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2000Best.-Nr. 26988Bolus Herbarium / National Botanical Institute 2000. Contributions from the Bolus Herbarium no. 19. V.g./No Jacket. Paper covers Owner's label. Bolus Herbarium / National Botanical Institute unknown
1988Best.-Nr. 27008R.B.G. Kew / Collingridge 1988. 1st edition. Fine/Fine. Hard covers dust jacket Owner's label. R.B.G. Kew / Collingridge hardcover
1929Best.-Nr. 27002Dulau London; The Stratford Co. Boston 1929. 2nd impression of the reprint. Fine/No Jacket. Hard covers gilt title on impressed cloth with an intriguing pattern Owner's bookplate. Dulau, London; The Stratford Co., Boston hardcover
1976Best.-Nr. 27039Government Printer Wellington 1976 1980 1982. 1st edition vols. 2 & 3 2nd edition vol. 1. V.g./V.g. Hard covers dust jackets Owner's bookplates. Government Printer, Wellington hardcover
1986Best.-Nr. 27079Cambridge University Press 1986-2000. 1st edition. V.g./No Jacket. Hard covers Scarcely used. Owner's labels. Cambridge University Press hardcover
1982Best.-Nr. 26975Stanford University Press 1982. 1st edition. Fine/Fine. Hard covers dust jacket Owner's bookplate and signature; otherwise as new. Stanford University Press hardcover
1934Best.-Nr. 27005New Flora and Silva 1934. 1st edition. Fine/No Jacket. Hard covers no dust jacket Owner's bookplate cancelled library stamp. Former owner's signature on half-title page. New Flora and Silva hardcover
1980Best.-Nr. 27011Purnell Cape Town 1980. 1st edition. V.g./No Jacket. Hard covers Owner's bookplate. Purnell, Cape Town hardcover
1769Best.-Nr. 017255Vienna: Krauss 1769. Two volumes bound in one quarto illustrated with 18 folding engraved plates age-toned the final plate a littlre frayed at the fore-edge and neatly repaired at the folds two main title pages six sub-title pages to the fascicles and six dedication pages all with engraved vignettes several engraved tail-pieces pp xii 508 8 a little age-toning throughout occasional spotting and foxing but otherwise sound smartly bound in a fairly modern half-calf slightly rubbed.As usual it is the second printing of the first volume and the first edition of the second. The first title page has the blind stamp of Isaac Bayley Balfour. As well as Regius Keeper of Edinburgh Botanic Garden Balfour had the distinction at various times of being Professor of Botany at Glasgow Oxford and Edinburgh. Crantz was a botanist but primarily a physician lecturing in obstetrics. As an extremely sharp-sighted and sensible observer - and in a scientific dispute with his contemporaries Jacquin and Linnaeus - he discovered and named for example the genus Camelina and many new species such as Pedicularis rostratocapitata Veronica orchidea Veronica dillenii. Potentilla crantzii and Noccaea crantzii = Thlaspi alpestre are named for him. The six fascicules are dedicated to different botanical societies or natural historians including Saverio Manetti Albrecht von Haller and the Dane Petrus Ascanius a pupil of Linnaeus. Hunt 603; Pritzel 1954. . Half-Leather. Good. Krauss Hardcover
1935Best.-Nr. 017211Jamaica Plain Massachusette: The Arnold Arboretum 1935. A few illustrations large octavo pp 132 a feint soft crease running through the top margins of the pages otherwise very clean internally paperback the spine slightly wrinkled otherwise a very good copy. VERY SCARCE. From the library of the geneticist C.D. Darlington with his initials on the upper cover; the cover also has a signed inscription from the first author - "But for you this might have been Aquilegia !". Cyril Dean Darlington was an English biologist geneticist and eugenicist who discovered the mechanics of chromosomal crossover its role in inheritance and therefore its importance to evolution. He was Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford from 1953 to 1971. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. The Arnold Arboretum Paperback
1761Best.-Nr. 017305Paris: C.J.B. Bauche 1761. Illustrated with an engraved folding map 19 attractive engraved plates octavo half-title title page pp xviii 585 ii a little age-toning and slight staining internally hinge at the front slightly weak but otherwise good and sound internally full contemporary calf worn at the corners a little rubbed generally the upper joint with slight wear lacking a small piece at the head of the spine marbled endpapers. RARE. From the library of the nurseryman Will Ingwersen with his signature on the first blank and his bookplate on the front endpaper. "The book is important because it contains an early attempt at a natural system prior to Adanson ignored by A-L de Jussieu influenced to some extent by Linnaeus's Ordines Naturales" - Stafleu & Cowan. . First Edition. Full-Leather. Good. C.J.B. Bauche Hardcover
Best.-Nr. 016566Fleet Street and Bride Court London: William Smith and J.M. Knott 1837 - 1840. Three volumes small quarto pp viii 96 6; iv 188; iv 188 three vignette title pages an extra hand-coloured title page in the first volume with 137 fine hand coloured plates all edges gilt bound in a Victorian half morocco and cloth the spines highly decorated in gilt a little rubbed at the joints and corners the cloth sides slightly marked and very slightly bubbled in a few small places. In Volume 3 title page and the first two plates and text are a little stained at the upper corner the subsequent three plates and text pages very faintly marked; otherwise this is a remarkably clean and bright set internally - the plates all have their protective tissues which very occasionally have a faint spot of foxing but nothing has transfered to the surface of the plate. With the book label of Carl Wendell Carlsmith 1904 - 1932 on each of the first blank pages in each volume. RARE AND EXCEPTIONALLY DIFFICULT TO FIND COMPLETE. George Beauchamp Knowles was a surgeon and Professor of Botany at Birmingham School of Medicine. Frederic Westcott was a Secretary of the Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society and contributed papers on the Shropshire flora to The Phytologist. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good. William Smith and J.M. Knott Hardcover
1761Best.-Nr. 016590Paris: C.J.B. Bauche 1761. Illustrated with an engraved folding map 19 attractive engraved plates octavo half-title title page pp xviii 585 ii a little age-toning and slight staining internally a contemporary signature on the title page the occasional neat manuscript note otherwise good and sound internally twentieth century half morocco lightly scuffed raised bands to the spine. RARE. Withe bookplate of Kenneth Lazenby a founding member of the Alpine Garden Society . "The book is important because it contains an early attempt at a natural system prior to Adanson ignored by A-L de Jussieu influenced to some extent by Linnaeus's Ordines Naturales" - Stafleu & Cowan. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good. C.J.B. Bauche Hardcover
1805Best.-Nr. 016703Paris & Tubingen: Carol. Frid. Cramerum & J.G. Cottam 1805. 1805-1807. Two volumes bound in one small very thick 12mo pp xii 546; 22 657 3 printed in two columns per page extremely clean and tight internally contemporary calf with single line in gilt recently re-backed with a new calf spine and morocco label. A duplicate from the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library with their cancelled stamp on the front endpaper but no other markings. A very impressive copy. The work describes in Latin 20000 plants - in very small type!!. First Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good. Carol. Frid. Cramerum & J.G. Cottam Hardcover
1799Best.-Nr. 016626Manchester: R. & W. Dean 1799. First edition. Two parts in one volume octavo pp viii 1-227 i second title page 229-449 i slight age-toning and the very odd fox-mark but really very clean internally contemporary tree calf slightly worn at the corners re-backed with a new calf spine the original label preserved. A rare work and especially so with its second title page preserved; this was frequently discarded because of the continuous pagination. Soulsby - add. 772. Blanche Henry 861 - "Hull took up botany as a relaxation from medical duties". She also comments that of the other edition the second of 1808 only the first part exists. John Hull M.D. was born at Poulton in Lancashire in 1764 and received his medical education at Leyden where he graduated doctor of medicine 18th May 1792. He settled at Manchester and devoted himself especially to the practice of midwifery and held the appointment of physician to the Lying-in Hospital there. He was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 6th June 1806 and a Licentiate 25th June 1819. Dr. Hull died on the 17th March 1843 in Tavistock Square London the residence of his eldest son. Dr. Hull was an accomplished botanist and a sound practical physician. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good. R. & W. Dean Hardcover
1864Best.-Nr. 016729Belfast: C. Aitchison 1864. First edition 12mo pp xx 176 interleaved with blanks a four page Lovell Reeve publisher's catalogue at the rear slightly age-toned and dusty the title page a bit foxed but otherwise tight and sound original green pebble cloth slightly worn and faded. SCARCE. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. C. Aitchison Hardcover
1815Best.-Nr. 016705Bex Canton de Vaud Switzerland.: Published by the author 1815. Third edition. Small slim 12mo pp 48 very clean internally original dark brown paper covers a slight scuff to the lower cover otherwise in remarkable condition. An exceptional copy. Schleicher was German - born a botanist bryologist mycologist pteridologist and algologist and settled in Switzerland around 1790. He owned a firm selling living plants as well as herbarium specimens. There were four editions of this work. "The catalogues provide names without descriptions but with very abbreviated references to other authors. For this reason the names in these catalogues may be of nomenclatoral importance " - Stafleu. Third edition. Paperback. Very Good. Published by the author ? Paperback
1858Best.-Nr. 016733Wien: Carl Gerald's Sohn 1858. First edition. Thick octavo pp xiv 816 slight foxing but otherwise very clean and sound internally bound in an early twentieth century simple red cloth. With the bookplate of Kenneth Lazenby a founding member of the Alpine Garden Society. RARE. Von Wulfen 1728 - 1805 was an Austrian botanist zoologist mineralogist alpinist and Jesuit priest and an early follower of Linnaeus and the binomial system. He is credited with discovering the flowering plants Wulfenia carinthiaca Saxifraga moschata and Stellaria bulbosa. In 1845 the lead molybdate mineral wulfenite was named in his honor. Much of his literary work was printed only after his death including this work. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Carl Gerald's Sohn Hardcover
1860Best.-Nr. 016685London Ilfracombe & Torquay: Bosworth & Harrison 1860. Small octavo pp viii 92 ii 93-108 very clean internally recently bound in simple boards with paper title label on the spine a very good copy. This copy is a curiosity of edition and pagination. The original work of 1860 seems to extend always to 92 pages. Our copy has an extra errata leaf unpaginated. This is then followed by a supplement paginated 93-108. Freeman 1325 mentions that the supplement was re-issued with the Flora and dated 1872. David McClintock's copy see Maggs Brothers Catalogue 1337 confirms the date as 1872 and comments "the author explains in his preface that he had 300 copies of the first edition left so he gave them a new title and added an 18pp supplement". But our copy definitely is the first printing and with a 16pp supplement. I offer no explanation !! But certainly in whatever form the supplement is rare. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. Bosworth & Harrison Hardcover
Best.-Nr. 016630Victoria: British Columbia Provincial Museum 1982 - 1978. Two volumes small octavo pp 264; 259 well illustrated with colour and black and white photographs very clean internally paperback covers in very good condition a lovely set virtually as new. A very detailed work. The second volume is extremely sarce. Paperback. Very Good. British Columbia Provincial Museum Paperback
1959Best.-Nr. 26492Almquist & Wiksell 1959. Arkiv för Botanik ser. 2 Band 5 no. 1. V.g./No Jacket. Paper covers Slight corner wear to cover. A regional flora with illustrations based in part on Haradjian's collections from the Amanus mts. Almquist & Wiksell unknown
Best.-Nr. 016872London: Trustees of the British Museum Natural History Published 1978 - 1982. Three volumes quarto not illustrated pp 154; 220; 226 very clean internally paperback covers a little unevenly faded otherwise a very good set. . Paperback. Very Good. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) Paperback
1872Best.-Nr. 486Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club 1872. V.g./No Jacket. Hard covers gilt title on face A good copy somewhat shaken foot of spine frayed. A highly competent Victorian flora of the Liverpool area vi 182 pp. index. Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club hardcover
1914Best.-Nr. 25448Somersetshire Archeological and Natural Society Proceedings 1914. V.g./No Jacket. Hard covers Included in Proceedings vol. 59 separately paginated. iv 242 pp. Somersetshire Archeological and Natural Society Proceedings hardcover
1845Best.-Nr. 016130Tunbridge Wells and London: J. Colbran; D. Bouge and Harvey & Dalton 1845. Illustrated with two charming hand coloured plates 12mo pp xxii ii 260 ii very clean internally original green embossed cloth with gilt title and decoration on the upper cover corners slightly bruised spine slightly faded a split at the top of the lower joint but overall a very good copy. SCARCE. The subscribers' list at the rear accounts for only 91 copies. Thius copy has the signature in two places of Lindfield Borrer - presumably the son or nephew of the Sussex botanist William Borrer. This may well be a special subscriber's copy as it contains pages xviii - xxii and the errata page which are not always present; it also has the text printed on the verso of each page only so there are 125 blank pages for notes; most copies have pages paginated to 134. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. J. Colbran; D. Bouge and Harvey & Dalton Hardcover
