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Osborne: 11August 1855. 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 a short period of rest..... Read More Item Details for ALS to William Gourlie and Thomas Anderson Add to Wish List
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Bruxelles: F. Parent, 1859. Read More Item Details for Hand-colored Lithograph: "Duchesse d'Olenbourg" from ANNALES DE POMOLOGIE, with French text on separate leaf Add to Wish List
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New York: Charles Scribner & Company, 1867. First edition. Mrs. Badger was an illustrator with an intuitive feeling for the decorative, as she amply demonstrates in this book, a companion to her Wild Flowers published in 1859, although here focused on the greenhouse and garden. "Contains 16 very beautiful full..... Read More Item Details for Floral Belles from the Green-House and Garden. Painted from Nature Add to Wish List
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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 Item Details for Autograph letter signed "William B. Carpenter" to E[dward] L.Youmans, the Editor of "Popular Science Monthly." Add to Wish List
Item #31440
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Albany: D. & S. Whiting, 1803. Second American edition. Read More Item Details for A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees:...To which are added, an Introduction and Notes adapting the Rules of the Treatise to the Climates and Seasons of the Unites States of America, By William Cobbett Add to Wish List
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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 Item Details for On a Specific Case of Leaf-Variation in Coprosma Baueri Add to Wish List
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Venice: appresso Francesco Rampazetto, 1564. Second Italian Edition. Read More Item Details for Pietro Crescentio tradotto nuovamente per FRANCESCO SANSOVINO nel quale si trattato le cose de la Villa con le Figure delle Herbe poste nel fine. Con un vocabolario delle voci difficili che sono in questa opera, & con i diffesgni de gli fromenti co quali si cultiva & si laura la terra Add to Wish List
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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 Item Details for A Treatise on the Forces Which Produce the Organization of Plants. With an Appendix, containing several Memoirs on Capillary Attraction, Electricity, and the Chemical Action of Light Add to Wish List
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Washington, D.C: Published by the Author, 1938. First Edition, one of 2500 copies. Read More Item Details for Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. Their history, makers and uses, with a catalogue raisonné of the works in which they are found Add to Wish List
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New York: C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co, 1860. Originally published in 1856, Eastwood is sometimes referred to as the first historian of the fruit. Read More Item Details for A Complete Manual for the Cultivation of the Cranberry Add to Wish List
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Stuttgart: Jannar 1866-1868 (36 issues complete),1873 (11 issues), 1877 (1-10). Read More Item Details for Illustrirte Garten-Zeitung herausgegeben von der Gartenbau-Gesellschaft Add to Wish List
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Philadelphia: Printed for J. Morgan, 1802. First American edition. This American edition of Forsyth's work stands as the first book devoted wholly to fruit culture published in the United States. Two American editions appeared simultaneously in 1802 at Philadelphia and New York, with subsequent editions in 1803 printed at Albany..... Read More Item Details for A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees ... To which are added an Introduction and Notes, adapting the Rules of the Treatise to the Climates and Seasons of the United States of America. By William Cobbett Add to Wish List
Item #378345
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London: Harding, Triphook and Lepard, 1825. Second Edition. Read More Item Details for The Green-House Companion; comprisinig a general course of green-house and conservatory practice throughout the year… Add to Wish List
Item #27802
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London: Printed by Adam Islip Ioice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633. Second edition overall and first Johnson edition. "This is the first edition enlarged and edited by Thomas Johnson (1595-1644) who corrected many of Gerard's more gullible errors, and improved the accuracy of the illustrations by using Plantin's woodcuts" (Hunt)..... Read More Item Details for The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London Add to Wish List
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London: Oxford, 1975. First Edition. Read More Item Details for British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800. Comprising a History and Bibliography of Botanical and Horticultural Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the Earliest Times until 1800 Add to Wish List
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London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co, [1832]. Fifth edition, with Additions. First published in 1820. A charming book by the famed 19th century florist of Paddington Green, Middlesex. Read More Item Details for A Concise and Practical Treatise on the Growth and Culture of the Carnation, Pink, Auricula, Polyanthus, Ranunculus, Tulip, Hyacinth, Rose and other Flowers Add to Wish List
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London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1893. First Edition, first Issue. One of 1750 copies. Read More Item Details for Idle Days in Patagonia Add to Wish List
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Potsdam: nd. Humboldt writes to a colleague thanking them for a poem on the occasion of his "goldenen, geschlechtslosen Hochzeitfeyer" (translating literally as his 'Golden, non-sexual wedding feast'). He also refers to a lecture by Tieck, who sends his best wishess. Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (" A. Humboldt"). In German 10 lines Add to Wish List
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Washington [D.C.]: Government Printing Office, 1861. First edition. 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, which accompanied Ives's narrative..... Read More Item Details for Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers, Under the Direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys, A.A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical Engineers, in Charge [Caption title] 36th Congress 1st Session. Senate. Ex. Doc. [Unnumbered] Add to Wish List
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Leipzig: Mainzer Presse, 1929-30. Kredel, Fritz. First trade edition. 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 edition of only 20 copies..... Read More Item Details for Das Blumenbuch Add to Wish List
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Bassano: Per Gio: Antonio remondini, 1697. First edition in Italian. Jean de la Quintinie (1626-1688) was a lawyer who took up the study of horticulture after a trip to Italy. This is the first edition in Italian, translated from the original French, of his work on the pruning and cultivation..... Read More Item Details for Trattato del Taglio de gl' Alberi Fruttiferi del su Monsu. della Quintinye Add to Wish List
Item #329388
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London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1718. First edition. John Laurence (1668-1732) 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 a section on the use of the barometer..... Read More Item Details for The Fruit-Garden Kalendar: or, a Summary of the Art of Managing the Fruit-Garden … Containing several new and plain Directions, more particularly relating to the Vine Add to Wish List
Item #28851
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London: B. and J. White, 1794. Issued to accompany and English edition of Rousseau's Letters on the Elements of Botany addressed to a Lady. The present example the preferred hand colored issue. Read More Item Details for Thirty-Eight Plates, with Explanations; Intended to Illustrate Linnæus's System of Vegetables, and Particularly adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany Add to Wish List
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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 Item Details for Voyage à l'ouest des monts Alléghanys, dans les états de l'Ohio, du Kentucky, et du Tennessée, et retour à Charleston par les Hautes-Carolines Add to Wish List
Item #264643
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Liège (Belgium): A la Direction Générale, 1864, 1871. Read More Item Details for La Belgique Horticole. Annales de Botanique et d'Horticulture. Volumes 14 (1864) and 21 (1871) Add to Wish List
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