fine. Full-Leather. Signed by Author(s). Limited/Numbered. Fine copy but for tiny spots of wear at front corners, though spine is fine. Signed limited edition ( # 99 of 250 cc. ) bound in full morocco. Gilt stamped titles. A copy of this edition was presented to queen Elizabeth when she visited B.C...

Albany: New York Department of Agriculture, 1919. Large quarto ( x cm.), 686 pages. FIRST EDITION. Includes information on nearly 2900 edible foods, by far the largest and most complete study of its kind to the date of its publication. Very good in green cloth.

London: Oxford University Press. Very Good+. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Comprising a History and Bibliography of Botanical and Horticultural books printed in England, Scotland and Ireland from the earliest times until 1800. Complete set in VG slip case. Texts tight, clean & intact. Pictorial frontispiece. Profusely illustrated with engravings, some plates in color. Vol. #1, 290 pp. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries History and Bibliography. Vol. #2, 748 pp. The Eighteenth Century History. Vol. #3, 142 pp. The Eighteenth Century Bibliography. Clean grey cloth that has gilt title on spines. First three pages of volume #2 have bottom corners folded. Prior owners signature with personal note on front endpaper. Science, Botany ; Engraved Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1180 pages .

London: the author, 1813. 1st edition. Publisher's boards. Good /No Jacket. Donor's inscription "A present from Rev. H. Pritchard Dinas Hall Anglesea (sic) to Owen Price, 1881" on t.p. A nicely preserved copy with untrimmed edges, title blind-inscribed (by hand) on spine. xvi, 151, xiv, plate facing p. xv, 153-255 pp. The first Welsh local flora, particularly noted for its appendix of Welsh names of plants.

Kempten,: Verlag der Jos. Kösel'schen Buchhandlung, 1890.. [iv], [92], [vi] pp. Small 4to. Contemporary half chagrin, spine gilt lettered. With 61 plant portraits on 41 coloured plates. A fine atlas of medicinal plants in coloured colllotype, based on early color photograph of plants. A technique rarely applied. See Nissen, BBI, 1 252 ff. The text for the foreign platns was supplied by author's brother, Max, the director of the botanical garden at München. -- (Cancelled library stamp on title and preface; lower corner of title very slightly damaged).

Simkin and Marshall; Groombridge & Sons, [1825-1850] Two Parts bound in one volume. Small quarto. Engraved half title, Title page Part I, xvi, 240pp; Title page Part II, 13, 144pp. 3066 woodcuts. Contemporary half morocco, gilt, raised bands to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners rubbed. Index to Part II and pp141-144 originally published in smaller state (8vo), expertly relaid to quarto. Comprehensively cataloguing the origins, date of introduction and British gardens and their owners of foreign introductions during the golden age of plant-hunting, the Floral Register was the resource for all newly introduced plants.
Benjamin Maund (1790-1864) botanist and horticulturist, "he prospered as a bookseller, stationer, printer, bookbinder, publisher, and chemist in a combination normal for the time". He experimented with seeds and plants introduced from around the world and particularly with varieties of wheat. Fellow of the Linnean Society. ODNB.
Provenance
From the library of Enid Lucy… Read More

NY: Knopf, 1977. First American edition. Trade softcover. Published NY: Knopf, 1977, first printing. Large 8vo., 6 1/4" x 9 1/4", x+181pp., illustrated with plates. Fine. . 1st. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo..

Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1918. Wild Flowers of New York Parts I & II. Complete in 2 volumes. Published Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1918-1920. Folio, 9 1/4" x 11 3/4", 362pp., 264 full page color plates. Text and plates printed on heavy, bright white coated stock. Staining/abrasion to the covers, wear at the edges, damp stain to the edge of some margins, volume 2 has light waviness to bottom 2 inches of sheets, name of flyleafs, tiny mark in pencil to the headings of some entries and paltes, but pages mostly clean and bright, bindings strong and tight. A good working set, plates clean and sharp. . Hard. Good/No Jacket. 4to.

London: J.M. Cobbett, 1822. Third Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 360pp. Bound in modern leather, marbled boards, paper spine label. folding map. Text is tanned and clean, folding map has minor archival tape repair and is in very sound condition. Author's descriptions of the country, it's culture, its agriculture including a discussion of the farming of the Ruta Baga. He crtiicizes at length Morris Birkbeck's settlement in Illinois. Howes C- 525.

Albany: J. B. Lyon, 1915. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon, 1915, first printing. Large 4to. 9 3/4" x 12 1/4", b/w frontis+xii+371pp., illustrated with 56 full page color plates. A historical account of cultivated cherries, and extensive survey of varieties grown in New York. Minor scuff to rear cover, previous owner name stamp on fly leaf and pastedow, else fine, clean, bright.. 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

NEAR FINE hardcover Solid red leather binding with gilt lettering. As new except and unmarked except for faintest bump to bottom corner, fainted red marking to the top edge of the textblock, and owner's name inside front cover. Nonfiction. Forestry. Wood Processing. 722 indexed, annotated pages including a Glossary and full of charts, graphs and illustrations. 6.5 " X 9.25" X 1.75". The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 is the Formation, Anatomy, and Properties of wood which covers the cellular make up of wood with a focus on the cellular make up of woody cells. It also covers defects in wood due to variability within a species, growth abnormalities, and defects during the harvesting, seasoning, and machining processes. Includes information on long term durability of wood and effects of staining. Part two is a key for identifying wood by species or by fiber if the species origin was unknown, along with detailed decriptions of the properties of wood produced by each… Read More

University of California, 1932. Paperback. Very good. 1932 University of California Botany Notebook by a student of Richard Holman, head of Botany at UC Berkeley and co-author of the influential 'Textbook of General Botany' (with Wilfred Robbins, 1924). 39 labeled plates: Plant Cell (5), Plant (2), Plant Tissues (6), Stem (4), Root (2), Leaf (4), Flower (7), Fruit (3), Seed (6). Approx. 20 sheets of notes on seed experiments, some with application to agricultural practices. Graphite drawings on thick card stock in UC branded cover, fastened with brads. A few grading marks on the written notes, drawings remain clean and crisp, very fine work. See: 'Botany at Berkeley: The First Hundred Years' by Lincoln Constance, 1978. https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/history/botanyatberkeley/

Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Big Jump Press,, 2023.. Edition of 66 (26 lettered, 40 numbered). 5.5 x 9"; 20 pages. Papers include Red River double side Premium Matte and Colorplan. Text set in Arno, Myriad, and Monaco type. Printed letterpress using polymer plates from Boxcar press. Produced in an edition of 44, of which 26 lettered copies bound individually and 40 bound alongside other collaborative components of the 'Acts of Translation" project. Signed by Allen and Bryant. Lettered. Big Jump Press: "Dr. David Allen studies the ecology of ticks and tick-borne diseases. He uses an integrated theoretical and empirical approach to tease apart the biotic and abiotic drivers of tick populations and tick-borne pathogen persistence. He has published his work in numerous journals, including 'Journal of Medical Entomology, Biological Conservation, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and Northeastern Naturalist'. His research into the Ixodes population has received a grant from the National… Read More

Full camel beige cloth with pictorial dustjacket wrapped in plastic. English text, of which 1,000 copies were produced. A clean copy with no previous owners' names or other markings.
10 x 13.5 in