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ALS to William Gourlie and Thomas Anderson. Prince Albert, Charles Phipps, Sir, Beaumont

As Secretary for Prince Albert

ALS to William Gourlie and Thomas Anderson.

Osborne: 11August 1855. As Secretary for Prince Albert. Phipps, as private secretary to Prince Albert, responds to the invitation of Gourlie and Anderson to attend the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science as the Prince and the Queen will have just “arrived in the Highlands for... Read More about ALS to William Gourlie and Thomas Anderson

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23 original drawings, mostly signed ("Valenti Angelo"), for Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE HOUSE OF...

23 original drawings, mostly signed ("Valenti Angelo"), for Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES.

[published New York: Limited Editions Club, printed by Edmund Thompson at Hawthorn House in Windham, Conn, 1935]. The complete set of Angelo's fine, oval miniature drawings for the LEC edition Hawthorne's classic, comprising his original illustrations for the cover, the title page, and the 21 chapter headpieces. Quite as remarkable... Read More about 23 original drawings, mostly signed ("Valenti Angelo"), for Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE...

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Groups of Flowers (Groups of Fruit, Six Birds) drawn and accurately coloured after nature, with...

Groups of Flowers (Groups of Fruit, Six Birds) drawn and accurately coloured after nature, with full directions for the young...

London: Turner & Hadley for Thomas McLean, 1819. Second edition. Pirages: Brookshaw (ca. 1751-1823) was a successful London cabinet-maker whose painted Neoclassical furniture attracted such titled enthusiasts as the Duke of Devonshire and the Prince of Wales, but he suddenly abandoned this livelihood in the 1790s. Art historian Lucy Wood speculates... Read More about Groups of Flowers (Groups of Fruit, Six Birds) drawn and accurately coloured after nature, with...

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Autograph letter signed "William B. Carpenter" to E[dward] L.Youmans, the Editor of "Popular...

Autograph letter signed "William B. Carpenter" to E[dward] L.Youmans, the Editor of "Popular Science Monthly."

London: 56 Regents Park Road, 16 September 1875. Writing to Youmans that he is sending the last corrected revise of his lecture as asking for the earliest insertion into the magazine, continuing that he will be giving his lecture on Human Automatism at Belfast on the 27th “which wil be... Read More about Autograph letter signed "William B. Carpenter" to E[dward] L.Youmans, the Editor of...

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On a Specific Case of Leaf-Variation in Coprosma Baueri. Cockayne, L Ph d., eonard

On a Specific Case of Leaf-Variation in Coprosma Baueri.

Wellington: John Mackay, GPO, 1906. Inscribed on upper cover, "Dr. --Pranseau with L. Cockayne's Compliments." The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography sums up Cockayne's achievements: He "was one of the most influential of New Zealand's scientists. Although lacking formal training, he made important and original contributions to botany, stimulating research... Read More about On a Specific Case of Leaf-Variation in Coprosma Baueri

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A Treatise on the Forces Which Produce the Organization of Plants. With an Appendix, containing...

A Treatise on the Forces Which Produce the Organization of Plants. With an Appendix, containing several Memoirs on Capillary Attraction...

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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On the Eaves of the World. Reginald Farrer

On the Eaves of the World.

London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1926. Second Impression. 'From April 1914 Farrer spent two years with William Purdom, a Kew-trained gardener, in Kangsu, north-west China, and in Tibet, collecting specimens and seeds, despite the lawlessness of the area. He had a narrow escape from drowning after a 20 ft fall... Read More about On the Eaves of the World

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The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes … very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson....

The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes … very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson.

London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1636. Third edition. John Gerard was a 16th-century English botanist with a large herbal garden in London. His Herball, a 1,484 page illustrated book, was first published in 1597. It was a largely unacknowledged translation of Rembert Dodoen's herbal, itself published in... Read More about The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes … very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson

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Harvard Class of 1866 Photographic Yearbook. Harvard University, George Kendall Warren, photographer

Harvard Class of 1866 Photographic Yearbook.

[Cambridge: Harvard University, 1866]. George Kendall Warren (1824-1884) was a distinguished northeastern landscape photographer and the most highly-regarded collegiate yearbook photographer to elite northeastern institutions: Dartmouth, Williams, Brown, Weslyan, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, West Point, Union, and Harvard. The Class of 1866 graduated George A. Glass and Frank Wright, founders of the... Read More about Harvard Class of 1866 Photographic Yearbook

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Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C....

Inscribed to Benjamin Silliman

Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps of...

Washington [D.C.]: Government Printing Office, 1861. First edition. Inscribed to Benjamin Silliman. William Goetzmann calls Lieutenant Ives's complete report, "The best by far of these individual reports...It is a long, carefully written journal, consciously literary but with a maximum amount of attention to scientific observation. John Strong Newberry's geological report..... Read More about Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C....

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Results of a Botanic Expedition to Arabia in 1944-1945 … with numerous determinations by...

Results of a Botanic Expedition to Arabia in 1944-1945 … with numerous determinations by Dorothy Hillcoat.

Cairo: University Press, 1971. Cairo University Herbarium. Publication No. 4. Detailed inventory and identification of botanical samples collected during an anti-locust visit in the Hejaz and parts of Nejd in 1944 and 1945, including locations where collected and vernacular names for the plants. Read More about Results of a Botanic Expedition to Arabia in 1944-1945 … with numerous determinations by...

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Das Blumenbuch. Rudolf Koch

Koch and Kredel's Botanical Masterpiece

Das Blumenbuch.

Leipzig: Mainzer Presse, 1929-30. Kredel, Fritz. First trade edition. Koch and Kredel's Botanical Masterpiece. A superb collection of wildflower woodcuts by the noted artist and engraver Fritz Kredel, whose graver has caught perfectly the delicate beauty of Koch's original depictions. This is the first trade edition, preceded by a special... Read More about Das Blumenbuch

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