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Iconografia de Orchideas do Brasil by Hoehne, F.C - 1949
by Hoehne, F.C
Iconografia de Orchideas do Brasil
by Hoehne, F.C
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The Gardener's Assistant: Practical And Scientific, New Edition, Revised & Extended
by Thompson, Robert; Moore, Thomas (Revised by)
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BRITISH WILD FLOWERS
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London: Gurney and Jackson. Very Good+. 1894. Hardcover. Illustrated by John Sowerby with an introduction and a key to the Natural Orders, by C. Peirpoint Johnson. Re-issue: To which is added a supplement containing 180 figures of lately discovered flowering plants by John W. Salter and the ferns, Horsetails, and Club-Mosses by E. Sowerby. Clean green publishers cloth decorated with gilt borders and titles All edges gilt. (xxiv) 180pp. Mainly illustrated with hand color plates with a few b/w engravings. Pictorial frontispiece. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Dark green endpaper. Botany, British Wild Flowers. Plants; Color Plates; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 186 pages .
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Tratado del cultivo de los árboles frutales en España y modo de mejorarlo
by José de Hidalgo Tablada
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Encuadernación holandesa de la época, lomo de piel con títulos dorados, 4 falsos nervios. Conserva el estado plegable, con 36 figuras grabadas, en excelente estado. Lomo y tapas frotados, interiores impecables. Fotos disponibles. Envío desde México por correo registrado, servicio de paquetería (DHL, FedEx) disponible, favor de cotizar envío urgente.
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Planetary Planting: A Guide to Organic Gardening by the Signs of the Zodiac and the Phases of the Moon
by Riotte, Louise
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Jacket is chipped along edges with largest chip at top of spine. short 1" tear to top edge of jacket on front cover. Book itself has a solid binding and is free of any interior markings. Some light wear and dust soiling to edge of pages. 352 indexed paged with bibliography. 1.25" X 9.25" X 6.25" 3cmX 23.5cm X 16cm Easy to follow instructions for using lunar agriculture in every phase of gardening from preparing the soil to planting through to harvest using organic methods. Includes chapters on everything from fruit trees to to vines, to lawns, to grain and even house plants. Also includes a chapter on herbs for both culinary and medicinal uses. Includes black and white photos and diagrams. Bonus ephemera included with book: brochure "Herbs at a Glance" from Caprilands Herb Farm in North Coventry, Connecticut
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Bartrams Vireo or Greenlet: Plate #242 from Birds of America
by Audubon, John J.
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1856. Second royal octavo edition. Very good +. The royal octavo edition of Birds of America as first published in 1840-44, and was followed by several more editions. This plate is from the second edition, published in 1856, distinct for the colored backgrounds. They are also a little different in that one species is pictured rather than a grouping of birds. This work was done to make Audubon's prints, highly in demand, more affordable for the general public. These hand colored lithographs were printed by J. T. Bowen. Showing the male on a branch of Ipomea.
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The Gardener's Assistant: Practical And Scientific, New Edition, Revised & Extended
by Thompson, Robert; Moore, Thomas (Revised by)
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Blackie & Son Ltd.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1881. No Edition Stated. Half-Bound Leather. Half-bound leather w/marbled page ends and endpapers; pages slightly toning w/little bit of light foxing, rubbing to edges of leather w/a 1-1/2" tear to bottom spine corner, moisture mark to front cover, little bit of light soiling ; 956 pages .
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BRITISH WILD FLOWERS
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London: Gurney and Jackson. Very Good+. 1894. Hardcover. Illustrated by John Sowerby with an introduction and a key to the Natural Orders, by C. Peirpoint Johnson. Re-issue: To which is added a supplement containing 180 figures of lately discovered flowering plants by John W. Salter and the ferns, Horsetails, and Club-Mosses by E. Sowerby. Clean green publishers cloth decorated with gilt borders and titles All edges gilt. (xxiv) 180pp. Mainly illustrated with hand color plates with a few b/w engravings. Pictorial frontispiece. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Dark green endpaper. Botany, British Wild Flowers. Plants; Color Plates; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 186 pages .
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Tratado del cultivo de los árboles frutales en España y modo de mejorarlo
by José de Hidalgo Tablada
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Planetary Planting: A Guide to Organic Gardening by the Signs of the Zodiac and the Phases of the Moon
by Riotte, Louise
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Jacket is chipped along edges with largest chip at top of spine. short 1" tear to top edge of jacket on front cover. Book itself has a solid binding and is free of any interior markings. Some light wear and dust soiling to edge of pages. 352 indexed paged with bibliography. 1.25" X 9.25" X 6.25" 3cmX 23.5cm X 16cm Easy to follow instructions for using lunar agriculture in every phase of gardening from preparing the soil to planting through to harvest using organic methods. Includes chapters on everything from fruit trees to to vines, to lawns, to grain and even house plants. Also includes a chapter on herbs for both culinary and medicinal uses. Includes black and white photos and diagrams. Bonus ephemera included with book: brochure "Herbs at a Glance" from Caprilands Herb Farm in North Coventry, Connecticut
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Bartrams Vireo or Greenlet: Plate #242 from Birds of America
by Audubon, John J.
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1856. Second royal octavo edition. Very good +. The royal octavo edition of Birds of America as first published in 1840-44, and was followed by several more editions. This plate is from the second edition, published in 1856, distinct for the colored backgrounds. They are also a little different in that one species is pictured rather than a grouping of birds. This work was done to make Audubon's prints, highly in demand, more affordable for the general public. These hand colored lithographs were printed by J. T. Bowen. Showing the male on a branch of Ipomea.
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Flowers of Hawaii: Hawaii's most complete flower guide
by Allan Seiden
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Beautiful Flowers Complete Guide, an Island Heritage Book 1989, all pages clean and unmarked
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Mushrooms of Northern California
by Biek, David
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Spore Prints. Very Good+. 1984. First Edition. Softcover. 0961202009 . Very light shelfwear, slight toning to top page ends; drawings and b/w photos; 302 pages .
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Flora Brasilica, Vol. XLI, I
by Philip A. Munz (F.C. Hoehne, Editor)
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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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The Carrot Seed
by Ruth Krauss & Crockett Johnson
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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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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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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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HELVELLA MITZA [Elfin Saddle Mushroom], Original Hand-Colored Copper Engraving (plate # 556) from Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum
by Vietz, Ferdinand Bernhard
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Vienna: Schrämblischen, 1818. Image is 6 1/4 inches by 2 3/4 inches on a sheet that is 9 inches by 7 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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Stein's Orchideenbuch: Beschreibung, Abbildung und Kulturansweisung der Empfehlenswertesten Arten [provenance: Wilhelm Nahlop, head gardener of Schloss Britz]
by Stein, Berthold
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Berlin: Paul Parey, 1892. Hardcover. Good +. iv, [2], 602, [6] p.: in-text drawings; 24 cm. Dark brown coth with gilt-stamped spine title; color orchid illustration on front board. All page edges marbled. Elaborately decorated endpapers with ownership space on front fixed endpaper filled in by W. Nahlop. This was most likely Wilhelm Nahlop, who was head gardener for over 25 years in the late 19th and early 20th centuries at the Schloss Britz, now in the Britz district of Berlin. Four unpaginated page of publisher's advertisements follow text. The author, Berthold Stein (1847-1899), was the inspector of the Breslau Botanic Garden. In Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; ends of spine fraying; cloth splitting over joints with tear across lower spine; foxing, heaviest on first and last leaves; soiling in margins of a few pages; otherwise clean and tight.
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