General Botany
39 items found
[Anonymous naturalist]
Naturhistorischer Atlas. Zu Kaisers sowie zu jeder anderen Naturgeschichte. Enthaltend: zahlreiche Abbildungen zum Gebrauche für den anschaulichen naturgeschichtlichen Unterricht in Land- und Bürgerschulen. Dritte Auflage.
Langensalza, Hermann Beyer, [N.D. but ca. 1875]. Oblong folio (42.0 x 34.0 cm). Printed front wrapper, and twelve chromolithographed plates. Contemporary blind, green, pebbled quarter cloth over marbled boards. Later paper label with gilt title mounted on the front board.
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Boehmer, G. R.
Spermatologiae vegetabilis. Pars I. De seminum existentia differentia et usu. Pars II. De seminum ortu foecundatione et incremento. Pars III. De seminum collectione duratione et conservatione. Pars IV. De seminum ad sementem praeparatione. Pars V. De seminum satione. Pars VI. De germinationis adminiculis. Pars VII et ultima. De germinatione. [Complete].
Vitembergae [Wittenberg], Carolus Christianus Dürrius, 1777-1784. Seven parts in one. 4to (20.0 x 17.0 cm). 218 pp.; several nice wood-engraved vignettes. Original boards. Spine with handwritten paper label.
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Bonnet, C.
Recherches sur l'usage des feuilles dans les plantes et sur quelques autres sujets relatifs à l'histoire de la végétation.
Gottingue [Göttingen] and Leide[n], Elie Luzac, 1754. 4to (26.2 x 21.5 cm). viii, 343 pp.; engraved title vignette and 31 folded, engraved plates by Van der Schley and Wandelaar. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spine with red morocco label with gilt title, and gilt bands.
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Braun, A.
Über die Parthenogenesis der Pflanzen [AND] Über Polyembryonie und Keimung von Caelebogyne. Ein Nachtrag zu der Abhandlung über Parthenogenesis bei Pflanzen. [Complete].
Berlin, F. Dümmler [Akademie der Königliche Wissenschaften], 1857-1860. 4to (25.9 x 20.8 cm). Two title pages; 220 pp. [65; 155]; seven [1; 6] lithographed plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title.
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Brown, R.
The miscellaneous botanical works. Vol. III. Atlas of the plates.
London, Robert Hardwicke (for The Ray Society), 1868. Folio (35.0 x 25.6 cm). Title page, 15 pp.; 38 fine engraved plates of which 11 much larger, folded. Contemporary pebbled half morocco over gilt-bordered marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-ornamented bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt.
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Camus, A. A. and E. G. Camus
Notes de Botanique Publiées de 1910 à 1927, de 1912 à 1928, 1927-1934, 1924 à 1936 [Spine titles].
France, various publishers, 1910-1936. 410 papers in four thick volumes (112; 117; 73; 108). 8vo (23.5 x 15.5 cm to 25.5 x 17.5 cm). Ca. 4000 pp. in all; numerous illustrations. Contemporary half calf or half linen over marbled boards. Spines with gilt titles.
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Cunningham, D. D.
The causes of fluctuations in turgescence in the motor organs of leaves. [AND] A new and parasitic species of Choanephora.
Calcutta [Kolkata], Royal Botanical Gardens, 1895. Folio (35.5 x 28.0 cm). Title pages to the volume, to the part, and to the two works, dedication leaf and preface leaf; ii, 174, pp.; nine hand-coloured lithographed plates [numbered I-IX]. All loose, in original portfolio in half morocco over printed boards.
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Fauché, B.
Histoire naturelle, botanique.
[France, unpublished, ca. 1850]. Folio (39.8 x 28.8 cm). Title page with polychrome title and vignette, heightened with gold; 15 tissue-guarded plates with watercolour images of fungi (1) and flowering plants with explanatory text leaves in fine calligraphy. Original full embossed and pebbled black calf; gilt-stippled board edges and fine gilt inner dentelles. Iridescent endpapers. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title; front board with gilt initials "B. F." (= Berthe Fauché); rear board with gilt vignette "Maison des Oiseaux". All edges gilt.
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Germain de Saint-Pierre, E.
Histoire iconographique des anomalies de l'organisation dans le règne végétal, ou, série méthodique d'observations raisonnées de tératologie végétale recueillies, décrites, figurées et gravées.
Paris, F. Klincksieck, 1855. Folio (43.2 x 30.4 cm). Half-title, title page, viii, 12 pp.; 12 lithographed plates of which six colour-printed. Contemporary blind quarter vellum over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Haeckel, E.
Kunstformen der Natur. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit beschreibendem Text, Allgemeine Erläuterung und systematische Übersicht.
Leipzig and Wien, Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1904. Small folio (35.4 x 26.3 cm). Title page, [ii] pp.; 100 breathtakingly beautiful, mostly lithographed plates of which the majority are coloured or tinted, some with overlays, and each with explanatory text leaf. Original printed Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) printed cloth. Patterned endpapers. Marbled edges.
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Hill, J.
Johann Hills Beschreibung der äusserlichen Theile der Pflanzen oder allgemeine Einleitung in die Botanik.
Leipzig, Christian Gottlob Hilschern, 1782. 8vo (20.0 x 12.0 cm). iv, 74, [ii] pp., 49 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spine with five raised bands bordered with gilt lines, and morocco label with gilt title. Red edges.
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Lambert, J. H., D. Bernouilli, and others
Acta Helvetica, Physico-Mathematico-Anatomico-Botanico-Medica, figuris aeneis illustrata & in usus publicos exarata. I-II.
Basel, J. R. Im-Hof, 1751-1755. Two volumes in one. 4to (19.6 x 16.0 cm). Title pages in red and black. 458 pp. [I (1751): vi, 104, 72; II (1755): iv, 272]; 18 [I: 6; II: 12] engraved plates, and one folded table. Near contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands, compartments with black floral patterns and title. Speckled edges. In a transparent sleeve.
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Linnaeus, C. - Houttuyn, M.
Des Ritters Carl von Linné vollständiges Pflanzensystem nach der dreyzehnten lateinischen Ausgabe und nach Anleitung des holländischen houtteuynischen Werks übersetzt und mit einer ausführlichen erklärung ausgefertiget. Erster - Eilfter Theil. [Complete].
Nürnberg, G. N. Raspe, [1777]-1784-[1799]. 14 volumes in 15. 8vo (19.5 x 12.2 cm). Frontispiece portrait of Linnaeus. Title pages, 9943 pp.; 121 large, multi-folded, engraved plates [1-105, 5b, 12b, 16b, 16c, 19b, 24b, 41b, 42b, 44b, 50b, 51b, 53b, 55b, 57b, 57c, 66b]. Uniform contemporary half calf over olive paper covered boards. Spines with gilt ornaments and two pale olive morocco labels with gilt chains and title.
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Linnaeus, C. [Murray, J. A. (ed.)]
Caroli a Linné equitis systema vegetabilium secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus et differentiis. Editio decima quinta praecedente longe correctior curante Jo. Andrea Murray, equite ord. r. de Wasa.
Paris, J. F. P. Déterville, 1798. 8vo (20.3 x 13.3 cm). 16, 822 pp. 19th-century half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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[Linnean Society of London]
The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Second series. Botany. Volume I - VI.
London, The Linnean Society of London, 1875-1905. Six volumes in six. Large 4to (29.1 x 23.3 cm). Text; numerous plates. Volume I in contemporary polished half calf over marbled boards. Gilt ornamental lines and black morocco label with gilt title on the spine; Volumes II-VI: uniform later (i.e., contemporary with the last volume) blue buckram with gilt title on the spines. Speckled edges.
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Morren, C. (ed.)
l'Horticulteur Belge, Journal des Jardiniers et Amateurs. Volumes 1-5. [All published].
Bruxelles, Bureau du Journal and Établissement Encyclographique, 1833-1837. Five volumes in five. 4to (24.2 x 15.5 cm). Numerous text engravings and 119 nicely hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary uniform half calf over marbled boards, spines with four raised, gilt-ornamented bands, gilt pattered spine feet, compartments with blind-tooled vignettes and gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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Munting, A.
Naauwkeurige beschryving der aardgewassen, waar in de veelerley aart en bijzondere eigenschappen der boomen, heesters, kruyden, bloemen, met haare vrugten, zaden, wortelen en bollen, neevens derzelver waare voort-teeling, gelukkige aanwinning, en heylzaame genees-krachten, na een veel-jarige oeffening en eigen ondervinding, in drie onderscheide boeken, naauwkeuriglijk beschreeven worden; foor den heer Abraham Munting, In zijn leeven, hoogleraar der genees- en kruydkunde in de vermaarde Akademie te Groeningen. Nu eerst nieuwelijks uitgegeeven, en met meer dan 250 afbeeldingen, all naer 't leeven geteekend en konstiglijk in 't koper gesneeden, vercierd. Met nodige registers verrijkt. [Nauwkeurige beschryving der aard-gewassen].
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, and Utrecht, François Halma, 1696. Folio (39.5 x 25.4 cm). Half title [ Aardgewassen], engraved frontispiece title [ Aard-Gewassen] with full page allegorical engraving Rerum Magistra by Goeree and engraved by I. Baptist; second title page with full title in red and black, and engraved vignette Cultior his vita est, half title to second part; 563 pp. [(xxxiv), 465 (with 930 numbered columns), (lxiv)]; 245 engraved plates (on 243 sheets). Chapters with beautiful large, engraved allegorical head and tail pieces. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. Spine with seven raised bands and burgundy morocco label with intrinsic gilt borders and gilt title. Front and rear with blind-ruled borders and center arabesque.
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Naudin, C. [V.]
Nouvelles recherches sur l'hybridité dans les végétaux.
Paris, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris, 1865. Two parts in two. Large 4to (32.0 x 25.0 cm). 152 pp. [numbered 25-176]; nine lithographed plates of which eight in chromolithography of which one finely finished by hand. Rebound with printed title in embossed rectangle on the front board. Original front and rear wrappers of the Nouvelles Archives bound in.
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Plesch, A.
Mille et un livres botaniques de la collection Arpad Plesch. [Limited series copy, with handwritten dedication by the author].
Bruxelles, Arcade, 1973. Large, square 4to (29.5 x 26.5 cm). 517, [i] pp.; mounted full-colour portrait of Plesch; mounted full-colour photograph of part of his library; several text illustrations, and 32 full-colour facsimiles of quintessential botanical illustrations. Original green cloth with gilt title on the spine and red leather gilt-lettered facsimile bookplate on the front board. Full-colour pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers.
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Pollen, F. P. L. and D. C. Van Dam
Recherches sur la faune de Madagascar et de ses Dépendances, d'apres les découvertes de François P. L. et D. C. Van Dam. I. Relation de voyage.
Leyde [Leiden], J. K. Steenhoff, 1868-1877. 4to (29.0 x 21.5 cm). 240, [2] pp.; several text engravings; 55 plates or maps, including two lithographed portraits, 48 mostly coloured and tinted lithographed plates (views), two tinted lithographed maps (one very large, multi-folded) one hand-written letter in facsimile (double-sized). Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands with gilt chains; compartments with gilt vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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[Retzius, A. J.]
Nomenclator botanicus enumerans plantas omnes in Systematis Naturae edit. XII. Specier. plantarum edit. II. et mantissis binis a illustr. D. Car. von Linné arch. reg. equit. aurat. etc. descriptas.
Lipsiae, I. F. Junium, 1772. 8vo (20.3 x 12.5 cm). 140 ["279"], [xv] pp. Original blind speckled wrappers.
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Roemer, M. J.
Familiarum naturalium regni vegetabilis synopses monographicae seu enumeratio omnium plantarum hucusque detetarum secundum ordines naturales, genera et species digestarum, additis diagnosibus, synonymis, navarumque vel minus cognitarum descriptionibus. Prospect. Fasc. I. Hesperides. Fasc. II. Peponiferarum. III. Rosiflorae. IV. Ensatae. [All Published].
Vimariae [Weimar], Landes-Industrie Comptoir, 1846-1847. Five parts in four. 8vo (21.7 x 13.5 cm). Drophead title and four title pages, 999 pp. [23; xii, 152; x, 222; ix, 250; vii, 314]. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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[Société royale de Botanique de Belgique]
Bulletins de la Société royale de Botanique de Belgique. Volumes 1 - 25. [Bulletin].
Bruxelles, M. Hayez [later: the Société itself], 1862-1881. 25 volumes in 25. 8vo (21.2 x 13.6 cm). Over 10,000 pp.; numerous plates of which several tinted or coloured. Uniform late 19th-century pebbled cloth; spines with black morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.
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Sturm, J.
Kupfersammlung zu Schuberts und jeder andern Naturgeschichte brauchbar. In 12 Blättern, nach der Natur gezeichnet, gestochen und gemahlt.
Nürnberg, privately published, (n.d., but circa 1825). 8vo (20.1 x 12.0 cm). pp. v-viii; 12 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary blind grey/black mottled paper covered boards. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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[Theophrastus] Stackhouse, J.
Illustrationes Theophrasti in usum botanicorum praecipue perigrinantium.
Oxonii (Oxford), Clarendon, 1811. 8vo (21.7 x 13.8 cm). viii, 92 pp.; mezzotint portrait, one engraved plate. 19th-century ruled half linen over marbled boards. Printed label on the spine.
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Unger, F.
Ueber den Einfluss des Bodens auf die Vertheilung der Gewächse nachgewissen in der Vegetation des nordöstlichen Tirols.
Wien, Rohrmann und Schweigerd, 1836. 8vo (21.4 x 13.5 cm). xxiv, 367 pp.; one hand-coloured engraved plate of Kitzbühl, one large, folded, hand-coloured geological-geographical map, one large, folded hand-coloured sheet with geological profile, five folded charts with meteorological observations (four) and botanical observations (one), many tables in the text. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines, vignettes, and title. Marbled endpapers; speckled edges.
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[Various geologists and palaeontologists]
Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie. Volumes I-V. [IINCLUDING Société Linnéenne de Calvados].
Caen, Société Linnéenne de Normandie, 1824-1835. Five volumes in six. 8vo (volumes I-IV, 21.0 x 13.2 cm), 4to (volume V, 27.6 x 22.0 cm), and oblong folio (atlas to volumes II-IV, 22.5 x 31.0 cm). Title pages; 15 lithographed (partly folded) plates in volume I, one hand-coloured geological map, 39 lithographed plates in the atlas volume, mainly depicting lichens by Delise, and geological maps (11 hand-coloured). Uniform later half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt title.
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