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A History of the Vegetable Kingdom
by William Rhind
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- 1870
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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A$288.06
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Glasgow, Edinburgh and London : Blackie & Son, 1870 A very good copy of the 'Revised Edition with Supplement' that includes the additional hand coloured plates. With black and white frontispiece portrait; hand coloured vignette title page; 22 hand coloured and 23 black and white full page plates. Numerous wood engravings in the text. The binding is clean and sound.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Flora Rustica: exhibiting accurate figures of such plants as are either useful or injurious in husbandry. Drawn and engraved by Frederick P Nodder...
by Thomas Martyn
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- 2nd Edition
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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A$1,344.28
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London: Printed for J Harding A very good complete copy, bound as a single volume with 144 hand coloured plates - plate 11 serving as the frontispiece. Undated but is the scarce edition from circa 1810, which has a new title page and additional sections at the beginning of the work. This copy has been recently rebound in quarter… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain
by Anne Pratt
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- Used - Good
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- 1870
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- Decorative Cloth
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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A$153.63
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London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1870 A good copy in the original decorative cloth binding with 76 coloured plates. This work was sold as an individual volume and also as Vol 6 of Pratt's work on Flowering Plants. It is undated but was published in 1870. The binding is bright with gilt and blind stamped decoration to front board;… Read more about this item Item Price
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The British Rubi: An attempt to discriminate the species of Rubus known to inhabit the British Isles
by Charles Cardale Babington
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- 1st Edition
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- 1869
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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A$67.21
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London: John Van Voorst, 1869 A very good copy of the 1st edition in the original decorative cloth binding. The binding has gilt titles to spine and blind stamped decoration to boards. There is light wear to edges including spine ends, joints and corners. Corners are turned with some cloth loss. There is a scuff to the front board which… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Flora of Essex; or a list of the flowering plants and ferns found in the County of Essex; with the localities of the less common species ascertained by recent observations and reference to former authors, and illustrated with four coloured plates of the plants peculiar to the County, and a map
by George Stacey Gibson
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- 1st Edition
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- 1862
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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A$480.10
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London: William Pamplin , 1862 A very good copy of the scarce Gibson Flora of Essex in the original cloth binding with 4 hand coloured plates and folded map of Essex, coloured in outline and stored in a pocket at the front pastedown. There is a note 'from the Author' in ink at the front endpaper. The binding has a… Read more about this item Item Price
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British Wild Flowers
by Mrs Loudon
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- Used - Good
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- 3rd Edition
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- 1859
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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A$883.38
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LONDON: James Nelson & Co, 1859 A good copy of the 3rd edition in the original decorative cloth binding, with 60 hand coloured plates. The binding has a gilt plant to the front board with blind stamped decoration to both boards. The spine has gilt decoration and titles. There is uneven fading to the boards and the spine is faded… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany. Illustrated by select specimens of foreign and indigenous plants
by Richard Duppa
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- 1st Edition
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- 1816
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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A$3,552.74
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 A very good 3 volume set in part contemporary half leather binding with 240 plates of which 237 are hand coloured. Duppa (1770-1831) was draughtsman and writer who authored a wide range of works. The bindings have newer spines with raised bands and author and title labels. The boards are marbled and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Profitable Plants; A Description of the principal articles of vegetable origin used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, etc
by Thomas Croxen Archer
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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A$192.04
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London: George Routledge and Sons A very good to near fine copy of Profitable Plants, which was originally published under the title Popular Economic Botany by Lovell Reeve as part of their Popular Natural History series. It is undated but probably circa 1865 and is unusual in retaining the original decorative spine design from the Popular Natural History series. It… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Flora of Shetland; comprehending a list of the flowering and cryptogamic plants of the Shetland Islands, with remarks on their topography, geology, and climate &c &c
by Thomas Edmondston
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- 1st Edition
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- 1845
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A$480.10
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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.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Heathery; or a Monograph of The Genus Erica: containing coloured engravings, with Latin and English descriptions, dissections, etc, of all the known species of that extensive and distinguished tribe of plants
by H C Andrews
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- 1st Edition
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- 1804
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A$1,440.30
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London : Printed by Richard Tayor for the Author, 1804 A good part set of the 1st edition of this rare and comprehensive work. This set consists of 252 hand coloured plates with their descriptions bound in 3 volumes, but, we have not been able to confirm that they are from Volumes I - V with 2 extra plates. According… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of Cryptogamic Plants belonging chiefly to the Order Fungi; and Intended to Serve as a Continuation of English Botany
by Robert Kaye Greville
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- 1st Edition
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- 1823
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- Hardcover
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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A$4,801.00
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Edinburgh and London: Maclachlan & Stewart; Bladwin, Cradock & Joy, 1823 A very good copy in 6 volumes dating from 1823-1828, with 360 hand coloured plates. Robert Kaye Greville, 1794-1866, had medical training but an assured income allowed him to choose a more diverse life in science and art, and in his public work - where he became a leading… Read more about this item Item Price
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Letters on the Elements of Botany. Addressed to a Lady. By the Celebrated J J Rousseau. Translated into English, with Notes and Twenty-Four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus. With Thirty-Eight Plates, with Explanations; intended to illustrate Linnaeus' System of Vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany
by Thomas Martyn
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- 7th
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- 1807
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A$729.75
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LONDON : John White, 1807 A very good copy of Rousseau's Letters translated and explained by Professor Thomas Martyn, 7th corrected and improved edition bound with Thirty-Eight plates, also by Thomas Martyn, 1794. In newer half leather binding with title label to spine and marbled boards. Page edges marbled. Letters is 503 pp plus index sections, with folding table outlining… Read more about this item Item Price
A$729.75
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Popular History of the Palms and their Allies
by Berthold Seemann
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- 1st Edition
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- 1856
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- Quarter Leather
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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A$960.20
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London : Lovell Reeve, 1856 A very good to near fine copy of the rarest title in Lovell Reeve's Popular History series. Seemann was a botanist who made his name when he was appointed naturalist (on the recommendation of W J Hooker) to HMS Herald for the Kellett voyage of exploration to the American West Coast and Pacific. The series,… Read more about this item Item Price
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British Wild Flowers
by Mrs Loudon
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- Used - Poor
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- 2nd Edition
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- 1846
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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A$672.14
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LONDON: William S Orr & Co, 1846 A poor copy of this beautiful work with 60 hand coloured plates. Classed as poor because the title page is missing; the binding is poor - in marked plain cloth and beginning to detach; and there is a little marking internally. The pagination matches our other 2nd edition copy so this is presumed… Read more about this item Item Price
A$672.14
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Greenhouse Favourites. A description of choice greenhouse plants, with practical directions for their Management and Cultivation
by [Shirley Hibberd. Editor]
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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A$576.12
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LONDON: Groombridge and Sons A VG copy in the original green decorative cloth binding with gilt plant pictures and titles to front board and spine, and blind stamped decoration to rear board. The boards have bevelled edges. This work is generally attributed to Shirley Hibberd. It is clear from the Preface that it contains work from a number of authors,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Traite de la Culture des Pechers
by [Combles, Ch.J.De]
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- 2nd Edition
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- 1750
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- Full-Leather
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A$211.24
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Paris, Rue S Jacques: Chez la Delaguette; Chez le Prieur, 1750 Second revised and enlarged edition of this popular work on the cultivation of peach trees. First published in 1745. Earliest French book entirely about the cultivation and management of peaches. In contemporary full leather binding with title label, raised bands and gilt compartments to spine. The binding is sound… Read more about this item Item Price
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Popular Botany
by James Main
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- 1st Edition
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- 1835
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Birsay, Orkney, GBR
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A$134.43
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London : Orr and Smith , 1835 A nice copy of this rare work. It originated as an article for the British Cyclopaedia of Natural History, and was enlarged for separate publication to give readers a systematic introduction to the science of Botany. In original pebbled brown cloth with gilt title on spine, and gilt edges to pages. Profusely illustrated… Read more about this item Item Price
A$134.43