[London: Privately printed], 1885. Substantial and authoritative account of the Seychelles Archipelago, with original photographic plates recording drawings... Read More about Six Years in Seychelles, with Photographs from Original Drawings
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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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London: Orr and Smith, 1835. First edition. Read More about Popular Botany
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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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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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Albany: D. & S. Whiting, 1803. Second American edition. Read More about A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees:...To which are added, an Introduction...
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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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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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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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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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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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London: Wm. S. Orr, 1840. Second Edition. Read More about The Flower-Garden: containing directions for the cultivation of all garden flowers…
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London: Harding, Triphook and Lepard, 1825. Second Edition. Read More about The Green-House Companion; comprisinig a general course of green-house and conservatory practice...
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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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London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1893. First Edition, first Issue. One of 1750 copies. Read More about Idle Days in Patagonia
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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 about Autograph Letter, signed (" A. Humboldt"). In German 10 lines
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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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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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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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Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck was born on August 1, 1744, in the village of Bazentin-le-Petit in the north of France. He was the youngest of eleven children in a family with a centuries-old tradition of military service; his father and several of his brothers were..... Read More about Engraved Portrait: "M. le Chevalier de Lamarck. Professor of Botany of the National...
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London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1718. First Edition. First Edition of an Early Work on Fruit Cultivation. John Laurence was the son of a country clergyman." His Kalender virtually replaced the parts of Evelyn's Kalendarium Hortense relating to fruit. " Raphael With instruction for each month's planting and propagation; includes..... Read More about The Fruit-Garden Kalendar: or, a Summary of the Art of Managing the Fruit-Garden…Containing...
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Montauk, Montauk Navy Yard, Wash D.C. 34: written on "April 15th, 1865, 9 P.M."; with a Postscript dated "April 24"; and docketed with a later posting, "April 30" The Surgeon of the 'Montauk' Gives an Eye-Witnesses Account. ...About 10:25 P.M. a man came in and walked slowly along the side..... Read More about Autograph Letter, Signed ("George"), to his brother, giving his eye-witness account of...
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London: Simpkin & Marshall and Sherwood and Co., Pater Noster Row, 1831-32. Read More about The Botanic Garden; consisting of highly finished representations of hardy ornamental flowering...
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Paris: Levrault, Schoell et cie, 1804. First edition. Best known as a botanist and the author "North American Sylva," Michaux chronicles here an 1800-mile journey through the regions west of the Allegheny Mountains. Read More about Voyage à l'ouest des monts Alléghanys, dans les états de l'Ohio, du Kentucky, et du...
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