The hardwoods of Australia and their economics.
Sydney: Government Printer, 1919. Large quarto, 126 photographs, text illustrations. Publisher's paper covered boards with cloth spine, a fine copy. More
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Banks' Florilegium: a publication in thirty-four parts of seven hundred and thirty-eight copperplate engravings of plants collected on Captain James Cook's first voyage round the world in H.M.S. Endeavour, 1768-1771, with five supplementary plates ...
London: Alecto Historical Editions in association with the British Museum (Natural History), 1980-1990. Folio, 738 copper-engraved plates in titled window mounts, colour printed a la poupee in up to 17 colours with additional watercolour touches from the original plates after Sydney Parkinson, Frederick Polydore Nodder, John Frederick Miller, James Miller..... More
La flore des insectophiles precedee d'un discours sue l'utilite des insectes et de l'etude de l'insectologie.
Utrecht: Chez B. Wild et J. Altherr, 1791. Octavo, Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, red label, early strengthening of inner hinge, a very good copy. More
The Herefordshire Pomona. Containing coloured figures of the most esteemed kinds of apples and pears.
London: The Folio Society, (1914. facsimile). Folio, 77 fine coloured plates and text illustrations; the plate volume in quarter morocco, top edge gilt, the text in cloth, the front boards of both volumes pictorially gilt: together in folding cloth box, gilt-decorated. With, as issued, 4 duplicate plates in paper sleeve..... More
Selecta Fungorum Carpologia of the brothers L. R. and C. Tulasne. Translated into English by W. B. Grove.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931. Folio, 61 uncoloured plates. A fine set in slightly chipped dustwrappers. "The Carpologia at the time of its publication (1861-1865) was an epoch-making work and [is] one of the great mycological classics. Its primary purpose was to demonstrate the pleomorphism of the Ascomycetes which had been..... More
The endemic flora of Tasmania.
London: Ariel Press, 1967-1978. Folio, colour plates by Margaret Stones, a fine set in dustwrappers. A landmark 20th century botanical work illustrated by one of the great botanical artists of the twentieth century. More
Phytologia; or the philosophy of agriculture and gardening. With the theory of draining morasses, and with an improved construction of the drill plough.
London: J. Johnson, 1800. Quarto, twelve engraved plates (two folding, nine with an accompanying non-paginated text leaf), the signature of William Cowper on the title page. Original boards (worn) with modern spine, some waterstaing and heavy oxidation. An outstanding Australian provenance. The copy of William Macquarie Cowper (1810-1902), with a...... More
Economic Plants: an index to economic products of the vegetable kingdom in Jamaica.
Kingston, Jamaica: Government Printing Establishment, 1891. Octavo, printed title wrapper, title, preface. Red half calf and black cloth, house in a red solander box with label; signatures of 'Julie Adele Livingston, July 2nd 1904 Kingston, Jamaica' on title and top margin of page 5, some browning confined to text, lacking..... More
The art album of New Zealand flora: being a systematic and popular description of the native flowering plants of New Zealand and adjacent islands, volume one (all published).
Wellington: Bock & Cousins, 1889. Large quarto, 40 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's embossed green cloth, gilt edges, a fine copy. One of the finest of all works on New Zealand botany. A further two volumes were planned but never published. It was available in the publisher's cloth for 10 shillings or..... More
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The ferns of Great Britain [with] The fern allies: a supplement.
London: Henry G Bohn, 1859. Octavo, 80 handcoloured plates. Publisher's handsome blindstamped and decorated cloth, all edges gilt, a few occasional spots and signature on front endpaper, a fine copy. BM(NH) p. 1984; Plesch; p. 414; Pritzel 8793. More
Report on the work of the Horn Expedition to central Australia [volume three only]: geology and botany.
London: Dulau and Co., 1896. Quarto, uncoloured plates. Publisher's green cloth, a fine copy. The Horn Expedition was the most comprehensive record of a scientific expedition undertaken in Australia in the nineteenth century. Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer was the leader of the expedition and the principal editor of the official..... More
Flora Australasica; or a selection of handsome or curious plants, natives of New Holland, and the South Sea Islands; ..
London: James Ridgway, [1827-1838]. Octavo, 56 handcoloured engraved plates with accompanying leaves and interleaving. Modern half morocco with gilt spine and cloth covered boards, a handsome crisp copy. One of the most attractive of all Australian botanical books and the first to use live specimens for illustration instead of dried..... More
Alpine plants: figures and descriptions of some of the most striking and beautiful of the alpine flowers.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1874. Tall octavo, 108 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's blue blindstamped and gilt decorated cloth, some flecking otherwise a bright crisp set. More
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