‎Sciences occultes‎

‎Buchanan, John‎

‎The Indigenous Grasses of New Zealand‎

‎Wellington: George Didsbury Governemnt Printer 1880. Folio 64 fine nature-printed plates with accompanying text pages unpaginated the lower corner is a little bruised throughout the title page is very slightly frayed there is slight faint offsetting on to two of the plates later green cloth with red morocco label very slightly worn. RARE. . First Edition. Cloth. Good. George Didsbury, Governemnt Printer Hardcover‎

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‎Ardene (Jean Paul de Rome ]‎

‎Traite sur la connoissance et la culture des jacintes par l'Auteur du Traite des renoncules imprime a Paris chez Lottin‎

‎Avignon: Louis Chambeau 1759. Small 12mo measures 153mm x 92mm pp 156 a little browned and age-toned but very sound internally two folding engraved plates a little frayed and creased at the margins and again age-toned full contemporary calf worn at corners the spine dull joints a bit worn but still very sound. A delightful provenance - with the bookplate of C. Harman Payne author of The Florist's Bibliography. This is the only book I have seen from what must have been a notable library. Also with the bookplate of the naturalist Edward Heron-Allen. The plates are great fun showing florists' tools as well as hyacinths a bulb vase and something which looks more like a crocus planter. "Jean Paul Rome d' Ardène retired about 1750 from his duties as 'supérieur' of the college at Marseilles to the Château d' Ardène diocese of Sisteron where he created a botanical garden and gave himself to the study of flowers" - Hunt Catalogue. D'Ardene wrote similar works dealing with Ranunculus Tulips and Carnations It is interesting that Hunt had copies of those three but only mention this work in passing - they did not have a copy. Indeed it seems extremely rare - I can only trace three copies two in WorldCat and the Lindley Library copy. First Edition. Full Leather. Good. Louis Chambeau Hardcover‎

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‎Jellicoe, GA G A‎

‎Baroque Gardens of Austria‎

‎London & New York: Ernest Benn Ltd & Charles Scribner's Sons 1932. Folio illustrated with 40 plates pp 44 a little age-toned internally original blue buckram and brown cloth slightly worn the spine age-toned and bit marked. A heavy book - extra postage will be needed. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Ernest Benn Ltd & Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover‎

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‎Nakao, Sasuke & Nishioka, Kyoji‎

‎Flowers of Bhutan‎

‎Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Company 1984. Very well illustrated large octavo pp 146 a folding map at the rear very clean internally purple cloth in very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Text in Japanese and English. SCARCE. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Asahi Shimbun Company Hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 021291 ISBN : 4022552441 9784022552440

‎van Huysum, Jacob (commentary by Maurice Harold Grant‎

‎The Twelve Months of Flowers by Jacob van Huysum in the collection of Major the Hon. Henry Rogers Broughton of Bakeham House Englefield Green and South Walsham Hall Norwich‎

‎Leigh on Sea: F. Lewis 1950. Folio pp 65 12 fine mounted colour plates slight foxing to the endpapers and the preliminary pages a very occasional spot internally otherwise clean internally the top edge foxed and the fore-edge slightly foxed blue cloth in very good condition. Limited edition of 500 copies - this one being number 329. First Edition. Cloth. Good. F. Lewis Hardcover‎

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‎Buchanan, John‎

‎Manual of the Indigenous Grasses of New Zealand‎

‎Wellington: The Office of James Hughes Colonial Museum & Geological Survey Department 1880. Illustrated with 64 slightly tinted plates octavo pp xvi 175 a couple of tiny ink spots on the fore-edge the title page slightly foxed otherwise very clean internaly the endpapers age-toned the front endpaper starting to crack but with absolutely no weakness probably contemporary brown patterned cloth very slightly worn the spine faded. The preface points out that one of the conditions to publication was that the plates should be nature-printed. This made it necessary to first publish a folio edition with a slightly different title which was indeed nature-printed. This was produced in a very small number. This octavo edition was then prepared for general distribution with the plates prepared by photo-lithography and depict the grasses one-half their natural size. Inscribed on the title page - "F.W. Andrews from Sir James Hector" - the latter was Director of the Colonial Museum and prepared the preface to the work. At the current time we also have a copy of the rare folio edition for sale. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. The Office of James Hughes [Colonial Museum & Geological Survey Department] Hardcover‎

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‎Taniguchi, Yoshiro (with English resume by Jiro Harada)‎

‎The Shugakuin Imperial Villa‎

‎Toky Osaka Moji and Nagoya: The Mainichi Newspapers 1956. Well illustrated with 124 monochrome plates quarto pp 106 56 very clean internally bound in silver clith very good condition in the original pink slipcase which is just slightly worn. A heavy book - extra postage may be needed. A splendid monograph including English captions to the plates Japanese main text and lengthy English resume. First Edition. Cloth in slipcase. Very Good. The Mainichi Newspapers Hardcover‎

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‎Evelyn, John‎

‎Sylva or A discourse of forest-trees and the propagation of timber in His Majesties dominions. As it was deliver'd in the Royal Society the xvth of October MDCLXII.‎

‎The Bell in St Paul's Churchyard: Jo. Martin & J. Allestry First edition. "Sylva Or A discourse of forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. By J.E. Esq; As it was Deliver'd in the Royal Society the xvth of October MDCLXII. upon Occasion of certain Quæries Propounded to that Illustrious Assembly by the Honorable the Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy. To which is annexed Pomona; Or An appendix concerning Fruit-tTrees in relation to cider; the Making and several ways of Ordering it. Published by express Order of the Royal Society. Also Kalendarium Hortense; Or Gard'ners Almanac; Directing what he is to do Monethly throughout the Year." Tall quarto pp 16 120 4 20 ii 21-40ii 41-50ii 55-83 iii with the license leaf the errta leaf and the two unpaginated leaves in Pomona which are often not present the first title page printed in red and black as is the Kalendarium title and also the name of each month is in red two small woodcuts in the text a small stain at the bottom margin runs throughout slight staining to the gutter margins of the last few pages the cintents are unpressed so slightly waved throughout vey slight signs of use internally slightly age-toned the first blank is creased and frayed the license leaf also but less so a neat contemporary manuscript note on page 83 the hinge at pages 32/33 cracked but without weakness the hinge at the title page similar but less so contemporary full calf rubbed scuffed and marked but still very sound loss of the leather surface here and there "SYLVA" faintly written on the spine recased at some point not recently and with later endpapers. One of the most influential books on forestry ever published. Janson Pomona's Harvest page 146; Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel M. M. Hunt No. 296; Blanche Henrey British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800 Volume 1 No. 132; Sandra Raphael An Oak Spring Sylva a selection of The Rare books on Trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library No. 32. First Edition. Full Leather. Good. Jo. Martin & J. Allestry Hardcover‎

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‎Ray, John‎

‎The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation in Two Parts viz - the heavenly bodies elements meteors fossils vegetables animals beasts birds fishes insects the body of the earth its fugures motion and consistency.‎

‎The Prince's Arms in St Paul's Church-Yard: Sam Smith and Benj Walford 1701. "Third edition very much enlarg'd throughout". 12mo pp 30 17 - 208; second title page 193 - 414 rather age-toned throughout and slightly worn the hinge before the last page cracked but no weakness the engraved portrait frontispiece is browned and has been mounted and has a small strip missing from its left margin bound in a simple Victorian half calf and marbled boards rubbed the joints cracking a little but firm; with the signature on the front endpaper of Anne Aitken Carnbee. . Third edition. Half-Leather. Good. Sam Smith and Benj Walford Hardcover‎

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‎De Lamarck, M le Chevalier‎

‎Flore francaise ou Descriptions succinctes de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en France disposees selon une nouvelle methode d'analyse et a laquelle on a joint la citation de leurs vertus les moins quivoques en Medecine‎

‎Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale 1778. First edition. Three volumes pp cxx 132 xxix; iv 660; 654 xx i eight folding engraved plates a folding table very clean internally contemporary binding of an unusual full calf gilt-lined on the covers full gilt spines each with a red and a black label slightly rubbed and slight surface wrinkles but overall very attractive marbled endpapers marbled edges. With a stamp on the title pages of the Bibliothek Graf Spangensche an unidentified contemporary signature in the verso of the endpaper and the bookseller's label on the front paste-down endpqper of the first volume - "Cet Ouvrage se trouve ainsi que beaucoup d'autres chez La veuve Mangot Libraire sur le Hof im blauen Haus N. 312 im 3 ten Stock" "This work can be found along with many others at La veuve Mangot bookseller on the Hof im blauen Haus N. 312 im 3 ten Stock". With the bookplate in each volume of Kenneth Lazenby on of the founding members of the Alpine Garden Society. Flore française is a book by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle that was published in 1815 in Paris. It is a work on botany classification and the plants of France. Lamarck designed the book to help identify plants using dichotomous keys which are classification tools that help users choose between opposing pairs of morphological characters. Lamarck was a botanist who became a prominent figure in French science after studying with de Jussieu and the publishing this work. He was mentored by Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon a leading French scientist at the time. Lamarck's work was well-respected by scholars and helped him gain membership to the French Academy of Sciences in 1779. He later became a founding professor at the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle where he was an expert on invertebrates. First Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good. L'Imprimerie Royale Hardcover‎

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‎Tsuboi, Isuke‎

‎Illustrations of the Japanese Species of Bamboo‎

‎Gifu Loose title page in English and Japanese age-toned 80 page descriptive booklet in Japanese the front cover a little age-toned four-page folded loose index in English 109 very fine colour lithographic plates loose one plate a little foxed one plates stained in the margin one final page in Japanese age-toned; loosely tied with blue silk and contained in the original blue cloth fitted folding box rubbed secured with two ties with bamboo clasps one tie in danger of becoming detached. RARE. The first edition of this iconic book was 1914 and the second edition two years later in 1916. The title page to our copy is definitely that of the first edition - it has the misprint 'Illustraions' and no English date; whereas in the second edition the date appears and the misprint is corrected. Our copy has 109 plates which is definitely correct for the second edition; however the only copy of the first edition online is that of Jerry Stanoff's Rare Oriental Book Company which states 101 plates - now is his copy lacking or is our own copy a mixture of editions ! I can find no copy of the first edition in a library so I can't corroborate this at the moment. "Isuke Tsuboi 1843-1925 a man who devoted himself to the research of bamboo for nearly forty years and was known as "Japan’s foremost bamboo guru". In 1881 he set up a farm to experiment with bamboo planting. Over the many years of his hard work Tsuboi accumulated fruitful knowledge in bamboo species and their phytogeographic patterns. He also developed efficient planting methods identified the causes of withering and discovered efficient ways to fight against pests. During his years of research Tsuboi made frequent trips between Taiwan China and Japan which demonstrate the seriousness and diligence with which he pursued the study of bamboo. He was the first man to build a bamboo specimen garden in Japan a place that displayed his categorization of all native bamboo species in Japan. Botanists directors of bamboo groves and bamboo lovers of his time all came to marvel at the richness of his collection. Sadly after Tsuboi passed away the garden was abandoned and then vanished in disrepair. Tsuboi’s Illustrations of the Japanese Species of Bamboo stands as one of the great achievements of his research. The book depicts various species and morphology of bamboo and contains intricate sketches of their inner parts. Even by today’s standard this book still retains great value as a reference guide.". Loose in box. Very Good. Paperback‎

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‎Llamas, Kirsten Albrecht‎

‎Tropical Flowering Plants: A Guide to Identification and Cultivation‎

‎Portland: Timber Press 2003. Very well illustrated quarto pp 423 the fore-edge very slightly marked a neat signature on the front endapeper otherwise extremely clean internally maroon cloth in very good condition the dustwrapper is a little faded around the spine and very slightly bruised on the upper corners. A heavy book - extra postage may be required"This book bridges a long-standing gap between obscure references in tropical botany and the gardener's need for an accurate practical guide with clear photographs. Incorporating the latest advances in plant taxonomy from the definitive text of Dr. Walter Judd the book is a rare work of scrupulous research - and magnificent photography - that will be as useful to the gardener as it is to the botanist. Kirsten Llamas exhaustively documents more than 1400 flowering trees shrubs vines and herbaceous plants commonly grown in tropical and subtropical gardens. She provides thorough information on cultivation for each plant including growth characteristics light exposure cold hardiness invasive tendencies and unique horticultural features. More than 1500 color photos of magnificent flowering specimens make this book as much a pleasure to browse as it is a resource for research. Sure to appeal to gardeners landscapers nurseries collectors botany students florists and botanical gardens "Tropical Flowering Plants" promises to be a staple reference for decades to come.". Cloth. Very Good/Slightly faded. Timber Press Hardcover‎

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‎Hulten, Eric‎

‎Flora of Alaska and neighbouring Territories - A Manual of the Vascular Plants‎

‎Stanford University Press 1974. Small thick quarto pp xxiv 1008 well illustrated with many hundreds of small line drawings and distribution maps a neat signature on the front blank a light crease to the title page and the next few pages otherwise very clean internally pale green cloth with just very slight signs of use Loosely inserted is an offprint - Generalized Geology of Mt McKinley National Park. . Cloth. Very Good. Stanford University Press Hardcover‎

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‎Harvey, William H & Sonder, Otto Wilhelm‎

‎Flora Capensis : being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony Caffraria and Port Natal. Volumes 1 - 7 complete‎

‎Codicote & Lehre: Wheldon & Wesley Ltd & J. Cramer Seven volumes bound in ten octavo extremely clean internally blue cloth in very good condition. Volumes 3 & 7 1894 & 1900 are the early printings the others are the Wheldon & Wesley reprint of 1973. Complete with the scarce supplement to Volume V part II original boards published in 1933. An excellent set. A heavy set - extra postage will be needed. Cloth. Very Good. Wheldon & Wesley Ltd & J. Cramer Hardcover‎

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‎Hooker, William Jackson (et al); [JE Smith & J de Carle Sowerby] J E‎

‎Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J.E. Smith and Mr Sowerby. Volumes I II III & IV with approximately 366 hand coloured plates‎

‎London: Sold by the Proprietor J. Sowerby or C.E. Sowerby; latterly J.W. Salter 1831. 1831 - 1849. Four volumes octavo illustrated with approximately 366 hand coloured plates four of which are folding generally in very good condition occasionally printed on slightly duller paper recently bound in a plain but qood quality brown cloth slight markings to the upper cover of one volume. Volume I - plates 2593 - 2692 extremely clean and bright. Volume II - plates 2693 - 2796 the first ten plates and text have faint fold markings otherwise very clean and bright. Volume III - plates 2798 - 2866 lacking 2797 one plate with a paper crease probably a production fault. Volume IV - is where it gets complicated. The plates and text are now bound more or less in systematic order - 2886 2908 2951 2918 2916 2955 2943 2922 2898 2944 2928 2917 2906 2934 2905 2903 2952 2900 2935 2903 2909 2892 2893 2891 2890 2895 2887 2968 2870 2930 2946 2914 2897 2958 2875 2953 2876 2877 2904 2950 2868 2949 2960 2945 2929 2915 2884 2931 2896 2910 2885 2923 2895 2924 2880 2932 2901 2887 2919 2888 2936 2878 2871 2942 2907 2925 2947 2873 2874 2957 2902 2872 2921 2912 2882 2881 2938 2937 2889 2894 2948 2913 2879 2889 2911 2940 2920 2959 2941 2954 2926 2927 2958 2939 2933. lacking 2883 & 2940 . The paper in this last volume is of poorer quality with a little age-toning occasional scattered light blemishes or foxing. RARE. A further volume was published in 1863 but is not present here but all volumes are exceedingly scarce. A vital addition to the first edition of English Botany but rarely to be found. In the advertisement to Volume I it explains that the death of Sowerby in 1822 and Smith in 1828 delayed any possibility of the publication of these new discoveries. However Sowerby's two sons were now embarking on this venture which they originally thought would be complete in two volumes. Latterly the descriptions were completed by eminent botanists such as C.C. Babington William Borer M.J. Berkeley and William Wilson. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Sold by the Proprietor J. Sowerby or C.E. Sowerby; latterly J.W. Salter Hardcover‎

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‎Little, Elbert L; Woodbury, Roy & Wadsworth, Frank H‎

‎Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands - Two volumes.‎

‎Washington: U.S. Department of Agriculture - Forest Service 1964 - 1974. Two volumes very well illustrated with botanical line drawings. small very thick quarto pp x 548; xiv 1024 extremely clean internally grey pictorial cloth the corners very slightly bruised the spine of the first volume a little creased otherwise a very good set. Extremely heavy - extra postage will be required. An immense work of considerable detail. The first volume was published as 'Common' Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. U.S. Department of Agriculture - Forest Service Hardcover‎

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‎Stoever, DH (translated by Joseph Trapp) D H‎

‎The Life of Linnaeus Knight of the Swedish order of the Polar Star; to which is added a copious list of his works and a biographical sketch of the life of his son‎

‎Fleet Street: B. & J. White 1794. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece small thick quarto pp xxxviii 435 with the blindstamp of The Faversham Institute on the title page an ink name and address on the verso of the frontispiece has been cross-hatched out with the result thet the marking shows through to the plate the title page is a little age-toned the dedication leaf a little toned from an early insertion of a piece of paper otherwise this a remarkably clean and wide-margined copy bound in a recent full calf which has just slight signs of use. RARE. The subscribers' list accounts for just sixty copies. First English edition. Full Leather. Very Good. B. & J. White Hardcover‎

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‎Mez, C [Engler & Diels)‎

‎Bromeliaceae Das Pflanzanreich IV. 32‎

‎Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann 1935. Latin text. Illustrated with 116 botanical line drawings within the text large thick octavo pp 667 a duplicate from the Royal Holloway College library with their attractive bookplate on the front endpaper and a stamp on the title page remains of a shel label on the spine but not other markings very clean internally green cloth the spine slightly faded otherwise very good. A major work of classification and extremely scarce. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Wilhelm Engelmann Hardcover‎

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‎Fiek, Emil‎

‎Flora von Schlesien preussischen und osterreichischen Antheils enthaltend die wildwachsenden verwilderten und angebauten Phanerogamen und Gefass-Cryptogamen. Unter Mitwirkung von Rudolf von Uechtritz‎

‎Breslau: J.U. Kern 1881. Octavo pp 571i a little age-toned but otherwise tight and clean contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards slightly worn the spine creased. A flora of Silesia. From the library of the nurseryman Will Ingwersem with his bookplate and also the cancelled label of Botaniska Institutionernas Bibliotek. First Edition. Quarter leather. Good. J.U. Kern Hardcover‎

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‎Agassiz, Louis‎

‎An Essay on Classification‎

‎London: Longman Brown Green Longmans & Roberts; & Trubner & Co 1859. Octavo not illustrated pp viii 381 slightly used internally recently bound in plain green cloth with brown leather label on the spine. "For Agassiz the proper classification of plants and animals was essential to understanding the relationships among animals and between animals and the environments they inhabit. An anti-evolutionist Agassiz argued that plant and animal species are immutable and do not change over time. In the Essay he wrote that " . . . all differences observed among finite beings are ordained by the action of the Supreme Intellect and not determined by physical causes."". First Edition. Cloth. Good. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts; & Trubner & Co Hardcover‎

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‎Agassiz, Louis‎

‎An Essay on Classification‎

‎London: Longman Brown Green Longmans & Roberts; & Trubner & Co 1859. Octavo not illustrated pp viii 381very clean internally rebound in a serviceable twentieth century black half leather and green cloth . "For Agassiz the proper classification of plants and animals was essential to understanding the relationships among animals and between animals and the environments they inhabit. An anti-evolutionist Agassiz argued that plant and animal species are immutable and do not change over time. In the Essay he wrote that " . . . all differences observed among finite beings are ordained by the action of the Supreme Intellect and not determined by physical causes."". First Edition. Half Leather. Good. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts; & Trubner & Co Hardcover‎

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‎Walpole, EH (compiler); Sir Frederick Moore; JW Besant; GC Taylor; Lanning Roper E H J W G C‎

‎Mount Usher 1868 - 1952 : a short history of the origin and development of the gardens‎

‎Private printing 1952. Quarto pp 74 illustrated with mounted photographic plates very clean internally original cloth-backed boards very slightly worn. VERY SCARCE. . Cloth-backed boards. Very Good. Private printing Hardcover‎

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‎Baines, Henry; Baker, John Gilbert; John Nowell‎

‎The Flora of Yorkshire TOGETHER WITH A Supplement to Baines' Flora of Yorkshire by John Gilbert Baker and Mosses by John Nowell.‎

‎London & Halifax: Longman Orme Brown Green and Longman; Leyland and Son; William Pamplin London and Halifax 1840 - 1854. Illustrated with two maps octavo pp xviii 159 clean internally bound in red pebble cloth very faded around the spine slightly worn and marked traces of a label at base of spine; SUPPLEMENT With a coloured map frontispiece octavo pp 188 clean internally original brown boards with green pebble cloth spine slightly worn and rubbed with the original printed label browned and lacking a small piece. With the bookplate of the botanist David McClintock. . First Edition. Mixed bindings. Good. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman; Leyland and Son; William Pamplin Paperback‎

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‎Graells, Mariano de la Paz‎

‎Ramilletes de Plantas Espanolas. Primer Ramillete‎

‎Madrid: D. Eusebio Aguado 1859. Illustrated with nine hand coloured plates quarto pp 35 i th text a little age-toned the plates a bit foxed and the first two also rather dull and toned contemporary quarter morocco and marbled boards slightly rubbed. Includes four charming plates of Narcissus and at the rear a pressed specimen of Merendera with collecting notes dated 1878 - 1900. From the library of the nurseryman Will Ingwersen with his bookplate. There is also an earlier stamp on a blank leaf - "de Colney Courtoiseau" - possibly related to the French estate . First Edition. Quarter leather. Good. D. Eusebio Aguado Hardcover‎

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‎Trinius, CB C B‎

‎Species Graminum Iconibus et Descriptionibus Illustravit. Two volumes.‎

‎Lehre: J. Cramer 1970. Originally published 1828. Facsimile reprint two volumes the text is thick octavo pp 10 680; nthe illustrations large tall octavo 360 plates very clean internally green cloth just very slightly rubbed one slight bruise to the text volume. Cloth. Very Good. J. Cramer Hardcover‎

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