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England: W.F. Gunn, 1893. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth lettered in gilt. Spine perished. Good. Folio, 46 x 24 cm. 44 grass specimens on approximately 38 blue leaves, nearly all with printed caption cards. and with printed introductory leaf noting the first edition of this album was so well received the author published this present edition. Botanical and "common… Read more about this item

Paisely: J. & J. Cook, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Aeg. Near fine. Unpaginated. Small folio. 28 x 20 cm. Title page printed in red and black with a small mounted specimen above imprint. Complete with 34 mounted specimens, some slight flaking to a few specimens with offsetting to text. Gift inscription on… Read more about this item

Np: Np, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter dark olive morocco and cloth, front and back covers with gilt wreath design and lettered in gilt. Aeg. Very good. 25.5 x 22.5 cm. 8 page Index. Printed title page with a specimen of a moss wreath and initials apparently cut out and laid down, mostly likely taken from… Read more about this item

London: Henry Colburn, 1827. New Edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown calf and dark salmon boards. Very good. 136 pages. 19 x 11.5 cm. Six colored aquatint plates, one a large foldout. HENREY Vol.II, p.583. "No author's name appears on the title page......in the later editions the author signed her name and address" (rear of book). ABBEY LIFE p.13. Wide… Read more about this item

London: White, Cochrane, And Co., et al., 1816. New Edition. Hardcover. Modern half navy spines and marbled boards. Fine in custom, very good solander case with leather spine label printed in gilt. 2 vols. 586 pages. 30.5 x 25 cm. Mitford's large paper edition with wide text margins. Half title, engraved folding frontispiece, additional pictorial title, vignette to… Read more about this item

New York: C.M. Saxton, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's embossed in blind, dark olive cloth. Very good. 120 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Ten black and white lithographic plates including title page. The Appendix lists prices realized for bushels of cranberries sold from 1850-1855. Interior contents clean and bright, bookplate, modest extremity wear.

London: William S. Orr & Co, 1849. Second edition. Hardcover. Three quarter green morocco and green cloth. Teg. Very good. 215 pages. 30 x 25 cm. Forty-two lithographic plates printed in colors and finished by hand, tissue guards. With no entry level manuals for gardening available in her day, she pioneered gardening as a suitable occupation for women.… Read more about this item

Cape Town: Maskew Miller, 1930. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth worn at backstrip extremities. Very good. 104 pp. 4to, twelve plates in color by Ethel Driscoll and seventy drawings in black and white by Dorothy Levyns. Owner inscription.

London: J.F. and C. Rivington et al., 1776. Third edition, corrected, with large additions. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf, raised bands, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Very good. 432 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. HENREY Vol. II. p.355. " In 1760 (first edition).....It is the first work in English to present botanists with Linnaeus's sexual system… Read more about this item

London: Scolar Press, 1975. Reprint. Cloth. Orig. brown cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine slipcase. Unpaginated. 30 1/2 x 22 cm. Orig. published ca. 1660. Thirty-one plates as per the original from a copy in the Lindley Library at the Royal Horticultural Society. Limited edition, copy 128 of 500 printed on hand-made paper by F. Amatruda, Amalfi.… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Published by the Author, 1938. First edition. Cloth. Orig. beige linen cloth, brown leather spine label printed in gilt Fine in near fine matching slipcase. Teg.. 175 pages. 34 x 25 cm. Limited edition, one of 2500 designed and printed by the Lakeside Press. Approximately 80 plates, most are in color; Chronological List. Index. Front cover… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: W.M. Rutter, 1871. leather_bound. 184, 180, 180, 207, 215. 27 x 19 cm. 277 colored plates -- 156 hand-colored plates (MIchaux) and 121 lithographic plates with hand-coloring (Nuttall), plus engraved frontispiece of Michaux. The Michaux plates were drawn by the Redoute brothers, and Pancrace Bessa. Originally published 1810-1813, translated into English by Hillhouse, 1817. Reissued in Philadelphia, 1850-1851 with… Read more about this item

London: James Ridgeway And Sons, 1842. New Series. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's green cloth. Very good. 10 vols. 26 x 17 cm. Total of 688 hand-colored engraved botanical plates with tissue guards, lacking 26 plates. The young Edwards made some drawings from the plates in the "Flora londinensis" which eventually caught the eye of Curtis who was sufficiently impressed… Read more about this item

London: Country Life, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth rubbed at backstrip extremities. Very good. Farleigh, John. 193 pages. 25 x 19 cm.Twelve color plates by John Farleigh, with additional drawings by him in the text. Index. Edges spotted.

Paris: Audot, 1844. First edition. Boards. Later marbled boards with brown leather spine label printed in gilt. Fine. 104 pages in text. 18.5 x 22.5 cm. Twenty-one lithographic plates, one a large foldout (Greenhouse of the Botanical Garden at the University of Louvain), and containing eighty-eight individual illustrations of plats and greenhouses (design details of interior and exterior… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: J.F. Schreiber, 1887. 4th edition revised. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards and red cloth spine. Very good. 77 pages in text. 33 x 22 1/2 cm. Fifty-four hand-colored double-paged plates contains more than 650 individual botanical examples. Register of German Botanical Names. Plates and text clean, backstrip and corners worn.

Birmingham: M. Swinney for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1792. Second edition. Hardcover. Vols. I-II contemporary marbled boards rebacked in brown calf with leather spine labels; Vol. III in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, corners worn, boards rubbed, spine foot worn. 3 vols. Very good. 1151 pages Vols. I-II, and 503 pages Vol. III. 21 1/2 x 14… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Orig. navy cloth. Fine in orig. but chipped glassine overwrapper. 38 pages.

London: Vernor and Hood, 1802. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary tree calf rebacked. Very good/Near Fine. 128 and 219 pages. 21 x 13 cm. First title with five copper-plate engravings, two folding; second has two folding plates, Divisions of the Linnaean System, Characters of the Genera of British Plants, English-Latin Dictionary of Botanical Terms, and Index to the British… Read more about this item