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Flora: Overo Cultura Di Fiori
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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 others, Anna Maria Vaiani, possibly the first female copper-engraver. The first book deals with the design and maintenance of the garden and garden equipment. The second book provides descriptions of the different flowers, while the third book deals with the culture of these flowers. The fourth book, continues with a treatise on the use and beauty of the flower species, including their different varieties and mutations. The plants featured in Ferrari's research came from Cardinal Francesco Barberini's private botanical garden, the Horti Barberini, a garden which was under the care of Ferrari. Several Cape bulbs are illustrated for the first time - most notably Haemanthus coccinea, but also Amaryllis bella-donna, Brunsvigia orientalis and Ferraria crispa. Hunt Library Catalogue rather downbeat in its comment - "The fame rests more on the quality of the engraved plates than on their contribution to botanical knowledge". Perhaps so, but horticulturally I feel this is a fundamental work for its period. Nissen BBI 620; Pritzel 2877]. Vellum. Good.
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The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839 - 1843
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Observations on the Structure of Fruits and Seeds, translated from the "Analyse du Fruit" of M. Louis-Claude Richard
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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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The Compleat Gard'ner: Or, Directions for Cultivating And Right Ordering Of Fruit-Gardens, And Kitchen-Gardens; with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry [LACKING TWO PLATES]
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Spread Eagle Westminster hall : Matthew Gillyflower & James Partidge, 1693. First English edition. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece, nine engraved plates (of eleven - so LACKING two plates), a few small wooducts in the text, many charming engraved chapter headings, folio, title page printed in red and black, pp (42), 188, 208, 4, 80, the top, bottom and fore-edge red, a few blemishes internally but overall very clean, the hinge before the frontispiece cracked but sound, contemprary calf, rebacked probably in the ealy nineteenth century, a little bumped and worn, the spine with more wear and a little splitting and fraying at the head and tail. An early un-named owner, obviously a knowledgeable and proficient gardener, has contributed half a page of manuscript notes on the first front blank, in which he questions, inter alia, why the author has not included mustard-seed in the list of all things that a kitchen-garden should contain; there are also neat marginal notes throughout…
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Grotesque Architecture, or Rural Amusement consisting of Plans, Elevations, and Sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, Chinese, Gothic and natural grottos [etc] . many of which may be executed with flints
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The Architectural Library: I. & J. Taylor, 1790. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, 28 engraved plates, octavo, pp 14, + two-page publisher's catalogue at the rear, age-toning and some signs of use internally though this is usually restricted to the margins, with the contemporary signature of V. Owen Smythe of Condover Park, and loosely inserted is the later armorial bookplate of Reginald Cholmondeley of Condover Hall, also loosely inserted is a further publishers' catalogue of 16 pages, uncut and partially unopened, the first page of which is detached; finely bound in full red crushed morocco with ornate gilt decoration on both covers, the spine gilt with raised bands and a small black morocco label, contained in a custom-made box of marbled paper over boards, a red calf spine and cloth lined; the binder is not known but the inked initials "T.A.B. 1974" on the rear endpaper may identify them?. [From the library of the gardening historian Anthony Huxley, with his stamp…
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Flora Lapponica exhibens plantas per Lapponiam crescentes, secundum systema sexuale collectas in itinere impensis Soc. reg. litter. et scient. Sueciae a. 1732 instituto. Additis synonymis, & locis natalibus omnium, descriptionibus & figuris rariorum,
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London: J. Davis for B. White et Filiorum, 1792. Engraved frontispiece, twelve folding plates with slight offsetting but otherwise good, octavo, pp l, 390, [16], light age-toning and occasional light foxing, bound in twentieth century brown morocco with red cloth sides, slight fading and very slight wear. With the bookplate of Kenneth Lazenby, a founding father of the Alpine Garden Society. [In the first edition of Flora Lapponica (1737] Linnaeus's ideas about nomenclature and classification were first used in a practical way, making that the first proto-modern flora. This upddate by Smith, cites Linnaeus as the main author and uses Linnaeus' binomial nomenclature.]. Second edition. Half-Leather. Very Good.
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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