Observations Botany, First Edition (22 results)

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1921, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 85pp. Warppers shaken and detached.

Half-Leather. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Previous owners name is written inside on back of front board.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Stones, Margaret; Webster, Ann V.; Ross-Craig, Stella (illustrator). First Edition. Parts I, II, III and IV published in December, 1962 and in April, July and October 1963. In original paper covers - the covers are slightly larger than the text block so there is some creasing around the edges and small tears in a few places. The previous owner has noted the date and the volume number in pencil at the top left corner of the front cover. Brown spotting along and around the spines of each part and a vertical crease down the length of the front cover of Part IV. The page edges have very slight scattered brown spotting and there is light brown spotting to the first and last pages. The pages and plates are otherwise unmarked. Each part has 11 coloured plates. Part I has Tabs 396 to 406; Part II has Tabs 407 to 417; Part III has Tabs 418 to 428 and Part IV has Tabs 429 to 439. In each part the first plate is larger and folds out. Plates by Margaret Stones, Stella Ross-Craig and Ann V. Webster. From the collection of Marjorie Powell, a botanist and yachtswoman who lived in Great Shelford, Cambridge. Several other volumes also in stock.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Stones, Margaret; Snelling, Lillian; Webster, Ann V.; (illustrator). First Edition. Parts I, II, III and IV published in April and October, 1958 and in April and October, 1959. In original paper covers - the covers are slightly larger than the text block so there is some creasing around the edges and the previous owner has noted the date and the volume number in pencil at the top left corner of the front cover. Brown spotting along and around the spines of each part and to the back cover of Part IV. The page edges have very slight scattered brown spotting and there is light brown spotting to the first and last pages and some spotting to one plate in Part IV. The pages and plates are otherwise unmarked. Each part has 11 coloured plates. Part I has Tabs 308 to 318; Part II has Tabs 319 to 329; Part III has Tabs 330 to 340 and Part IV has Tabs 341 to 351. In each part the first plate is larger and folds out. Plates by Margaret Stones, Lillian Snelling, and Ann V. Webster. From the collection of Marjorie Powell, a botanist and yachtswoman who lived in Great Shelford, Cambridge. Several other volumes also in stock.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Snelling, Lillian; Webster, Ann V.; Ross-Craig, Stella (illustrator). First Edition. Parts I, II, III and IV published in May and October, 1952 and in June and November 1953. In original paper covers - the covers are slightly larger than the text block so there is some creasing around the edges and the previous owner has noted the date and the volume number in pencil at the top left corner of the front cover. Brown spotting along and around the spines and the outer edges of each part. The page edges have very slight scattered brown spotting and there is some brown spotting to the first and last pages. The pages and plates are otherwise unmarked. Each part has 11 coloured plates. Part I has Tabs 176 to 186; Part II has Tabs 187 to 187; Part III has Tabs 198 to 208 and Part IV has Tabs 209 to 219. In each part the first plate is larger and folds out. Plates by Lillian Snelling, Stella Ross-Craig and Ann V. Webster. From the collection of Marjorie Powell, a botanist and yachtswoman who lived in Great Shelford, Cambridge. Several other volumes also in stock.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Snelling, Lillian; Ross-Craig, Stella (illustrator). First Edition. Parts I, II, III and IV published in January, April, August and December 1950. In original paper covers - the covers are slightly larger than the text block so there is some creasing around the edges and the previous owner has noted the date and the volume number in pencil at the top left corner of the front cover. The page edges have a little scattered brown spotting but the pages and plates are otherwise unmarked. Each part has 11 coloured plates. Part I has Tabs 89 to 99; Part II has Tabs 100 to 110; Part III has Tabs 111 to 121 and Part IV has Tabs 122 to 132. In each part the first plate is larger and folds out. Plates by Lillian Snelling and Stella Ross-Craig. From the collection of Marjorie Powell, a botanist and yachtswoman who lived in Great Shelford, Cambridge. Several other volumes also in stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. 1st Edition. 368 pages, original gilt pictorial cloth, shelf-worn, front outer hinge cracked, heavy cover wear, overall a better than good copy. Howes V87.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A Leather Bound Volume of the Following Pamphlets - 1. The First Lecture of a Course of Botany; Being an Introduction to the Rest -John Martyn 1729. 23 pages and 14 pages of engravings. Published by Richard Reily. 2. An Account of the Culture of Carrots and Their Great Use in Feeding and Fattening Cattle by Robert Billing 1765 31 pages. Published by J Dodsley. 3. Observations on the Diseases, Defects and Injuries in All Kind of Forest Trees by William Forsyth - William Forsyth 1791. 71 pages Published by G NIcol 4. Observations on Such Nutritive Vegetables, as May Be Substituted in the Place of Ordinary Food, in Times of Scarcity - Antoine Augustin Parmentier 1783 80 pages J Murray. 5. A Dissertation on the Sexes of Plants - James Edward Smith 1786 62 Pages Published by George Nicol 6. A Political Enquiry into the Consequences of Enclosing Waste Land and the Causes of the Present High Price of Butchers Meat being The Sentiments of a Society of Farmers in _______shire. 124 pages Published by L Davis 1785. Binding is good only and quite worn in places. Hinges with major cracking but holding together. Loss to the spine tips. Corners rounded. Contents good with age toning to some pages. More images can be taken upon request. Ref A1234.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1964-65,8vo, descriptions 440-483 each with a fine coloured plate by Margaret Stones, Ann Webster and Mary Grierson , some black and white figures, frontispiece portrait of Sir David Bowes Lyon, original wrappers to the four parts forming this volume bound at the rear , standard 'Curtis' blind stamped cloth , slight bumping to corners and tiny dent on top edge of back board but overall an excellent copy . Volume 175 of this distinguished publication.

12mo, pp. viii, 64; lightly browned with some minor soiling and creasing, gutters slightly starting in a couple of places, but otherwise clean and crisp; in the original green limp publisher's cloth, decorated in blind, title in gilt on upper cover, hinges starting but holding firm, covers a little soiled, with some light wear to extremities; with inscription on front endpaper 'Theodora A Helyar, from W. H. Helyar with affectionate regard, July 25 1846' and later somewhat illegible inscription; a good copy. Presumed first edition of this short botantical work highlighting the wealth of flora to be found in the Malvern Hills, and the work of local botanist, geologist and antiquarian Edwin Lees (1800-1887) from Powick, near Worcester. The work is dedicated to fellow local resident, physician and hematologist William Addison (1802-1881), who was at the time practising in Malvern, and is dated at the end of the preface 'May 12th 1843'. Lees was an active and well-known figure in the West Midlands, for many years a printer and bookseller, he became the first Secretary of the new established Worcester Literary and Scientific Institution in 1829, and was appointed as one of the first members of the Council of the Worcestershire Natural History Society in 1833, also serving as Secretary of the Horticultural Society. He was elected to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in 1836, and as a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1857. This is one of a number of published works and articles. Provenance: Theodora Adelaide Helyar (née de Resnel, 1818-1909) was part of the long-standing Somerset family of Coker Court, East Coker. W. H. was presumably her husband William Hawker Helyar (1812-1880). Henry Lamb (fl. 1826-1861) was an artist and lithographer, who opened his Fancy Repository Shop in Cheltenham in around 1824. Itself a burgeoning spa town, with good links to London, Lamb soon opened a second shop in the town, and in 1832 published a peepshow of the town, 'Cheltenhamorama', and then in 1833 'Views of Cheltenham and its Vicinity' (printed in Malvern), having previously published 'Sketches of Malvern and its Vicinity' in 1830. His links with London brought him into contact with the noted lithographers Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789-1850) and Godefroy Engelmann (1788-1839). At some point he opened his 'Royal Library and Bazaar' in Malvern itself, which sold fancy items, books, and stationery. It was visited by Darwin's young family during one of their early visits to the town.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 368 pages, original gilt pictorial cloth, shelf-worn, owner inscription on fly-leaf, old hinge repair on front hinge overall very good. Reissue of Lockwood & Brainard with their imprint as bookplate on front pastedown. Howes V87.

4to. XXXV, 848pp. With 25 plates (3 col.), text-illustrations and 1 fold. map. Orig. dec. cloth. First edition. - Ex-Library copy with numerous unobtrusive embossed stamps otherwise a very good copy.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original, full aniline calf. Professionally and period sympathetically re-backed with a red Morocco gilt-blocked label; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 449 pages; Physical description; xii, 449p. ; 21cm. Subjects; Wales - Description and travel. Wales - Antiquities. Wales - Social life and customs. Wales, South - Antiquities. Referenced by: Libri Walliae 1965. NSTC E1409. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original, full aniline calf. Professionally and period sympathetically re-backed with a red Morocco gilt-blocked label; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 449 pages; Physical description; xii, 449p. ; 21cm. Subjects; Wales - Description and travel. Wales - Antiquities. Wales - Social life and customs. Wales, South - Antiquities. Referenced by: Libri Walliae 1965. NSTC E1409. 1 Kg.

Cloth. Condition: Fair. First Edition. [All published, and rare.]. Octavo, one folding plate of maps [LACKING THE MAIN MAP], pp xvi, 280, 285 + 2 page publication list, age-toned and rather weak internally, the front hinge cracking, one internal hinge cracking, one gathering protruding slightly, original brown cloth, rather worn and faded, the spine pulled at top and bottom, the front joint splitting for a third of its length. [Despite the condition,or perhaps because of it, this rare work has a fine provenance. With the signature of the Victorian botanist J.S. Henslow, then later with the signature of the Kew botanist Jan Gillett, and later still the stamp of the fellow Kew botanist Alan Radcliffe-Smith. Hooker's Introductory Essay, occupying half the book, is a seminal work in itself].

Cloth. Condition: Good. James Sowerby (illustrator). First Edition. Two volumes bound in one, small thick octavo, illustrated with eight hand-coloured plates by James Sowerby, pp x, 795,(i), endpapers marked, otherwise very clean internally, there is a cracking and weakness at pages 328/9 which could lead to a gathering coming loose, bound in a simple Victorian pebble cloth, slightly worn, with a slight tear to the spine head. RARE. [An appendix was published four years later. Thomas Purton was a surgeon who practised in London and in Alcester. He is particulalrly remembered for his mycological collections. This work was praised by Sir James Smith for its accuracy, but a little damned by Sir Charles Hastings for "its interminable additions, corrections and appendices". It is, nevertheless, a work of great detail and charm.].

Rare second edition of this foundational text of modern botany. Octavo, written in Latin, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within gilt bands, illustrated at the rear. In very good condition. Bookplate to the front pastedown and front free endpaper. Carl Linnaeus (1707â"1778), also known as Carolus Linnaeus or Carl von Linnà , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist whose systematic classification of living organisms laid the foundations of modern taxonomy. His most influential work, Systema Naturae (first published in 1735), introduced the binomial nomenclature systemâ"assigning every species a two-part Latin nameâ"which remains the universal standard in biological classification. Linnaeusâs method organized nature into hierarchical categories of kingdom, class, order, genus, and species, reflecting Enlightenment ideals of rational order and empirical observation. His contributions not only revolutionized the natural sciences but also established a lasting framework for understanding biodiversity and the relationships among living things.

First edition, 8vo (212 x 128 mm), vii, [1], 432, [2], 432, [4]pp., he final two leaves contain a divisional title page for the 'Meteorological tables' and a page of explanation, the verso of which is numbered 434, 2 engraved plates (a little foxed and offset), 1 folding chart and 10 folding leaves meteorological tables, old faint stamp to title page, endpapers renewed, recent half calf, marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt with a red morocco spine label. Includes an account of the properties of the yellow resin from Botany Bay, and select case studies of diseases with accompanying remarks, this "had previously appeared in the 'Memoirs of the London Medical Society', and occupies pp. 141-210. The resin was that of the grass-tree, and the essay describes a number of cases in which it was found beneficial for complaints of the stomach."Ferguson. Ferguson, Bibliography of Australia. 224.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Neuf. Edition originale. [vol. VII] History of exploration in the Kara-Korum Mountains. [vol. VIII] Part I. The Ts ung-Ling mountains by Sven Hedin and Albert Herrmann. Part II. Die Westlander in der chinesischen kartographie von Albert Herrmann. Part III. Zwei Osttürkische Manuskriptkarten unter mitwirkung von A. V. Le Coq and Albert Herrmann. Part. IV. Chinesische Umschreibungen von Älteren geographischen namen von A. Herrmann. [vol. IX] Part I. Journeys in eastern Pamir by Sven Hedin. Part II. Osttürkische Namenliste by von A. V. Le Coq. Part III. Zur Geologie von Ost-Pamir (). Part. IV. Eine Chinesische Beschreibung von Tibet by von Julius Klaproth (). Part. V. General index. FIRST EDITION. 9 vol. gds in-4° et 3 atlas in-folio [420 x 320 mm] en deux parties ; XXXII-293 pp.-1 reprod. photographique h.-t.-53 cartes h.-t. [I-LIII]. XI-330 pp.-81 reprod. photographiques h.-t.-24 cartes h.-t. [I-XXIV]. XI-369 pp.-100 reprod. photographiques h.-t.-31 cartes h.-t. [I-XXXI]. XII-428 pp.-200 reprod. photographiques h.-t.-33 panoramas coul. h.-t. (2)-220 pp.-60 illust.-18 profils et 7 cartes in et h.-t. (3)-VII-133 pp./(2)-86 pp./X-de la p. 14 à la p. 193-1 f. non ch.-11 planches h.-t. [I-XI]. X-(1)-605 pp.-21 reprod. photographiques h.-t.-103 cartes h.-t. [I-CIII]. XVI-456 pp.-45 cartes h.-t. [I-XXIX]. VII-180 pp./131 p./176 pp.-29 planches h.-t.-3 cartes h.-t. Les atlas se composent ainsi : Atlas of Tibetan Panoramas ; faux titre-page de gd titre-10 pp. [table]-105 pl. doubles [1-105]. Maps I ; page de gd titre-Index map-General map of Central Asia-15 pl. doubles [General map of East Turkestan : I-XV]-26 pl. doubles [Special map of Sven Hedin s route : 1-26]-2 pl. doubles non ch. [General map]- 2 pl. doubles [Map of Sven Hedin s travels : I-II] Maps II ; Hypsometrical Maps by Colonel H. Byström-page de gd titre-Index map-52 pl. doubles [1-52], demi-basane prune à pts coins, dos à nerfs, filets or perlés, fleurons à froid, titre or, rel. uniforme moderne, bel exemplaire. Marshall, Britain and Tibet, 1765-1947, 2096. Yakushi, Catalogue of the Himalayan Literature, H 179. Édition originale très rare complète. FIRST EDITION COMPLETE.

First edition of the scientific reports of the Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition of 1907. The expedition was funded by the Philosophical institute of Canterbury to conduct botanical, biological, and zoological research and extend the magnetic survey of New Zealand. The crew consisted of 26 men who joined John Bollons (1862 - 1929) on the steamer Himemoa and sailed around Campbell Island and the Auckland Islands. During its voyage, the ship picked up survivors of the Dundonald shipwreck, as the steamer's main purpose was to collect castaways in the Subantarctic Islands. Charles Chilton (1860-1929) was a zoologist on the expedition and specialised in crustaceans. He was the first person to be awarded a D.Sc. degree in New Zealand, published 130 works, and was the first to discover several species of crustaceans. Not in Rosove. Two vols, quartos. With 4 colour plates, colour folding map in rear pocket of Vol. II, heavily illustrated with maps, photographs, and diagrams to text. Original blue cloth, rebacked with original spines laid down, spines ruled in blind, spines and front covers lettered in gilt, front cover with gilt vignette of royal penguin stood on a cliff's edge, covers triple panelled in blind, inner hinges strengthened with black linen tape, blue endpapers. Cloth worn and damp-stained, staining to pp. 846-848 in Vol. II. A good copy only.

8vo, pp. [ii] title, printed within double rule, [vi] dedication & contents, [3] - 149, [3] publisher's advertisements; with two engraved plates; bound without the separate title page to the Letter to Doctor Baynard; paper somewhat browned, with some offsetting from binding; contemporary panelled calf, extremities a little rubbed, upper cracked but cords holding firm. First edition of Blair's first substantial publication. The eminent botanist Patrick Blair (ca 1670 - 1728) was first known as a surgeon and anatomist in Dundee and first attained notoriety when he dissected an elephant which had died near his practice. He presented his findings, with an extensive review of the literature, in a letter to the Royal Society in 1710, and in 171/2 was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. Blair was a Jacobite and was sentenced to death in 1716, but was pardoned after a successful appeal to Sir Hans Sloane and other members of the Royal Society. His wide-ranging essays, dedicated to Isaac Newton, cover the effects of cold bathing, various reports of dissections, the effect of arsenic on the body and various botanical contributions. '[There] he insinuates some doubts relating to the method suggested by Petion and others, of deducing the qualities of vegetables from the agreement in natural characters; and instances the Cynoglossum, as tending to prove the fallacy of this rule. He relates several instances of the poisonous effects of plants, and thinks the Echium Marinum (Pulmonaria Maritima of Linnaeus) should be ranked in the genus Cynoglossum, since it possesses a narcotic power. He describes and figures several of the more rare British plants, which he had discovered in a tour made into Wales; for instance, the Rumex Digynus, Lobelia Dortmanna, Alisma Ranunculoides, Pyrola Rotundifolia, Alchemilla Alpina, etc.' (Significant Scots). Worldcat: outside of the UK: McMaster, Harvard, Brown, Yale.