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Edinburgh, Scotland: J. Murray, 1778. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Title page continued: "As also, Plain Directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of Forest-Trees, to the height of thirty feet and upwards, with certain success; and, On the same principles, (with as equal success) for transplanting Hedges of sundry kinds, which will at once resist Cattle; To Which are added, Directions for the Disposition, Planting, and Culture of Hedges by observing which, they will be handsomer and stronger Fences in five years, than they now usually are in ten . . . Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Murray." 4, xlviii, 259, [5] p.; 27 cm. 4to. Full tree calf. Six spine compartments between raised bands. The Second Edition. ESTC T113532. Armorial bookplate of I. Hungerford, esqr., on the front fixed endpaper. Includes an extensive list of subscribers. Ex-library: bookplate of the Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery on the front fixed endpaper and the verso of the front free…
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Hortus Veitchii: A History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, Together with An Account of the Botanical Collectors and Hybridists Employed by Them, etc.
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London: James Veitch and Sons, Limited, 1906. First Trade Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Front and rear endpapers browned, occasional light spotting in the text, else a near fine copy in original maroon cloth ruled in blind on the covers and lettered in gilt on the spine, top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimed.. Thick quarto. 8.25 x 11.25 in. 542 pp. Illustrated with 50 black-and-white plates. Uncommon history of the James Veitch and Sons Nurseries.
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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 .
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A TREATISE ON FOREST - TREES: CONTAINING NOT ONLY THE BEST METHODS OF THEIR CULTURE HITHERTO PRACTICED, BUT A VARIETY OF NEW AND USEFUL DISCOVERIES, THE RESULT OF MANY REPEATED EXPERIMENTS
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Edinburch: Printed for the Author and Sold By J. Murray. Good+. 1778. Second Edition. Hardcover. Title Continued: Plain Directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of Forest-Trees, to the height of thirty feet and upwards, with certain success and on the same principles, (with as certain success) for transplanting Hedges of Sundry kinds, which will at once resist Cattle: to which are added Directions for the Disposition, Planting and culture of Hedges by observing which, they will be handsomer and stronger Fences in five years, than they now usually are in ten. 1778 second edition in original leather binding. 259pp +(ii) -(xxvi) , Preface, +(xxvii ) -(xliii) , Subscribers. + 3 pages of Postscript. Both covers are decorated with a narrow gilt border. Spine has raised bands with geometric gilt designs in panels. Clean brown leather. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Marble endpaper. Front hinge cracked with cover firmly attached. Spine ends and front corners lightly…
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Aberdeen: Geo Clark and Son, 1845 An extremely scarce original copy of Edmondston's Shetland flora. Thomas Edmonston produced his first list of Shetland plants when he was 11 years old and had the good fortune to be able to discuss and share it with Joseph Hooker. He expanded the list and produced this work when he was 20 years old. It was and has remained an important work on Shetland's flora. It is in the original blind stamped decorative cloth binding with gilt titles to the front board. The binding is in very good condition. The original yellow endpapers are present and a previous owner has glued the top flap of an envelope to the fpd with their ink notes of plants and a reference to Tingwall manse. There is also a small ink '35' to the top corner of the fep. Contents: title, dedication, preface, introduction pp xxvii; arrangement of Shetland plants 1-67 with errata slip. Contents clean with extensive scholarly annotation - such as references to locations and Icelandic flora.
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New York State Museum 72nd Annual Report 1918: Volume 2 and 3, containing Wild Flowers of New York Parts I & II
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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.
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Meticulously illustrated botany lab book by a woman studying under botanist Richard Holman at UC Berkeley, California, 1932
by [illustrated notebook] Laura E. Mitchell
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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/
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Hortus Veitchii: A History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, Together With an Account of the Botanical Collectors and Hybridists Employed by Them and A List of the Most Remarkable of Their Introductions
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Hortus Veitchii: A History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, Together With an Account of the Botanical Collectors and Hybridists Employed by Them and A List of the Most Remarkable of Their Introductions
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Hortus Veitchii: A History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs James Veitch and Sons
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Hortus Veitchii A History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, Together with an Account of the Botanical ... of the Most Remarkable of Their Introductions
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UK: Caradoc Doy. Limited edition of 1000 copies, this copy no. 462. A reprint of the 1906 edition. 542pp., with fifty b/w illus. Minor shelf wear to dustwrapper o/w a lovely copy, contents clean and unmarked. Overseas orders may require additional postage. . VG. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 2006.
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Hortus Veitchii : A History of the Nurseries of messrs. James Veitch and Sons...Fifty Illustrations
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HORTUS VEITCHII A History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs James Veitch & Sons together with an account of the Botanical Collections and Hybridists employed by them......
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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
by Jesup, Henry G
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Hanover, NH: Self Published. Good with no dust jacket; Call letters on spine, spine darkened by . shellac, corners bumped, edges rubbed, binder's label on inside of front . cover, front endpaper detached, endpapers toned, one page with small fold . and tear.. 1891. Hardcover. Green decorated cloth. vi, 91pp. Fold-out map, indexes. A highly detailed natural history study of this New Hampshire community undertaken and presented by a Dartmouth college professor. Inscribed and dated, with compliments of the author card tipped in. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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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
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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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