Category: Botany

Volume Jubilaire Victor van Straelen, Directeur de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 1925-1954

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Brussels, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique : 1954

Seller ID: 893

1954 TWO HUGE VOLUMES (15 LBS TOTAL) CONTAINING PAPERS ON PALEONTOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY BY 31 CONTRIBUTORS IN CELEBRATION OF RETIREMENT OF BELGIAN CONSERVATIONIST VICTOR VAN STRAELEN. Two folio volumes, 10 x 13 x 2 inches, card covers, printed title to covers and spines, Vol. I, frontis photograph of van Straelen at his desk, Preface, photographic plate,pp [1] - 640 pp; Vol. II, pp 641 - 1213, pages unopened, many plates with tissue guards, maps, large folding tables, no library or ownership marks, very good. No. 372 of edition limited to 450 copies. TEXT IN FRENCH. CONTENTS: Vol. I: Minerology, Pa...
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The Sylva Americana; or A Description of the Forest Trees Indigenous to the United States, Practically and Botanically Considered

By: Browne, D.J.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Boston, William Hyde & Co. : 1832

Seller ID: 255

LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITION EARLY MONOGRAPH ON AMERICAN TREES WITH OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS. 9 inches tall hardcover, full calf leather binding, [i]-vii, [viii- List]. [9]- 408 pp., frontis forest scene with deer, 111 wood engravings of leaves throughout text. Dedicated to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Part I, Vegetable physiology; Part II, Dendrology; Part III, Arboriculture; Appendix list of woods and heat generated by combustion; Glossary, Index Latin, English, and provincial names. Cover edges rubbed, spine dulled, endpapers browned, residue from bookplate removed from front paste...
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Les Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux. Guide Pour les Reconnaitre

By: Eloffe, Arthur

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Paris, Librairie Centrale d'Agriculture et de Jardinage : 1880

Seller ID: 260

SCARCE FRENCH 19TH CENTURY COLOR ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS. 6 1/4 inches tall hardcover quarter green leather with gilt spine and marbled boards and endpapers, green ribbon, uncolored frontis and 11 double-page very fine handcolored plates with tissue guards. Arthur Éloffe was born in 1826 in Vesoul, Franche-Comté (Freigrafschaft Burgund), France. He was a trained taxidermist and ran a naturalist preparatory business as well as a small school in the Rue de l’Ecole de Médecine 20, Paris. Éloffe taught his students how to conserve animals and plants. He published severa...
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Image for The Family Herbal, or an Account of All Those English Plants, which are Remarkable for their Virtues, and of the Drugs which are produced by Vegetables of other Countries; with their Descriptions and Their Uses, as proved by experience, embellished with Fifty-Four Coloured Plates

The Family Herbal, or an Account of All Those English Plants, which are Remarkable for their Virtues, and of the Drugs which are produced by Vegetables of other Countries; with their Descriptions and Their Uses, as proved by experience, embellished with Fifty-Four Coloured Plates

By: Hill, John

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Bungay, C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley : 1808

Seller ID: 698

1808 FAMILY HERBAL BY ENGLISH QUACK PHYSICIAN BOTANIST WITH 54 BEAUTIFUL HAND-COLORED ENGRAVINGS OF PLANTS. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 calf binding with marbled boards, gilt lines to spine, gilt black leather title to spine, signature of Rd Clatterbuck, Colchester on front paste-down, Partial ink inscribed list of contents on front endpaper, title page with no date, but plate facing page 137 engraved, "Publd. by Brightly Bungay 1808", xl, 376 pp, 54 finely colored engraved plates containing multiple plants. Corners bumped, wear to covers, light foxing to first and last pages, binding tig...
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The effect of cell division on the shape and size of hexagonal cells TOGETHER WITH 6 additional offprints

By: Lewis, Frederic Thomas

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Anatomical Record, National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Botany : 1926 - 1949

Seller ID: 1033

1926-1949 SEVEN OFFPRINTS ON CELL DIVISION AND CELL SHAPE IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS BY LEGENDARY HARVARD MORPHOLOGIST FREDERIC T. LEWIS, INCLUDING A SIGNED COPY INSCRIBED TO NOTED MATHEMATICIAN. 1)The effect of cell division on the shape and size of hexagonal cell. Anat. Rec., 33: 331-355 (1936); 2) The correlation between cell division and the shapes and sizes of prismatic cells in the epidermis of Cucnmis. Anat. Rec, 38: 341-376 (1928); 3) A volumetric study of growth and cell division in two types of epitheium: ”the longitudinally prismatic epidermal cells of Tradescantia and the radially prism...
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Poetry of the Vegetable World. A Popular Exposition of the Science of Botany, and its Relation to Man

By: Schleiden, M.J.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Newman & Ivison : 1853

Seller ID: 1347

1853 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF MONOGRAPH ON BOTANY BY M. J. SCHLEIDEN, EVOLUTIONIST AND CO-FOUNDER OF THE CELL THEORY, ILLUSTRATED WITH LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES.7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's mauve cloth binding, blindstamped publisher's device to covers, gilt title to spine, xvii, (29-) 360 pp, 4 fine lithographed plates (2 partially colored), light wear to head of spine, spine faded, embosssed library stamps to pp 29 and 260, not affecting plates, light foxing to first few pages, very good in custom archival mylar cover. CHAPTERS INCLUDE: The Eye and the Microscope, The Internal Structu...
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The Prairies

By: Shimek, B.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Iowa City, : 1911

Seller ID: 391

1911 TREATISE ON THE PRAIRIES OF THE MIDWEST, INSCRIBED BY BOTANIST AND ECOLOGIST, PRESENTED TO NOTED PALEONTOLOGIST. 9 1/2 inches tall printed paper covered boards, offprint from The Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State Univesity of Iowa, textured paper tape to spine, Author's inscription to Professor S. W. Willioston top of cover, with handstamp of S.W. Williston/ University of Chicago. Text is folowed by bibliography spanning 1818 to 1910, 11 plates of photographs of the prairies, graphs, folding map, and errata. BOHUMIL SHIMEK (1861 – 1937) was an American natural...
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