Category: Botany

Dissertation Historique et Critique sur l'Origine du Cachou.

By: AMOREUX, Pierre Joseph (1741-1824).

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Montpellier:, Renaud, 1812. : 1812

Seller ID: S8806

8vo. (224 x 147 mm) 56 pp. Uncut, wide margins, author's signature on the title-page. Pale red paper wrappers; some sun-fading to covers, spine chipped, pencil marking on cover. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Very good. FIRST EDITION of this rare monograph on catechu, an extract of acacia and several other genus used in dyeing, tanning, manufacture of fibrous substances, and pharmacy. The author seeks to discover who first identified it and where it was first put to its various uses. Catechu (also known as cutch, or cashoo) is an extract of any of several species of Acacia ? but especially Acacia ...
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Fifty-Five Rare Books from the Botanical Library of Mrs. Roy Arthur Hunt.

By: BARTLETT, Harley H.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor:, Clements Library, 1949. : 1949

Seller ID: M9398

4to. 55 pp. List of 55 items, facsimiles. Loaned for an Exhibition in Honor of the Botanical Society of America at Their Summer Meeting Ann Arbor, August, 1949. Printed wrappers; extremities worn, else fine. Limited edition of 1000 copies.
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Le Jardin des Plantes. Description et M?urs des Mammiferes de la Menagerie et du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. . . precedee d'une Introduction historique, descriptive, et pittoresque par M.J. Janin. . . .

By: BOITARD, Pierre (1787-1859) & Jules Gabriel JANIN (1804-1874).

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Paris:, [G. Barba, 1851]. : 1851

Seller ID: S11762

4to. [2], lv-lvi, liv, lvii-lxvi, [2], 427 pp. 56 plates (1 folding, 4 color), numerous illustrations, index; pp. lv-lvi inexplicably bound out of sequence between two plates following the title-page, folding plate torn and missing lower left section, very occasional closed marginal tears. Contemporary half gilt-stamped green morocco over marbled boards, place-keeping ribbon; extremities worn, corners showing, front hinge mended with colored Kozo. Good. Publisher and date not present on title-page, but edition determined via collation match (though without the pp. lv-lvi peculiarity). Boitard...
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John and William Bartram: Botanists and Explorers, 1699-1777, 1739-1823.

By: EARNEST, Ernest Penney (1901-1981).

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia:, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1940. : 1940

Seller ID: BL2204

FIRST EDITION. Series: Pennsylvania Lives. 8vo. vi, 187 pp. Frontis. port. of John Bartram, later port. of William Bartram, index. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover emblem and spine title, dust-jacket; front jacket cover a bit stained. Burndy bookplate. Very good. Forword by Conway Zirkle. CONTENTS: Introduction -- I. John Bartram -- II. The Road to Damascus -- III. The Philadelphia and Quaker Backgrounds -- IV. Collinson and Bartram -- V. John Bartram's Travels -- VI. The Telescope -- VII. Recognition -- VIII. William Bartram -- IX. What a Surprising Fountain! -- X. The Wanderer -- XI. The Trav...
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Diversity and Evolutionary Biology of Tropical Flowers.

By: ENDRESS, Peter K.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Cambridge:, Cambridge University Press, (1994). : 1994

Seller ID: S8271

ISBN-13: 9780521420884

8vo. xiv, 511 pp. Photos, illus., bibliog., index. Boards, dust-jacket. FINE. FIRST EDITION. Useful study of the evolution of tropical flowers. ISBN: 0521420881 First Edition.
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A short flora of Cambridgeshire, chiefly from an ecological standpoint, with a history of its chief botanists. In: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol. XVI, October 31, 1910 - May 20, 1912.

By: EVANS, A. H.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Cambridge:, University Press, 1912. : 1912

Seller ID: S3089

218 x 148 mm. Thick 8vo. Pages (197)-284. [Entire volume: x, 696, 31 pp.] 1 plate. Quarter navy morocco, morocco corners, marbled boards, raised bands, gilt spine; spine faded, rubbed. Blind stamp of the Carnegie Institution, Washington. Very good.
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"The ascent of water in trees." In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Containing Papers of a Biological Character, Vol. 198.

By: EWART, Alfred J.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London:, Harrison and Sons, 1906. : 1906

Seller ID: S6208

4to. Pages 41-85. [Entire volume: viii, 508 pp.] 5 figs., tables. Original blind-stamped maroon cloth, gilt spine; rubbed. Ex library white spine number, bookplates, blind-stamp on title. Very good.
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Novitiae florae suecicae. Edit. Altera, auctior et in formam commentarii in Cel. Wahlenbergii floram suecicam redacta.

By: FRIES, Elias Magnus (1794-1878).

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Londini Gothorum,, Ex Officina Berlingiana, 1828. : 1828

Seller ID: S3143

218 x 145 mm. 8vo. xii, 306 pp. Index; occasional light foxing. Quarter brown cloth, cloth corners, marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine; rubbed. Untrimmed. Bookplate of Alfred H. W. Povah. Very good. LATER EDITION. Elias Fries was a Swedish botanist who is best remembered for his studies in mycology. He enrolled at the University of Lund in 1811 where he studied under the Professor of Botany, C. A. Agardh. His took his degree in philosophy in 1814 by defending the first part of his dissertation "Novitiae floarae Suecicae." The work offered here is a later, edited version of his dissertation. I...
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Flora. The Erbario Miniato and other drawings. Edited by Brent Elliott & Martin Clayton.

By: GARBARI, Fabio & Lucia Tongiorgi TOMASI.

Price: $285.00

Publisher: (London):, The Royal Collection & Harvey Miller, (2007). : 2007

Seller ID: S9489

ISBN-13: 9781905375189

The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, A Catalog Raisonne. Two volumes. 4to. [8], 338; [6], (339)-664 pp. 293 color illus., 23 text figs., bibliog., index. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine titles, dust jackets. As NEW. RARE. ISBN: 9781905375189 This is a beautifully illustrated catalogue more than 200 botanical drawings from Erbario Miniato, an early seventeenth-century herbal made for Federico Cesi and acquired by Cassiano after Cesi's death in 1630. Most of the drawings depict the native flora of central Italy. It also includes mushrooms, other rare European specimens, tobacco, tomato, eggpl...
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Gray's school and field book of botany. "Lessons in botany," and "Field, forest, and garden botany," bound in one volume.

By: GRAY, Asa (1810-1888).

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, etc.:, American Book Company, n.d.

Seller ID: S5789

213 x 141 mm. 8vo. [ii], viii, 226, 386, [ads 6] pp. Illustrations, glossary, indexes; occasional pencil marginalia. Blind- and gilt-stamped dark olive green cloth; heavily freckled, corners showing, spine ends frayed. Ownership signature of Bertha R. Barnes. Pencil notations in end-leaves (front and rear). Good.
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Gray's Manual of Botany. Eighth (Centennial) edition ? illustrated. A handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Central and Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Largely Rewritten By Merritt Lyndon Fernald with the assistance of specialists in some groups. Corrections supplied by R.C. Rollins.

By: GRAY, Asa (1810-1888); Merritt Lyndon FERNALD (1873-1950.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Portland, OR:, Dioscorides Press, 1987. : 1987

Seller ID: BL4378

Thick 8vo. lxiv, 1632 pp. Figs., index. Brown cloth, dust-jacket. Very good. ISBN: 09311146097 Fernald was a noted authority for taxonomy and phytogeography of the vascular plant flora.
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Toegepaste kruidkunde. Handleiding tot aanwijzing van het gebruik, dat de mensch maakt van voorwerpen uit het plantenrijk.

By: HALL, H. C. van (Herman Christiaan HALL) (1801-1874).

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Groningen:, J. B. Wolters, 1857. : 1857

Seller ID: S0965

231 x 144 mm. 8vo. 214 pp. Index. Original blue printed wrappers; spine replaced with blue kozo. Very good. Herman Christiaan Hall was a Dutch botanist, professor of botany and land economics at the University of Groningen and pioneer of higher agricultural education. This item is entitled, "Applied Herbalism: Guide to designate the use that man objects from the plant kingdom".
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Outlines of the History of Botany.

By: HARVEY-GIBSON, Robert J. (1860-1929).

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York:, Arno Press, 1981. : 1981

Seller ID: RH1500

ISBN-13: 9780405138775

Series: The Development of Science, Sources for the History of Science. First published 1919. 8vo. x, 274 pp. Index. Beige/tan cloth stamped in red. Fine. Harvey-Gibson was emeritus professor of botany in the University of Liverpool. His obituary: Nature 124, 64-65 (13 July 1929). ISBN: 0405138776
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Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita, juxta methodum in horto regio parisiensi exaratam, anno M. DCC. LXXIV.

By: JUSSIEU, Antoine Laurent de (1748-1836).

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Paris:, Viduam Herissant, et Theophilum Barrois, 1789. : 1789

Seller ID: M4842lv

208 x 132 mm. 8vo. 24, lxxii, 498, [1] pp. Index, headpieces, tailpieces, errata; occasional pencil marginalia. Contemporary tree calf, gilt spine, red leather spine label, marbled end-leaves; rubbed, outer hinges starting at foot of spine. Bookplate and blind stamps of Alfred H. W. Povah. Very good. FIRST EDITION of this revolutionary work in plant classification. "Jussieu's thorough study of the genera and families of flowering plants (1774-1789) resulted in the publication of his epoch-making Genera plantarum (1789). For this work Jussieu had at his disposal not only the rich collections o...
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Der Ewige, Allgegenwartige und Allvollkommene Stoff der Einzige Mogliche Urgrund Alles Seyns und Daseyns. Von Eniem Freien Wandersmann durch die Gebiete Menschlichen Wissens, Denkens und Forschens.

By: KESSELMEYER, Paul (1813-1897).

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Leipzig:, Veit, 1895-1897. : 1895

Seller ID: S11155

Four volumes. 8vo. xii, 580; vi, 449; v, [1], 457, [1]; vi, 374 pp. Pages largely unopened. Original printed wrappers; edges chipped, Vol. 4 missing rear cover. Very good.
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Memoire sur l'Organisation des Plantes ou Reponse a la Question Physique Proposee par la Societe Teylerienne.

By: KIESER, Dieterich Georg.

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Haarlem:, J.J. Beets, 1814. : 1814

Seller ID: LV1836

Series: Verhandelingen, Uitgegeeven door Teyler's Tweede Genootschap. Achtiende stuk. Bevattende een Antwoord op de Vraag betreffende het werktuiglijk zamenstel der planten. 4to. xxi, 345 pp. Series title, 22 engraved plates. Original boards, original printed spine label; spine worn, joints splitting. Original binding untouched. Bookplate. RARE. PIONEER OF CELLULAR BOTANY. This is the author's prize-winning essay for the Teylerian Society in Haarlem in 1812. The work is both a review of earlier botanical literature, but it also puts forth an early form of cell theory. ". . . Dietrich Georg Ki...
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Vorlesungen uber Deszendenztheorien mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der Botanischen seite der Frage.

By: LOTSY, J.P. (Johannes Paulus LOTSY, 1867-1931).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Geneva:, Gustav Fischer, 1906. : 1906

Seller ID: BL4400

2 volumes. 8vo. XII, 384; VI, 799 pp. 15 plates, 225 figs. Original printed wrappers; spine cords split and loose, soiling cover wear. Complete. As is. Lotsy was a Dutch botanist who was regarded as a "pioneer of modern research" for proposing that "species originated and evolved because of hybridization, "and for defining" the concepts concepts jordanon, linneon, and syngameon to tie systematics to genetics" ? DSB, Vol. VIII, p. 513.
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Vorlesungen uber Deszendenztheorien mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der Botanischen seite der Frage.

By: LOTSY, J.P. (Johannes Paulus LOTSY, 1867-1931).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Geneva:, Gustav Fischer, 1906. : 1906

Seller ID: BL4443

2 volumes. 8vo. XII, 384; VI, 799 pp. 15 plates, 225 figs. MIS-MATCHED SET: Volume I: Early half morocco over marbled boards, 5 raised bands and gilt-stamped spine title; rubbed. Volume II: Original printed wrappers; spine cords split and loose, soiling cover wear. Complete. As is. Lotsy was a Dutch botanist who was regarded as a "pioneer of modern research" for proposing that "species originated and evolved because of hybridization, "and for defining" the concepts concepts jordanon, linneon, and syngameon to tie systematics to genetics" ? DSB, Vol. VIII, p. 513.
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Vorlesungen uber Deszendenztheorien mit Besonderer Berucksichtigung der Botanischen Seite der Frage Gehalten an der Reichsuniversitat zu Leiden.

By: LOTSY, Johannes Paulus.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Jena:, Gustav Fischer, 1906-1908. : 1906

Seller ID: S11172

Two volumes. 8vo. xii, 384; vi, [381]-799 pp. 15 plates, 225 figures. Brown-stamped brown cloth, mismatched set; top corners gently bumped, Vol. 1 spine slightly rubbed. Very good.
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Plant Names Scientific and Popular including in the case of each plant the correct botanical name in accordance with the reformed nomenclature, together with botanical and popular synonyms . . .

By: LYONS, A. D.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Detroit:, Nelson, Baker, 1900. : 1900

Seller ID: S3542

8vo. 469 pp. Index. Brown pebbled cloth, gilt spine; a bit rubbed.
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Category: Botany