Category: Botany

Dictionaire ou Traite Universel des Drogues Simples

Price: $900.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, aux Depens de la Compagnie : 1716

Seller ID: 689

1716 MAGNIFICENT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DRUGS AND THEIR ORIGINS ILLUSTRATED WITH 25 FOLDING COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS, EACH CONTAINING 16 IMAGES OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS. 10 inches tall hardcover, 18th century full leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt tooled compartments, gilt red leather title label, all edges stained red, original marbled endpapers, red & black letterpress title page, engraved emblem of booksellers of Amsterdam, Vis Unita Major, [xx], 590 pp, [58], 25 folding copper plate engravings, each containing 16 images of plants and animals (total 400 images, each with identification). ...
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Essays on the Evolutionary Morphology of Plants

By: Takhtajan, A.L.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, The American Institute of Biological Sciences : 1954

Seller ID: 686

1954 MONOGRAPH BY ARMEN TAKHTJAN, SOVIET BOTANIST AND PIONEER IN THE STUDY OF PLANT EVOLUTION, 10 3/4 inches tall paperbound volume, pale blue printed paper covers, 139 pp, 32 figures, signature of Aura Estelle Star top of front cover, very good in custom archival mylar cover. ARMEN LEONOVICH TAKHTAJAN (1910 - 2009), was a Soviet-Armenian botanist, one of the most important figures in 20th century plant evolution and systematics and biogeography. His other interests included morphology of flowering plants, paleobotany, and the flora of the Caucasus. Takhtajan worked at the Komarov Botanical In...
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A Contribution to the History of the Fresh-Water Algae of North America

By: Wood, Horatio C.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Washington, Smithsonian Institution : 1872

Seller ID: 1302

FOLIO VOLUME WITH SPECTACULAR COLOR PLATES OF MICROSCOPIC FRESH WATER ALGAE BY CIVIL WAR SURGEON AND BIOLOGIST. 13 inches tall folio hardcover, brown cloth binding, paper title label to spine, viii, 262 pp, 21 lithographic plates (19 in full color). Covers slightly bowed, light bubbling to front paste-down, faint water stain top corner not affecting text or plates, very good minus. HORATIO C. WOOD, JR (1841 - 1920) was an American physician and biologist who attended the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and after serving as a surgeon in the American Civil War, continued to...
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Category: Botany

Dictionaire ou Traite Universel des Drogues Simples

Essays on the Evolutionary Morphology of Plants

A Contribution to the History of the Fresh-Water Algae of North America