Botany
207 items found
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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Savulesco, T. (ed.)
Flora Republicii Populare Romine. I - IV.
Bucaresti, Academiae Reipublicae Popularis Romanicae, 1952-1956. Four volumes in four. Large 8vo (23.5 x 17.0 cm). Eight title pages (two in each volume); 3029 pp. [(1952): xlviii, 659; II(1953): 702; III(1955): 662; IV(1956): 958]; and 472 plates [96;108;104;164]. Uniform blind-stamped blue cloth with silver title on the spines and front boards.
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Vuijk, J.
[Original orchid drawings and descriptions]
Amsterdam, [unpublished], ca. 1950-1975. A huge collection of more than a thousand sketches, drawings (b/w line drawings in pencil or ink, and in [full] colour) of wild orchids, with additional annotations - in Dutch, with Latin names. On 376 leaves, including 41 partially or (near) completely in original watercolours. Preserved in contemporary folders, titled by the author.
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Exell, A. W.
Catalogue of the vascular plants of S. Tomé (with Principe and Annobon). [AND] Supplement Catalogue of the vascular plants of S. Tomé (with Principe and Annobon). [AND] Corrected proof of the Supplement.
London, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1944-1956. Two papers in three. 8vo (24.6 x 18.8 cm) 551 pp. [xi, 428; 58; 54]; three maps; 32 [26; 3; 3] large text illustrations. Original green buckram with gilt title on the spine (main work); green printed wrappers (Supplement), and plain brown wrappers (proof copy).
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Descole, H.
Genera et Species Plantarum Argentinarum. I-V. [A complete set].
Buenos Aires, Guillermo Kraft, 1943-1956. Folio (49.3 x 34.3 cm), five volumes in seven. With, in total, 1936 pages of text and 811 fine plates [149, 175, 133, 221, 133], of which 141 [20, 26, 54, 22, 19] printed in full colour and tissue-guarded. Original uniform decorated green cloth, with floral patterns on spine and blind-stamped tooling on boards. Pictorial (floral) endpapers. All edges red.
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Toni, J. de [= G. de Toni]
Diagnoses algarum novarum. Post sylloges editionem descriptarum. I (Centuriae I-XI) [AND] II (Centuria I). [All published].
Brixia [Brescia], privately published by the author (and heirs?), 1937-1955. 12 parts in 12 (17.7 x 13.6 cm). 1200 pages. (Near) contemporary uniform brown cloth with gilt title on the spines.
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Lodder, J. [AND] Diddens, H. and J. Lodder
Die Hefesammlung des "Centraal-Bureau voor Schimmelcultures". Beiträge zu einer Monographie der Hefearten. II. Teil. Die Anaskosporogenen Hefen. Erste Hälfte. Proefschrift. [AND] Zweite Hälfte. [Complete].
Amsterdam, privately publiahed [thesis], [AND] Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1934-1942. Two parts in one. Large 8vo (25.6 x 17.4 cm). 792 pp. [xiii, 256; xii, 511]; 213 [114; 99] text figures. Near contemporary burgundy buckram with gilt title and vignette on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Gard, M.
Atlas d'hybrides artificiels de Cistes ( Cistus T.) obtenus par E. Bornet à la Villa Thuret à Antibes. Compenant 41 planches, dont 5 en couleurs horse texte, d'après les photographies de E. Bornet et les aquarelles de Riocreux, précédées de la description de ces hybrides. [With the rare slipcase].
Paris, G. Dion, 1933. Large 4to (36.1 x 25.2 cm). 99 pp.; 41 plates of which five in full colour. Original printed wrappers. In a marbled slipcase (37.0 x 26.6 x 2.6 cm).
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Monzen, K. and others
Saito Ho-On Kai. (The Saito Gratitude Foundation) Monographs 1 - 5. [AND] Reprints.
Sendai, The General Department of Scientific research Saito Ho-On Kai, 1927-1931. Two volumes in two. 4to (25.3 x 18.5 cm). Numerous pages and illustrations. Uniform blue grained half linen over marbled boards. Spines with gilt titles.
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Sahni, B.
Revision of Indian fossil plants. Part I. Coniferales (a. Impressions and incrustations). [AND] Part II (b. Petrifactions).
Calcutta, The Geological Survey of India, 1928-1931. Two Parts in two. Folio (36.7 x 25.0 cm). 124 pp.; 21 text figures, 15 photographic plates. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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Faber, F. C. Von
Die Kraterpflanzen Javas in physiologisch-ökologischer Beziehung.
Buitenzorg, 's Lands Plantentuin - Botanischer Garten, 1927. Large 8vo (24.1 x 17.0 cm). iv, 119 pp.; 12 text illustrations, 18 fine photographic plates. A unique pattered batik-cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and front board. Original printed front wrapper bound in.
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Humbert, [J.] H.
La destruction d'une flore insulaire par le feu. Principaux aspects de la végétation à Madagascar. Documents photographiques et notices.
Tananarive, Académie Malgache, 1927. 4to (28.5 x 22.5 cm). 80 pp.; 41 plates, of which 40 with fine photographs by the author. Original printed portfolio.
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Kniep, H. and P. Claussen and J. Bass and A. Ricken (eds.)
Die Pilze Mitteleuropas. Herausgegeben von der deutschen Gesellschaft für Pilzenkunde, der deutschen botanischen Gesellschaft, dem deutschen Lehrerverein für Naturkunde unter Redaktion von H. Kniep, Berlin, P. Claussen, Marburg und J. Baß, Stuttgart mit Verwertung des Nachlasses von Adalbert Ricken.
Leipzig, Werner Klinkhardt, 1926-1943. In 36 issues. Folio and large 4to. (35.4 x 25.0 cm). 400 [158; 56, 62; 24] pp.; 88 plates (57 in full colour), numerous text figures. All in original printed wrappers.
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Velenovský, J. (ed.)
Mykologia. Organ Ceskoslovenského Klubu Mikologockého. Bulletin du Club Mycologique Tchécoslovaque à Prague. Volumes 1 - 8. [All published].
Prague, Ceskoslovenského Klubu Mikologockého, 1924-1931. 8vo (27.5 x 19.5 cm). Numerous pages and illustrations, including several in full colour. Original printed wrappers.
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Steenis, C. G. G. J. Van
Opuscula 1924-1950. [Works; collection of offprints]
Various places and publishers, 1924-1950. Numerous papers in three volumes. Large 8vo (25.0 x 18.5 cm and smaller). ca. 3,000 pp.; many illustrations. Uniform half cloth over lightly marbled boards. Black printed title on the spines. Numerous original wrappers bound in.
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Box, H. E.
Typescripts, correspondence and papers.
Various places and publishers, 1923-1953. 4to and 8vo. Over 60 items of various size and shape. Many thousands of pages, numerous illustrations including some original photos. Preserved in two similar cardboard folders with punch holes.
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Pollacci, G. and A. Nannizzi
I miceti patogeni dell'uomo e degli animali, descritti, delineati e preparati per l'osservazione al microscopio, con notizie sopra i rimedi per combatterli. Fasciculo I-X. [Complete].
Bologna, L. Cappelli, 1922-1930. Ten parts in eight. Folio (28.0 x 21.8 cm). Text; 100 microscopic slides with specimens under sealed cover slips, and printed labels. Uniform dark green half cloth portfolios with gilt lettering on the front boards, and small paper label on the spines.
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Hochreutiner, B. P. G.
Plantae Hochreutineranae. Etude systématique et biologique des collections faites par l'auteur au cours de son voyage aux Indes Néerlandaises et autour du monde pendant les années 1903 à 1905. Fascicule I - VI. [Complete; with additional typed index].
Genève, Kundig, and by the author, 1912-1943. Six parts in one. 8vo (22.9 x 15.5 cm). 584 pp. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Printed wrapper to the second fascicule mounted on front board and altered in ink; several printed front wrappers bound in.
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Chevalier, A. and É. Perrot
Les végétaux utiles de l'Afrique tropicale Française. VI. Les kolatiers & les noix de Kola.
Paris, Augustin Challamel, 1911. 8vo (23.7 x 15.7 cm). xxiv, 484 pp.; two large, folded, coloured maps, 16 phototype plates and 52 text figures (mostly page-sized plates) and maps. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornaments and title. Marbled edges. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Coupin, H. [E. V.]
Album général des cryptogames. Avec la collaboration de M[ademois]elle Fernande Coupin. Algae. [Complete].
Paris, E. Orlhac, [1911-1912]. 4to (27.5 x 18.6 cm). 394 plates with explanatory text leaves, title pages and indexes. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh, C. R. W. K. van
Malayan Ferns. Handbook to the determination of the ferns of the Malayan Islands (incl. those of the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines and New Guinea). [AND] Correcting sheet.
Batavia, The Department of Agriculture Netherlands India, 1909. Two parts in two. 8vo (26.2 x 17.5 cm). 948 pp. [xl, 899; 9]. Uniform printed wrappers.
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Linnaeus, C.
Skrifter af Carl von Linné. I. Flora Lapponica Öfversatt till Svenska spraket. [AND] II. Valda smärre skrifter af alllmänt naturvetenskapligt innehåll. [AND] III. Classes Plantarum opus denuo editum. [AND] IV. Valda smärre skrifter af botaniskt innehåll [AND] V. Iter lapponicum. Andra upplagan. Med bilagor och noter. Ombesörjd af Th. M. Fries. [Five papers in the series: Skrifter af Carl von Linné. Utgifta af Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien].
Upsala [Uppsala], Almqvist & Wiksells, 1905-1913. Five volumes in five. 8vo (24.5 x 16.5 cm). Near uniform later half linen over marbled boards. All but one with the original printed front wrapper mounted on the front board.
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Cole, R. V.
British trees, drawn and described by Rex Vivat Cole and text revised by Dorothy Kempe. Subscribers' edition with 13 proof photogravures limited to 150 copies.
London, Hutchinson, 1907. Two parts in two. Large 4to (30.3 x 23.5 cm). 723 pp.; 430 reproductions of original drawings and paintings by the author including 13 proof photogravures. Uniform publisher's green buckram with gilt-titled calf spine mounted. All edges gilt.
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Lovassy, A.
Resultate der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Balatonsees. Mit Unterstützung der hohen Kön. Ung. Ministerien für Ackerbau und für Cultus und Unterricht. Zweiter Band. Die Biologie des Balatonsees und seiner Umgebung. Zweiter Theil. Die Flora. II. Sektion. Die Pflanzengeographischen Verhältnisse der Balatonsee-Gegend. Anhang. Die trophischen Nymphaeen des Hévizsees bei Keszthely.
Wien, Ed. Hölzel, 1909. Large 4to (29.3 x 21.2 cm). 91 pp.; four plates of which three in chromolithography. Original printed wrappers.
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Wildeman, É. [A. J.] De
Etudes sur la flore du Katanga. [Complete in four parts].
Bruxelles, Musée du Congo, 1902-1913. Four parts in four. Folio (35.1 x 26.6 cm). 437 pp. [xii, 241; 180, (iv)]; 65 [46; 19] fine lithographed or phototype plates, of which several double-sized, folded. Original, near uniform printed portfolios.
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Falkenberg, P.
Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. Herausgegeben von der zoologischen Station zu Neapel XXVI. Die Rhodomelaceen des Golfes von Neapel.
Berlin, R. Friedländer & Sohn, 1901. Large 4to (33.2 x 27.4 cm). xvi, 754 pp.; 24 lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers.
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Patouillard, N. [T.]
Essai taxonomique sur les familles et les genres des hyménomycètes.
Lons-le-Saunier, Lucien Declume, 1900. 8vo (24.2 x 15.8 cm). 184 pp.; 74 text figures. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt title. Marbled flyleaves. Original printed front wrapper bound in.
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Bresadola, G.
I funghi mangerecci e velenosi dell'Europa media con speciale riguardo a quelli che crescono nel Trentino nell'aila Italia. II edizione.
Trento, Giovanni Zippel, 1907. 8vo. 142 pp.; 121 plates [120 chromolithographed plates (I-CXII, XXIa, XXVIIIa, LIII[a], LIIIb, LVa, XCIXa, CIVa, CIXa), one photographed plate (XCVIIbis)]. Contemporary black half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt lines and title.
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Souza da Camara, M. De
Monographia do Tabaco.
Lisboa, F. H. Da Costa Monteiro, 1896. Large 4to (29.0 x 22.4 cm). [vi], 320, lxxvi pp.; 64 text engravings (one on a large, folded sheet), one folded map. Slightly later half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments bordered with gilt lines, and with gilt title and date. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Cunningham, D. D.
The causes of fluctuations in turgescence in the motor organs of leaves. [AND] A new and parasitic species of Choanephora.
Calcutta [Kolkata], Royal Botanic Gardens, 1895. Folio (35.5 x 28.0 cm). Title pages to the volume, to the part, and to the two works, dedication leaf and preface leaf; ii, 174, pp.; nine hand-coloured lithographed plates [numbered I-IX]. All loose, in original portfolio in half morocco over printed boards.
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Foslie, M. [H.]
The Norwegian forms of Lithothamnion [AND] New or critical Lithothamnia.
Trondhjem, Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs, 1894. Two papers in one. 8vo (22.2 x 14.2 cm). 190 [180; 10] pp.; 24 [23; 1] attractive photographed plates. Contemporary pebbled half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-stippled bands, gilt title and vignettes. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Rohweder, J.
Blütendiagramme nebst Längsschnittbildern von ausgewählten einheimischen Blütenpflanzen, als Vertretern der Hauptabteilungen des natürlichen und des Linnéschen Pflanzensystems zur Einführung in das Verständnis des Blütenbaues und als Muster für das Diagramm-Zeichnen.
Gotha, E. F. Thienemann, 1893. Two parts in three. 4to (24.8 x 21.3 cm). Brochure of 16 pp.; second brochure, with 24 chromolithographed plates of flowers. Both contained in pictorial cloth portfolio. Inner boards and flaps with floral pattern.
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Treub, M.
's Lands Plantentuin te Buitenzorg: 18 mei 1817 - 18 mei 1892.
Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1892. Large 8vo (25.9 x 17.8 cm). 518 pp.; one map of the botanical gardens at Bogor (Indonesia), five tissue-guarded portraits, two maps. Original half cloth over printed boards. Printed label on the spine.
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Gaillard, A.
Contribution à l'étude des champignons inférieurs, famille des périsporiacées: le genre Meliola, anatomie, morphologie, systématique.
Paris, Paul Klincksieck, 1892. 8vo (24.1 x 15.6 cm). 163 pp.; 24 lithographed plates. Later cloth, title written on the spine. Original printed wrapper bound in.
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Tempère, J. (ed.)
Le Diatomiste. Journal spécial s'occupant exclusivement des Diatomées et de tout ce qui s'y rattache. Volumes 1 - 2. [All Published].
Paris, J. Tempère, 1890-1896. [Reprint Lochum, Antiquariaat Junk, 1974]. Two volumes in two. Large 4to. 481 pp. [180, vi, 35; 260]; numerous plates and text illustrations. Republisher's uniform printed wrappers.
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Barbey, W.
Lydie, Lycie, Carie. 1842, 1883, 1887. Études botaniques revues.
Lausanne, George Bridel, 1890. Large 4to (31.3 x 25.3 cm). 84 pp.; five lithographed plates, made by Becquet in Paris, of which two double-sized, all tissue-guarded and with explanatory text leaves. Original quarter cloth over printed boards. Gilt title on the spine.
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Admiraal, K. [AND Hugo de Vries]
De kankerziekte der boomen. Met een voorwoord van Prof. Hugo de Vries. Verhandeling, bekroond door de Nederlandsche Maatschappij voor Tuinbouw en Plantkunde. Met 5 platen.
Amsterdam, M. M. Olivier, 1889. 8vo (23.7 x 25.3 cm). xii, 103 pp.; five lithographed plates (of which four in colour lithography, including one very large, folded) with explanatory text leaves. Slightly later blind pebbled half cloth over marbled boards.
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Bel, J.
Les champignons supérieurs du Tarn. Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie des Sciences de Toulouse (Medaillon d'or).
Paris, J. B. Baillière et fils, 1889. 8vo (21.5 x 14.5 cm). 198 [i] pp.; 32 chromolithographed plates. Later half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. Marbled endpapers.
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Forbes, F. B. and W. B. Hemsley
Enumeration of all the plants known from China proper, Formosa, Hainan, the Corea, the Luchu Archipelago, and the island of Hongkong, together with their distribution and synonymy.
London, The Linnean Society, Longmans, Green and Co., Williams and Norgate, 1886-1905. Twenty issues in 20, forming three parts. 8vo (22.2 x 14.4 cm). 1812 pp. ([ii], 521; 592; 686, xi); 24 lithographed plates [14; 10; 0], the first being a large, folded, duotone map. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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Baker, J. G.
Contributions to the Flora of Madagascar. Part I. Polypetalae. Part II. Monopetalae. Part III. Incompletae, Monocotyledones, and Filices. [All published under this title].
London, Longman, Green, Reader and Dyer [for the Linnean Society of London], 1883. Three parts in three. 8vo (22.2 x 14.1 cm). 218 pp. [numbered: 87-158; 159-236; 237-304]; six lithographed plates [numbered: 22-23; 24-27; none in the third part]. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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Bernard, G. E.
Champignons observés dans le département de la Charente-Inférieure. Planches. [Atlas].
La Rochelle, Académie de La Rochelle, Société des Sciences Naturelles de la Charente-Inférieure, 1882. 8vo (25.2 x 16.0 cm). 4 pp.; 56 fine lithographed plates of which 12 originally hand-coloured. Original printed wrappers.
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Tizard, T. H. et al. (eds.) [Thomson, C. W. and J. Murray (general editors)]
Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 under the command of captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and the late captain Frank Tourle Thomson, R.N. prepared under the superintendence of the late Sir C. Wyville Thomson, Knt., F.R.S., &c. and now of John Murray. Volumes I - II. Narrative of the Cruise. [The complete narrative].
London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1882-1885. Two volumes in three. 4to (29.2 x 24.6 cm). Volume I (in two parts) (1885): liv, 1111 pp.; two elongate photographic frontispieces; 340 numbered (groups of) woodcuts and many unnumbered, often acting as head- or tailpieces; 75 charts; 35 numbered photographic plates; 15 chromolithographed plates (numbered A-I, K-P), and a very large map (in two parts) of both hemispheres, with the complete itinerary, in a rear pocket in Part I; a second, very long, full-colour map on the salinity of the oceans in Part 2. Volume II (1882): viii, 744, 42, 29 pp.; several text engravings and two plates, of which one in chromolithography, and a tipped-in note on the reason for publishing Volume II ahead of Volume I. Original, uniform, dark-green blind-stamped pebbled cloth. Boards with bevelled edges. Gilt title on the spines. Brown endpapers.
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Meredith, L. A.
Tasmanian friends and foes, feathered, furred, and finned. A family chronicle of country life, natural history, and veritable adventure. With coloured plates, from drawings by the author and other illustrations. Second edition.
London, Marcus Ward, 1881. Small 4to (21.9 x 16.7 cm). Title page, 259 pp.; eight chromolithographed plates depicting fishes and flowers from Tasmania, numerous text engravings. Original green, black and gilt decorated pictorial cloth. Gilded, patterned endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Puydt, E. de
Les orchidées. Histoire iconographique. Organographie, classification, géographie, collections, commerce, emploi, culture. Avec une revue descriptive des espèces cultivées en Europe. Ouvrage orné de 244 vignettes et de 50 chromolithographies dessinées d'après nature.
Paris, Rothschild, 1880. Royal 8vo (27.6 x 18.0 cm). viii, 348 pp.; 50 fine chromolithographed plates, finished by hand, and 244 figures in the text. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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Saccardo, P. A. (ed.)
Michelia. Commentarium mycologiae fungos in primis Italicos illustrans. Volumes I - II. [All Published].
Patavii [Padua], Typis Seminarii, 1879-1882. Two volumes in two. 8vo (22.6 x 14.7 cm). 1305 pp. ([ii] 619; [ii], 682). Near contemporary uniform grained half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt bands and title. Speckled edges.
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Cranwell, T.
New Zealand ferns. Prepared and mounted by T. Cranwell.
Auckland (Parnell), T. Cranwell, no date [before 1877]. Small folio (27.8 x 22.3 cm). 30 sheets with mounted ferns, each with a small, mounted label with the Latin name. Original green leather spine and carved rimu wood-panels. Marbled endpapers. Contained in recent clamshell box (30.6 x 24.7 x 4.9 cm) of black cloth with black morocco label with gilt ornamental bands and title on the 'spine'.
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[Linnean Society of London]
The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Second series. Botany. Volume I - VI.
London, The Linnean Society of London, 1875-1905. Six volumes in six. Large 4to (29.1 x 23.3 cm). Text; numerous plates. Volume I in contemporary polished half calf over marbled boards. Gilt ornamental lines and black morocco label with gilt title on the spine; Volumes II-VI: uniform later (i.e., contemporary with the last volume) blue buckram with gilt title on the spines. Speckled edges.
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Leuba, [F.]
Monographie du genre Morchella. Traité au point de vue historique, botanique et chimique.
[Switzerland], unpublished, 1875. Folio (31.2 x 24.0 cm). Script title page with watercolour vignette, handwritten preface by the author, dated 15 Août 1875 (verso blank), 16 pp. of handwritten descriptive text; nine watercolour plates with script captions. Later half morocco over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers.
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Debeaux, [J.] O.
Contribution à la flore de la Chine, comprenant les algues marines récoltées en China et les florules de Shang-Hai, Tché-Fou et Tien-Tsin.
Paris, F. Savy, [1875]-1879. Four parts in one. 8vo (25.0 x 16.5 cm). 361 pp. [3-21; 3-78; 3-191; 3-79]; six lithographed plates [1;0;3;2], and two original drawings in pen, ink and pencil. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt floral bands and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Pursh, F. [T.]
Journal of a Botanical Excursion in the Northeastern parts of the states of Pennsylvania and New York during the year 1807.
Philadelphia, PA, Brinckloe and Marot, [1807] 1869. 8vo (18.1 x 12.3 cm) 87 pp. Contemporary (original?) limp pebbled cloth. Spine with later, elongate morocco label with gilt title.
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Ratzeburg, J. T. C.
Die Waldverderbniss oder dauernder Schade, welcher durch Insektenfrass, Schälen, Schlagen und Verbeissen an lebenden Waldbäumen entsteht. Zugleich ein Ergänzungswerk zu den Abbildung und Beschreibung des schädlichsten Forstinsekten. Zweiter Band. Tanne, Lärche, Laubhölzer, und entomologischer Anhang.
Berlin, Nicolai, 1868. 4to (28.9 x 23.1 cm). xvi, 464 pp.; 26 [numbered 34-51, 41A, 43A, 45A, I-V] engraved plates of which 13 in chromolithography with additional hand-colouring and partly heightened with gum arabic. Original green boards with raised panels with gilt floral ornaments, and gilt borders. Spine with gilt bands and title. Iridescent silk endpapers. All edges gilt.
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Pitasch, J. [AND] J. Zenker
Landwirtschaftliche Tafeln. XII. Forstwirtschaft (Holzzucht). [AND] XIII. Forstwirtschaft (Forstbenützung).
Wien, Anton Hartinger & Sohn, 1867-1869. Two very large, oblong folded, chromithographed sheets, (58.7 x 71.3 cm each) in uniform printed pockets (20.5 x 12 cm each).
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Colmeiro (y Penido), M.
Enumeracion de las criptógamas de España y Portugal. Parte primera. Acrogenas: helechos, equisetáceas, rizocarpeas, licopodiaceas, musgos, hepáticas. [AND] Parte segunda. Talogenas: hongos, líquenes, collemaceas, algas. [Complete].
Madrid, Eusebio Aguado, 1867. 8vo (20.2 x 14.3 cm). 379 [119; 260] pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt ornaments, title gilt. Marbled endpapers. Edges sprinkled red.
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Ettingshausen, C., von
Die Fossile Flora des Tertiär-Beckens von Bilin. I Theil. (Enthaltend die Thallophyten, Kryptogamischen Gefässpflanzen; Monokotyledonen, Coniferen, Julifloren und Oleraceen).
Wien, Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1867. 4to (29.6 x 23.1 cm). 95 pp.; 30 tinted lithographed plates. Later boards, printed label mounted on front board.
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Teijsmann, J. E. and S. Binnendijk
Catalogus plantarum quae in Horto Botanico Bogoriensi coluntur. Catalogus van 's Lands Plantentuin te Buitenzorg.
Batavia, Ter Lands-Drukkerij, 1866. 8vo (21.7 x 13.0 cm). vii, 398 pp. Slightly later half calf with marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine.
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Brown, R.
The miscellaneous botanical works. Vol. III. Atlas of the plates.
London, Robert Hardwicke (for The Ray Society), 1868. Folio (35.0 x 25.6 cm). Title page, 15 pp.; 38 fine engraved plates of which 11 much larger, folded. Contemporary pebbled half morocco over gilt-bordered marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt.
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Naudin, C. [V.]
Nouvelles recherches sur l'hybridité dans les végétaux.
Paris, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris, 1865. Two parts in two. Large 4to (32.0 x 25.0 cm). 152 pp. [numbered 25-176]; nine lithographed plates of which eight in chromolithography of which one finely finished by hand. Rebound with printed title in embossed rectangle on the front board. Original front and rear wrappers of the Nouvelles Archives bound in.
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Hoola van Nooten, B.
Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de la flore et de la pomone de l'ile de Java. peints d'après nature. Ouvrage dédié à s majesté la reine de Hollande.
Bruxelles, Émile Tarlier, 1863. Large folio (55.6 x 40.8 cm). Title page, [ii] pp. (preface), dedication leaf; 41 chromolithographed plates, some finished by hand, with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary half calf over over burgundy linen boards. Spine blind-tooled with four low, wide bands, and dark brown morocco label with gilt title. Light, greyish green endpapers.
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[Société royale de Botanique de Belgique]
Bulletins de la Société royale de Botanique de Belgique. Volumes 1 - 25. [Bulletin].
Bruxelles, M. Hayez [later: the Société itself], 1862-1881. 25 volumes in 25. 8vo (21.2 x 13.6 cm). Over 10,000 pp.; numerous plates of which several tinted or coloured. Uniform late 19th-century pebbled cloth; spines with black morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Ekart, T. P. (after)
Synopsis Hepaticarum. Descriptiones Jungermanniarum. [Original Manuscript].
France, no place, no date [ca. 1860-1880]. Small folio (24.7 x 20.0 cm). Manuscript of 46 pp. with 31 original, fine, mounted, ink drawings of liverworts, most with handwritten descriptions at the foot or on loose leaflets. Patterned quarter linen over burgundy grained linen. Marbled endpapers.
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