Botany
207 items found
The lichens of Linnaeus
Magical burdocks
Poppies at their poppiest
Perhaps the only (modern) work on Tibetan mushrooms
A rhododendron, almost dancing
The basis of Chinese mycology
Often well-preserved
Thousands of species
One of 50 special copies, this one signed by Árpád Plesch
Plesch, A.
Mille et un livres botaniques de la collection Arpad Plesch. [Limited series copy, with handwritten dedication by the author].
Bruxelles, Arcade, 1973. Large, square 4to (29.5 x 26.5 cm). 517, [i] pp.; mounted full-colour portrait of Plesch; mounted full-colour photograph of part of his library; several text illustrations, and 32 full-colour facsimiles of quintessential botanical illustrations. Original green cloth with gilt title on the spine and red leather gilt-lettered facsimile bookplate on the front board. Full-colour pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers.
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€450.00
Describing and illustrating one of the richest Bromelia floras
A very rare dedication copy with additional sketch by Riefel
