London: George B. Whittaker, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. 278 pages. 30 x 23.5 cm. Four hand-colored (by C. Hullmandel), three folding, and 18 black and white plates -- "Sections, Views, Costumes, and Zoological figures." Bowditch while undertaking a trigonometric survey of the Gambia region died during this effort. His wife..... More
Washington, DC: Published by the Author, 1938. First edition. Cloth. 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 green leather inset printed and decorated in gilt, armorial bookplate..... More
New York: C.M. Saxton, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. 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. More
London: James Ridgeway And Sons, 1838-1842. New Series. Hardcover. 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..... More
Paris: Gabriel De Gonet, 1847. Grandville, Jean Ignace Isadore. First edition. leather_bound. 262, 263-364 (IV)132 pages. 26.5 x 18.5 cm, Hand-colored wood engraved title, 50 hand-colored engraved plates by Geoffroy after Grandville, two unsigned engraved botanical plates. Introduction by Alphonse Karr, text by Taxile Delord. GORDON N. RAY 198. "Fleurs..... More
Cape Town: Maskew Miller, 1930. Hardcover. 104 pp. 4to, twelve plates in color by Ethel Driscoll and seventy drawings in black and white by Dorothy Levyns. Owner inscription. More
Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 38 pages. More
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. New Edition. Hardcover. 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 text..... More
London: J.F. and C. Rivington et al, 1776. Third edition, corrected, with large additions. leather_bound. 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 of classification and with his terminology, based..... More
London: Vernor and Hood, 1802. First edition. leather_bound. 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..... More
London: William S. Orr & Co., (1849). Second edition. Hardcover. 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. Her husband..... More
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..... More
Paris: Audot, 1844. First edition. Boards. 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 views). Some drawings to..... More
London: Scolar Press, 1975. Reprint. Cloth. 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. Full-page color..... More
Stuttgart: J.F. Schreiber, [1887]. 4th edition revised. Hardcover. 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. More
London: Country Life, 1959. Farleigh, John. First edition. Hardcover. 193 pages. 25 x 19 cm.Twelve color plates by John Farleigh, with additional drawings by him in the text. Index. Edges spotted. More
London: White, Cochrane, And Co., et al, 1816. New Edition. Hardcover. 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 Vol. II, and nine plates, two hand colored [a hybrid bird, and the painting presented..... More
Birmingham: M. Swinney for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1787-1792. Second edition. Hardcover. 1151 pages Vols. I-II, and 503 pages Vol. III. 21 1/2 x 14 cm. Illustrated with eight plates, five fold-outs, one plain and two in color. First published 1776 in two volumes (titled A BOTANICAL ARRANGEMENT OF BRITISH..... More