Pennsylvania Trees
Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry, 1923. Fourth edition. Green cloth boards, 237pp., No DJ.
Botany
Letters to Achille Chaper : Intimate Sketches of Life among Stendhal's Coterie
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1960. Hardcover. 1960, Edition not stated. Hardcover in Very Good condition, with light shelf wear. No jacket present. The introduction is in English, the remainder of the text is in French.
Vick's Floral Guide, 1894
Rochester, NY: James Vick's Sons, 1894. First edition. Paperback. 1894. First edition. Wraps, 8vo. 112pp. with illustrations in color and b&w. Good. Loss to bottom of rear wrap and the bottom margin of twenty or so pages. Staining to corner of last page and loss to contents of pg 86.....
Compendio di botanica contenente organografia e tassonomia, o sia, Descrizione di tutti gli organi e delle loro modificazioni ed esposizione dei sistemi e metodi di classificazione ...
Milan: Stella, 1834. 2nd edition. 16mo, wraps (has spine paper, lacks rear cover and has modern plain cover, 277 pp, 2 folding charts and 2 folding plates, frontispiece moderately worn and engraved title page in tatters (letter title page OK).
A Manual of the Mosses of Western Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh: The City Mission Publishing Company, 1913. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1913. Rebound in heavy buckram, 429 pp., clean unmarked text, Good copy, taping to pages 423-429, age-toning to the pages, wear to the edges of the book, no dust jacket.
Orchids: Flowers of Romance and Mystery
New York: Abrams, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 1975. First edition. Hardcover, 4to., 309 pp. 253 illustrations incluing 92 full-color plates. Very good in very good dust jacket. Foxing to top edge of text-block. Faint signs of rubbing and fading to DJ. Due to the size of this item, extra postage.....
Taxonomy of the Indian Myxomycetes; Bibliotheca Mycologica, Band 78
Vaduz: J. Cramer / A.R. Gantner Verlag, 1981. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1981. Cloth hardcover, 530 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, a bit of age-toning to the page-edges and covers, no dust jacket. Rare book.
American Carnation Culture: The Evolution of Dianthus Caryophyllus Semperflorens, fourth edition
Alliance, OH: Lamborn, 1901. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 1901, fourth edition. Hardcover, red cloth. Illustrated throughout with b&w illustrations and a fold-out map. Near Fine. Previous owner's contemporary signature on the fly leaf. Otherwise a beautiful, sharp, clean copy of this uncommon title.
Botanik der Spaeteren Griechen: Vom Dritten Bis Dreizehnten Jahrhunderts
Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1964. Hardcover. 1964, Edition not stated. Hardcover in Very Good condition, with light shelf wear. There is a previous owner stamp to the front free end paper, and a notation in pen, to the title page. Also, there is underlining present to pages 4, 10, 17.....
B-P-H, Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum + B-P-H/S, Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum / Supplementum (2 vols.)
Pittsburgh: Hunt Botanical Library, 1968, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes: B-P-H + B-P-H/Supplement. 1062 & 1068 pp. Hardcover, thick quartos, original green and orange cloth. Near Fine copies, no dust jackets, Tight, clean copies with unmarked contents. Published 1968 & 1991.
Death Valley
New York: Four Winds Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 1976, Hardcover in Very Good condition, with very light edge wear, and an owner name stamp to the front free end paper. The dust jacket is also in Very Good condition, with light edge wear.
Botanographie Belgique, seconde edition, 4 volumes, illustrated
Lille: Vanackere, 1798-1799. Hardcover. Second edition, seventh year of the French republican calendar (1788 or 1789), after the first of 1781. Three parts in four volumes, complete. Four volumes: xxiii,226; xiv,[2],344; xiv,[2],335,[1]; [2],464,[4] pp. including 25 folding tables (23 illustrated). Half titles. Contemporary tree calf, spines ornamented in gilt, gilt.....
Botanographie Belgique: Troisieme Edition
Lille, France: Chez Vanackere, ca. 1801? Third edition. Hardcover. Third edition, ca. 1801 (An XII de la Republique), two parts in one volume, complete, hardcover with 1/4 leather boards, 226pp. +344pp., illustrated in b&w with many fold out tables and plates. Book VG with handsome gilt decoration and title to.....
Ladies' Botany: Or A Familiar Introduction To The Study of the Natural System of Botany, Complete in Two Volumes
London: James Ridgway and Sons, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. 8vo. rebound in green cloth with recent endpapers, with gilt spine titles. 302, 280pp. plus 4p. ads in volume I, complete with 50 handsome, bright color botanical plates. Very good. Spine ends frayed, wear to corners. Slight.....
Creative Concepts in Nature Printing
Pittsburgh: Robert W. Little, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 1985. First edition. Hardcover, 4to. in pictorial boards, without jacket as issued. 74 plates with descriptions. Very good. Boards faintly soiled, scuffed, mold staining to front and rear inner hinges. Internally bright and unmarked. Fine examples of Nature Printing technique by Western.....
Britain's Wild Larder Fungi
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. First printing. Hardcover. First edition. Cloth hardbound with dust jacket, 224 pp., illustrated in color, clean unmarked text, Very Good+ copy in Very Good dust jacket, some off-setting and minor wear to the endpapers, light soiling to the top-edge, dust jacket with soil/discoloration, light rubbing.....
De Minuendis Plantarum Generibus Disserit et Collegium Disputatorium Publicum & De Minuendus Plantarum Generibus Disserit et Collegium Disputatorium Publicum
Leipzig: Langenhemianis, 1740. Paperback. Two volumes included. 1740. Paperback, respined with tan paper. 16, 16pp. with decorative engravings on first and last pages. Very good. Ink markings on upper right corner of both volumes. Light bending to corners. The author of these lectures on plant species and classification was best.....
Die Obstbaumzuchten, nebst dem Verzeichniss aller Bäume, Stauden und Buschgewächse: Mit kurzgefassten Anmerkungen aus der Natur- und ökonomischen Geschichte derselben... Dritte vermehrte Auflage
Wien: Joseph Gerold. Hardcover. Third edition, expanded, 1795. Small octavo. [11],372 pp. including frontispiece engraved by Schmid and title page containing landscape vignette. In German. 19th-century patterned gray paper over boards, printed red paper spine label. Binding moderately abraded, modern ink purchase record in rear pastedown at gutter. Leaves remarkably.....
Eléments de botanique à l'usage des personnes qui suivent les cours du jardin du roi et de la faculté de médecine de Paris...
Paris: Chez Crochard, 1829. Hardcover. Sixth edition, 1829. 12mo. x,408 pp. Half title. In French. Later red paper over boards, backed in polished calf, spine titled and ruled in gilt. Ex-lib., with small institutional bookplates on front pastedown and 'withdrawn' stamp in rear free endpaper at gutter. Some staining and.....
Gardens and Gardening; The Studio Gardening Annual 1934
London: The Studio, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. 1934, First edition. 128 pp. Hardcover, green cloth, gilt title, 4to. Tissue-covered frontis + b&w illustrations. Very Good copy in a Good dust jacket. Covers faded and show light soil. Unmarked text. DJ chipped at tips and edges of spine; lightly rubbed; rear.....
Endangered Plant Species of the World and their Endangered Habitats: A Compilation of the Literature
Bronx, NY: New York Botanical Garden, 1985. Revised. Paperback. 1985, Softcover, revised edition. 153 pp. Fine copy: clean, unmarked.
Nase Kvetena ve Fotografii
Praze (Prague): Nakladem Ceske Graficke Unie A. S., 1940. Paperback. 1940, Softcover, Czech text. xxv Catalog + 259 pp. of blue tinted botanical gravure photos. Very Good copy: wraps show light creasing and edgewear; some vertical creasing along spine. Clean, unmarked contents. Comes in a protective mylar wrapper.
The Archaeology of Garden and Field
Philadelphia: Univ. Of Pennsylvania Pr. 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 1994, First Edition, 228 pp. Hardcover. Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Like New.
Quality Stream Cattleyas
Jusekisha: Japan Orchid Growers, 198. Hardcover. 247 pp. Hardcover, blue cloth, 8vo., brightly illustrated. Japanese and English text. No date, circa 1980's. Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Boards and dust jacket both shows light edgewear; otherwise a fine copy. Contents clean; text and images unmarked. Tight copy, all.....
Flora of North America, North of Mexico; 3 Vols., vols. 1-3 (1--Introduction; 2--Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms; 3--Magnoliophyta: Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae)
New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Three volumes (vols. 1-3), all first editions. Quartos, cloth hardcovers, 372 + 475 + 590 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copies, previous owner's bookplate affixed to the front pastedowns, also previous owner's signature in pencil on the.....