A Manual of Elementary Botany for India
Madras, 1916. First printing. Green cloth boards, inscribed by author, 367pp., No DJ.
Botany
Orchids in Retrospect, A Collection of Essays on the Orchidaceae
Cambridge, MA: Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 1948. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. rebound in red cloth, with original wraps bound in. 172pp. frontis, illustrated. Ex-library, with stamps to endpapers and original front wrap. Faint soil, mottling to boards. Ownership signature to pastedown, newspaper article adhered to.....
Stirpium Rariorum in Imperio Rutheno sponte provenientium Icones et Descriptiones
Petropoli / St. Petersburg: Ex Typographia Academiae Scientiarum, 1739. First printing. Hardcover. 4to, contemporary calf gilt, very good, light rubbing and wear to binding, 210 pp. plus index and errata, 35 plates on 34 folding leaves, engraved vignette frontispiece, contents very good and clean. Amman was a student of Boerhaave.....
Nature Neighbors: Embracing Birds, Plants, Animals, Minerals: Vol. IV -- Minerals and Plants
Chicago: American Audubon Assoc. 1914. Hardcover. Vol. IV only. 1914. Hardcover, 4to., green cloth. 214 pp. Illustrated with 648 full-page color plates. Very good. Minor mottling to cloth. Spine sunned. Bookplate to front pastedown. Contents unmarked.
Diccionario de glossologia botanica ou descripção dos termos technicos de organographia, taxonomia, physiologia, e pathologia vegetal...
Lisboa: Na typographia da Academia Real das Sciences, 1841. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1841. iv,487 pp. In Portuguese. Contemporary half roan and marbled boards, spine gilt, marbled endpapers. Ex-lib., with institutional bookplate on front pastedown and 'withdrawn' stamp in rear free endpaper at gutter. Upper four-inch portion of backstrip.....
The Biology of Nectaries
New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 1983. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in dust jacket. 259pp. illustrated. Very good in very good dust jacket. Small perforation, edge wear to dust jacket. Edges toned, plate and stamps from Royal Botanic Gardens on pastedowns, ownership signature on flyleaf. Internally unmarked.....
Tree Ancestors, A Glimpse Into the Past
Baltimore, MD: Williams and Wilkins, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 1923. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in dark red ruled cloth. 270pp. frontis, illustrated. Very good. Rubbing to boards, slight basementy odor. Internally unmarked.
The Art of Botanical Illustration (The New Naturalist)
London: Collins, 1951. Second edition. Hardcover. Second edition, 1951, hardcover with green cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 304pp., illustrated with beautiful color and b&w plates. Book VG+ with sun to edges of boards and spine, mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, endpapers off-set and lightly foxed.....
De Antheris Florum
Leipzig: Litteris Langenhemiis, 1750. Paperback. 1750. Paperback, 8vo. respined with dark paper. 48pp. Very good. Bending to bottom right corner. Last two leaves are uncut at the upper right corners. Contents are otherwise fine. Housed in protective plastic. An early treatise on the reproductive organs of flowers.
The Weed Flora Of Egypt (Revised Edition)
Cairo, Egypt: The American University in Cairo Press, 1994. Hardcover. Revised Edition. c.1994. Hardcover. 8vo. 361pp. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Light general shelfwear, head of spine bumped, former owner's signature on flyleaf. Light wear to dustjacket, a few price stickers on rear panel, mild soil.
Out West; Growing Cymbidium Orchids and other Flowers: The Story of El Rancho Rinconada
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1952. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1952. Red cloth hardcover with gilt titles in dust jacket, 526 pp., heavily illustrated (some in color), clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket, light foxing or age-toning to some pages and the page-edges, a bit.....
A Northeast Folio
Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A: Hunt Institute for Botanical, 1979. Loose in Folder. 17 folded plates + introduction and title + pamphlet advertising openinig of exhibition. A near fine set, loose plates in blue folder. Plates and contents fine; folder shows minor soil and edgewear.
Disputatio Botanica de Ustilagine Frumenti
Tubingen: Reisi, 1709. Paperback. 1709. Paperback, respined with patterned paper. 16pp. Very good. Green rubbing to front wrap. Contents otherwise clean and readable. A dissertation on wheat blight from a botanist best known for his work on the reproductive systems of plants. Digital images available upon request.
Leiden und Freuden des Botanikers in Feder-Zeichnungen
Dudley Herbarium, 1976. Paperback. 1976 pamphlet printed by the Dudley Herbarium and Stanford. Unpaginated. Softcover. Pamphlet of facsimile botanical cartoons. Near Fine copy: light fade and soil to covers.
Formosan Orchids
Taiwan: 1979. Paperback. Softcover. c.1979. 12mo. 132pp. Illus. Very Good. Mild shelfwear, former owner's signature on inside front cover.
The Young Botanist; being a Treatise on the Science
New York: Robinson, Pratt and Co., 1835. First edition. Hardcover. 1835, First Edition. 259 pp. Hand-colored frontis, plus numerous b&w illustrations throughout. Hardcover, original cloth, 12mo. A Fair copy only. Boards are barely attached; spine cloth is puling away. Light foxing to the contents. A solid reference copy, with a......
The Principles of Botany, as Exemplified in the Phanerogamia
Philadelphia: King and Baird, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author at fly leaf. 1854, First edition. 230 pp. Hardcover, black cloth, gilt title, 8vo. Illustrated. Very Good copy: light foxing and offsetting from illustrations throughout; unmarked text; light wear to spine ends, including chipping to head of spine;.....
A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities; Vol. II, Ecology
New York: American Book Company, 1911. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1911. Cloth hardcover, pp. 485-964, illustrated, clean unmarked text, a Good ex-library copy with typical marks (bookplate, stamps, writing to spine, etc.), soiling to the outer pages and the page-edges, some rubbing or wear to the tips and edges.....
The Story of a Cove Family
Martinsburg: The Herald Printing Co., 1929. Paperback. Not much publication information (published by author?). Hardbound with wraps bound in, 161 pp., a couple of old pictures mounted at rear with descriptions pasted in (one is of the "Home of Albert A. Cowen and Family", one is of a barn built.....
The Modern English Garden
London: Country Life. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, no date--1920. Green cloth hardcover in dust jacket, heavily illustrated, 192 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Good dust jacket, foxing or discoloration to some pages and to the page-edges, light discoloration to the book's covers, some soiling and discoloration.....
The Natural World of Lewis and Clark
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 2007, First Edition. Hardcover. 244 pp. Illustrated. A Fine, sharp, clean copy in a Near Fine dust jacket that shows only minor edgewear.
Dissertation Botanica de Aloide
Frankfurt: Kleyb, 1753. Paperback. 1753. Paperback, 8vo. with engraved front wrap. 22pp. with decorative engravings. Very good. Light soil to wraps, else fine. Housed in protective plastic. An early botanical dissertation on the Aloe Vera plant.
Bibliography of British Gardens
Hampshire, UK: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 1984, First Edition, 318 pp. Hardcover. Very Good copy: moderate staining and edgewear to covers; Fine, unmarked contents.
Der Obstgärtner im Zimmer oder Anweisung zur Erziehung und Haltung aller Arten tragbarer Obst=Bäume in Topfen (und sonst beliebigen Gefässen)
Passau, Bavaria: Friedrich Pustet, 1826. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1826. 12mo. 348 pp. In German. Later patterned paper over boards, spine ruled in gilt, gilt morocco label. Ex-lib., with bookplates in front endpapers and inkstamps in lower margin of title page and gutter of rear pastedown. Spine and rear.....
Méthode éprouvé, Avec laquelle on peut parvenir facilement, et sans maître, à connoître les Plantes de l'intérieur de France, et en particulier celle des environs d'Orléans...
Orléans: De l'imprimerie de Darnault-Maurant, 1803. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1803. xv,592 pp. including vignettes. Contemporary half calf and speckled paper over vellum, gilt morocco label, spine ruled in gilt. Ex-lib. with institutional bookplate on front pastedown and 'withdrawn' stamp on rear pastedown at gutter. Ink ownership signature at.....