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

By: N/A

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 ...
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Silva: Or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesty's Dominions TOGETHER WITH An Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves, with notes by A. Hunter

By: Evelyn, John

Price: $900.00

Publisher: London, Henry Colburn: 1825

Seller ID: 765

1825 EXPANDED AND BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF JOHN EVELYN'S MONOGRAPH ON FORESTRY, FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1664. Two 11 1/2 inches tall hardbound volumes, 3/4 leather binding with marbled boards, red leather label with gilt title to spines, Vol. I, frontis portrait of author, 330; Vol II, 393, [4], 88 pp, 42 copper plate engravings (2 folding), Terra, 3 plates, binder's plate list. Volumes have been expertly rebacked, cover edges and corners worn, scattered foxing, binding tight, plate impressions strong, very good. JOHN EVELYN (1620 - 1706) first presented Sylva in 1662 as a paper to the Ro...
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Mountain Wild Flowers of Canada

By: Henshaw, Julia W.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs: 1906

Seller ID: 263

SIGNED BOTANICAL GUIDE TO CANADIAN ROCKY MOUNTAINS BY WW I HEROINE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, decorative gilt original cloth binding, black & white photographic plates, inscribed front endpaper, Sincerely yours, Julia W. Henshaw, Vancouver, Canada, October 16th, 1908. Covers lightly soiled, edges and corners rubbed, very good-. Julia Wilmotte Henshaw (1869 – 1937) was a Canadian botanist, geographer, writer, and political activist who also served with the Red Cross in World War I. Beginning in 1915, she served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as an ambulance driver as part of the British R...
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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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Crotalaria spectabilis. The Pulmonary Hypertension Plant

By: Kay, J.M. and Heath, Donald

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas: 1969

Seller ID: 649

SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON THE TOXICOLOGY OF CROTALARIA, A SHRUB THAT CAN CAUSE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, xiii, 146 pp, 67 black & white illustrations. Very good in very good dust jacket in archival mylar cover. J. MICHAEL KAY graduated in medicine from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom in 1960 and trained in pathology at the Universities of Bristol and Birmingham. He became interested in pulmonary pathology and pulmonary vascular disease while working with Dr. Donald Heath at the Universities of Birmingham ...
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Outlines of the Geography of Plants: with particular enquiries concerning the Native Country, the Culture, and the uses o the Principal Cultivated Plants on Which the Prosperity of Nations is Based

By: Meyen, F.J.F.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, The Ray Society: 1846

Seller ID: 393

1846 SCARCE SURVEY OF CULTIVATED PLANTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. 9 inches tall hardcover, blindstamped blue cloth binding with gilt emblem of Ray Society to cover, gilt title to spine, t.e.g., 422 pages with folding chart of range of temperature for various zones, and supplement containing the history of cultivated plants (cereals, tubers, and trees. Corners and spine edges worn, spine darkened, head of spine frayed, light foxing to first and last pages, library handstamp to verso of first and last page--no other marks. Binding strong and text bright, unopened; very good -. FRANZ JULIUS FERDINAND...
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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 natur...
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Image for Chinese Medicine Series: Chinese Materia Medica, Vol. I, Vegetable Kingdom; Vol. 2, Insect Drugs, Dragon and Snake Drugs, Fish Drugs; Vol. 3, Turtle & Shellfish Drugs, Avian Drugs, A Compendium of Minerals and Stones; Vol. 4, Animal Drugs; Vol. 5, Chinese Medicinal Plants from the Pen Ts'ao Kang Mu A.D. 1596 of a Botanical, Chemical and Pharmacologiccal Reference List; Vol. 6, Famine Foods List in the Chiu Huang Pen Ts'ao: The Botany of Mahuang, Common Food Fishes of Shanghai.

Chinese Medicine Series: Chinese Materia Medica, Vol. I, Vegetable Kingdom; Vol. 2, Insect Drugs, Dragon and Snake Drugs, Fish Drugs; Vol. 3, Turtle & Shellfish Drugs, Avian Drugs, A Compendium of Minerals and Stones; Vol. 4, Animal Drugs; Vol. 5, Chinese Medicinal Plants from the Pen Ts'ao Kang Mu A.D. 1596 of a Botanical, Chemical and Pharmacologiccal Reference List; Vol. 6, Famine Foods List in the Chiu Huang Pen Ts'ao: The Botany of Mahuang, Common Food Fishes of Shanghai.

By: Stuart, George Arthur and Read, Bernard E.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Taipei, Southern Materials Center, Inc.: 1982, 1987

Seller ID: 913

SCARCE SET OF 6 ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES OF CHINESE TRADITIONAL MEDICINES INCLUDING PLANTS, INSECTS, REPTILES, TURTLES, FISH, BIRDS, MOLLUSCS, MINERALS AND STONES. Six 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover volumes, gilt titles to cover and spine, Vol. 1, 558 pp; Vol 2, 213+66, 136 pp; Vol. 3, 95+112+98 pp; Vol. 4, 9+102+18; Vol. 5, xvi+389; Vol. 6, 14+90+[8]+29+52, many black & white illustrations. Some corners bumped, dents to cover edges, dent to first pages of Vol 5, abrasion bottom cover of Vol. 6; bindings are tight, pages crisp and unmarked, overall very good. FROM THE PREFACE OF VOLUME 1: BERNARD E. R...
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