The Herbal, or General History of Plants. Facsimile of the complete 1633 edition, revised and enlarged by Thomas Johnson by Gerard, John (& Thomas Johnson) - 1975

Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin. Very Good+. 1953. First Edition. Soft Cover. Clean soft original covers. Uncut, clean pages. Text tight, clean & intact. French Text. Medical; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages .

Washington: Smithsonian, 1972. Volumes 1-8. All first editions, hard covers in dust jackets. Published Washington: Smithsonian, 1972-1998, first printings. Large, thick 8vo.'s 7 1/4" x 10 1/4", each vol 500-600pp., illustrated with b/w reproductions. Gray cloth with red block and gilt titles. All fine in fine dust jackets, vol 1 is price-clipped. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

THE FROZEN DEEP BY WILKIE COLLINS, AUTHOR OF "THE WOMAN IN WHITE" AND "THE MOONSTONE". PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM F. GILL AND COMPANY, BOSTON, 1874, 1ST AMERICAN EDITION. ILLUSTRATED BY ALFRED FREDERICKS. USED. GOOD- CONDITION Green cloth boards with Black and gold gilt titling and ornamentation that remains fairly bright. Tight binding, bright pages. There is a liquid spill on a couple of pages as shown in our photos.

311pp; With xxiv full page plates of line drawings to rear

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1857. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 44 chromolithograph illustrations with text beneath, printed rectos only, with title page, and bound in the orignal printed plum colored wraps, measuring 7.5 x 10.5' Some loss to spine and and bottom front cover, and fading along the edges, else a Very Good complete copy. // A work by this author, with this title, place of publication and publisher was published in 1857. Cf. English catalogue of Books. However that work has the following collation: xii, 208 p., [44] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 16 cm. Cf. NUC pre-56. The exact relationship between the two publications cannot be determined.

Herschel, William. On The Quantity and Velocity Of Solar Motion. London, W. Bulmer and Co. From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1806. Thin 4to, size approx 220mm x 280mm. Recent brown cloth hardcover with label to front. Pp 32, 6 plates, 2. [pages 205- 237, plates IV-IX as referenced within text]. All pages bright and clean, plates have light foxing. Paper read on February 27, 1806 to the Royal Society estimating the speed of the Suns travel through space.

New York: The Garden Club In America and The Grolier Club, 2013. Illustrated binding. no dj as issued. Garden Club of America, Grolier Club, New York, 2013. Hardcover. used - very good with subtle shelf wear. Color illustrated binding. Printed end sheets. Color frontispiece and profuse color illustrations. 255 pp. Includes text by Marian Weldon Hill, Eugene S. Flamm, Arete Warren, Leslie K. Overstreet, and Denise Otis in addition to a catalogue of 150 items for the exhibition at The Grolier Club in 2013. . Ships from Hawaii with Priority Mail within the US, not slow media mail. . This lush volume celebrates the centenary of the Garden Club of America. Drawing on the Garden Club's little known but remarkable collection, the curators of the eponymous Grolier Club exhibition have assembled over a hundred works representing 400 years of botanical and gardening literature. Included are treatises on garden design and landscape architecture, botanical, and early photographic works on gardening,… Read More

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. Octavo. Original yellow boards, black paper backstrip, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. A little light rubbing at the edges, minor bump to the upper corner of the boards. An excellent copy in the jacket with a little creasing at the head of the spine panel and a minor vertical crease near the top of the spine panel. Sixth printing, published in the same year as the first. Presentation copy inscribed by the author in elaborate calligraphy on the half title, "To: Ravonne, Welcome to the Universe, Neil D. Tyson, May 2007". Uncommon signed. The present volume is a collection of forty-two essays originally published in Tyson's "Universe" column in Natural History Magazine between 1995 and 2005. Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson's (1958 - ) interest in astronomy began during childhood, when he viewed the Moon's surface through a friend's binoculars. Tyson studied at Harvard, the University of Texas, and Columbia, then joined the faculty of… Read More

London: Robert Hardwicke, 1874. A lovely copy of this first edition. green cloth with gilt titles and border to the front board. Frontis engraving of an Orchid House (complete with waterfall). Four beautifully hand coloured plates and black and white engraved vignettes and illustrations throughout. The cloth is in very nice clean condition, with just a little bumping to the top of the spine. Internally clean, but very slightly darkened. iv. 160 pages. 180 by 120mm (7 by 4¾ inches).

London: George Graves and John Harding, 1817. Enlarged edition. Very good +. 11.75 X 18.75 We will be offering a number of original hand colored engravings from Curtis' FLORA LONDINENSIS. These are from the enlarged edition of 1817. The print measures 11.75 x 18.75 inches, with a plate mark of 10 x 16 inches. This is a hand colored engraving on high quality watermarked paper dated 1815 and made by W.Balston & Co. It is a beautiful decorative antique print expertly colored and beautifully composed. Curtis' work was the first study of British flora, and artists contributing to the opus included James Sowerby, Sydenham Teak Edwards, Francis Sansom and William Kilburn. This particular plate is quite bright and clean. The background paper color is lighter than my camera is portraying it, and is slightly off-white. The plate is full margined, and has not been trimmed. The text page which accompanied the print will be included. Purchases may be combined for the best shipping price. Many of the wildflowers… Read More