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The Succulent Euphorbieae (Southern Africa) by White, A.; Dyer, R. Allen and & Sloane, B.L - 1941

by White, A.; Dyer, R. Allen and & Sloane, B.L

The Succulent Euphorbieae (Southern Africa) by White, A.; Dyer, R. Allen and & Sloane, B.L - 1941

The Succulent Euphorbieae (Southern Africa)

by White, A.; Dyer, R. Allen and & Sloane, B.L

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Pasadena: Abbey Garden Press, 1941. Two volumes, very well illustrated, thick quarto, pp xvi, 990, (10), the second volume, has the upper corner slightly bruised and the spine slightly marked, there is also a slight suggestion of damp, with very very minor signs of adhesion, brown cloth, spines very slightly faded, covers very slightly bowed. [One of the cornerstones of the Euphorbia literature.] A heavy set - extra postage may be necessary.. First Edition. Cloth. Good.
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  • Date Published 1941
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A TREATISE ON FOREST - TREES: CONTAINING NOT ONLY THE BEST METHODS OF  THEIR CULTURE HITHERTO...
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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

by Boutcher, William

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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… Read More
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Miltonian Bouquet. The Flowers and Plants of Milton, with their Scientific Names and Quotations...
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Miltonian Bouquet. The Flowers and Plants of Milton, with their Scientific Names and Quotations from his Works, wherein Allusion Is Made to Them.

by Elder, William; John Milton

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Paisley, (Scotland): Printed at The Paisley Herald Office by W. B. Watson, 1874. First Edition, 1874. Binder's ticket of D. Carswell, Paisley. Bound in brown embossed cloth, gilt title "Miltonian Bouquet" front cover, all edges gilt, bright yellow end papers, 46 pages. Near Fine, four pages with lateral creases top edge, very light soiling. RARE, OCLC shows 5 holdings worldwide. A companion book to the author's The Flowers and Plants of Shakespeare, ...Burns, ...Tannahill. Written as an offshoot of the Paisley flower show, where prizes were offered for displays of flower arrangements named in the works of these authors. Apparently the author had entered each category and then published these pamphlets, done in the spirit of uncritical adulation of the great writers. (The Language of Flowers: A History, Beverly Seaton, p.27). Squarely in the genre of Sentimental Flower Books of the Victorian Age, a work that would also fit nicely in a Milton collection.. First Edition. Embossed… Read More
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Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London, Volume I [Only] [WITH 16 ENGRAVINGS]
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Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London, Volume I [Only] [WITH 16 ENGRAVINGS]

by Anon.

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London: Printed by W. Bulmre & Co., Cleveland Row; Sold by J. Hatchard Piccadilly, 1815. Second Edition. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. xvi, 366, 27, [30] pages. COLLATES COMPLTE WITH 16 ENGRAVINGS, including 4 in color. Hardcover bound in early half leather with brown orange and blue marbled paper-coverd boards. The binding is worn. The hinges are cracked but holding, and the spine ends are chipped. The remains of an old paper label are on the front cover. Green endpapers. The text block is sound and clean. Printed with wide margins with untrimmed edges. Text is quite clean. The title page states 2nd edition, 1815. There is a 27 page Appendix after the main section of 366 pages. The final [30] pages begins with a "List of drawings of Fruits Executed by Order of the Council... 1816-1817." There are also two lists of medals, dated 1816 and 1817. [Note, there are NO further illustrations beyond the 16 called for]. The final pages… Read More
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Textbook of Wood Technology: Structure, Identification, Properties, and Uses of the Commercial...
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Textbook of Wood Technology: Structure, Identification, Properties, and Uses of the Commercial Woods of the United States and Canada: McGraw-Hill Series in Forest Resources

by Panshin & De Zeeuw

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NEAR FINE hardcover Solid red leather binding with gilt lettering. As new except and unmarked except for faintest bump to bottom corner, fainted red marking to the top edge of the textblock, and owner's name inside front cover. Nonfiction. Forestry. Wood Processing. 722 indexed, annotated pages including a Glossary and full of charts, graphs and illustrations. 6.5 " X 9.25" X 1.75". The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 is the Formation, Anatomy, and Properties of wood which covers the cellular make up of wood with a focus on the cellular make up of woody cells. It also covers defects in wood due to variability within a species, growth abnormalities, and defects during the harvesting, seasoning, and machining processes. Includes information on long term durability of wood and effects of staining. Part two is a key for identifying wood by species or by fiber if the species origin was unknown, along with detailed decriptions of the properties of wood produced by each… Read More
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Houses and Gardens by E. L. Lutyens. ("Country Life" Library of Architectural Monographs)
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Houses and Gardens by E. L. Lutyens. ("Country Life" Library of Architectural Monographs)

by Weaver, Lawrence

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London: Published at the Offices of "Country Life, 1913. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio. 344, 15 pages. Hardcover bound in white quarter cloth with grey cloth covered boards. The binding is quite worn and stained but sound. Old glass rings and stains on the front cover, especially at the fore edge. The white cloth spine is foxed and the spine is toned and the spine gilt a bit dulled. A sound copy with secure hinges. Text is clean. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. Signed on the back side of the frontis by William Lanier Hunt. William Lanier Hunt (1906-1996) was the "Dean of Southern Horticulture." He donated land along the Morgan Creek in southern Orange County, NC to the North Carolina Botanical Garden and is now known as the Hunt Arboretum.
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Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants. Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for...
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Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants. Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1919: Twenty-Seventh Annual Report, Vol. 2, Part II

by Hedrick, U.P.

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Albany: New York Department of Agriculture, 1919. Large quarto ( x cm.), 686 pages. FIRST EDITION. Includes information on nearly 2900 edible foods, by far the largest and most complete study of its kind to the date of its publication. Very good in green cloth.
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Draculas Of Ecuador ( Draculas Del Ecuador ) Duel Language Text English And Spanish

Draculas Of Ecuador ( Draculas Del Ecuador ) Duel Language Text English And Spanish

by Franco Pupulin, Gilberto Merino And Hugo Medina

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2009. Hardcover. Very Good. English & Spanish Language Text.Hardcover Edition With Dustjacket.First Edition, First Printing.Nice Copy With Brodart Dustjacket Cover Included.Text Unmarked.Binding Is Solid. D.J. Has Small Closed Tear And Scratch On Back Cover . Not Ex-Library. English & Spanish Language Text.
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Parallel Botany (English and Italian Edition)
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Parallel Botany (English and Italian Edition)

by Lionni, Leo

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NY: Knopf, 1977. First American edition. Trade softcover. Published NY: Knopf, 1977, first printing. Large 8vo., 6 1/4" x 9 1/4", x+181pp., illustrated with plates. Fine. . 1st. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo..
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New York State Museum 72nd Annual Report 1918: Volume 2 and 3, containing Wild Flowers of New...
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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

by House, Homer D.

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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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Botanical Features of North American Deserts
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Botanical Features of North American Deserts

by MacDougal, Daniel Trembly

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Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1908. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CONTRIBUTOR William Phipps Blake at front end page - "Professor Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill, N.C. with compliments of W.P. Blake (?) Oct. 28, 1908 (Leafs 45)". Phipps contribution starts at p. 45, titled "Geological Sketch of the Region of Tucson, Arizona". Phipps (1826-1910) was the Territorial Geologist of Arizona, a noted mining consultant and educator who started the first school of mines in the Far West in 1864. Professor Joseph Hyde Pratt (1870-1942) was a prominent North Carolina geologist, conservationist, and state and civic leader. Near Fine, bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering at spine, 111 pages, illustrated with numerous black and white photographs, 3 fold-out maps, scattered light toning and light rubbing to boards, Pratt's ownership signature front paste down. SCARCE in hardcover, a great geology ASSOCIATION COPY.. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CONTRIBUTOR. First Edition.… Read More
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Flowers of Hawaii
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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

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

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
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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...

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...

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,...
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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… Read More
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The Last Days of Mankind A Tragedy in Five Acts
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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...
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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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