FITZPATRICK, T. J.MareMagnum
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19118vo [24.5 x 16 cm]; 241 pp, portrait frontis and 31 facsimiles of title pages, bibliog. original cloth-backed boards, gilt stamped title on front cover and spine, slight shelf wear, else a fine clean and partly unopened copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Bridson (The History of Natural History) Ba1401. A biography and the main bibliography of this leading nineteenth century American naturalist and botanist. The bibliography cites over 1,000 items. The author was a descendent of Thomas Jefferson, president of the US, for whom he was named.
19108vo [22.5 x 16.5 cm]; xiv, 167 pp, 20 color plates including frontis painted by Flemwell, with captioned tissue guards, index. original green pictorial cloth with a floral design in white & light green on the front and spine, title lettering, light foxing mostly marginal, else near fine in fine and bright cover, in a good dj (chipped at spine end, piece lacking from lower spine). Inman 123. Only 3,000 copies were printed of this first edition, with a reprint in 1916. There is a four page preface by the famous alpinist Henry Correvon in French, although the work itself is all in English. Attractive book with lovely plates. Not often found with a dust jacket.
184912mo [18 x 11 cm]; [x], 213, [iv, ads] pp, lithographed decorated title, 14 plates illustrating about 20 species each, illustrations in text. original blind stamped cloth, gilt design and title lettering on spine, spine ends a bit frayed, spine light faded, inscription to 'Ellen Selby from her dear Mamma', very slight foxing on few leaves, very good sound condition. A picture of this book is av Freeman 1260. BM Nat Hist p 610. A nicely produced and detailed work, with hundreds of illustrations, which was very popular at the time.
19124to [25.5 x 19 cm]; xvi, 351 pp, 16 colored plates, including frontis with tissue guard, numerous other plates from photos, hundreds of illustrations from drwgs, indexes. original green cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and cover, gilt vignette on spine, fine and clean, covers bright. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A very well-illustrated work covering all the main grasses and related plants (bamboo, sugar canes, rushes, sedges, etc) found in Canada and the United States, with detailed descriptions.
19724to [27.5 x 19.5 cm]; ix, 167 pp, maps including large folding with route in red, facsimiles, illus, bibliog, index. original simulated leather, gilt spine title lettering, fine and clean copy, in dj (short tear at edge, lightly foxed), with the original prospectus for the book, with a loose dedication to author from the Botanical Magazine, signed by author. A picture o Contains a loose review of this book in German. The book, besides reproducing the original works, includes a detailed introduction by Gilmour and short essays by a number of other authors on different aspects of the work, including R. E. Latham, R. Rose, P. W. Richards, C. E. Raven, appendices, etc
19448vo [23 x 16.5 cm]; 48 pp, fine color plates from drwgs, numerous other illus, bibliog. original pictorial paper covered boards, dj (lightly rubbed), fine and clean in very good dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. In the Britain in Pictures series.
18548vo [924 x 15.5 cm]; 2 volumes, both half titles, extra tinted lithographed title in each volume, 98 hand colored plates (numbered 1 - 96, 99, 100, as called for), with tissue guards, ads in volume I has lithographed portrait plate of author. later full green morocco leather, gilt spine title lettering, some light foxing or offsetting from plates on few leaves but a clean fine set. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Plesch 294. Bennet p 46. McGrath 46. Aatwater 1377. Not in Nissen. The 1st edition of 1845 had only 48 color plates. The book was expanded with double the number of plates and this is the preferred edition. Each plate has 4 pages of descriptive text, blank leaf and tissue guard, plus this copy has the lithographed plate of the author. This set also has the two hand colored plates on Linnaean Classification.
19538vo [25.5 x 16.5 cm]; xiv, 452 pp, 25 plates including frontis from photos, 9 colored maps, 75 illus, index. original pictorial gilt cloth, with gilt spine title lettering, dj (chipped at spine end, not price clipped), some pencil underlining, endpaper stain, cover rippled in part, else solid very good copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by em This second edition was revised, rewritten and greatly expanded with new illustrations added, from the first edition of 1947.
185612mo [17 x 11 cm]; vii, 296 pp, 65 wood engraved illustrations, plus extra-illustrated by previous owner including engraved plates on endpaper (Kew Bridge; The Old Palace, Kew), plates of blow-guns illustrating text, etc. original blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine title lettering and decorations, spine ends a little worn, very good+, no ownership marks, compete and with the additional illustrations making this copy unique. A picture of this book is available upon request by One of the scarcer books by this famous naturalist. Freeman-Wertheimer 72: 'A guide to the glasshouses of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, Surrey, taken one at a time in a straight-forward manner. Some of the illustrations were drawn from daguerreotypes, apparently the only occasion on which he used this method. Gosse implies that he used the apparatus himself. One woodcut contains Whimper's signature'. The illustrations are detailed and attractive, and include buildings, structures, such as the water tower, the pagoda, etc, and plants, such as orchids, palms, etc.
19048vo [24.5 x 18.5 cm]; 287 pp, 138 illustrations on 128 plates (complete), index. original red cloth, gilt spine title lettering, title lettering on cover in gilt border, spine faded but lettering clear, corner bumped, interior is clean and fine in very good cover. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A very detailed work with numerous detailed illustrations covering all aspects including starches, flours, leaves, flowers, seeds, spices, fruits, woods, barks, roots, bulbs, corms, fungi, galls, spores, etc.
19478vo [23 x 16.5 cm]; 48 pp, fine color plates from drwgs, numerous other illus, bibliog. original pictorial paper covered boards, dj (lightly rubbed), fine in very good dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. In the Britain in Pictures series.
1951folio [43 x 31 cm]; viii, 20 pp, 12 fine color plates, 24 monochrome collotype plates, all with tissue guards. orig cloth-backed boards, leather spine labels with gilt letters, orig printed paper title label on front cover, lower cover lightly soiled, dj with orig mounted color plate, dj (worn, old tape repair, large chip), slightly foxed, near fine in good dj. A Robert Thornton's Temple of Flora was first published in 1807 and is the most famous and impressive flower book of the period. The introduction gives the story of the book and an historical perspective. There are detailed notes about each plate. There are botanical notes by William T. Stearn. This is the best edition since the original of 1807, finely and carefully produced, being much larger than the 1972 edition, with finer plates. The jacket, although quite worn with 5 by 9 cm chip, is often lacking.
19284to [27 x 20 cm]; 12 parts bound in 3 volumes, complete, 324 plates with thousands of illustrations from drawings, bound with the original blue heavy paper printed wraps, index in each volume, each volume also has the additional title page. contemporary green cloth with gilt spine title lettering, spines lightly faded but lettering clear, fine, clean and sound copy, not usually found with the original wrappers. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Grout was a botanical pioneer in developing the study of mosses in North America and his work stimulated their study. See Ewan (A Short History of Botany in US). This work is very detailed and well-illustrated, covering Andreaeaceae, Archidiaceae, Polytrichaceae, Calymperaceae, Encalyptaceae, Tortella, Didymodon, Barbula; Aloina, Tortula, Pottia, Pterygoneurum, Grimmiaceae, Erpodiaceae, Splachnaceae, Bartramiaceae, Timiaceae, Aulacomniaceae, Bryaceae, Leskea and Pseudoleskea, Fontinalaceae. The work had contributions by A. J. Sharp, Stanley A. Cain, T. C. Frye, William C. Steere, Seville Flowers, Inez M. Haring, William C. Steere, Ethelda J. Craig, W. T. Wareham, George Neville Jones, Geneva Sayre; A. LeRoy Andrews, Winona H. Welch.
19264to [26.5 x 20 cm]; [xiv], 104, [i, ad] pp, 12 color plates including frontis from paintings by Ethel Driscoll, 79 other illustrations by Dorothy Levyns, appendix. original pictorial cloth, covers stained and warped, dampstain on few margins, front blank endpaper removed, signature on half-title. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Flowers blooming in every season in South Africa.
1943large 8vo [26.5 x 19 cm]; xiii, 233 pp, colorfrontis, numerous illustrations from photos and drwgs, including colored, bibliog, glossary, plant list, index. original cloth, gilt title lettering on front cover and on spine, near fine copy, interior is unmarked and quite clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email.
19258vo [21.5 x 14 cm]; 58 pp, interleaved with blank pages for notes, index to natural orders and genera. original green cloth with gilt title lettering, fine, clean and unmarked, the blank pages have not been written on. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Over 2,360 species are listed. The work was adapted for marking desiderata in exchanges of specimens, for an index catalogue of British Herbaria, for indicating the species of local districts, and for a guide to collectors by showing the comparative rarity or frequency of the species.
1910square 8vo [22 x 18 cm]; xxvi, 85 pp, 39 color plates including the frontis from the author's color photographs, index. original pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed at edges, near fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author used the Lumiere process of color photography, resulting in fine reproductions. Each plant is identified with the botanical name as well as the name in English, French and German.
19848vo [25 x 18.5 cm]; vi, 160 pp, color plates from Rowan's paintings, many other illustrations including full-page from drawings, photos, bibliog, index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj, fine and clean, unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The biography of Australia's finest botanical and wildlife artist, who contributed to many publications and whose paintings are most desirable. She collaborated with Baron von Mueller and Alice Lounsberry on three of her US botanical works. She travelled widely especially in Pacific area, Ceylon, etc.
19158vo [21.5 x 15 cm]; [xx], 383 pp, 16 color plates including frontis, 64 other plates from photos, glossary, indexes. original brown pictorial cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and cover, spine a little faded, light stain on edge of cover, clean unmarked copy, interior is near fine in very good cover. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A detailed and well-illustrated work on the flowers of the Rocky Mountains, describing hundreds of plants. This work is a re-working of her earlier Mountain Wild Flowers of America published in 1905, but this work with new material and with the colored plates. Includes a botanical key to plant families and species. The book is arranged by ferns, trees and color of flowers.
19068vo [21 x 15 cm]; xxi, 384 pp, 100 plates including frontis from photos, glossary, indexes. original green pictorial cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and cover, spine flower vignette, spine little faded, front cover quite bright, minor rubbing to lower edge, slight foxing to few leaves, clean, unmarked, very good+. A picture of this book is The original edition, very well-illustrated, describing hundreds of flowering plants of the Rocky Mountains, the work became a minor classic and often referred to. The book is arranged by color of flowers with a separate section on flowering shrubs.
19588vo [21 x 15 cm]; [x], 302 pp, many illustrations including full-page, bibliog.. original cloth backed boards, dj (light wear, short tear, price clipped), name on half-title page, interior clean and near fine, overall very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. An interesting book on garden history concentrating on a number of the more common garden flowers.
19184to [29.5 x 23 cm]; 2 volumes, 185, [i]; [ii], 187 - 362 pp, 264 fine color plates from photos, other illustrations in text, index. original green cloth, gilt title lettering on spine, very lightly rubbed at outer edge and corner, small mark on spines, removal of bookplate from endpaper, interior is clean, fresh, unmarked and fine, gilt on spines is bright. A picture of this book is a Blake and Atwood p200: "Popular descriptive flora of herbaceous plants, noteworthy for its excellent color photographs." This comprehensive flora has become a classic and is useful for the entire region, not just New York since much of flora is common to northeastern North America. This is the first issue; there was a later issue in 1923 as well as a recent reprint. A fine complete copy of this massive set.
1979oblong 4to [20.5 x 25 cm]; xv, 116 pp, numerous illustrations in color and black and white from paintings, bibliog. original pictorial heavy paper wraps, pictorial endpapers, minor rubbing, interior is clean and near fine, unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A historical overview of botanical art in British Columbia and details on ethnobotany, well-illustrated.
19848to [26 x 20 cm]; [iv], 83 pp, 11 maps, including foldout, bibliography, tables. original printed heavy paper wraps, printed title on spine and cover, fine and clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A description and history of plant hunting and collecting in the southern part of Venezuela including the headwaters of the Orinoco River and part of the Amazon Basin. Early naturalists that explored in this area include Humboldt and Bonpland in 1800, Schomburgk in 1839, Richard Spruce, etc, discovered vast botanical diversity and inspired numerous plant hunters. The work includes a detailed chronological table of exploration, lists of collectors, etc.
19508vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; xvi, [188], xvii pp, frontis map, 94 fine colored plates from drwgs including over 800 illus, index. original red cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (wear at spine ends, price clipped), near fine in very good dj, inscribed to A. Cameron from Mary. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A beautifully illustrated guide to this botanically prolific area in South Africa.