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By: Paxton, J.
Price: £24.00
Publisher: Bradbury, Evans: 1849
Edition: New edition [2nd edition]
Seller ID: 16783
ISBN: 0 7134 7070 4
Condition: Good
Some damp staining to rear end paper and faintly affecting text block. A highly compressed compendium of cultivated plant names, with countries of origin and dates of first introduction. Generic names are given their derivations, and descriptive botanical terms are concisely defined. English names are cross-referenced to their latin equivalents. xiii, 339, 73, (2) pp. View more info
By: Pichatty de Croissante; Defoe, Daniel (tr. - attrib.)
Price: £120.00
Publisher: London: printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane: 1721
Edition: 1st edition thus; first published in French in 1720
Seller ID: 6337
Condition: V.g.
This translation of Pichatty's Journal abrŽgŽ de ce qui s'est passŽ en la ville de Marseille depuis qu'elle est affigŽe de la contagion is attributed by some to Daniel Defoe. The original work is very rare, as it was suppressed after publication. Pichatty de Croissante, councillor and orator in the City of Marseilles, also held the position of Procureur du Roi and was thus in charge of the police; he presented his account in the form of a diary, and it has been evaluated by Bertrand (in his history of the plague published in 1723) as being highly accurate. This copy, while well-preserved i... View more info
By: Prestwich, J.
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, London: 1854
Edition: Reprinted from Q. J. Geol. Soc. vol. 10
Seller ID: 13057
Condition: Good
With several figures and folding maps at rear. Pp. 75-170. View more info
By: Pritzel, G.A.
Price: £95.00
Publisher: Berolini, in libraria Friderici Nicolai: 1855
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: 4016
Condition: Fair
Front board detached; library bookplate; corners worn. An extremely rare reference work, the fore-runner to Index Londinensis, giving access to the places of publication of plant illustrations (including ferns) in a wide range of 17th-19th century literature. xxi, 592 pp. (note: the columns are separately paginated, with two to a page, so there are 1184 numbered columns excluding the prelims). View more info
By: Pulteney, R.
Price: £160.00
Publisher: T. Cadell, London: 1790
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: 11726
Condition: V.g.
First few pages of vol. 1 with a brownish spot, otherwise a nice clean set. View more info
By: Ray, John
Price: £220.00
Publisher: J.F. Dove: 1826
Seller ID: 16119
Condition: V.g.
Protected by Polyester wrapper. A very well preserved copy. View more info
By: Reybaud, L.
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Bruxelles; sociŽtŽ Belge de librairie: 1844
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: 17313
Condition: Good
Cover worn, text block sound. View more info
By: Ritchie, Leitch
Price: £80.00
Publisher: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans: 1839
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: 9754
Condition: Good
Bound in half leather, with decorated spine & raised bands, showing corner wear; all edges gilt. Faint foxing esp. to plates. The final chapter includes a brief description of the gardens. vii, 256 pp., engraved series title page (Heath's Picturesque Annual for 1839; Versailles). View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Linnean Society of London: 1807
Edition: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, vol. 8, pp. 330-358
Seller ID: 3130
Condition: Good
Roscoe's first taxonomic treatment of the Zingiberaceae and allied families, a precursor to his major monograph Monandrian Plants of the Order Scitamineae (1824-28). Includes 1 plate containing 13 figures, and a key (in Latin) to the major genera. A pioneering work. View more info
By: Roscoe, William; revised by his son, Thomas Roscoe
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Henry G. Bohn, London: 1846
Edition: 8th edition
Seller ID: 818
Condition: V.g.
Publisher's green embossed cloth covers, bumped at corners, vol. 1 starting to split along edge of spine. Engraved frontispiece by Hinchliff after Vasari; no guard. Bookplate ex libris Edwardus Evans. Roscoe, a Unitarian by faith, was not the obvious choice to write these biographies, yet the books were well received when first published and deservedly ran to many popular editions, of which this is an interesting example. Hard work in places (the author is not averse to reproducing lengthy quotations in the original Latin or Italian), but Roscoe's admiration for Lorenzo de' Medici shines throu... View more info
By: Scrutator [J.S. Rarey]; illustrated by Harrison Weir
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London: George Routledge & Co.: 1855
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: 7419
Condition: Fair
Spine damaged and partly missing; hinges weak. xii, 302, (6) pp. View more info
By: Selby, P.J.
Price: £56.00
Publisher: John Van Voorst: 1842
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: 15469
Condition: Good
Former owner's bookplate; front hinge starting. Corners bumped. View more info
By: Semple, R.H. (ed.); Field, H.
Price: £60.00
Publisher: Gilbert & Rivington, London: 1878
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: 11714
Condition: V.g.
An updated version of the 1820 memoir by Field. Bookplate of N.D. Simpson and some loosely inserted Stearn cuttings. 272 pp. View more info
By: Smith, J.E.
Price: £120.00
Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown: 1821
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: 12619
Condition: Fine
An exceptionally well preserved copy; discreet inscription on front pastedown, spine sl. rubbed. View more info
Price: £80.00
Publisher: London: the author: 1837
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: 4204
Condition: Good
Ex-library copy bound in C20 library cloth, with library label overstamped and a few small library stamps; three bookseller's catalogues and a 4-page Prospectus for the author's Tenures of Kent bound in at rear; also bound in is a folded letter addressed to 'Messrs Nichols & Son, Gentleman's Magazine' postmarked Canterbury and dated October 27, 1837. Tipped into the text are printed slips taken from catalogues, which serve to augment the main bibliography. Despite its sojourn in a public library, the book is little worn and almost unmarked save for a few neat handwritten annotations in the s... View more info
By: Smollett, Tobias George [inferred]
Price: £250.00
Publisher: Printed for R. Baldwin and M. Richardson, London: 1765
Edition: Third edition; first published in 1751
Seller ID: 2000
Condition: See description
The third edition of this rumbustious tale was the last to be published in Smollett's lifetime. The lady of quality mentioned in the subtitle is Frances Anne Vane, Viscountess Vane. Each of the four volumes has the armorial bookplates of Milward Rowe (an official to the Lords of the Treasury), along with the signature C.G. Rowe. All four volumes are currently broken-backed with remnants of the gilt decoration to spines and with 5 raised bands. With the exception of vol. 1, where there is a crude repair between pp. 144 and 145, and vol. 3 which has separated between pp. 98 and 99, they are int... View more info
Price: £130.00
Publisher: John Murray, Edinburgh & London: 1828
Edition: 2nd edition
Seller ID: 6000
Condition: Good
Half leather with very worn corners and significant wear to edges and outer surface along hinges, but nevertheless a sound copy; owner's italic signature to t.p.; pastedown along rear hinge starting, some foxing to plates which were printed on softer paper. (8), xxxvii, 527 pp., engraved frontispiece and 5 other plates showing Steuart's tree transplanting machine and views of Allanton House. View more info
Price: £120.00
Publisher: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, and John Taylor: 1840
Edition: The cabinet cyclopaedia, conducted by the Rev. Dionysius Lardner: Natural History
Seller ID: 14220
Condition: V.g.
Ex-library copy with stamps etc. in crisp modern binding. The engraved frontispiece, with a portrait of William Swainson, is printed on thicker paper and is unfoxed. 392 pp. Part 1 (pp. 1-97) is an exposition of the craft of taxidermy; Part 2 (pp. 98-386) is a 'Bibliography of Zoology, with biographical sketches of the principal authors' which is arranged alphabetically by personal name. Swainson includes in this section a fairly lengthy autobiography on pp. 338-352. View more info
Price: £140.00
Publisher: Tilt & Bogue, London: 1843
Edition: New edition
Seller ID: 9604
Condition: Good
Rebacked blind stamped cloth with gilt decorations, tape repair to hinge of half-title page, a.e.g. A charming and engaging introduction to botany for young readers, illustrated with 11 attractive 'posy-style' hand-coloured engravings. vi, 312, (4) pp. View more info
By: Tyas, R.
Price: £24.00
Publisher: Madgwick Houlston & Co.: 1851
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: 9683
Condition: V.g.
Donor's inscription on ffep. Spine partly detached (repaired). xiv, 238, (2) pp., 24 plates. View more info
