Paris: Delalain, 1797-1805. 12 volumes. 4to. Over 8000 pages printed in double column. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece in Volume 10, title vignettes, large decorative headpiece at beginning of each chapter. With 20 folding tables and charts (a few oversized) and 269 engraved plates. Contemporary half-calf over hand-blocked marbled boards; a...... More
Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1875. 8vo. [ii], 612, [2] pp., including half-titles for each part. FIRST EDITION. Printed in Gothic type, a few leaves unopened; an excellent copy in contemporary blue cloth with the original printed wrappers bound in. Several marginal annotations in pencil and blue ink, 7 separate handwritten pages..... More
Lausanne et Vevey: B. Benda, 1873. 8vo. [iv], 113, [3] pp. FIRST EDITION. Cloth-backed marbled boards. Some foxing to first and last few leaves. From the library of Jerry Stannard. First edition. An introduction to the study of natural sciences written by Schnetzler (1823-96), a professor of Botany at the..... More
Neudamm: J. Neumann, 1904-1921. Three vols. 4to. [xiv], [240], [iv]; [xii], [240], [iv]; [vii], [232] pp. FIRST EDITION. With 176 chromolithograph plates (4 double). Original cloth, title in gilt on cover, some wear to spines; tissue covers with marginal tears, several signatures loose in Volume III, Volumes I and II..... More
Padua: Stamperia del seminario, 1810. 8vo. viii, 421 pp., including index. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards; a fine, clean copy. Eighth edition. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. 8vo. xi, 311 pp., plus 32 pp. publisher's catalogue. FIRST EDITION. Coloured frontispiece and 100 illustrations. Original cloth, uncut. First edition of a marvelous parable of the plant world. The book manages to explain the complex workings of vegetable life in layman's terms by presenting..... More
Berlin: In Taberna Libraria Scholae Realis, 1812. 8vo. lxvi, 550 pp. FIRST EDITION. With the large folding map of Lapland, hand-coloured in outline, l folding engraved table, and 30 engraved plates. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, rebacked; interior lightly browned. With a large bookplate from the Academiae Harvardianae donation fund..... More
Boston: Joseph T. Buckingham, 1811. 8vo. 263pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary sheepskin with black morocco spine label titled in gilt. Some minor damp-staining, some creased pages, extremities rubbed, very good. More
