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THE FLOWERING PLANTS, GRASSES, SEDGES AND FERNS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THEIR ALLIES THE CLUB MOSSES, PEPPERWORTS AND HORSETAILS (6 VOLUMES) Flowering Plants of Great Britain by Pratt, Anne - Ca. 1873
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LOUDON'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PLANTS
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A SURE METHOD OF IMPROVING ESTATES, BY PLANTATIONS OF OAK, ELM, ASH, BEECH, AND OTHER TIMBER TREES, COPPICE-WOOD. WHEREIN IS DEMONSTRATED, THE NECESSITY & ADVANTAGES THEREOF; THEIR MANNER OF RAISING, CULTIVATING, FELLING IN ALL KINDS OF SOILS
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The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, And Ferns Of Great Britain, And Their Allies, The Club Mosses, Pepperworts And Horsetails - Vol VI
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Frederick Warne & Co. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pratt, Anne. Not dated but published 1870s. Complete in six volumes. Coloured endpapers. viii, 288pp, plus 47 plates, of which 46 in colour; viii, 355pp plus 39 colour plates; ix, [1], 410pp, plus 53 colour plates; viii,328 pp plus 53 colour plates; viii, 368pp, plus 50 colour plates; x, 136, [2], 137-319pp plus 76 colour plates. All six volumes bound in original green cloth with gilt and black inlay embossed decorations, gilt lettering. All edges gilt. 8vo. A large and heavy set which will require an additional charge for overseas shipping. Boards are somewhat worn at edges, corners rounded, a few cracks around spine edges and fraying at spine tips, but still solid and attractive. All plates exquisite, bright and fresh. A couple of instances of strained gutters but remains firmly bound and square. Ex-library with light markings. Occasional faint spotting. The backstrip on Volume One is partially detached.…
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London : Frederick Warne and Co. , 1873. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6". Anne Pratt . A wonderful complete six volume set of this popular study on flowering plants of Great Britain, with colour plates. A complete six volume set of The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain and their Allies The Club Mosses, Pepperworts and Horsetails, by Anne Pratt. These wonderful six volumes beautifully illustrate the flowering plants of Britain with studies and descriptions of plant and flower. Anne Pratt was a botanical and ornithological illustrator and author. Beautifully illustrated with chromolithographed plates. With forty seven plates to volume one, with forty plates to volume two, with fifty three plates to volume three and four, with fifty plates to volume five and seventy six plates to volume six.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some light marks to the boards and light bumping to the head and tail of the spines. A Foyles…
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London: Frederick Warne and Co. , [1873]. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6.5". Not Stated . A beautiful group of six volumes illustrative of the flowering plants of Great Britain by Anne Pratt, in the original publisher's uniform cloth bindings. A group of six charming volumes concerning all flowering plants of Great Britain, dated from Copac, complete with six volumes. The first edition appeared in 1855 in five volumes. A famous work by the successful botanical illustrator Anne Pratt, listing all flowering plants, grasses, sedges, and ferns in Great Britain with studies and detailed descriptions of plants and flowers, classified through the Natural System adapted from those of Jussieu and Decandolle. Each plant is illustrated by beautiful chromolithographed plates by Anne Pratt. With three-hundred-and-seventeen fine and botanically correct colour plates, one in black and white as called for. Collated against the number of plates to the spine of each volume, vol. II notes 40 however features…
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London: Frederick W arne & Co Ltd, 1891. 1st Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good Plus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Large. Illustrated. Type: Z A super four volume set bound in original bright green cloth with gilt embossed lettering to the spines and front boards. Upper edges gilt. All volumes beautifully illustrated with just over 313 colour plates, all as called for, including frontispiece plates with tissue guards. Light bumps to the head and tail of the spines. The top corners of Volume I , the lower corners of Volume III and three corners of Volume IV are also bumped with a little creasing of the associated corners of the textblock. A little rubbing to the front edge of the spine strip of Volumes I and II near the head of the spine.and several scattered soil spots to the front boards of Volumes III and IV. Light scattered foxing to the fore edges and reverse of the end papers of Volume I and Volume IV and the occasional foxspot to the periphery of a few illustration…
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Flowers of Hawaii: Hawaii's most complete flower guide
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Flora Brasilica, Vol. XLI, I
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Instituto de Botanica, Saõ Paolo, 1947; First Edition; Quarto, 113 pages. Detailed monograph of the family Onagraceae covering the genera Jussiaea, Oocarpon, Epilobium, Oenothera, and Fuchsia. Vol. XLI, I of the prodigious series edited by Frederico Carlos Hoehne, director of the Instituto de Botanica at Saõ Paolo, Brazil from 1940 to 1959. Authored by distinguished American botanist/taxonomist Philip A Munz. Sixty-two pages of text in Portuguese accompanied by 51 finely detailed full-page illustration plates, forty-nine in b&w and two in color, covering 5 genera and 45 species of Onagraceae. Very Good, in printed stiff wraps. A few small closed splits in the paper covering of the spine panel. Custom engraved bookplate of Pasadena, California horticulturist Charlotte Hoak on the verso of the front wrap.
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A very nice volume of an extensive 19th century popular science partwork - The Museum of Science and Art - from the age of optimism."The 'Museum of Science and Art' is the most valuable contribution that has ever been made to Scientific Instruction of every class of society" - Sir David Brewster.....( Brewster of the Brewster Angle?)One hundred and Forty-Seven engravings. Front cover partly detached as shown - otherwise the binding is tight. Pages unmarked throughout. Some foxing on endpapers, otherwise very good.First owners bookplate inside front cover "Godding MBS".Includes fascinating ads at the back.
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A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Higher Cryptograms: Both Native and Introduced, Found Within about 30 Miles of Hanover, N. H. , Including a Few Cultivated Species, to Which is Appended a List of Vertebrate Animals of the Same Region
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The Carrot Seed
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Krauss, Ruth: The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers FIRST EDITION. States 1945 on the title page. Beige Boards. USED. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. 6 X 8 ¼. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something, or the basis of knowledge"
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Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag, 1986. Usual library marks. 515 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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CYTISUS NIGRICANS [Black Broom], Original Hand-Colored Copper Engraving (plate # 470) from Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum
by Vietz, Ferdinand Bernhard
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Vienna: Schrämblischen, 1817. Image is 8 1/8 inches by 6 1/4 inches on a sheet that is 9 1/16 inches by 7 1/8 inches. Drawn and engraved by pharmacist turned naturalist Ferdinand Vietz ((1772-1815) and published in volume 7 of Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum, edited by J. L. Kerndl and published by Schrämblischen in Vienna in 1818. Original hand-coloring. Like all the plates from Vietz's classic work on medicinal uses of plants, this is a lovely original print on high-quality watermarked laid paper. Condition is very good: clean and bright. Binding edge is untrimmed. This original engraving is guaranteed to be more than 200 years old.. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good+. Illus. by Ferdinand Vietz. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Art Print.
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France
by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur; Nicolas-Martin Petit; Jacqueline Bonnemains (ed); Elliott Forsyth (ed); Bernard Smith (ed)
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and…
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The Last Days of Mankind A Tragedy in Five Acts
by KRAUS, Karl (Alexander Gode and Sue Ellen Wright, translators)
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New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co, 1974. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. 8vo. Pp. xxii; 263. Abridged and Edited by Frederick Ungar, with a several-page introduction by him. With a critical analysis by Franz H. Mautner. Bound in red cloth with lettering stamped in black and yellow on spine. Price-clipped dust jacket with a dime-size chip to front panel and slight edge-wear. Else Fine. This edition, in hardcover with jacket, is somewhat scarce. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
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