Second edition, enlarged and improved. Two engraved plates (with stains, and virtually detached), pp 432, vii, untrimmed and unpressed, the first few pages rather weak, a small marginal stain to the last 25 pages, otherwise clean internally though rather weak, original boards with a later paper spine and small handwritten label. An over-industrious former owner has erased the printing date on the title page and erroneously entered 1828. [From the library of the botanist and garden historian Anthony Huxley, with his stamp on the front endpaper which also contains a contemporary signature. The... View More...
Second edition, enlarged and improved. Two engraved plates a little browned and marked, pp 432, vii, slightly used throughout, the blank page following the front endpaper is creased and lacking a corner, bound in a later brown cloth. The authorship is frequently given as the agricultural writer Arthur Young, but I can find no justification for this ? Fussell certainly made no such assertion.] View More...
Volume 4 number 3, Volume 5 numbers 1 & 2, Volume 6 numbers 1 & 2, in six parts, large octavo, paperback good condition. [A fascinating and erudite collection of articles, such as Coffey's 'Soviet Journals Important for Taxonomic Botany', Woodger's articles on Wilson Popenoe, Stieber's 'Register of Plant Collectors' Field Notes Held in North American Institutions', Johnson's 'Bibliography of Literature on the History of Botany & Botanic Gardens, 1730-1840' etc.] View More...
Three booklets : Meteorological Office Centenary 1855-1955 (40 pages, being The Meteorological Magazine number 996, Vol 84); Research in the Meteorological Office (1967, with 24 pages); Look into the Future (1965 / , 8 pages). All three paperbacks. [Postage will be reduced] View More...
A colour frontispiece and several black and white plates, small slim octavo, pp 36, paperback, a very good clean copy. [Includes a history of the previous establishment at Craigs House {1921-1954}, and the prospects for the station at Pentlandfield.] Postage will be reduced. View More...
Ten volumes (of 12 published), small thick octavo, all edges gilt, original cloth, with a full complement of 64 colour printed plates and 55 tinted plates, plus many dozens of text engravings, remarkably clean internally with just the very occasional mark or small stain. The cloth bindings are original, but changed in colour and style during the course of publication and are slightly worn overall; the first five volumes are faded and bleached, the upper cover of Volume XI is stained, the spines of the last five volumes are wrinkled, and Volume VII is slightly weak at the front and rear hinges;... View More...
Illustrated, large octavo, pp xx, 498, dark blue buckram, bevelled edges, a very good copy. (Quaker physician and botanist, friend of Collinson and Fothergill, he played a major role in introducing plants and seed from America and the Indies, and in their distribution to botanists and farmers. He was responsible for the introduction of the mangel-wurzel.) View More...
Illustrated, octavo, pp xii, 359, fore-edge very slightly age-toned, otherwise a very good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper. [Ainsworth gives a straightforward account of the main views held about fungi for the past three millennia and the development of the study of fungi as a branch of science for the last 250 years. The existing literature is widely scattered and much of it suffers from difficulty of access. In this volume there is documented an outline of the development of the main areas of mycology, with emphasis on the solution of the major problems that have confronted students of f... View More...
Small slim octavo, pp 58, lacking a lower corner of the title page with slight loss of the printers' names, an early repair and paper restoration, the title page very marked and age-toned, some foxing and soiling throughout but still tight and firm, bound fairly recently in cloth-backed boards, very slightly worn and marked. RARE. View More...
Italian text. Well illustrated, small octavo, pp 131, paperback, a very good copy. With the bookplate of the botanist David Mabberley. [[Catalogue of an exhibition which took place between 14th November 2008 and 31st January 2009.] View More...
Small octavo, not illustrated, pp 245, + publisher's catalogue 8 pages, fore-edge a little foxed and also pages 6/7. otherwise clean internally, green cloth, the spine head slightly bruised, otherwise very good. {Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books}. [Francis Bacon, 1561 - 1626, also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. His works are seen as contributing to the scientific method and remained influential through the later stages of the scientific revolution. Bacon's seminal work Novum Organum was influen... View More...
Slender octavo, pp 12, (i), clean internally, paperback, the covers very slightly marked and worn. Presumably issued in very small numbers ? I have not been able to identify the artist of the woodcut on the cover. [A Keepsake, issued by the Editors of Chronica Botanica, for the members of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, attending the Cornell University Meetings.] View More...
Third edition, ("with additions and corrections in the department of organography"). Large very thick octavo, illustrated with over 1800 text illustrations, pp xxii, 1117, rather weak internally with the front hinge broken but holding, several inner hinges weak, one gathering protruding and becoming loose, original green cloth, slightly worn at the head and tail of the spine, but otherwise quite bright. [ A folding engraved plate at the rear shows Humboldt's "Distribution of Plants in Equinoctial America According to Elevation".). {A heavy book - extra postage may be needed.} View More...
A few illustrations, octavo, pp (4), 279, a folding map at the rear, the fore-edge slightly rough, otherwise clean internally, blue cloth a little blotched, in a very poor dustwrapper. View More...
A few illustrations, octavo, pp xvi, 376, a little bit used throughout, corners very slightly bruised, paperback, the covers age-toned and creased. [Essays by Gavin de Beer, Dobzhansky, Heslop-Harrison, C.M. Younge and others.] View More...
Octavo, pp viii, 212 [+ 16 page publisher's catalogue dated October 1848), slightly used and marked internally, corners slightly bruised throughout, a couple of pages opened slightly carelessly, a folding facsimile manuscript plate, a contemporary signature on the front endpaper, original cloth slightly worn and marked, corners bruised, the spine a little worn and lacking tiny pieces at head and tail. A duplicate from the Royal Society of London itself, with their stamp on the title page. View More...
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