Boston. 1848. 247pp. Frontis. Illus. Half title. Original printed boards. Boards sunned, lower half of backstrip lacking and top half torn but cords sound, bookplate. Dampstained throughout, some scattered foxing, else internally good. "Second edition - enlarged." Includes a history of the vine, directions for its culture and propagation. Indexed.....
Philadelphia: Charles Alexander, 1838-39. Five issues. Original printed wrappers. Moderate wear to extremities. Fore-edge of front wrapper trimmed affecting border. Vignette clipped from front wrapper of fourth issue. Occasional dampstaining and spotting. Contemporary ownership signature on front wrapper of third and fourth issues. Good. An early American silk manual, published.....
Cincinnati: J.U. & C.G. Lloyd, 1900. Two volumes bound in one volume. 10,vii,49,iv pp. plus one plate; xvi,53,vii pp. Printed wrappers. Wrappers worn, with tears. Previous owners plate is on inside cover. Good. Reprint of Barton's 1798 and 1804 essays.
Paris. [ 1801]. Two volumes. 457pp. plus folding map, two folding plates, frontispiece, and errata; 436pp. plus folding plate and errata. Half titles. Contemporary gilt mottled calf, spines gilt, leather labels. First volume expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down and labels preserved. Hinges of second volume bit rubbed. A......
Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905. [2],xx,409,[3]pp. including nine in text figures, plus forty-one half-tone plates, and eighty-seven full color plates. Frontis. Original dark green cloth, spine and front board stamped in gilt. Very minor shelf wear. Internally clean, bright, and unmarked. Near fine. First volume only of this lavishly illustrated.....
Albany: Printed by Webster and Skinners, 1833. lv,471pp. Modern cloth, spine gilt. Some scattered light foxing. A very good copy. Intended as a "text-book for the beginner, as well as a convenient manual for the more advanced botanist" (Preface).
Boston: Published by Crocker & Brewster, 1830. 372pp. plus five color plates of flowers (of six, lacking the frontispiece) and four uncolored plates. Contemporary calf, black morocco label, gilt. Worn along hinges, at spine ends, and extremities. Light foxing, light dampstain in upper portion of first one hundred pages and.....
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[American. N.d., ca. 1850]. Fifteen watercolors total, heightened with gum arabic, ranging in size from 2 x 2 inches to 7 x 6 inches. The illustrations are bordered either by lace or gilt and affixed to colored paper, or are done on a sheet with a lithographic border. Interleaved with.....
Boston & New York: Munroe and Francis & Charles S. Francis, 1833. 288pp. including seventy-three handcolored engravings. Later pebbled cloth boards and modern morocco backstrip, leather label. Corners worn. One signature moderately foxed (affecting four illustrations). Very good. A treatise on botany, with interesting early American color plates. In the.....
Boston. 1832. 408pp. plus illustrations. Frontis. Later green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Slightly rubbed. Minor foxing. Very good, untrimmed, with a few old specimens laid in. Describes species of North American trees, with a section on "arboroculture." An early American reference work on the topic.
Paris: Chez Pierre-François Giffart, 1744. Six volumes. [6],viii,454; [2],501; [2],465; [2],388; [2],456; [2],434,[4]pp., plus twenty- eight maps, and ninety-six plates on forty- four sheets. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, raised bands, spines gilt, leather labels, marbled endpapers, all edges red. Slight wear at joints, spine ends, and corners. 19th-century bookplate on.....
Paris. 1814-1819. Eight volumes. 425 color plates (two folding). Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Corners rubbed. Light foxing. Very good. An interesting and beautifully illustrated series, with plates produced during the great period of French color printing. The title appears to have been loosely interpreted.....
Madras: Printed by H. Smith, 1856. [6],78pp. Original cloth-backed wrappers, printed paper label on front cover. Front wrapper detached. Some scattered foxing. Contemporary ink corrections and additions. Overall a good plus copy. A presentation copy, inscribed on the front wrapper: "B. Daydon Jackson Esq. / from / H. Cleghorn /.....
Milford, N.H. John Burns, 1846. 181,[1]pp. plus eleven plates (including frontispiece). Contemporary calf, gilt morocco label. Spine rubbed and scuffed, hinges and spine ends worn, modest edge wear. Bookseller label on front pastedown. Pencil marks on front endpapers and final page of text. Tear in outer margin of p. vii.....
[London]: Printed and sold by William Phillips, 1803-1804. Three volumes bound in two. [4],131; [6],114; [4],63pp., plus 119 handcolored plates with accompanying descriptive leaves. Frontispiece in first volume. 20th-century three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards by Bayntun, spine gilt with raised bands, a.e.g. Slight shelf wear. Slight foxing, occasional offsetting.....
Lisbon: A.J.C. Da Cruz, 1837. viii,12pp. Small quarto. Dbd. Internally clean and fresh. A fine copy, untrimmed. A brief manual regarding the cultivation of the nopal plant for the purpose of cochineal cultivation. The cochineal is a small bug which lives on nopal plants and yields a superb dye which.....
West Chester: Printed for the author, by S. Siegfried, 1837. xxiii,640pp. Frontispiece map. Original three-quarter roan and marbled boards. Rubbed and worn, paper nearly perished on rear board. Ex-lib. with three small stamps on titlepage, two more elsewhere. Old dampstain on fore-edge (gradually growing larger) of last two hundred pages.....
Washington: Published by the Author, 1938. xiv,275,[1]pp. including color half title and titlepage, and numerous black and white and color plates, plus large folding color plate. Folio. Original tan cloth, gilt morocco labels. Residue from bookplate on front pastedown, else near fine in very good slipcase. From an edition of.....
New Haven. 1819. 191pp. Contemporary plain boards, expertly rebacked with new calf spine, red leather label. Bit tanned. Very good. Ex-Horticultural Society of New York, with bookplate noting Kenneth K. Mackenzie's bequest of the book. Second edition, after the first of 1817. Eaton, a great popularizer of botanical science, was.....
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829. 523,[1]pp. plus three folding tables. Speckled calf, spine gilt, morocco label. Corners bumped, head of spine chipped, outer hinges cracked. Owner's inkstamp on titlepage. Old stain on second fold-out table, otherwise quite clean. About very good. A "regular" medical guide with a materia medica.....
Rochester: D.M. Dewey, Horticultural Books, 1885. 96pp. plus sixteen chromolithographic plates and one uncolored lithographic plate. Original publisher's brown cloth, spine and front board gilt. Binding slightly soiled. Ownership stamp at head of titlepage. Text block beginning to spring, very light age toning. A good copy. The second edition, "enlarged.....
London: Printed for the Author, 1755. xvii,[10],103pp. plus thirty-eight engraved plates (including frontispiece and plate depicting microscope). Quarto. Contemporary calf, leather label, raised bands. Hinges cracking, but intact and holding by cords. Scattered foxing, bookplate. Overall just about very good. Ellis (1711-76), an Irish-born merchant in London, was an agent.....
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1894. Two volumes. xxii,[2],318; x,[2],[319]- 624pp., plus 145 plates (thirty-six of them chromolithographs). Three-quarter crushed morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, raised bands. Ex-lib., with bookplate on front pastedowns and remnant of removed bookplate on rear free endpapers, faint inkstamp on fore-edge and bottom edge.....
New York: Published by H. Long & Brother, 1848. [6],230pp. plus thirty-nine (of forty) plates, large folding map and three plans. Lacks (and probably never had) "Head of the Mountain Goat Female" plate. Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Slightest fraying at extremities, scattered foxing. Large map (in rear pocket) with.....
Washington. 1848. 416pp. plus forty plates (fourteen of botanical specimens), three plans, and large folding map. Original brown cloth, paper label. Worn at spine ends, label rubbed, corners slightly bumped. Upper outer corner of front free endpaper torn. A few fox marks, but on the whole a very clean copy.....
