Botany

1972. 1972 Luer, Carlyle THE NATIVE ORCHIDS OF FLORIDA The New York Botanical Garden, 1972 First Edition 293pp, index, illustrated by the author with color photographs, line drawings Oversize 4to Fine bright hardcover copy with near fine, price-clipped d/w.

Rotterdam: A.A. Balkema [90-9611-575-9] 1985. (4to) 423pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Signed by both authors. Glossy orange boards. Tables, charts, maps, photographs, illustrations, bibliography, glossary, index. The bottom of the spine and corners are bumped, otherwise a fine copy. Locale: South Africa. (Natural History, Palaeobotany).

Edinburgh, Scotland: J. Murray, 1778. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Title page continued: "As also, Plain Directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of Forest-Trees, to the height of thirty feet and upwards, with certain success; and, On the same principles, (with as equal success) for transplanting Hedges of sundry kinds, which will at once resist Cattle; To Which are added, Directions for the Disposition, Planting, and Culture of Hedges by observing which, they will be handsomer and stronger Fences in five years, than they now usually are in ten . . . Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Murray." 4, xlviii, 259, [5] p.; 27 cm. 4to. Full tree calf. Six spine compartments between raised bands. The Second Edition. ESTC T113532. Armorial bookplate of I. Hungerford, esqr., on the front fixed endpaper. Includes an extensive list of subscribers. Ex-library: bookplate of the Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery on the front fixed endpaper and the verso of the front free… Read More

New York: Robert M McBride & Company, 1926. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Green Cloth, Gilt. Near Fine/No DJ. Xiv, 326 Pp. " First Published , May 1926". Color Frontispiece Photograph By Harold A. Parker; B/W Plates By Saunders. Traces Of Wear, Spine And Cover Gilt Brilliant. Inscribed "Harriet W. Culin With Love From Her Brother Charles Francis Saunders April 28, 1926", And With Saunders Bookplate [And Some Areas Of Glue Stains On And Around It]. . A Very Nice Example, With An Excellent Associational Inscription. Charles Francis Saunders (1859-1941) Was Born To Quaker Parents In Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He And His First Wife, Elisabeth Hallowell Saunders (D. 1910), Were Both Avid Naturalists; Charles Began Publishing Essays On Botany As Early As The 1890S. Charles And Elisabeth Also Collaborated On A Number Of Publications, He As Author, She As Illustrator. After A Honeymoon Trip To California And The Southwest In 1902, The Couple Moved Permanently To… Read More

Edinburch: Printed for the Author and Sold By J. Murray. Good+. 1778. Second Edition. Hardcover. Title Continued: Plain Directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of Forest-Trees, to the height of thirty feet and upwards, with certain success and on the same principles, (with as certain success) for transplanting Hedges of Sundry kinds, which will at once resist Cattle: to which are added Directions for the Disposition, Planting and culture of Hedges by observing which, they will be handsomer and stronger Fences in five years, than they now usually are in ten. 1778 second edition in original leather binding. 259pp +(ii) -(xxvi) , Preface, +(xxvii ) -(xliii) , Subscribers. + 3 pages of Postscript. Both covers are decorated with a narrow gilt border. Spine has raised bands with geometric gilt designs in panels. Clean brown leather. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Marble endpaper. Front hinge cracked with cover firmly attached. Spine ends and front corners lightly… Read More

London: Lovell, Reeve & Co, 1863. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Xxxvi, 324, 24 Fine Plates (23 Hand-Coloured) Drawn And Lithographed By Walter Hood Fitch, Each With 1 P. Letterpress Explanatory Text, Plates And Text Pages Printed On One Side Only. Half Title Present, No Ads At Rear. Nicely Bound By Bickers & Son, London, In Green Morocco, 5 Bands, Gilt Title And Author, All Compartments And Bands Ornately Gilt, Gilt Rules On Covers, Marbled Endpapers. All Edges Gilt. Light Rubbing To Binding Almost Entirely At Corners. Text Block Bright And Square, Unworn, Pages Unworn, No Foxing Or Browning To Pages Or Plates.

Aberdeen: Geo Clark and Son, 1845 An extremely scarce original copy of Edmondston's Shetland flora. Thomas Edmonston produced his first list of Shetland plants when he was 11 years old and had the good fortune to be able to discuss and share it with Joseph Hooker. He expanded the list and produced this work when he was 20 years old. It was and has remained an important work on Shetland's flora. It is in the original blind stamped decorative cloth binding with gilt titles to the front board. The binding is in very good condition. The original yellow endpapers are present and a previous owner has glued the top flap of an envelope to the fpd with their ink notes of plants and a reference to Tingwall manse. There is also a small ink '35' to the top corner of the fep. Contents: title, dedication, preface, introduction pp xxvii; arrangement of Shetland plants 1-67 with errata slip. Contents clean with extensive scholarly annotation - such as references to locations and Icelandic flora.

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Historia del cultivo,desarrollo y plantacion,de la cana de azucar en cuba.2 vols encuadernados en un tomo.en media piel,e impreso en la habana,cuba,1946,e impreso por el ministerio de agricultura.libro escrito por fernando agete y pinero,ingeniero agronomo y azucarero,director de la estacion experimental,de la cana de azucar y otros autores.

Ensayo sobre el cultivo de la cana de azucar por don alvaro reynoso tercera edicion corregida y aumentada paris france 1878.Ensayo sobre el cultivo de la caña de azúcar: Ensayo publicado en forma de libro escrito en 1862 por el eminente científico cubano Dr. Álvaro Reynoso, fruto de sus investigaciones sobre el cultivo de la caña de azúcar con el sueño de lograr algún día las 140 000@ de caña de azúcar por hectáreas El ensayo se realiza a mediados del siglo XIX, cuando la producción de azúcar en Haití estuvo deprimida como consecuencia de la destrucción de las plantaciones cañeras.

En esa etapa Cuba se convirtió en la principal colonia azucarera del mundo, exportaba cada año el 27.22% del azúcar que se consumía en el mundo en 1851, pero el cultivo de la caña era extensivo, lo que significaba que un alto por ciento de las tierras cultivables se dedicaban al cultivo de la caña.su autor.Álvaro Reynoso Valdés (Alquízar, La Habana, Cuba, 4 de noviembre de 1829 - La Habana, Cuba,… Read More

Tuscaloosa, AL:: Frogsong Press,, 2019.. Edition of 20. Size: 4 x 9" in paper box with band type slipcase. Colophon tipped in bottom of box. Contains three pamphlets. Letterpress printed. Materials: Hahnemuhle Ingres paper; kozo paper; handmade wisteria and kozo paper; handmade cotton/flax paper; thread. Signed and numbered by the artists. Frogsong Press: "'Vines', 'A Looming Is', & 'We Sent it to the Moon' is a collection of three letterpress-printed books that represent a collaboration between Alexa Tullett, Sarah Scarr, and Jillian Sico (respectively). Each book presents a unique perspective on the present and future of electronic and digital waste. The three books are housed in a box designed to look like a 1990s-era cell phone. "'Vines', written by Alexa Tullett, is a humorous textual 'archive' of six-second video clips that were uploaded to the now-defunct social media service Vine. The descriptions are accompanied by images… Read More

A Yverdun: N.p., 1768. First Edition First Printing . Leather Bound. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 16mo. 332 pages. Hardcover bound in early full speckled calf with raised bands and gilt tooling on the spine. Binding housed in a modern removable clear mylar jacket. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. Hinges sound; headcap of the spine is chipped. The binding is rubbed and abraded at the fore edges. Marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. Text is toned and is generally clean. Not an illustrated work. Text is in French. A translation of the title into English is, "Treatise on the Planting and Cultivation of the Principal Vegetable Plants, Collected from the English Dictionary.

An historic archive from the private collection of William Duckworth, Lake District Botanist, Plant Collector, Naturalist, of primary sources for the original discovery by Thomas Coulthard Heysham of 'Carum verticillatum' 45 years before William Duckworth had flattered himself for a time with being the first recorder of that rarity.
Baker, J. G.A Flora of the English Lake District. George Bell. London. 1885. Octavo. viii, 262, (1)pp. Original cloth, worn, gilt to spine. Bookseller's plate of Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle to fep. A well-used significant copy with fascinating primary source British plant-hunting provenance and associated material.• Signed presentation copy from Hugh Macpherson dated 1886 to William Duckworth. • Inserted handwritten letter (Black edged after the death of his father, the naturalist John Heysham, MD) dated July 7 1837, 'Carlisle', 2 pages, to the naturalist and illustrator John Curtis from the Carlisle naturalist, Thomas Coulthard Heysham, regarding his… Read More

London, John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1892 .. Fourth thousand 1892, 8vo,195 x 125 mm, 7¾ x 5 inches, woodcuts and tables in the text, pages: xxiv, 1-352 plus 32 pages of adverts at rear, dated February 1891, in original publisher's dark green cloth, gilt decoration and lettering to spine, blind stamped decoration to covers, original endpapers, edges untrimmed, pale age-browning to blank endpapers, tiny ink inscription to top corner of second blank page, binding tight and firm. A very good copy. See Freeman, The Works of Charles Darwin, page 156 and No.1286. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Legumes of the World is the first authoritative, comprehensive illustrated guide, describing and illustrating all 727 genera.Rare copy