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The Spirit of Laws [With an "Account of...
Worcester: Printed by Isaiah Thomas, Jun. sold by him and by Mathew Carey, Philadelphia; also by the various... Read More
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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
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Hand-colored Lithograph: "Duchesse d'Olenbourg" from ANNALES DE POMOLOGIE, with French text on separate leaf.
Bruxelles: F. Parent, 1859. Read More
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Outlines of British Fungology, containing characters of above a thousand species of fungi that have been described as natives of...
London: Lovell Reeve. First Edition. Read More
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Letters from Egypt and Syria.
London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1856. First edition. Inscribed by author's sister for her late brother (who dies of a fever in Damascus) on the half-title "To Mrs. Butt/ With the best remembrances of/ the writer's sister." Bromfield was a well known boitanist whose collection went to Kew. Read More
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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
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![Autograph letter signed "William B. Carpenter" to E[dward] L.Youmans, the Editor of "Popular Science Monthly." William Benjamin Carpenter, English naturalist and physiologist.](/pictures/thumb/31440.jpg?v=1534804116)
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
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“Souvenir du ‘Bon Homme Richard’”
The History and Practice of Aerostation.
London: Printed for the author, 1785. First edition. “Souvenir du ‘Bon Homme Richard’”. An influential scientific account of early aeronautical experiments, and the first English-language treatise on the subject. This copy has a presentation inscription from Benjamin Franklin to Pierre Samuel du Pont, followed by a presentation inscription from DuPont... Read More
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A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees:...To which are added, an Introduction and Notes adapting the Rules...
Albany: D. & S. Whiting, 1803. Second American edition. Read More
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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
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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
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Traité des arbres fruitiers; contenant leur figure, leur description, leur culture, &c.
Paris: Saillant Desaint, 1768. First Edition. Duhamel du Monceau, polymath and prolific author, became one of the outstanding botanists of the 18th century and made significant contributions to French agronomy with his TRAITÉ DE LA CULTURE DES TERRES and other studies. All of his works included “ideas as well as... Read More
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Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. Their history, makers and uses, with a catalogue raisonné...
Washington, D.C: Published by the Author, 1938. First Edition, one of 2500 copies. Read More
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Illustrirte Garten-Zeitung herausgegeben von der Gartenbau-Gesellschaft.
Stuttgart: Jannar 1866-1868 (36 issues complete),1873 (11 issues), 1877 (1-10). Read More
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A Milestone of Botanical Science
De historia stirpium commentarii insignes.
Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1542. First edition. A Milestone of Botanical Science. One of the most justly celebrated and highly prized of the early herbals. Leonhart Fuchs was an eminent practicing physician and Professor of Medicine at the Protestant University of Tübingen. Fuchs aimed his work at an audience of professionals... Read More
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The Flower-Garden: containing directions for the cultivation of all garden flowers….
London: Wm. S. Orr, 1840. Second Edition. Read More
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The Green-House Companion; comprisinig a general course of green-house and conservatory practice throughout the year….
London: Harding, Triphook and Lepard, 1825. Second Edition. Read More
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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. The revised and enlarged third edition, the second by Thomas Johnson, which corrects many of Gerard’s errors and ads 800 new species and 700 woodcuts. The most complete edition. Read More
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With John Nash Engravings
Flowers and Faces. Engravings by John Nash.
[London]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1935. Nash, John. no. 85 of 325 copies, signed by Bates. With John Nash Engravings. Read More
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On the Lily of the Field
Autograph letter signed ("Asa Gray"), addressed "Dear Madam"
Feb 3, 1872. On the Lily of the Field. "Dear Madam, 'Lilium Chalcedonicum'– now not rare in Palestine – is supposed to be the 'Lily of the Field' of the New Testament..." Read More
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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
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New and Rare Beautiful-Leaved Plants containing illustrations and descriptions of the most ornamental-foliaged plants not hitherto noticed in any work...
London: Bell and Dalby, 1870. First Edition. Read More
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Autograph Letter, signed (" A. Humboldt"). In German 10 lines.
Potsdam: nd. Humboldt writes to a colleague thanking them for a poem on the occasion of his "goldenen, geschlrchsloen Hochzeitfeyer" (translating literally as his 'Golden, non-sexual wedding feast'). He also refers to a lecture by Tieck, who sends his best wishes. Read More
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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
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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
Price: $100