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How to create a perfect garden View picture(s) 1 AGRICOLA, Georg Andreas. L'agriculture parfaite, ou nouvelle decouverte, touchant  la culture & la multiplication des arbres, des arbustes, et des fleurs. Traduit de l'Allemand avec des remarques. Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, 1720. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary calf, ribbed, decorated and gilt spine with title lettered in gold. With engr. portrait of the author as frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and 34 engraved folding plates. (8), 261 (1 blank); (4), 146, 8 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Botany  Engravings  French  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Largest assembly of natural history illustrations published before the 18th century View picture(s) 2 ALDROVANDI, Ulisse. Opera. Bologna, 1599-1667. 13 volumes. Folio (35 x 24 cm). Contemporary blind-stamped vellum. With engraved title to each volume, engraved full page portrait of Aldrovandi in 3 volumes and several thousand woodcut illustrations in text, mostly after designs by J. Ligozzi and many full-page. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Botany  Collections  Encyclopædic Works  Fishing  Italy  Natural History  Science  Shells  Whaling  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Allioni's first publication on Piedmont flora View picture(s) 3 ALLIONI, Carlo. Rariorum pedemontii stirpium. Specimen primum. Turin, Zappata and Avondus, 1755. 4to. Contemporary green painted vellum. With the title-page printed in red and black, 12 folding engraved plates. X, 56 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Illustrated Books  Italy  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A rare Portuguese view on the cultivation of roses View picture(s) 4 BARBOSA, J.C. & J.P. DA COSTA. A Roseira, sua Cultura e Multiplicaçâo. Porto, 1880. Half calf. With chromolithographed title and 40 illustrations in text. 323 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Portugal  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A famous British gardener translated into Dutch View picture(s) 5 BASTER, Job. Philip Miller's maandlyksche tuin-oefeningen in moes-  vrugt- en bloemhof, in boomgaard en oranjehuis, in  stook- en broeikas, en in ent- en kweekery. Derde druk. Amsterdam, Erven H. Gartman, Erven J.W. Vermande, J.J. Schmidt, W. Holtrop, 1821. Original wrappers. With frontispiece engraving by C. Brouwer after J. Smies, a large folding engraved plate, 5 (of 6) large folding tabels. VIII, 292 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Botany  Gardens  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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South African flora View picture(s) 6 BERGIUS, Peter. Descriptiones plantarum ex capite bonae spei, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus et synonymis auctorum justis. Secundum systema sexuale. Stockholm, L. Salvus, 1767. 8vo. Modern boards. With 5 folding engraved plates. [18], 360, [8] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Natural History  South Africa  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Splendid description of orchids from Dutch East Indies and Japan, with 70 plates View picture(s) 7 BLUME, Carl Ludwig. Collection des orchidées les plus remarquables de l'Archipel Indien et du Japon. Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, 1858[-1859]. Large folio (44.5 x 29 cm). Contemporary brown half sheepskin, decorated paper (embossed flower pattern) sides. With hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and 70 lithographed plates (numbered 1-66, 9b, 9c, 9d and 12b, including 1 double-page plate), 56 hand-coloured. [8], VI, 190 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Colour Platebooks  East Indies  Japan  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Scarce, beautifully illustrated 17th century herbal View picture(s) 8 BOCCONE, Paulo. Icones & descriptiones rariorum plantarum Siciliae, Melitae, Galliae, & Italiae. Quarum unaquaeque proprio charactere signata, ab aliis eiusdem classis facile distinguitur. (Oxford), e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1674. 4to. Early 19th century treecalf, spine ribbed in 6 compartments, 5 with gilt flowers, 1 with black morocco title-label, black sprinkled edges. Title-engraving depicting the Sheldonian Theatre, 52 fine engraved illustrations showing numerous plants and flowers. (8), 96, (7, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Botany  France  Italy  Natural History  Sicily  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Introducing a new science: vegetative physics View picture(s) 9 BONNET, Charles. Recherches sur l'Usage des Feuilles dans les Plantes, et sur quelques autres sujets relatifs a l'histoire de la vegetation. Gottingue, Leide, Elie Luzac, 1754. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with black titel-label. With engraved vignet on title, title printed in red and black, and illustrations and figures on 31 folding engraved plates, by J. Wandelaar, J. van der Schley after designs by Soubeyran. VIII, 343, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic treatise on distillation with hundreds of botanical woodcuts View picture(s) 10 BRUNSCHWIG, Hieronymus. New Vollkommen Distillierbüch wolgegründter künstlicher Distillation, sampt Underweisung und Bericht, künstlich Abzuziehen oder Separieren, die fürnembste distillierte Wasser, ... Frankfurt am Main, heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1597. Folio. 17th-century vellum. With title-page in red and black, woodcut publisher's device above colophon at end, well over 300 woodcuts in the text, fraktur type, and 10 woodcut decorated fraktur initial letters. [6], 217 [= 216] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Oenology  Pharmacy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dedicated to the hortensia and the cestrau View picture(s) 11 BUC'HOZ, Jean-Pierre. Memoire sur l' hortensia, plante nouvelle de la Chine; IIe edition: augmentée d' un autre Mémoire sur le Cestrau, ou Galand de jour, du soir et de la nuit, abrisseaux très-odoriférans, et qui méritent, par cette raison, d' être cultivés dans nos jardins. Paris, Dame Buchoz, épouse de l' auteur, 1804. 8vo. Original wrappers with title label pasted on front cover. (2), 14 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Most important scientific expedition to South America in the 19th century. With over 400 hand-coloured plates View picture(s) 12 CASTELNAU, Francis de. Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud, de Rio de Janeiro à Lima, et de Lima au Para; exécutée par ordre du gouvernement Français pendant les années 1843 à 1847. Paris, P. Bertrand, 1850-1859. 7 parts in 15 volumes. 8vo (6 volumes), 4to (7 volumes), folio (2 volumes). Later gold-tooled red half morocco. With 493 lithographed plates and maps (in black, in two colours or fully coloured, including 401 hand-handcoloured). Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Bolivia  Botany  Brazil  Hydraulics  Meteorology  Natural History  Peru  Science  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the cultivation of vegetables and peaches View picture(s) 13 COMBLES, M. De. (Jean?). L'école du jardin potager, contenant la description exacte de toutes les plantes potageres, leur culture, les qualités de terre qui leur conviennent, les situations et les climats qui leur sont propres, leurs propriétés, les différens moyens de les multiplier, le temps de recueillir les graines, leur durée, etc. etc. Quatrième edition, augmentée du Traité de la culture des pêchers du même auteur, et à laquelle on a Lyon, Les freres Perisse, (1794). 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary half marbled calf. Some woodcut headpieces depicting agricultural scenes. 390, (2); 415 (1 blank). Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Botany  French  Horticulture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Source for quinine View picture(s) 14 DELONDRE, Auguste & Apollinaire BOUCHARDAT. Quinologie des Quinquinas et des questions qui, dans l'état preésent de la science et du commerce, s'y rattachent avec le plus d'actualité. Paris, London, Madrid, New York, Germer Baillière, 1854. Large 4to. Contemporary half cloth. With 23 hand-coloured lithographed plates by E. and F. Bion after Delondre, double-page hand-coloured lithographed map by Weddell, large double-page folding map (Géography des plantes équinoxiales) by Humboldt and Bonpland. [4], 48 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Botany  Medicine  Natural History  Pharmacy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic Dutch herbal - also with a great impact on Japanese botany View picture(s) 15 DODONAEUS, Rembertus. Cruydt-Boeck, volghens sijne laetste verbeteringhe: met biivoeghsels achter elck capitel, uyt verscheyden cruydt-beschrijvers: item, in 't laetste een beschrijvinghe vande Indiaensche ghewassen, meest ghetrocken uyt de schriften van Carolus Clusius. Nu wederom van nieuws oversien ende verbetert. Antwerp ('Inde Plantijnsche Druckerije van') Balthasar Moretus, 1644. Folio Eighteenth-century (?) half calf, with richly decorated and gilt stamped thick wall-paper with floral motives pasted on both sides. Richly engraved title with a view into a fine garden seen through an architectural gate decorated with fruits and plants and 2 medallion portraits of Dodonaeus and Clusius below, and with 1470 woodcuts of herbs in text, large historiated woodcut initials, tail-piece with printer's device, and large printer's device of the Plantin workshop on the recto of the last leaf (verso blank). (36), 1492, (59, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Botany  Botany [Herbals]  Japan  Natural History  Plantin  Rangaku  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With 494 colour-printed botanical and two black & white plates 16 DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri Louis et al. Traité des Arbres et Arbustes que l'on Cultive en France en Pleine Terre ... Seconde Édition considérablement augmentée. [vols. 5 and later with the title: Nouveau Duhamel, ou Traité ...] Paris, Didot ainé, Michel, Lamy (vol. I), Étienne Michel (vols. II-IV), Étienne Michel & Arthus Bertrand (vols. V-VII), [1800], 1804-1819. 7 volumes. Folio (41 x 25 cm). Contemporary and uniform half tree calf, gold-tooled spines with red and black labels, tree-marbled sides, sprinkled edges. With an engraved and colour-printed allegorical title-page, 5 (of 6) volume titles, 6 (of 7) half-titles, and 496 (of 498) engraved plates, all but 2 printed in colour, mostly drawn by Pierre-Joseph REDOUTÉ and the rest by Pancrace BESSA. With 2 different publisher's monogram devices on the volume titles. [2], 4, [2], 80, 77 bis-80 bis, 77 ter-78 ter, [1], 82-264, IV; [4], 244, V, [1 blank]; [4], 234, IV; [4], 12, 9 bis-14 bis, 13-240, 4; [4], 330, 4; [4], 36, [1], 36 bis, [1], 38-266, 6; 252, 7 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Colour Platebooks  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous book on fruit trees in a beautiful contemporary hand-colouring View picture(s) 17 DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri Louis. Traité des arbres fruitiers; contenant leur figure, leur description, leur culture, &c. Paris, Saillant Desaint, 1768. 2 volumes. Large 4to (32.5 x 25 cm). Contemporary marbled calf, richly gilt spines with raised bands, gilt fillets on sides, blue speckled edges.            With two title-pages, two half-titles, full-page engraved frontispiece, 180 full-page engraved plates, depicting various types of fruits, woodcut head- and tailpieces, all in a beautiful contemporary hand-colouring. [4], XXXII, 338, [2]; [4], 280 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Engravings  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A British planter in India View picture(s) 18 ELLIOT, Robert Henry. The experiences of a planter in the jungles of Mysore. London, Chapman and Hall, 1871. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half red calf, gilt title on spines. With two tinted lithographed  frontispieces, a lithographed map of the region of Mysore and Coorg in India, 4 tinted lithographs, 1 lithograph with a.o. a cardamom plant, all lithographed by Vincent Brooks,  Day & Son, with leaf bound in with quotation in manuscript on cardamom, signed R.S. citing the Weekly Ceylon Observer, 21 June, 1881, p. 567. The lithographs are after photographs taken at the spot. X,(1), 327; XI, (2), 355 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Botany  Coffee & Tea  Colonial History  India  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting original French translation of a work on algae on the Britsh and Irish coasts View picture(s) 19 ELLIS, John. Essai sur l'histoire naturelle des corallines et dáutres productions marines du même genre, quón trouve communement sur les cotes de la Grande-Bretagne et dÍrlande; auquel on a joint une description dún grand polype de mer, pris auprès du Pole Arctique, par des pêcheurs de baleine, pendant l'été de 1753. The Hague, Pierre de Hondt, 1756. Large 4to. Full contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with red label lettered in gold. Title printed in red and black, with engraved frontispiece and 39 plates, 5 of which are folded, depicting plants and algae etc. and a nautical microscope (Plate 39), engraved by James Kirk, J. Mynde and H. Roberts after the drawings by Ehret. xvi, 125, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  England  French  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important works on tobacco, published together View picture(s) 20 EVERARD, Giles. De Herba Pancea, quam alii tabacum, alii petum, aut nicitianam vocant, brevis commentariolus. Utrecht, David van Hoogenhuysen, 1644. 5 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. With 5 title-pages, each with the woodcut publisher's device, and 9 decorative woodcut initials. 305, (7 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Medicine  Tobacco  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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