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.
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.....
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.
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.
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.....
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.
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.
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Bronx, NY: New York Botanical Garden, 1985. Revised. Paperback. 1985, Softcover, revised edition. 153 pp. Fine copy: clean, unmarked.
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.
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.....
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.....
Delray Beach, Florida: American Orchid Society, 2005. Hardcover. Hardcover. c.2005. 552pp. Fine. Contents unmarked. As New.
Cambridge, Mass. American Orchid Society, Inc., 1975. Hardcover. American Orchid Society Bulletin, July-December 1975 bound together. Hardcover. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine titles. Very Good. Former owner's signature on flyleaf, light soil to endpapers, mild shelfwear.
NY: J.G. Reed. Hardcover. No date (ca. 1850s?). Cloth-backed boards with spine-label, clean unmarked text, illustrated (with hand-colored botanical prints), 234 + 218 + 220 + 148 pp., good copy with rubbing/soil/discoloration to covers, wear to tips and spine-label, soil/discoloration to endpapers.
Tokyo: Shueisha, 1993. Paperback. 1993, Japanese text with some English captions and titles. Softcover, 87 pp. Fine copy: a clean, bright and unmarked book. Apparently part of a series on flowers in books and art, this copy covers the rose.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Company, 1851. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1851. Rebound hardcover with a leather spine label, 466 pp., Good copy, minor pencil-notes to some pages, soiling or discoloration to the pages of the text, wear to the spine-label including some chipping or loss, no dust jacket...
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970. Third edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on title page. 1970, Third edition, 374 pp. Hardcover, 4to., lime green cloth, illustrated. Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. cOvers show slightest edgewear. Contents are Fine; a clean, bright and unmarked copy. DJ shows.....