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AGRICULTURE
A Dissertation on the Nature of Soils, and the Properties of Manure; to which is added, the Method of Making a Universal Compost ...
London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1833. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches). [12], 141, [1, blank], [2, blank], 3-35, [1, blank]pp., plus 12-pp publisher's ads. Half-title. Publisher's paper-backed boards, covers detached, spine per- ished. Provenance: Rothamsted Laboratory (inked stamp on title).
Early work on soil and composting.
(#37772) $ 100. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
JOHN FISK ALLEN Victoria Regia; or the Great Water Lily of America. With a brief account of its discovery and intro- duction into cultivation: with illustrations by William Sharp, from specimens grown at Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Boston: printed and published for the author by Dutton & Wentworth, 1854. Folio. Letterpress title, 1p. de- dication to Caleb Cope, 12pp. text (numbered [5]-16); 1p. index, plate list, note and errata. 6 chromolitho- graphed plates by Sharp & Sons of Dorchester, Mass. Publisher's cloth- backed lettered boards. Housed in a green morocco backed box.
A monument to American colour printing, a work which launched the age of chromolithography as an art in the United States, and one of the most beautiful flower books ever produced.
(#36684) $ 60,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
WILLIAM PAUL CRILLON BARTON
A Flora of North America. Illustrated by coloured figures, drawn from nature.
Philadelphia: vol.I: M. Carey & Sons; vol.II & III: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, [1820-]1821-1823[-1824]. 3 volumes, quarto (10 9/16 x 8 5/16 inches). Half-titles in each volume. To Subscribers leaf in vol.II. 106 hand-coloured engraved plates (two folding), including some partially printed in colours and finished by hand, from drawings by the author, by Cornelius Tiebout (29), G.B. Ellis (32), F. Kearney (23), J. Boyd (7), J. Drayton (6), C. Goodman (6), Jacob J. Plocher (2) and J.L. Frederick (1). (one folding plate partially backed along fold). Contemporary three quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt.
An important American flora, "magnificently illustrated" (DAB) with "Plates [that] are clear, soft and lovely" (Bennett). The work includes the first successful use of stipple-engraving in the United States. This set includes the rare 'To Subscribers' leaf in Volume II.
(#22470) $ 17,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
GEORGE BENTHAM AND HENRY FLETCHER HANCE
Flora Hongkongensis: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Island of Hong Kong ... [Bound with:] Flora Hongkongensis ... A Compendious Supple- ment to Mr. Bentham's Description of the Plants of the Island of Hong Kong ... Extracted from the Linnaen Society's Journal.
London: Lovell Reeve, 1861; [London: Linnaen Society, 1872]. 2 volumes in one, 8vo (8 x 5 1/8 inches). [3]-20*, 51, [1], 482pp., plus folding map; [4], [95]-144pp. Contemporary half green morocco over green cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands in five compartments, tooled on either side of each band and lettered in the center three compart- ments, marbled endpaper and edges.
The first comprehensive flora on any part of China and Hong Kong, bound with the separately-issued supplement.
(#29444) $ 2,250. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
JOSEPH BLAGRAVE
The Epitome of the Art of Husbandry ... by J. B. Gent.
London: Printed for Benjamin Billingsley, 1675. Two parts in one, 8vo. [8], 159, 158-246; 136, [16]pp., with errors in pagination as issued. Two engraved illustrated additional titles. Publisher's ad on verso of the terminal leaf. Early manuscript receipt for horse feed to prevent costiveness on verso of the first engraved title and other manuscript receipts for cures to various horse ailments on the rear endpaper. Con- temporary calf, expertly rebacked to style.
Scarce English 17th century work on husbandry.
(#35335) $ 2,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
FRIEDRICH AUGUST LUDWIG VON BURGSDORFF
[Versuch einer vollstandigen gesichte vorzuglicher holzarten ... Zweyter Theil].
[Berlin: Pauli, 1787]. Volume 2, part 1 only. Engraved frontispiece, 9 hand- coloured plates. Lacks the title and first three preliminary text leaves. Con- temporary half calf and patterned paper boards.
A fragment from a very rare tree book.
(#30943) $ 1,200. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
HENRY COLMAN First [- Fourth] Report on the Agriculture of Massachusetts.
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1838-1839-1840-1841. Four volumes in two, 8vo. 3 plates, including a large, folding illustrated and hand-colored letter- press table regarding silk worms. Contemporary smooth calf, spine with semi-raised bands, green morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust (inked stamp).
Scarce complete set of the first official agricultural report of Massachusetts.
(#35358) $ 650. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
HENRY EELES DRESSER Eggs of the Birds of Europe including All the Spe- cies Inhabiting the Western Palaearctic Area.
London: published by the author at the Office of the Royal So- ciety for the Protection of Birds, [August 1905-November] 1910. 2 volumes bound in 1, large 4to (12 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches). Vol. I: [20], 837pp; vol. II: 77 unnumbered leaves (the collation agrees with Wood although Nissen and Zimmer call for 79 ll.). 106 "three- colour photographic process" plates by Messrs. Andre & Sleigh in vol. II. Contemporary red half morocco, spine in six compart- ments with raised bands, the bands highlighted in gilt and flanked by rules in black, gilt lettered in the second and fourth compartments.
A fine copy of this important work recording "the nesting habits and breeding ranges of European birds with half-tones of the nests and nesting sites; also coloured figures of the eggs ad natu- ram" (Wood).
(#39452) $ 2,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
WILLIAM R. DYKES AND E. KATHERINE DYKES
Notes on Tulip Species.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1930. Folio (15 x 10 3/4 inches). 54 color plates. Uncut. Publisher's green cloth, publisher's dust jacket.
First edition, first printing: in the publisher's dust jack- et.
(#29749) $ 350. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
WILLIAM FORSYTH A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-Trees.
London: Printed by Nichols and Son for T. N. Longman, and O. Rees [and others], 1802. Quarto. viii, 371, [1]pp. 13 engraved folding plates. Contemporary speckled calf, ex- pertly rebacked to style, flat spine ruled in gilt, red mo- rocco lettering piece.
First edition of a classic work on all aspects of growing fruit trees.
(#35366) $ 1,400. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
GARDENING Miscellaneous Pieces. Consisting of Select Poetry, and Methods of Improvement in Husbandry, Gar- dening, and Various other Subjects, useful to Families.
[Sherborne?]: Printed for R. Goadby, 1752. 8vo. 474, [8]pp. Three engraved plates (including folding frontispiece view of the Bri- tish herring fishery off Brassa in Shetland). Contemporary calf, covers ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece.
Scarce 18th century compilation of gardening and husbandry advice, including an early printing of "An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard."
(#35492) $ 1,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
STEPHEN HALES
Statical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks; or, an Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vege- tables ... Vol. I. ... Third Edition, with Amendments ... [With:] Statical Esays: Containing Haemastaticks; or, an Account of some Hydraulick and Hydrostatical Experi- ments made on the Blood and Blood-Vessels of Animals ... Vol. II.
London: W. Innys and R. Manby [et. al.], 1738-1733. 2 volumes, 8vo. [6], x, [4], [2], 376; xxii, [26], 361, [1], [22]pp. 19 engraved plates. Contemporary speckled calf, covers ruled in gilt, spines with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Sir William Foulis (armorial bookplate).
A classic of experimental science.
(#38701) $ 2,200. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
THOMAS HITT A Treatise on Fruit-Trees ... Second Edition.
London: Printed for the Author, 1757. 8vo. viii, 392, [8]pp. 7 engraved plates (6 folding). Old repaired tears to folding plates. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece.
An important 18th-century work on the care of fruit trees.
(#35493) $ 850. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya; being an account, botanical and geographical of the Rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of eastern Himalaya ...
London: Reeve, Benham, & Reeve, 1849-1851. Folio. Title with tinted lithographic vignette, 2 letterpress part titles, 1p. list of subscribers, 1p. preface to part II. Hand-col- oured lithographic frontispiece and 29 fine plates, drawn on stone by John Nugent Fitch from drawings by J.D. Hooker, printed by Reeve, Benham & Reeve (12), Frederic Reeve (4) and Reeve & Nichols (14). Original oatmeal morocco-grained cloth, covers blocked with double fillet border, the flat spine lettered in gilt, contained within a modern brown cloth box, titled in gilt on a black morocco lettering-piece.
A very fine copy of the rare second edition of this beauti- fully illustrated work on the Rhododendron family.
(#21537) $ 22,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER
Illustrations of Himalayan Plants, chiefly selected from drawings made for the late J.F. Cathcart Esq. of the Bengal Civil Service.
London: Lovell Reeve, 1855. Folio (20 x 14 3/4 inches). Half- title. 2pp. subscriber's list. Lithographic title with hand- coloured botanical border, 24 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after Walter Hood Fitch from original draw- ings by native artists and the author. Minor foxing in the rear mostly affecting text and tissue guards, one plate toned. Publisher's patterned cloth boards, rebacked with the original spine laid down, floral patterned endpapers. Housed in a cloth box.
Hooker's second work on Himalayan plants containing some of the most spectacular work of Walter Hood Fitch, arguably the greatest botanical artist of the second half of the 19th century: "one of the finest flower books ever pro- duced" (Jan Lewis).
(#35304) $ 18,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
JOHN JONSTON Historiae Naturalis de Arboribus et Plantis. Libri X.
Heilbronn: Franciscus Josephus Ecke- brecht, 1768-1769. 2 volumes, folio (13 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches). 2 letterpress titles in red and black, text in double columns. Engraved allegorical frontispiece by Melchior Küsell after Matthaeus Merian, 137 engraved plates after Matthaeus Merian. (Gathering 3F in vol.I misbound after 3H. Expertly bound to style in half 18th century russia over con- temporary paper boards, spine in six com- partments with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, red stained edges.
A fine set of the second edition of this im- portant 17th-century survey of the known botanical world.
(#25163) $ 3,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
AYLMER BOURKE LAMBERT
A Description of the Genus Pinus, with directions relative to the cultivation, and remarks on the uses of the several spe- cies: also descriptions of many other new species of the family Coniferæ.
London: Messrs. Weddell, 1832. 2 volumes, octavo (10 5/8 x 6 5/8 inches). Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece of the author with integral engraved caption beneath incorporating hand-coloured Lambert family arms, 75 en- graved plates (72 hand-coloured, 1 printed in green, 2 uncoloured, 11 folding) with at least 41 of these plates laid down onto backing sheets (as issued). Ex- pertly bound to style in red straight-grained half morocco over contempo- rary green/grey paper-covered boards, the flat spines divided into six com- partments by single gilt fillets, lettered in gilt in the second, third and fourth compartments, gilt. Provenance: Edward Duke (armorial bookplate); William Russell Grace (1832-1904, armorial bookplate).
A fine copy of the first octavo edition of Lambert's great work on the pine trees of the world.
(#22765) $ 8,250. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
JOHANN GOTTHILF MÜLLER AND JOHANN BERNHARD GOTTFRIED HOPFER
[Species plantarum secundum vegetationis et fructifi- cationis partes ad vivum delineatæ et Latina ac Ger- manica dictione determinata descriptae. Decas prima ...].
[Berlin: Gedruckt bey C.L. Kunst, 1757]. Folio (17 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches). Without letterpress title or text, as issued. 10 hand-coloured en- graved plates after Hopfer, engraved by Glassbach or Sauerbrey. Plates with captions in Latin and German. Expertly bound to style in half calf and period speckled paper.
Rare mid-18th century German botanical work.
(#35612) $ 4,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
ANNE PRATT
The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain.
London: Frederick Warne & Co., [circa 1870]. 6 volumes, 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches). 315 chromolithographed plates by William Dickes. Con- temporary green morocco backed green cloth boards, spines lettered in gilt, period brown endpapers, gilt edges.
A lovely set with color plates by one of the most successful female bo- tanical authors of the Victorian era.
(#29899) $ 1,200. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
JOHN SALTER
The Chrysanthemum; its history and culture.
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1865. 8vo. 2 hand coloured zinco- graphed plates by James Andrews, wood engraved plates and illustra- tions. Contemporary pencil annotations. Publisher's red cloth, upper cover with central stamp in blind in gilt repeated on lower cover in blind (minor wear and repairs).
First edition of a scarce illustrated monograph on the chrysanthemum.
(#29913) $ 475. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
HENRY SEEBOHM
The Geographical Distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and their Allies.
London & Manchester: printed by Taylor & Francis for Henry Sotheran & Co., [1887-1888]. Large quarto (12 5/8 x 10 inches). 21 hand-coloured lithographic plates by and after John Gerrard Keulemans, wood-engraved title vig- nette and numerous illustrations by or after J.G. Millais, G.E. Lodge, Charles Whymper and others. Original green morocco-grained cloth, upper cover panelled in black with lettering in gilt, lower cover panelled in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: J. H. Barnard (early signa- ture); Thomas Perry (bookplate).
First edition, first issue, of this classic monograph of the shore birds of the world: the plovers, sandpipers and snipe.
(#38727) $ 2,250. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
WILLIAM T. STEARN AND WILFRED BLUNT
The Australian Flower Paintings of Ferdinand Bauer.
London: The Basilisk Press, 1976. Folio. 25 colour plates, mounted on heavy green paper, as issued. Two maps. Pub- lisher's green morocco backed marbled boards, housed in publisher's folding box.
Limited to 515 copies.
(#29866) $ 850. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
ASA B. STRONG
The American Flora, or History of Plants and Wild Flowers: containing a systematic and general des- cription, natural history, chemical and medical properties of over six thousand plants, accompa- nied with a circumstantial detail of the medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed.
New York: Green & Spencer, 1853-1851-1852-1850. 4 volumes, quarto (9 1/16 x 7 1/4 inches). 4 lithographic frontispieces (1 uncol- oured portrait of the author, 1 hand-coloured portrait of Lin- naeus, 2 hand-coloured plates), 4 hand-coloured lithographic additional titles, 182 lithographic plates, some printed in colours, all finished by hand, by Edwin Whitefield, David W. Moody and others. Original red morocco, covers elaborately blocked in gilt, with title in covers, the flat spines decorated in gilt (expertly re- backed and cornered with original spines laid down).
A set of this rare American flora with charming plates, including the very rare fourth volume.
(#20344) $ 9,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss
JACOB GEORGE STRUTT
Sylva Britannica; or, portraits of forest trees, distin- guished for their antiquity, magnitude, or beauty. Drawn from nature.
London: published for the Author by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, [1830]. Imperial octavo (10 1/4 x 6 7/8 inches). vii, 151, [1]pp. Additional title on india paper mounted with etched vignette, 49 etched plates by Strutt, all on India paper mounted. (Foxing to the plates). 19th century purple morocco, covers bordered in gilt, spine with semi-raised bands in six compartments, lettered in gilt in the second, the others decoratively paneled in gilt, marbled end- papers, gilt edges. Provenance: Lucius O'Brien (armorial book- plates).
An attractive copy of the first octavo edition of this charming work: the deluxe issue with the plates all printed on india paper.
(#30091) $ 850.