London: Sold by B. White and Son, 1789. Third edition (first edition was 1756). Browne was an Irish... Read More about The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica. Containing 1. An accurate Description of that Island,...
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London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1922. First edition. Historical accounts of life and travel in India by the noted ornithologist. Wide ranging and well written. Read More about Bygone Days in India
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[London]: The Zoologist, 1894. First edition. The author's second separately published work, an offprint, printed in an edition of "about fifty copies for private distribution". Uncommon. Read More about Contributions to an Avifauna of Baden. [At head of title:] Reprinted from 'The Zoologist' for...
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[Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Geest & Portig], 1892. First edition. The first separately published work by Norman Douglas, with his surname misspelled, an offprint limited to “about 50 copies for private distribution” and preceded only by periodical appearances. Written by Norman Douglas following a brief visit to the island of Santorin..... Read More about Zur Fauna Santorins [drop title]. [At head of title:] Separat-Abdruck aus dem »Zoologischen...
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Albany, New York: Published by Luther Tucker, June 1846-June 1848. Edwin A. Stevens Copy. Compendium of information about horticulture in America at the midpoint of the nineteenth century, with wood-engraved illustrations touching upon fruit growning, trees, rural cottages, landscape architecture, and more. With a distinguished and interesting provenance: the ownership..... Read More about The Horticulurist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste. Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape...
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Harper: Harper & Brothers, No. 82 Cliff-Street. Second edition, with additions and emendations. In 1837, Dr. Draper (1811-1882) took an appointment at New York University; he was elected professor of chemistry and botany the next year. He was a professor and founder of its school of medicine from 1840 to..... Read More about A Treatise on the Forces Which Produce the Organization of Plants. With an Appendix, containing...
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Cambridge: at the University Press, 1904. First edition. Read More about Studies from the Anthropological Laboratory The Anatomy School Cambridge
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Paris: H. L Guérin et L. F. Delatour, 1760. First edition. From the Great French Advocate of the Tree. Important work on the cultivation of trees by this prolific 18th-century polymath and savant (1700-1782), member of the Royal Academy, who published over 100 separate during his prolific lifetime, on a...... Read More about Des Semis et Plantations des Arbres, et de leur culture ; ou méthode pour multiplier et élever...
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Washington, D.C: Published by the Author, 1938. First Edition, one of 2500 copies. Read More about Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. Their history, makers and uses,...
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[Reading]: The Alden Press for the Library of the University of Reding, 1969. First edition. With an ALS to Montagu from Eales and an off-print laid in. Read More about The Cole Library of early Medicine and Zoology. Catalogue of books and pamphlets. Part I. 1472-1800
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New York: C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co, 1860. Originally published 1856, Eastwood is sometimes referred to as the first historian of the fruit. Read More about A Complete Manual for the Cultivation of the Cranberry
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London: Printed for Richardson and Urquhart, 1776. First edition. A gardening manual arranged according to the months of the year. The author, Thomas Ellis, was gardener to Lord Bishop of Lincoln. Read More about The Gardener's Pocket-calendar containing the most approved methods of cultivating the useful and...
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c 1830-1860. Read More about Botanical Drawing: Gouache on Paper
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London, Ontario: 19007-1925. Read More about The Canadian Entomologist. Volume XXXIX 1907-Volume LVII, 1925
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London: Printed for John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, 1679. Third edition, “much inlarged, and improved,” etc. Evelyn’s Sylva , first published in 1664, is a treatise on forestry, written to promote the cultivation of timber for building the Royal Navy. As Disraeli wrote: “It was an author in..... Read More about Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions....
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San Francisco: Flash, 1974. A. Faber. First edition. Read More about A Guide to Growing Cannabis Under Fluorescents
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Hamburgi et Kilonii: Carol. Ernest. Bohnii, 1778. First edition. A Pioneer of Systematic Entomology. Fabricius first major work on the system and theory of entomology, and perhaps his greatest theoretical contribution to the science. "Fabricius was undoubtedly one of the most distinguished entomologists and ranks with Carl de Geer, P.A...... Read More about Philosophia entomologica sistens scientiae fundamenta adiectis definitionibus exemplis,...
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Bellows Falls, [Vermont]: Printed by Bill Blake & Co, 1820. First edition. Vermont Imprint on Gastronomy. Practical compendium of recipes by Thomas Green Fessenden (1771-1837), stirical poet, inventor, and lawyer. “Between 1809 and 1822 Fessenden divided his residence between Brattleboro and Bellows Falls, Vermont, where he renewed his interests in..... Read More about The Husbandman and Housewife. A Collection of Valuable Recipes and Directions, relating to...
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London, British Museum: 21 August 1848. The Future Prime Minister of New Zealand. Fitzgerald acknowledges the receipt of “your obliging present of two specimens of Melania from the Falls of Essequibo” [Kaieteur Falls in Guyana] to the National Collections. Gourlie was a noted botanist and member of the Edinburgh Botanical..... Read More about ALS “James Edward Fitzgerald” as Assistant Secretary of the British Museum to William Gourlie
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London: George Allen, nd. Later Edition. Read More about Flowers and Flower Lore
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Stuttgart: Jannar 1866-1868 (36 issues complete),1873 (11 issues), 1877 (1-10). Read More about Illustrirte Garten-Zeitung herausgegeben von der Gartenbau-Gesellschaft
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Boston: Mass. Dept. of Agriculture, 1929. Vol. I reprint; others first editions. Read More about Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States
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Paris: Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1764. For the Commercial Traveller. Read More about Instructions pour les Voyageurs et les Commercans, contenant l'indication des Villes commercantes...
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[Wien: aus der E.K. Hof.- und Staatsdruckerei, 1878]. First Seperate edition. Offprint of Freud's very rare third paper. Freud's Contribution to Evolutionary Biology. Freud's third paper, done while he was a medical student. Read More about Über spinalganglien und Rückenmark des Petromyzon. from Sitzungsberichte der der...
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Washington, D.C: GPO, 1930. Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, Bulletin 153. Presentation copy from Friedmann to Childs Frick on front wrapper "To Mr. Childs Frick with the regards and compliments of Herbert Friedmann." INSCRIBED TO CHILDS FRICK. BY FRIEDMANN. Read More about Birds Collected by the Childs Frick Expedition to Ethiopia and Kenya Colony: Part 1: Non-Passeres
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Wandsbeck: Chromolgraphie und Verlag Artistische Anstalt Gustav W. Seitz, nd. ca. 1890. Read More about Frühlingsblumen. Zwölf Blätter mit Sinnsprüchen Deutscher Dichter
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