Botany

London: James Nelson & Co. 1860., 1860. 4to. pp. xii, 215. with half-title. 42 hand-coloured lithographed plates. with tissue guards. modern half morocco (light stain to lower gutter margin of first few leaves). Third Edition. Including depictions of various types of clematis, anemone, hibiscus, camellia, geranium, acacia, fuschsia, marigold, heath, &c. cfNissen 1236. cfSitwell & Blunt, Great Flower Books, p. 66..

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown; et al., 1816. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 4to (25 x 31cm). Complete with 88 fine hand-coloured engraved plates: numbered. I-LXXXIV and 4 Supplementary plates, engraved by H. W. Edwards from drawings by the author; pp. [xxvii], 20, [2 Index] plus (usually) two leaves of letterpress accompanying each plate; half-title present. Bound in later half speckled calf with marbled paper boards, very good with slight rubbing. Contents clean and tight, marbled end papers, no inscriptions, a little minor foxing, and very light offsetting to a few plates. A very nice copy. Provenance: purchased by the previous owner from Francis Edwards catalogue 1019, dated 1979, item no. 245. "Hooker spent twelve years at Halesworth, during which he produced his British Jungermanniae, with his own illustrations, widely considered to be his most beautiful work. This book established hepaticology as an independent entity and made Hooker's reputation."… Read More

Rosenbach Company, New York, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. #230/300 copies. The five volume set in brown paper djs plus the ten supplements in wraps. 15-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Technology; Botany; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54. . This is a SET of books, therefore heavier than a standard volume, and will involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Edinburgh and London: Maclachlan & Stewart; Bladwin, Cradock & Joy, 1823 A very good copy in 6 volumes dating from 1823-1828, with 360 hand coloured plates. Robert Kaye Greville, 1794-1866, had medical training but an assured income allowed him to choose a more diverse life in science and art, and in his public work - where he became a leading voice against slavery. He published his Scottish Cryptogamic Flora in monthly parts, intending it to complete the catalogue of flora in Smith and Sowerby's English Botany. He drew all the specimens himself and these drawings together with the detailed text, form a comprehensive picture of the scottish cryptogamic flora as it was in the early nineteenth century. This copy is in contemporary marbled boards with cloth spines that have been rebacked and had new title labels. The binding is possibly a publisher's one. The boards have general wear but the bindings are sound. New endpapers have been added. Each volume has a half title and title page,… Read More

London: Richard Taylor / Charles E. Sowerby 1832 1835 1836 1837 1838, 1832. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. Seven Volumes Of 2Nd Edition, So Stated In All Volumes, Without Later Supplementary And Continuation Volumes. Vol. I Undated, With 1832 Preface;Vol. Ii Dated 1835; Vol Iii Dated 1836; Vol. Iv Dated 1837; Volume V Dated 1838; Vol. Vi Dated 1839; Vol. Vii Dated 1840. All Volumes Contain A Mixture Of Plates With Single And Double Plate Numbers. Apparently First Printings Of Second Edition Of All Volumes; Text Reduced, And Plates Omitted Which Represent Such Allied Species As May Be Readily Distinguished By The Descriptions From Those Figured. Quarter Green Diced Morocco, Over Green Cloth With An Intricately And Deeply Blindstamped Floral Design. 9 1/8" Tall. All Bindings Worn; Old Repairs To Joints; Fraying At Tips And Corners Of Spine, Chipping To Lower Spines Of Several Volumes; Contents Clean, Slight Foxing To A Few Plates; Contemporary Ownership Signatures Of Jane ----- In… Read More

Liverpool: Henry Fisher , 1820 A very good 2 volume set of the 1st edition, newly rebound in half calf with marbled boards. With 2 decorative frontispieces, 1 decorative title, and 106 hand coloured plates. The title pages are undated but Vol I has a preface dated 1820 and the 1st edition was produced between 1816 and 1820. This copy is in new half calf with gilt lines title labels and volume numbers to spines. The marbled paper matches the marbling on the page edges. New endpapers. All the plates are in very good clean condition and are well coloured. The paper quality varies with the paper in the first half of Vol II being noticeably toned and prone to light spotting. Contents - Vol I: frontispiece; decorative title; title; preface 2 pp; introduction, instructions on finding a plant, and text (to letters KYL) with 56 plates pp 1-790. There are a couple of ink corrections in the margins of pp 304-5 and 627. Paper lightly toned with light spotting circa p 700. Vol II: frontispiece; title; text pp… Read More

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 A very good 3 volume set in part contemporary half leather binding with 240 plates of which 237 are hand coloured. Duppa (1770-1831) was draughtsman and writer who authored a wide range of works. The bindings have newer spines with raised bands and author and title labels. The boards are marbled and retain their original corners. The spines have become sunned but are sound; corners and edges with wear and varying degrees of surface loss. The books do not lie completely flat when opened. Internally the endpapers are marbled matching the boards. They have the bookplate of Gloria Rollinson. Contents: Vol 1: black and white frontispiece; title with part of old signature to top; intro pp iii-xxiii; systematical index xxiv-xxvii; text pp 1-196 with 85 hand coloured plates. Vol II: title with old signature to top; text in 3 sections 197-373, 376-379; 381-400 (with blanks inbetween), with 93 hand coloured and 1 black and white plate. Vol III: title with… Read More

Very good set of this important French work with over 400 elegant botanicals by Edouard Maubert.
A comprehensive overview of plants and trees used for food, medicine, industry and ornament in the 19th century
Complete in 17 volumes with nine volumes of text and 8 volumes of plates.
Fine engravings by Oudet, Debray, Corbie, Lebrun, Lagesse, Pierre, and L. Noel after botanical illustrations by Edouard Maubert. The plates either showing the entire plant or tree along with details of fruits and seeds, or an elegant arrangement of fruits, flowers, leaves, roots.
The 411 engraved plates mounted on hinges, finely engraved and hand-coloured, presenting over 3,000 useful plants, garden flowers, fruits, trees, shrubs, mushrooms, etc.
The set is divided into five classes:
Traité de botanique générale (2 text volumes, 2 atlases with 53 and 50 plates of parts of flowers, roots, leaves, seeds, cells, plant biology, etc.)
Flore médicale, usuelle et industrielle (3 text volumes, 3 atlases with 50, 50 and 50… Read More

Good copy of a herbal, possibly German from the late 16th centuryLacks title page, first 24 pages of text, first two pages of Latin index, pages 49-64, 321-328 and 385~391.With over 620 woodblock engravings of medical plants, herbs, fruits and vegetables in contemporary hand-colour. No text, but names of plants in Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian and German at the top of the plate. Index in Latin (missing A to D, starts with Eruum), Italian, French, Spanish and German.Perhaps a later pirate copy of Adam Lonicer's Herbarum, arborum, fruticum, frumentorum ac leguminum, Egenolph, Frankfurt, 1546. Lonicer (1528-1586) married printer Christian Egenolph's daughter and became a partner in the firm. From 1551, the firm published herbals under Lonicer's name.Early editions had the plant names printed Latin in Roman and Italic type, and German in Schwabacher type. This copy has up to six plant names in Latin, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Greek.Annotated with ink manuscript captions in English by… Read More

Very good copy of a classic of English 18th-century pomological literature.
With 79 beautiful fruit plates drawn by Batty Langley, and engraved on copper by Thomas Bowles, John van der Gucht, James Smith, John Carwitham, etc.
With 79 engraved plates, of which 11 are double (double plates with two Pl. numbers). The fruits include many varieties of apples, pears, plums, figs, cherries and strawberries as you would expect in a British orchard, but there are also many grape varietals (Muscadine, Frontinac, Lombard, Brick, Burgundy, Esperione, Claret, White Raisin, etc.) to remind the reader that wine grapes had been grown in England since the Roman era.
Batty Langley (1696-1751) was an English gardener from Twickenham, who later became a landscape gardener, Freemason, and finally architect promoting the Gothic Revival. Among his many books were An Accurate Description of Newgate (written while he was imprisoned there for debt) 1724, New Principles of Gardening 1728, Pomona 1729, Ancient Masonry 1733~,… Read More

Very good copy of the first four volumes of the second edition of this classic of Enlightenment medical botany
4 volumes edited by Francois-Pierre Chaumeton, Jean-Louis Marie Poiret and Jean-Baptiste de Chamberet.
With 339 (of 360) hand-coloured stipple engravings by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin and Anne-Ernestine Panckoucke
Engraved by Lambert Jr., Boutelou, Mme. Benoit, Bignant, Mlle. Coignet, Mlle. Cornu, Dien, Dubois, Forget, Gautier, Giraud, Goulot, Guyard, Mlle. Louvier, Massard, Phelipeau, Plee, Poulet, Rebel and Victor.
Francois-Pierre Chaumeton (1775-1819) was a French physician and botanist. While working as a military surgeon with the French Army, he studied botany at Strasbourg in 1805 and later moved to Paris to continue his work as a botanical writer and editor.
Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840) was one of the greatest botanical artists of the Napoleonic era, along with Redoute and Bessa. When serving in the French army in Haiti in 1794, Turpin met botanist Pierre Antoine Poiteau… Read More

A very good copy of Volumes I and 2 (of 3) of Hooker's seminal work
Complete with 163 fine hand-coloured engraved plates after drawings by William Jackson Hooker, Robert Kaye Greville, Lansdown Guilding, John Lindley, and Archibald Menzies, all engraved by J. Swan.
With over 30 orchids, as well as alstroemeria, banksia, trumpet pitcher, shaving brush tree, cactus, lily, canna, spurge, honeysuckle, begonia, osbeckia, and a dozen ferns and mosses. (Hooker would later specialize in orchids and ferns.)
Complete with all 163 plates, many folding, most with tissue guards.
First and only edition of one of Hooker's rarest and most beautifully illustrated works, including many specimens from Australia, the Americas and the West Indies.
"The Exotic Flora of Dr Hooker is like that of all the Botanical publications of this indefatigable author, excellent; and it assumes an appearance of finish and perfection to which neither the Botanical Magazine nor Botanical Register can externally lay claim." Loudon
"This… Read More

At London, by me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne, 1578.. TITLE CONTINUED: their names, natures, operations, and vertues: and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, commonly vsed in physicke. First set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, physition to the Emperour: and nowe first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte Esquyer. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION 1578, of Dodoens Cruydeboeck. A DEFECTIVE AND REPAIRED COPY. LACKS 5 LEAVES, 4 AFFECTING MAIN TEXT AND 1 IN THE PRELIMS (see below), DARKER FACSIMILES INSERTED (see image), 11 pages only of 25 INDEX PAGES AT REAR. 4to, approximately 290 x 180 mm, 11½ x 7 inches. Title within historiated woodcut border with mythological scenes, woodcut arms of the translator Henry Lyte on verso, woodcut portrait of Dodoens holding a flower, 870 woodcuts in the text, colophon with printer's… Read More

1640 BEST English HERBAL 1ed Theatrum Botanicum John Parkinson 2500+ Engravings
John Parkinson is considered to be one of the most important 17th-century botanists and was a foundational English herbalist. His discoveries and herbal treatises propelled him to Royal Botanist of King Charles I, and while his royal position certainly contributed to his lasting fame, his most prestigious contribution was his book 'Theatrum Botanicum'.
This monumental work is considered to be the most complete and thorough English herbal, much in part to the more than 2,500 illustrated figures throughout. first published in 1640, this book contained descriptions of more than 3800 different plants many of which had never been included in a botanical anthology before.
Item number: #24716
Price: $4,950
PARKINSON, John
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 that are in other authours
London:… Read More

Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1569.. SECOND REVISED EDITION 1569, first printed in1568, Latin text. 8vo, aproximately 162 x 102 mm, 6½ x 4 inches, woodcut printer's device on title, 109 woodcut botanical illustrations, the first 32 illustrations are hand coloured and 14 more throughout the text, pages: [1]-311, [8], last 2 pages misnumbered 308 and 309 should be, 310 and 311, bound in full calf, rebacked, gilt lettered label to spine, marbled endpapers. Small repair to title page, just affecting printer's device and with loss of 3 words on verso, vertical ink note (reading library) next to printer's device, small pale ink splashes to pages 11-12 and first illustration, many early ink manuscript names of plants and numbers to plates plus a little ink marginalia, some pale soiling to outer margins due to handling, occasional spots and small stains to text, otherwise a good copy. Dodoens's Florum, et Coronarium was devoted to flowers, ranging from herbaceous annuals and perennials to rare bulbous… Read More