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4to, [2], 43-80pp., double-page coloured map, orig. green printed wrappers, uncut, a nice copy.
4to, 32pp., authors presentation inscription to upper wrapper, 2 double-page maps (one coloured), orig. orange printed wrappers, slight nick to upper wrapper. Reprint, with a new title-page and pagination, from the introduction to "Flora of Hertfordshire" / A. R. Pryor (1887).
8vo, 27, [1]pp., staples rusted. Bo other copy located.
8vo, 57pp., orig. printed wrappers. Transactions of the B.S. & D.N.H.S. Vol. I, part II. JISC locating Kew Botanical Gardens copy only.
8vo, [2], 137-208pp., orig. printed wrappers.
First edition, small 4to, 256pp., coloured frontis., 40 plates, folding map and folding chat in pocket at rear, orig. green cloth, decorated in gilt, uncut, t.e.g. a very nice copy.
Second edition, 8vo, x, 428 + 4pp., of adverts, frontispiece, 6 plates, rear hinge shaken, orig. green cloth, worn, a couple of nicks to spine.
First edition, 4to, xviii, 20 pages of facsimiles, 12pp., one of 100 copies, inscribed by Jackson "this copy number sixty four is the property of James Britten, Esq. [Department of Botany] British Museum", some light spotting, orig. cloth-backed boards, slightly stained.
First edition, 2 vols., 4to (290 x 225 mm), Large paper copy, vol. I: viii, 96 hand-coloured plates with unpaginated accompanying text; Vol. II: 80 hand-coloured plates and accompanying text followed by 32 page index with an errata leaf, some light offsetting to text leaves, light spotting to endpapers, cont. calf, rubbed, rebacked, both vols., with a dark stain to base of spine, overall a clean and presentable set. Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785?1865), born and educated in Norwich, an inheritance gave him the means to travel and to devote himself to the study of natural history, particularly botany. He married Maria, the eldest daughter of the Norfolk banker Dawson Turner, in 1815, afterwards living in Halesworth for eleven years, where he established a herbarium that was renowned amongst botanists at the time. This is the rare large paper copy with all engravings hand-coloured, Hooker published more than twenty major botanical works over a period of fifty years, this being one of his scarcest works. Provenance: Bookplates of Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, grandson of Dawson Turner. Stafleu & Cowan, 2990; Nissen, Botanische Buchillustration, 925; BM (NH), p. 870; Pritzel, 4210.
First edition, 2 vols., 8vo (210 x 130 mm), xxxvi, 358; [2], [359]-751, [1] + 6pp., of publishers adverts, 24 engraved plates, neat library stamp to free-endpaper of vol. II, gutter margin of front-endpaper to Vol. I repaired with archival paper, intermittent foxing and spotting, particularly heavy to the rear of vol. II, marbled edges with matching marbled endpapers, nineteenth-century half hard grained brown morocco, rubbed, faint library number at base of spine. Frederick Traugott Pursh (1774-120) spent 12 years in the United States making friends with the most prolific botanists of the age, researching at their herbariums, and travelling by foot down the east coast and across the northern latitudes of the continent. He made acquaintance of Captain Meriwether Lewis and accepted the assignment of cataloguing the plants collected by the Corps of Discovery Expedition. He then returned to London to publish this major contribution to North American botany. "Among the numerous useful and interesting objects of natural history discovered on the vast extent of the New Continent, none claim our attention in a higher degree than the vegetable productions of North America." (Preface).
Second edition, second issue, large 4to (295 x 230 mm), [2], 13, [1], 10pp., followed by 85 copper engraved plates, some light toning to text, plates general nice and clean, bound in a handsome cont. full calf, joint cracked at head and foot, spine tooled in gilt with an attractive floral design, contrasting red morocco label lettered in gilt. Dillenius, Johann Jakob Dillenius (1687?1747), was was contemporaneous with both Ray and Linnaeus, and this is regarded as "his greatest work."?DNB. First published in 1741, this 1768 edition is a re-issue of the original plates with explanatory text, it covers mosses, liverworts, lycopods, and algae - the illustrations all drawn and engraved by the author. Provenance: Small previous owner stamp of William T. Doyle at head of title. Nissen BBI 491; Stafleu & Cowan, 1472; Henrey III, 642.
Third edition, corrected and improved, 4to (80 x 215 mm), [728], 111, [5]pp., In two parts: the 'Dictionary' is unpaginated, and 'The gardener's kalendar' has a separate pagination and register, engraved frontispiece and 27 fine folding copper engraved plates of machinery, all nice and clean, thin small worn track to several gatherings, mostly margins, rebound in quarter calf over marbled boards, leather spine label, gilt. First issued 1756 and published in weekly parts, it was written by members of the Royal Society of Arts under the pseudonym a Society of Gentlemen. It contained various contemporary methods of cultivating and improving land; of breeding, managing, and fattening cattle; of curing the various diseases etc. Rothamsted, p.138.
Thirteenth edition, 8vo, xii, 772pp., inner hinges shaken, orig. green cloth.
First edition, 12mo, iv, 107, [1]pp., the text provides spaces to enter where each specimen was gathered (with several contemporary entries in ink), orig. green cloth, spine label, rubbed.
First edition, small 8vo, vii, [1], 144pp., engraved title, hand-coloured frontispiece, illustrs., in the text, orig. publishers black embossed calf, slightly rubbed. Provenance: From the library of Michael Walpole.
First edition, small 8vo, viii, 136, [2]pp., neat library label to front paste-down, orig. publishers green embossed cloth, rebacked.
First edition, small 8vo, [2], ii, 213, [1]pp., orig. publishers purple cloth, faded, title in gilt on upper cover. Provenance: Signature of R. Campbell Davys, July 1865, with his armorial bookplate to front paste-down.
First edition, small 8vo, viii, 41, [1] + 2pp., of adverts, orig. publishers blue embossed cloth, lettered in gilt, a nice copy.
Second edition, 8vo, [4], 76pp., illustrs., orig. publishers green cloth, printed label on upper cover.
First edition, 8vo (170 x 110 mm), vi, [2], 9-149, [3]pp., with the final advert leaf and list of 40 subscribers which includes Sir Joseph Banks, Lord Bute, Daines Barrington Lettsom, and Thomas White, folding plan, orig. boards, rubbed, uncut, paper spine chipped, but still a very good copy in original state, uncut. In 1777 William Curtis (1746-1799) began to lay out a Botanic Garden at Lambeth Marsh, 'somewhat more than an acre in extent, situated to the north west of the Magdalen hospital'. This enterprise Curtis made known to the public in 1778 with the publication of his Proposals for opening by subscription, a botanic garden, to be called the "London Botanic Garden". He closed this pamphlet with the statement: 'The garden to be opened the 1st of January, 1779.' The garden was duly opened In 1783 "to members of the public at a subscription of one guinea a year and had a library for their use. To stock it Curtis received plants "from his Majesty's matchless collection of plants in the Royal Gardens at Kew," from the Chelsea Physic Garden and from the private gardens of Pitcairn, Fothergill, John Coakley Lettsom, Sir Joseph Banks and many others, and also the nurserymen L,, Gordon Malcolm, Davies, Loddiges and Grimwood."?Henrey. Curtis published this catalogue of the London Botanical Gardens and dedicated it to the two principal patrons of the undertaking. Daines Barrington (1727-1800), the noted lawyer, antiquary, and naturalist, and Thomas White (1724-97), a brother of Gilbert White of Selborne. Provenance: Contemporary ink ownership signature of G. N. Hall; presentation inscription from J. Rayner to Miss Starr, 1952. This catalogue is rare in commerce and has the leaf C2 which is often wanting; Henrey, 591.
First edition, part I all published, 8vo (190 x 115 mm), [12], 116pp., with the half-title and half-title, 5pp. list of subscribers, original boards, uncut, spine a little chipped, but still a very nice copy. This private botanical garden was originally opened by William Curtis in 1779 at Lambeth, but due to smoke pollution, he moved the plants to the larger gardens in Brompton. According to the Survey of London, "in 1789 William Curtis, the author of Flora Londinensis and the founder of The Botanical Magazine, took over from Rubergall as tenant and moved the botanical garden which he had opened in Lambeth in 1779 to this spot. The Brompton Botanic Garden, as it was known, covered about three and a half acres, almost exactly conforming to the area which is now occupied by the streets and houses on the hospital's estate, while the remaining four and a half acres to the north were used for experiments in agriculture. After Curtis's death in 1799 his partner William Salisbury kept the garden here until 1808 when he moved it to Sloane Street, Chelsea. He continued to use the ground at Brompton for a nursery, however, until 1829 when he was succeeded there by David Ramsay, whose establishment was known as the Queen's Elm or Swan Lane nursery." Rare; JISC locating just 3 copies (Oxford, Kew and Royal Horticultural Society Libraries).
4to (260 x 205 mm), 2 parts in one, first part the first edition, the second part is a third edition, [4], vii-xii, 214, 126, [2]; [2], ix, [1], 197, [1]pp., engraved frontispieces and 18 plates (5 folding), of which 5 plates by William Blake, occasional offsetting, signatures L & M misbound (part 2), scattered faint spotting, marbled endpapers, contemporary full red morocco, single gilt fillet border to boards, smooth spine, seven gilt tooled bands producing 6 compartments, upper compartment with the Arnold crest - a demi tiger regardant bezanty holding a pheon, next compartment gilt lettered direct, some light rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very nice copy. Epic poetic tribute to the lives, loves, and reproductive capacity of plants by the grandfather of Charles Darwin. Darwin's Botanic Garden is important for the five plates in part I which are engraved by William Blake: 'The Fertilization of Egypt,' engraved after the painting by Henry Fuseli, and four engravings of the Portland Vase. "The chief source of Erasmus Darwin's literary fame during his lifetime, The Botanic Garden contains a great deal of important and frequently advanced scientific information in the nearly 300 footnotes and the 115 pages of appendices to its verses..."? The Encyclopaedia Britannica. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of George Henry Arnold (1791-1844) to font paste-down; later bookplate of Ralph Hermon Major.
First edition, 12mo (154 x 93 mm), 148pp., endpapers renewed, re-cased with new leather spine and corners, original printed boards, uncut, a very good copy. One of the great rarities of local natural history, printed on a home-made printing press at Llanrwst, Conway, Wales. John Jones (1786-1865), printer and inventor, "He kept a paper and bookshop, and printed much miscellaneous work for the locality. Sometime (? before 1817) he constructed three presses to the Ruthven design, so called after its inventor, Alexander Ruthven, which he then used for all his printing work. He also learnt to cast his own type and used many of his own letters and characters for the rest of his life."?(DWB). In 1936 the Science Museum acquired John Jones' press and equipment. Provenance: From the botanical library of Michael Walpole with his bookplate. Freeman, 4015.
First edition, 4to (223 x 170 mm), vi, 352pp., folding table, 77 hand-coloured engraved plates, after drawings by the author, without the additional leaf p.353 which was not available at the time of the original publication of the book but issued later, occasional ink and pencil annotations and marginalia, some light spotting and toning to text but plates clean and fresh, bookplate (re-laid) and owner inscription of William Borrer, Henfield, Sussex, front hinge reinforced, nicely bound in recent half calf, marbled boards, red morocco lettering piece, compartments tooled in gilt. Provenance: William Borrer (1781-1862), his copy with most likely his annotations. Borrer was an esteemed English botanist, who contributed much of his extensive knowledge of British plants to many botanical works of the period and pioneered British Lichenology, culminating in his 'Specimen of a Lichenographia Brittanica' in 1839, along with Dawson Turner; later from the library of Alan Roy Perry, formerly at the Botany Department at the National Library of Wales. Nissen BBI 830; Stafleu & Cowan, Taxonomic Literature 2532.
Small oblong 4to, [93]pp., one of 500 numbered copies, illustrated throughout, orig. calf-backed marbled boards, head and foot of spine chipped, d.w defective.