Botany - Medical Botany - Mycology from Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books

(London),: Frances Lincoln,, (1979).. 191, [i] pp. Small folio (22,5 x 31 cm.). Original buckram with pictorial dust-jacket. Richly illustrated with 64 coloured plates and 80 plaine plates and illustrations. ¶ A nicely illustrated introduction to the development of the ancient illustrated herbal.

London,: Printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton, J. Hodges ... (a.o.)., 1756-(1757).. [iv], 533, [iii, index] pp. Tall folio (28 x 42 cm.). Contemporary full marbled calf, spine with 6 raised bands (top & bottom of spine slightly worn; corners slightly bumbed and partly slightly worn); gilt lettered (slightly faded) on red morocco label. With a fine allegorical… Read more about this item

Amsterdam,: F. Günst,, 1854.. 2 parts in one volume: [ii], iii, [iii], 132; 73, [i] pp. 8vo (15 x 22,5 cm.). Original illustrated stiff wrappers. With a double-page table and 24 illustrations on 20 woodengraved plates. ¶ Facsimile reprint in 500 copies, Amsterdam, Meesters, 1977. At the time of its publication in 1854, Krook's Handboek was the most comprehensive… Read more about this item

Paris,: N. Boubée,, 1957.. 2 volumes: 326 [ii]; 521, [iii] pp. Small 8vo (14 x 19 cm.). Original publisdher's cloth. Richly illustrated with 20 photographic plates, 56 coloured plates after A. Bessin & M. Bory and numerous text figures. ¶ First edition of Heim's valuable classic and a fine iconography.

Paris,: J. Rotschild,, (1889).. xxxv, [i], 762, [ii,], pp. Small 8vo (15 x 18,5 cm.). Original green decorative cloth, black tooled and gilt lettered; marbled edges (top & bottom of spine slightly rubbed; partly slightly loose in binding, but firm). Richly illustrated with 334 wood engravings in the text, and 20 fine chromolithographical plates, interleaved with their explanatory… Read more about this item

(Paris),: Bordas,, (1961-1970). 4 volumes, 256; 198; 228; 224 pp. Small folio (23 x 30 cm.). Original publisher's cloth with coloured dust jackets (damaged). With numerous text illustrations, 39 plain plates and many species on 316 finely coloured plates after the lithographas of Mourlot. ¶ Originally published 1956-1967 and known as one of the finest of 20th century mycological… Read more about this item

s-Gravenhage,: Martinus Nijhoff,, 1942.. vii, [i[, 320 pp. Large 8vo (1,5 x 25,5 cm.). Original publisher's cloth, uncut and partly unopened. With some, (a few folded,) illustrations ¶ An important work on the illustreous Dutch Bulb Speculations. The work begins with a historical introduction, and continues with 45 of the most important pamphlets on Bulb speculation (the pamphlets… Read more about this item

Trajectum ad Rhenum (Utrecht),: W.F. Dannenfelser,, 1853.. xvi, 166, 4, [ii, blank] pp. 8vo (15 x 23 cm.). Original printed wrappers (partly slightly damaged, dust soiled, edges slightly frayed), uncut. With one fine folded lithographed plate printed by P.W. de Weijer. ¶ Probably the most comprehensive history on the subject (intestional remedies). Many references are made to Abyssinia and… Read more about this item

Bruxelles,: Centre National d'Histoire des Sciences,, 1978.. 78, [iv] Introduction); [xxiv], 584, [xxxvi], [ii, blank] (facsimile) pp. Small folio (21,5 x 30 cm.). Original publisher's green buckram. With a large number of plant portraits. ¶ A very nice facsimile edition of Clusius' French translation of Dodonaeus' famous Cruydt-boeck of 1557, together withh the learned introduction and commentaries by Opsomer.… Read more about this item

Rotterdam,: H.A. Kramer,, 1848.. iv, 85, [iii] pp. Small 8vo (12,5 x 19,5 cm.). Original printed limp boards (spine reinforced but broken), uncut. With 57 woodcut figures in the text. First edition. Kloete Nortier, a pupil of Miquel and Apr. J.E. de Vrij, was a very prommising pharmacist at Rotterdam. Unfortunately, his early death prevented a great scientific career.… Read more about this item

Gent,: Christian de Backer,, 1974.. [x], 348 unnumbered pages (30 lines per page, in Gothic). 8v0 (14 x 21 cm.). Simili vellum, spine gilt lettered. With 150 plant portraits. ¶ A nice facsimile of the herbal printed round 1500 by Willem Vosteman at Antwerp. The main body of the work described and illustrates 150 plants with hint about their… Read more about this item

(Elberfeld (now Wuppertal),: Sam. Lueas,, 1838.. [ii], 31, [i, blank]; [28, blank] pp. 8vo (13,5 x 22 cm.). Contemporary marbled boards, edges red. ¶ Very rare, only 5 copies in the WorldCat. Fuhlrott "Obtained a doctorate from Bonn (1830); became a science teacher at Elberfeld, subsequently vice-director of the Realschule. Won modest recognition as a naturalist. In 1856, he… Read more about this item

Berlin,: Paul Parey,, 1927.. xii, 959, [v] pp. Large 8vo (18,5 x 25 cm.). Original publisher's half pictorial cloth (slightly loose in binding). With 16 coloured plates and 250 photographs and line drawings in the text. ** BM(NH), 1152. The second revised and enlarge edition (first 1915) of this comprehensive classic of orchids literature.

Maidstone,: Tongaat Group Ltd.,, 1973.. 343, [i, blank] pp. Folio (225 x 33 cm.). Original green publisher's simili buckram. With a portrait, several text illustrations and 106 splendid large coloured plates. ** A splendid publication about the life and work of one of the greatest female flower painters of that period.

Utrecht,: Kemink,, 1947.. [xvi], 89 pp. 8vo (15,5 x 24 cm.). Original printed wrappers (slightly soiled). With numerous figures in line drawings on 20 plates. ** Thesis. A detailed description (botanical, pharmaceutical, chemical & therapeutical) of 10 medicinal plants of the former Dutch Indies. Including the popular names of these plants in the various Indonesian languages, together with their… Read more about this item

Stuttgart,: Gustav Fischer,, 1976.. 822, [iv, blank] pp. Royal 8vo (17 x 24,5 cm.). Original publisher's cloth. With 18 maps and 543 photographic illustrations of which many in full colour. A good copy of the 3rd. revised edition of this, now obsolete, classic standard work. Lavisly illustrated and still useful for the amateur cactus grower.

Rotterdam,: H.A. Kramer,, 1848.. iv, 85, [iii] pp. Small 8vo (12,5 x 19,5 cm.). Original printed limp boards (partly slightly stained; spine strip gone), uncut. With 57 woodcut figures in the text. ¶ First edition. Kloete Nortier, a pupil of Miquel and Apr. J.E. de Vrij, was a very prommising pharmacist at Rotterdam. Unfortunately, his early death prevented a… Read more about this item

Lugduni-Batavorum (Leiden),: J.W. van Leeuwen,, 1846.. [viii], 40pp. 8vo. (13.5 x 23 cm.). Recent marbled wrappers with new end-papers, uncut and unopened. ¶ Thesis. Not in Pritzel or the B.M.(N.H.) nor in Waring, Bibl. Therapeutica. -- (Small tear in the upper margin of the first leaf; library stamp on title page).

Amstelveen,: (The Netherlands Office for Fine Arts, D, 1990.. [iv], 302 pp. Roy. 4to. (27,5 x 29,5 cm). Original coloured limp boards. With numerous plain plates and illustrations, and 68 colloured plates. A magnificent catalogue of an exhibition at the Nabio Museum of Art, Osaka. Tokyo Station Gallery, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Including: a… Read more about this item

Paris,: Mus. nat. Hist. Nat.,, 1802.. 36 pp. 4to. Modern wrappers, uncut. The original edition of the first biography of this great German botanist, and author of the most important work ever published on the sexuality in plants and the morphology of fruits and seeds.--[Separated from: "Ann. Mus. nat. Hist. Nat." I, Paris, 1802].