D C Willdenow (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Translated from the German. Some age to pages. Handsomely bound. 471 pages plus explanation of plates and index. H.21cm W.13cm D.3cm.

First edition, 9 plates at rear (slightly out of order) & handcoloured colour chart, re-bound with new eps, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to darker blue leather spine, iv + 508pp, illus, VG (re-bound with new eps, some tanning to page edges, some light tanning & foxing throughout).…

pp. (vi), iv, 508. 9 engraved plates by LIZARS, one plate of hand-coloured blocks [a colour chart]. Later half calf and marbled boards, scuffed and worn, joints weak but holding, a couple of old repairs to the edge of the title not affecting the text, foxed throughout but most marked at the ends. *See FREEMAN British Natural History Books, #4003 - a translation of Grundriss der Kräuterkunde, Berlin, 1792. Another edition was issued in 1811. Contains lengthy chapters on the HISTORY OF PLANTS and on the HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE. …

8vo. pp.iv + 508 with 10 plates by Lizars. One plate is a hand coloured chart. Rebound in brown cloth with new endpapers. There is scattered tanning and foxing throughout. *The German botanist's treatment of plant physiology. ".

Edinburgh, Blackwood and Cadell, 1805. Cont. full mottled calf. Professionally rebacked. Small stamp on titlepage. 88),508 pp. and 10 engraved plates. Plate 10 handcoloured having 36 different colours as reference for the descriptions of the plants. First English edition of Willdenow's "Grundriss der Kräuterkunde. 1792". - Nissen: 2155.…