Conversations Botany, Used (33 results)

Paperback. Condition: As New. Very good condition paperback with minimal wear. Contents are clean and bright throughout with no markings.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. EXTREMELY RARE! 248 pages, a very good hardback, publisher's original brown cloth binding with the gilt lettering to the spine. Only the latter has minor marks and wear, but it is not significant, so for a book published in early Victorian times, this really is in VG condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp.viii, 216 pages, a very good hardback, publisher's original dark green cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine.

Condition: Very Good. Softcover, 300 pages, color illustrations. This extensive exhibition catalog explores humankind?s deep connections and fascination with the plant kingdom through artworks from the Spencer Museum?s permanent collection, a number of significant loans, and site-specific commissions by four artists-in-residence: Ackroyd & Harvey, Sandy Winters, and Mathias Kessler. The exhibition is organized through several themes: artists' studies of plant forms; historic and contemporary plant lore; ecological sustainability and biomechanical plant hybrids; plants in a post-human world; and works dealing with scientific research on how plants sense the world and communicate. One aim of the exhibition is to cultivate viewers? empathy for plants by addressing the tendency of humans to dismiss plants as a static backdrop to their fast-paced lives. Themes in Big Botany are explored further through an exhibition catalogue published by the Museum that includes short contributions from a variety of artists, curators, poets, philosophers, ecologists, and more. Clean, bright copy. Record # 397239.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. There are a few beautiful color illustrations of flowers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. 372 pp.+ 4 HandColored engraved Plts at back, Professionally rebound in Grn Hardback, Gilt title, VG, 3rd Amer ed ("From library of Rev John Spencer, Oregon pioneer of 1852, Yamhill Co" - Assumed to have been brought out on the Oregon Trail).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Third Edition Enlarged. Published in 1820. Professionally rebound. Quarter bound black cloth like material on red boards. Third Edition Enlarged. 21 hand colored plates. 12 pages ads., xxii, 263pp., index. Minor foxing. Full refund if not satisfied.

Illustrated by four engraved plates (at rear). First edition. Full leather. 12mo. pp. 372. Index. Good. Old toned dampstains on several pages, hinges and joints sound. Sadly missing the six color lithographs (4 rear engravings present), merit as text reseach: conversations between Emily, Caroline and Mrs. B. Reverend Blake was a prolific writer with intersts in American history (and Indians), astronomy, oceanography, school readers, earth science, chemistry, anthropology/sociology, farming, natural philosophy, biography and geography as well as religion. He was also founder of the Ladies' Magazine (edited by Sarah Josepha Hale 1827-36). American Imprints 2390 [later reprinted in 2012].

Publisher's cloth. Size: 8vo. xxi, 248pp.

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 394 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Condition: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 324 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Cloth. Condition: Good. None Stated (illustrator). The seventh edition of this charming and influential botanical dialogue attributed to the Fitton sisters, retaining two colour plates. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding, rebacked with later red cloth, with renewed endpapers.First published in 1817, this is the seventh edition.Anonymously published, the work has been attributed to Elizabeth and Sarah Mary Fitton.Retaining two of twenty-one colour plates "Parts of a Flower" and "Table of the Classes," bound without the remaining nineteen, with no evidence of their removal. Collated accordingly.A popular early botanical primer presented in conversational form, designed to introduce the principles of plant science, classification. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding, rebacked with later red cloth.Endpapers renewed. Externally, generally smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. The odd minor handling mark to boards. Small ink stain to front board. Slight fading to perimeters of boards. Internally, firmly bound. Bound without nineteen plates, retaining two of the original twenty-one. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot to fore edge. Title page slightly age toned, with the odd light spot. Slight offsetting from plates to facing pages. Good. book.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Full calf leather, black morocco title label with gilt title, (7.5 x 4.5 inches). 372 pages with Index; illustrated with 10 engraved plates (7 handcolored, including frontis). This significant work offers insightful exploration of plant biology through an engaging and accessible format. Provides a comprehensive study on the physiological processes in plants, including topics such as growth, reproduction, and the movement of sap. The work offers a window into the early 19th century'a approach to science and pedagogy. Provenance: contemporary owner's signature of "James P.Henderson" on front fly. A clean, tight copy in lightly worn binding; all plates clean and bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. The second edition, complete in two volumes and with the 4 plates as called for. A very good set in contemporary half calf, a bit rubbed with some browning to the prelims.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 5th edition. Half leather with marbled boards, rebacked using original half leather marbled boards with modern black leather spine with gilt titles and modern cream endpapers. Boards are well rubbed, worn at corners and faded along top of marbling. Attractive bookplate to front pastedown. Internally crisp and clean with minimal foxing. Overall Good+. Photos available on request.

LOVELY HAND-COLOURED PLATES, octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to title plate & raised bands to spine, speckled page edges, frontispiece, xix + 278pp, illus, VG (heavy scuffing to spine & board extrems, moderate chafing to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, light cracking to hinges & gutters of boards, plate #10 missing).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 13 plates, 6 x 4", leather backed marbled boards, 250pp, corners bumped, text foxed, extremities well worn, bookplate removed. SCARCE.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition. A Very Good copy. 8vo., xv, 274 pp, errata, 21 color plates including one double page. Rebound in 20th century quarter leather and marbled boards. Spine slightly faded, plates nice and clean, very minor spotting on a few leaves, new end papers have a few spots. Overall a very nice copy with clean contents. Very Good.

Letter. Condition: Good Only. 12mo. Leather boards (7 3/8 in. x 5 in.), missing leather spine. Boards are scuffed and loose, but holding well. Small portion of detached contrasting gilt-on-black spine label, double ruled in gilt, laid inside. Advertising section at the beginning.Pages are a bit age-tanned, but generally bright, supple and easy to turn Six beautiful color lithographic plates by Margaret Clark Snow Pendleton of Boston. Plates: Clove Carnation; Narcissus; China Pink; Foxglove; Convolvolus; Sweet Pea. Also four black and white plates with legends at rear. Index following. 372 pp. Marcet employs a fascinating pedagogical method, framing these teaching "modules" into conversations -- . ". {framing] a scientific dialogue between two pupils, Caroline and Emily (or Emilie), and their teacher, Mrs. Bryant (Mrs. B). Caroline, the younger, asks flippant questions that still move the dialogue along, while Emily is more controlled and reflective. Mrs. Bryant is a maternal mentoring figure, who leads them to question and examine their ideas. Both the scientific content and the discursive process of sharing scientific knowledge were important to Marcet's readers.Mrs B's flippant pupil Caroline says she would have thought a woman could be excused ignorance of that topic. Mrs B replies tartly, "When you plead in favour of ignorance, there is a strong presumption that you are in the wrong.". (Wikipedia) Chapters include: Roots, Stems, Leaves, Sap, Cambium and the Peculiar Juices of Plants; On the Action of Light and Heat on Plants; On the Naturalsation of Plants; On the Action of the Atmosphere on Plants; On the Action of Water on Plants; On the Artifical Modes of Watering Plants; On the Action of Soil on Plants; The Action of Soil on Plants Continued; On the Multiplications of Plants by Subdivision; On Grafting; On the Multiplication of Plants by Seed -- The Flower; On Compound Flowers; On Fruit; On the Seed; On the Classification of Plants; on Artifical Systems of Classification of Plants; On the Natural Systems of Classification; On Botanical Geography; On the Influence of Culture on Vegetation; On the Degeneration and the Diseases of Plants; The Diseases of Plants Continued; On the Cultivation of Trees; On the Cultivation of Plants which Produce Fermented Liquors; On the Cultivation of Grasses, Tuberous Roots, and Grain; On Oleaginous Plants and Culinary Vegetables. Jane Marcet (1 January 1769 - 28 June 1858) was an . innovative writer of popular, explanatory science books .She produced expository books on chemistry, botany, religion and economics under the general title "Conversations". In her prefaces, Marcet addresses whether such knowledge is suitable for women, arguing against objections and stating that public opinion supports her view] The first was written in 1805, though not issued until 1819, as Conversations on Natural Philosophy. It covered the basics of scientific knowledge of the time: physics, mechanics, astronomy, the properties of fluids, air and optics. By writing in discursive English, she made scientific knowledge accessible not only to women, but to men not trained in the fundamental languages of a classical education, Latin and Greek. While her original intent was to educate women, she reached a broader audience in line with enlightenment ideals, and laid claim to the natural sciences as a public endeavour.Her works remained standard textbooks for several decades. .One of those who read her work was Michael Faraday, born in 1791, who would become one of the world's greatest scientists, revolutionizing physics and chemistry. He was impressed by her work on chemistry, which helped him to find a new calling for science. He later claimed it had played a vital role in his own career as a chemist.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Sixth Edition with hand coloured plates by George Sowerby, tall 12mo. (202x117mm), pp: [12],xx,[1]-278, incl. half title, 12 pp publisher's ads at front dated March 1829, 21 delicately hand coloured plates incl. plate 2 in two parts & a frontispiece (often catalogued as 22 plates), complete as listed, lacks front endpaper, brown mark to initial leaves, otherwise a bright & attractive copy bound in salmon pink paper covered boards with the paper rubbed away to the spine, otherwise sound, tight & very good condition. Plate 12 at pp 144 not 127 as 'List of Plates'.

4 plates, 16pp cata., March 1841. Orig. dark green cloth. v.g. Marcet, nee Haldimand, 1769-1858, was an educationalist & writer of books designed to explain & popularise science. This title was first published in 1829; the first and second editions were in 2 vols; this third edition is in one volume.

8vo. xii, xix, [1], 278 pp. Ads., 21 hand-colored plates. Original pink boards, rebacked and with new corners, small gilt-stamped spine label. Near fine. First issued in 1817. The work is written in the form of a conversation between a mother and her son. Fitton introduces a wide array of flowering plants, offering a small amount of scientific information, often escaping the more serious details. / Fitton is known for co-authoring Conversations on Botany with her sister Elizabeth, first published in 1817. Conversations on Botany went through nine editions between 1817 and 1840. The book is composed of 18 conversations between a mother and her son that cover the principles of the Linnaean system of classification and elements of useful botany.

Hard back binding in nineteenth century half tan leather, five raised bands to the spine with gilt title label, marble paper covered boards and page edges. 8vo. 7'' x 4¼''. Contains [xvi] 284 printed pages of text with 21 hand-coloured plates (including one double page) by Sowerby as called for. Ink name to the second front free end paper, without any age toning or foxing to the text block or plates, being in particularly clean and bright condition. From the private library of Charles Benson (remote family connection to William Gilpin) with his bookplate to the front free end paper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BOTANY (Phytology).

Condition: V.g. No Jacket. 3rd edition, enlarged. A well preserved copy in a contemporary binding, some wear to corners, no inscriptions. 20 hand-coloured plates. Weight: 1.0 Language: English alf leather binding, marbled boards.