RODWAY, JamesMareMagnum
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18948vo; xxiii, 242 pp, frontis, 15 plates from photos, including one of orchids. original cloth, spine decorated, fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. An important contribution to rain forest botany and ecology, based on the author's 24 years of collecting and study in the area.
18948vo [21 x 14 cm]; xxiii, [errata slip], 242, [vi, ads] pp, frontis, 16 plates from photos, including one of orchids, one of the silk cotton-tree with epiphytes. original cloth, spine gilt decorated, gilt spine title lettering, cover rubbed, endpaper inscription, internal hinges cracked but firm, very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. An important contribution to rain forest botany and ecology. This copy has the errata slip usually absent, loose as issued.
19118vo [21 x 14 cm]; 326 pp, frontis, 23 plates from photos, including one of orchids. original pictorial cloth, spine gilt decorated, gilt spine title lettering, cover faded non-uniformly, interior clean very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. An important contribution to rain forest botany and ecology. This edition has an additional 8 plates and expanded text and four new chapters based on the author's additional collections and studies in the 16 years after the first edition was published.
192612mo [21 x 11 cm]; [viii], 115, [iii] pp. original cloth, gilt title lettering, light crease on front cover but a very good clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A handy reference for thousands of plants, meant to be placed in your back pocket as you wondered field or garden.
19368vo [23.5 x 16 cm]; [viii], 209 pp, frontis (portrait), plates from photos, tables, bibliog of his works. original cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and front cover, head of spine worn, spine a little faded, very good clean copy, this was the publisher's copy with their stamp on endpaper, else unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by e A detailed assessment of Harris' works, biography.
19984to [27 x 20 cm]; 357 pp, frontis (portrait of author), 11 colored plates of maps and plans, other illustrations from original sources, appendix of medicinal plant names, index of plant names. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (not clipped), fine and clean, unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Translated by famous Harvard botanist, Richard Evans Schultes, who had spent much time in the same regions explored by Ruiz, and Maria Jose Nemry von Thenen de Jaramillo-Arango, and transcribed from the original manuscripts by Jaime Jaramillo-Arango, this work provides the first description from the diaries of Ruiz, one of the earliest botanical explorers and plant hunters in South America, who spent 11 years in forests, mountains, villages of Chile and Peru. Besides the descriptions of 2,000 plants, Ruiz provides fascinating descriptions of the landscape, weather, native cultures, geography, geology, living conditions, etc. The first Spanish scientific expedition in South America, rich in detail.
19128vo [23 x 15.5 cm]; 11 pp, with list of NY Botanical Garden publications on rear cover. original printed paper wraps, minor fading on edge but fine copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Each plant is described with date and place found.
1810thick 8vo [22 x 14 cm]; xvi, 901, [i, publisher's ads] pp, 283 wood engravings, engraved by Thomas Bewick. orig marbled boards with later leather spine, gilt-ruled and gilt spine title lettering, lightly rubbed, armorial engraved bookplate of P. C. D. Mundy, light stain in outer corner of last 10 leaves else a clean and crisp copy, fine in handsome binding, w. The book is notable for its Bewick wood engravings and, of course, for its author who wrote several books on related topics including the famous Temple of Flora. A rich source work with much on coffee, tea, Peruvian bark (cinchona for malaria treatment), poppies, and hundreds of others, each entry with description, illustration, history, preparations or uses, etc. This copy without the usual browning and foxing. Nissen 1954. Pritzel 9238. Plesch 743.
19318vo [23 x 17 cm]; xxi, 601 pp, frontis, 140 illustrations including plates and 9 reconstructions of ancient landscapes drawn for the author by Edward Vulliamy, tables, bibliog, index. original pictorialgilt cloth, with gilt dancing turtles on front cover, dj (short tear, lightly rubbed, price clipped), trifle foxed on edge, bookplate on endpaper, a bright fine copy in the seldom found dust jacket. A picture of this book is available up A detailed and useful account. This copy has the stamped signature of eminent garden writer, Anthony Huxley on the front endpaper.
19748vo [24 x 16 cm]; xx, [i], 329 pp, hundreds of illustrations from drwgs, glossary, bibliog, index. original cloth, spine title lettering, dj (price clipped), fine and clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A well-illustrated work covering a thousand or more plants that the gardener or nature walker in North America is likely to see, with details on each and most with an illustration.
18148vo [22 13.5 cm]; xxiii, 405, [i, ads for author's other books' pp, 15 finely engraved plates with 214 illus, index. contemporary full calf, gilt title lettering on spine label, front joint repaired, covers rubbed, edge wear, small signature on title, interior clean and fine in good covers. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Freeman 3460. Pritzel 8745. A popular work, first published in 1807 by the president of the Linnaean Society and a respected botanist.
19954to [28.5 x 20 cm]; ix, 317 pp, over 250 color illustrations from photos and early sources, 45 line drwgs, glossary, bibliog, index. original cloth, spine title lettering, dj (not price clipped, very slight wear to spine edge), interior fresh and clean, near fine copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. First edition was published in 1980 as 'Asian Orchids' but this second edition is expanded with the addition of three new chapters including commercial orchid farming, handling cut flowers and the use of orchids as medicine, aphrodisiac and food, and the other chapters have been revised and updated. Half the photographs are new. Beautifully illustrated.
18448vo [21.5 x 14 cm]; includes 9 original papers by Spruce, folding partly colored map, plate of Utricularia Peltata, Spruce, from Linn. Society Journal Botany Vol. IV, 1845. contemporary half calf, with gilt title lettering 'Opuscula; R. S.' on leather spine label, marbled boards rubbed, contents of papers listed hand-written on endpaper, initials RS in ink on margin of first paper, marginal notes & corrections, very good. A The papers by Richard Spruce included here are: The Musci and Hepaticae of Teesdale, Trans. Bot. Society of Edinburgh, 1844 (pp 65-89); On Several Mosses new to the British Flora, London Journal of Botany, 1845 (pp1-27); On Five New Plants from Eastern Peru, Linnaean Society, 1859 (pp191-204); On the Mode of Branching of Some Amazon Trees, Linn. Soc., 1861, (pp 3-51); Notes of a Visit to the Cinchona Forests on the Western slope of the Quiteian Andes, Linn Journal, 1859, (176-192); On the Mountains of Llanganati in the Eastern Cordillera of the Quitonian Andes, offprint (?, or possibly earlier printing, has a few hand corrections) from Royal Geographical Society of London, 1861 (1-21, with folding engraved map, partly colored showing his routes); On the River Purus, a Tributary of the Amazon, no publisher stated, June 13, 1864 (1-13); Notes on the Valleys of Piura and Chira in Northern Peru and on the Cultivation of Cotton Therein, London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1864 (pp 1-81). In addition there is only part of his paper, Report on the Expedition to Procure Seeds and Plants of the Cinchona Succirubra, or Red Bark Tree, London 1861, pages 85-112 only, the rest being removed but pages 104-111 being a note by Spruce on Cinchona Succirubra, Pavon and allied species, dated 1861 and pages 111-112 being a note by Clements R. Markham , respected author who wrote two books on obtaining Cinchona seeds and plants for planting in India to develop a cure for malaria. There is also a paper by Daniel Oliver, 'Descriptions of New Species of Utricularia from South America, 1859 (pp 169-176). Mark Honigsbaum in his book Valverde's Gold, 2004, on the exploration in eastern Ecuador for Incan gold, refers extensively to Spruce's work, especially that on Llanganati Mountains and he reproduced Spruce's map described above in his book but in much reduced size. The manuscript notes in parts of this work may be in Spruce's hand but this is not verified. Spruce was one of the great plant hunters of the Amazon region, collecting over seven thousand botanical specimens, many of which were previously unknown. Spruce was in the Amazon region at the same time as Bates and Wallace, and all three lived on the earnings from specimens sent back to England. In 1860, Spruce collected some 600 cinchona plants and thousands of seeds in Ecuador for raising in India for the production of quinine as a cure for malaria. The Royal Geographical Society elected him an honorary fellow in 1866 for his fine work. The Linnaean Society also made him an associate. Spruce was a great influence on the work of Darwin, Wallace, Richard Schultes and others. The author's 'Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes; being records of travel on the Amazon and its Tributaries, the Trombeta, Rio Negro, Uapes, etc. . to the Orinoco, the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador and the shores of the Pacific during 1849-1864' was published in 1908 after his death, by Alfred Russell Wallace, and remains a classic work of travels in South America and especially Amazonia.
19228vo [25 x 16.5 cm]; [ii], iii, 130 pp, 6 plates including frontis from photos, 2 folding colored maps in rear pocket, index. original heavy paper printed wraps, signature in upper title margin, few penciled notes in margin, spine a bit chipped, very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Published as memoir 126, biological series. The work includes the geology, physiography, climate, history of botanical exploration, oxylophytes, calcicoles, glossary of terms, species, bibliography, list of new species and varieties, taxonomic revisions, etc.
19904to [29 x 22 cm]; 160 pp, 56 fine color plates, other illustrations in text, bibliog, brief biographies of artist, index of plants. original cloth, gilt lettering on spine, dj (tear on front panel repaired, not price clipped), fine in good jacket. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Published in Britain as 'Flower Artists of Kew', the respected and renowned author, gives a good introduction, as well as a description for each plate, and demonstrates that the botanical artists of today can compete with the best artists of the past. Includes artists such as Margaret Mee, Mary Grierson, Ann Farrer, Valerie Price, Margaret Stones, etc, and with descriptions of the great earlier artists such as William Jackson Hooker, Walter Hood Fitch, Redoute, etc, Kew Gardens, early engraving and woodcut illustrations, and other topics.
19814to [35 x 26 cm]; xii, 159 pp, color frontis, 50 fine color plates from Hennessy's paintings, 8 pages of figure, bibliog, glossary, pictorial endpapers. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, near fine, clean and unmarked in dj (slight shelf wear, not price clipped). A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Few artists have captured orchids as has Hennessy. The text covers orchids in Africa, habits, details of plants and flowers, pollination, seeds and is useful for cultivation purposes.
19874to [31.5 x 26 cm]; xxiv, 184 pp, frontis, 57 fine color plates from paintings, 170 illustrations, map of hardiness zones for Canada and USA. original cloth, gilt cover design, gilt spine title lettering, pictorial endpapers, dj (not clipped), fine, clean, unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Stuart, one of the most influential gardeners of the twentieth century, winner of numerous awards including an O. B. E., as well as a talented artist who paints from in-depth knowledge of the plants, here presents his excellent paintings especially of perennials, shrubs, roses and other flowers. The appendices list his principal works, the plants he introduced or promoted, his writings and illustrations, books, journals, hardiness zones in the US and Canada for the plants he illustrated, etc. There is also an essay, "An American Perspective on the Artist's Work" by James J. White and the author's essay on flowers and flower painting. A most attractive large format production.
19128vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; xv, 325, [i, ads] pp, 33 color plates from paintings by noted alpine artist George Flemwell, index. original green pictorial cloth, with gilt floral picture on front cover, gilt spine title lettering, lightly rubbed at lower edge, minor foxing on a few leaves, but overall clean, near fine copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A comprehensive and more detailed description of plants found at lower altitudes than are treated in most books on alpine plants with excellent illustrations of individual plants and of scenes.
19824to [29 x 21 cm]; 171 pp, 243 colored illustrations from photos on plates, full page map, partly colored showing regions. original cloth, spine title lettering, dj, endpaper name erased, near fine and clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. In both English and Spanish, the work describes 243 species in detail including ecology, geographic distribution, temperature requirements, flowering season, classification, etc. Many of these grow in other parts of south and central America.
1942large 8vo [25 x 19 cm]; [vi], 159 pp, color frontis, 72 illustrations from photos by Ernst Krause, other illustrations from drwgs. original blue cloth, gilt title lettering, dj (old repairs, chipped), very good in fair dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A good work on alpines of various types, including orchids.
19768vo [24.5 x 16 cm]; viii, 200 pp, about 60 illus, maps, tables including large folding table, bibliog. original red cloth with gilt spine title lettering, dj (spine a bit rubbed), fine, clean and unmarked copy in very good dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A detailed study, including history and distribution of the poppy, variability in characteristics, ecological and geographical differences of species, classification, regional distribution in former USSR, etc.
1981large 8vo [25.5 x 17 cm]; viii, 216 pp, illus, 111 color plates from paintings, illustrations in text, bibliog, index. original cloth, dj, clean & fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. An updated version of this classic, originally published in 1930, with most attractive plates. Each species is described in detail.
19774to [27 x 22 cm]; 83 pp, colored frontis, 83 color plates, glossary, lists of flowers by month, index, text in English but Introduction also in Chinese, names of plants in English and Chinese. original cloth, gilt lettering, dj (slight crease), light stains on few pages, very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. This is the first comprehensive collection of paintings of Hong Kong flowering plants. The paintings are arranged by season and are most attractive. It dispels the myth that Hong Kong is only an urban area.
19098vo; 228 pp, frontis, illus, 2 color plates with letterpress on transparent sheets. original cloth, gilt lettering, edgewear, frontis with wear in margin,small stain at foot of spine, good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The flowers and fruits are organized by color with an overall index.
18564to [30 x 24 cm]; vii, 193; 288 pp, 59 lithographed and engraved botanical plates (complete), including 24 of cactii, 10 of mosses, index to each part, large folding hand colored chart showing vegetation cross-sections. later cloth with printed title label on spine, light stain on margin of title, but overall clean, solid very good condition. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Hasse 62. The surveys to produce a national railroad provided some of the most important natural history, geographical and ethnological information that has ever been made available and resulted in the important 12 volume set, of which this is volume IV, complete in itself. It consists of a report on the botany of the expedition, soil and productions along the route by J. M. Bigelow, cactaceae by George Englemann and J. M. Bigelow, descriptions by famous botanist John Torrey, mosses by W. S. Sullivant. and report on the zoology of the expedition. Wagner Camp Becker 263a.