BOTANY SEPTEMBER 2019

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CLICK CLARISSA W. MUNGER THE BADGER TITLE

Floral Belles from the Green-House and Garden. Painted from Nature.

New York: Charles Scribner & Company, 1867 [but December 1866]. Folio (17 x 12 7/8 inches). Hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and 15 hand-coloured lithographed plates, coloured by Mrs. Badger. Publisher's full black morocco, upper cover with broad floral gilt borders and gilt lettered title, rear cover with floral border in blind, spine in six compartments with a repeat decoration in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

A charming American flower book with hand-coloured plates: among the best folio flower books produced in America.

(#29035) $ 5,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

ALEXANDER BLACKWELL

A new method of improving cold, wet, and barren lands: Particularly Clayey-Grounds. With The Manner of burning Clay, Turf, and Mole-Hills; as practised in North-Britain. To which is added, The Method of cultivating and raising Fruit Trees in such Soils.

London: J. Walthoe, 1741. 8vo. [8, including preliminary blank], xv,[1],121,[7]pp. 8 engraved folding plates. Publisher's ad facing the title. Contemporary mottled calf, covers bordered with a gilt double filet, spine with raised bands in six compartments, black morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, expert repairs to joints, marbled endpapers.

Scarce 18th century work on gardening, written anonymously by Elizabeth Blackwell's husband.

(#35490) $ 1,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

BOTANICAL DRAWINGS

Botanic Plants Drawn by a Lady for Mrs. Bliss [manuscript title].

[Great Britain: circa 1800]. Folio (18 1/4 x 11 1/2). Manuscript title in gold within floral and architectural wreath including pansies, roses, daffodils and a passion flower, 45 watercolours of flowers, most with contemporary pencil captions below the images, on wove paper watermarked 1797-1801. Contemporary half red morocco and marbled paper covered boards, flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Provenance: Mrs. Bliss (title inscription); William Carlyon, Tregrehan, Cornwall (armorial bookplate); William H. Schab Gallery, Four Centuries of Fine Illustrated Books (1962), item 143.

Beautiful album of botanical watercolours, possibly by Mary Lawrance.

(#35103) $ 22,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS

[Manuscript herbarium].

[Great Britain]: [circa 1770]. Quarto (13 x 8 inches). 133 watercolours, each within ink ruled border, each captioned in ink or pencil with common names. On 18th century laid paper throughout, watermarked J.A.D. With an additional watercolour of a bat on the front pastedown. Contemporary vellum-backed marbled paper covered boards. Housed in a modern green full morocco box.

Eighteenth-century manuscript herbarium.

(#36686) $ 9,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

HERMON BOURNE

Flores Poetici. The Florist's Manual: designed as an introduction to vegetable physiology and systematic botany for cultivators of flowers.

Boston: Munroe and Francis; New York: Charles S. Francis, 1833. 8vo. 288pp., with 73 hand-coloured illustrations. Scattered minor foxing. Publisher's green cloth, rebacked with the original spine laid down. Provenance: Isabella Batchelder (contemporary inscription).

Early American amateur florist's manual with colored plates.

(#35747) $ 2,400. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

RICHARD DUPPA

The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany. Illustrated by Select Specimens of Foreign and Indigenous Plants.

London: Printed by T. Bensley ... for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816. 3 volumes, 8vo (9 x 5 3/8 inches). 240 engraved plates (237 hand-coloured). Contemporary black straight grain morocco, covers bordered in gilt and blind, spine with semi-raised bands in six compartment, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, brown endpapers (some wear, hinges starting). Provenance: bookplate on the front pastedowns.

First edition of Duppa's attractively illustrated popular introduction to the Linnaean classification system: hand- coloured issue.

(#29532) $ 4,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN EDWARDS

The British Herbal, containing one hundred plates of the most beautiful and scarce flowers and useful medicinal plants which blow in the open air of Great Britain, accurately coloured from nature with their botanical characters, and short account of their cultivation.

London: Printed for the author, [1769]-1770. Folio (17 7/8 x 11 1/4 inches). [2], 50 [2]pp. 100 hand-coloured engraved plates by Edwards. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked retaining portions of the original spine, repairs at corners, endpapers renewed.

One of the most highly artistic flower books of the eighteenth century.

(#36285) $ 22,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

N. F.

The Husbandmans fruitfull Orchard Shewing Divers rare new secrets for the true Ordering of all sortes of fruite in their due seasons. Also how your encrease and profite maie bee much more then heertofore,and yet your charge and labour the same. With the manner of gathering all kindes of fruite aswel stone-fruite as other...

[London: [by R. Bradock] for Roger Jackson, 1609. Quarto (7 x 5 inches). [4], 28pp. Single large woodcut initial, and single woodcut head-piece and tail-piece. Nineteenth century straight-grained green full morocco, by Riviere & Son, neatly rebacked with the original spine. Provenance: William Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney (armorial bookplate).

Rare early English work on the cultivation and care of fruit trees.

(#36870) $ 12,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

STRICKLAND FREEMAN

Select Specimens of British Plants.

London: printed by W. Bulmer & Co. and sold by G. Nicol, 1797 [watermarked 1794]. Part I only (of 2), folio (22 1/2 x 17 inches). Uncut. 5 plates printed in colours and finished by hand, engraved by William Skelton after drawings by Juliana Strickland (3) and Charlotte Strickland (2). Original paper- backed marbled paper-covered boards, the upper cover with original small format letterpress title label pasted on at the centre original boards.

A fine unsophisticated copy of the first part of this rare and beautiful illustrated botanical work.

(#25028) $ 3,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

GARDENING

Miscellaneous Pieces. Consisting of Select Poetry, and Methods of Improvement in Husbandry, Gardening, 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 British 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

JOHN GERARD

The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes ... very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson.

London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton & Richard Whitakers, 1633. Folio. [36], 1630, [48] pp., lacks preliminary and terminal blanks. Engraved architectural title by John Payne showing Theophrastus and Dioscorides, Ceres and Pomona. Approximately 2,760 woodcuts in text, numerous woodcut initials. Early calf, bordered in blind, expertly rebacked, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, tooled and lettered in gilt. Housed in a cloth box. Provenance: early (Irish?) botanist or apothecary (manuscript marginalia throughout); Thomas Story (signature).

The preferred second edition of Gerard's "Herbal," the first edition of Thomas Johnson's expanded version with over 2,760 woodcuts: with interesting marginalia and provenance.

(#36852) $ 6,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHANNES FRIDERICUS GRONOVIUS

Flora Virginica exhibens plantas quas… in Virginia crescents observavit collegit & obtulit.

Leiden: 1762. 4to. [12], 176, [8]pp. Engraved folding map. Errata on verso terminal leaf. Contemporary manuscript annotations throughout. Uncut. Contemporary flexible blue paper covered boards, expertly rebacked to style. Housed in a blue morocco backed box. Provenance: J. Davis.

Second and best edition of the first Virginian flora, based on specimens collected by John Clayton at the beginning of the 18th century; this edition the first to include a map of Virginia.

(#35216) $ 9,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON

Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London ... [Bound with:] Transactions ... Second Series.

London: W. Bulmer & Co., 1820-1830 [first series]; 1835-1848 [second series]. 10 volumes (first series: vols. I-VII; second series: vols. I-III [all published], 4to. Seven engraved titles, 175 plates, including 91 hand-coloured engraved plates, engraved by W. Say, W. Clark and others, 9 folding plates. Expertly bound to style in half green straight grain morocco and period marbled paper covered boards, spines with raised bands in six compartments. Provenance: Dr. Edward Scudamore (1778-1850, ink signatures); Arnold Arboretum (ink stamp).

A rare complete run of the most important British pomological and botanical journal of its day, and a showcase for the talents of some of the greatest botanical artists working in Britain at the time.

(#29434) $ 18,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN LEONARD KNAPP

Gramina Britannica; or representations of British Grasses.

London: Printed for the author by T. Bensley, 1804. Quarto. 119 hand coloured engraved plates. Expertly bound to style in half russia and period marbled paper covered boards, flat spine ruled in gilt, morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Claud Lonsdale (bookplate).

Rare first edition.

(#35486) $ 2,250. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JANE WELLS LOUDON

The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants.

London: William Smith, 1841. Quarto (10 1/2 x 8 inches). 58 hand-coloured lithographic plates. Contemporary half green morocco over marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers.

The first edition of the second work in Mrs. Loudon's extremely popular series that influenced a generation of mid-nineteenth century gardeners.

(#30283) $ 2,400. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

LOVER OF PLANTING

The Compleat Planter & Cyderist. Or, Choice Collections and Observations for the Propagating all manner of Fruit-Trees, and the most Approved Ways and Methods yet known for the Making and Ordering of Cyder, and other English-Wines. By a Lover of Planting.

London: Thomas Basset, 1685. 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 inches). [16], 256, [8] pp. Two woodcut illustrations to text. Contemporary mottled sheep, neatly rebacked with morocco title label to spine. Provenance: G.B. Barton (signature dated 1749).

First edition.

(#36874) $ 6,750. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JAMES MACPHAIL

A Treatise on the Culture of the Cucumber: shewing a new and advantageous method of cultivating that plant.

London: Printed for the Author; and sold by T. Cadell, 1794. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches). Engraved folding frontispiece plate. Contemporary calf backed marbled paper covered boards with vellum tips, flat spine in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with overall decoration in gilt. Provenance: George Thomas Leaton-Blenkinsopp (armorial bookplate, arms on the spine).

A lovely copy of MacPhail's work on the forced cultivation of cucumbers.

(#29432) $ 2,200. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

PHILIP MILLER

The Gardeners Kalendar, Directing what Works are necessary to be done every month, in the Kitchen, Fruit and Pleasure Gardens, and in the Conservatory ... the Third Edition.

London: for the Author, and sold by C. Rivington, 1734. 8vo. xv, [1], 278, [8]pp. Frontispiece engraved by J. Pine. Minor dampstaining to frontispiece and first few leaves. Nineteenth century green patterned cloth, red morocco lettering piece.

One of the earliest and most well-regarded of the gardener's "Kalendars."

(#35495) $ 550. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

J. TRAHERNE MOGGRIDGE

Contributions to the Flora of Mentone and to a Winter Flora of the Riviera ... Third edition.

London: Lovell, Reeve & Co., 1874. Large 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 inches). 99 hand-coloured lithographed plates (numbered 1- 97, plus 51 and 52 bis). Contemporary manuscript annotations throughout giving additional information about most plants by a knowledgeable botanist evidently familiar with the region. Early straight grain black morocco, covers bordered with gilt rules, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.

Lovely copy of an important contribution to the botany of France.

(#29458) $ 1,200. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHANN GOTTHILF MÜLLER

[Species plantarum secundum vegetationis et fructificationis partes ad vivum delineatæ et Latina ac Germanica 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 engraved 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

ANTONINUS MUSA

In hoc opere conenta. Ant. Musae de Herba Vetonica ... L. Apulei de Medica minibus Herbarum ...

Zurich: C. Froschauer, 1537. 4to (7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches). [viii], 304, [28]pp. Woodcut initials. Expertly bound to style in early vellum. Housed in a black morocco backed box.

"First edition of Hummelberger's editing of these two classics" (Hunt).

(#29433) $ 2,800. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN PARKINSON

Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or, A choise Garden of all sorts of Rarest Flowers...

London: printed by R.N., to be sold by Richard Thrale, 1656. Folio, bound in sixes. [12], 612, [16]pp. Woodcut additional title engraved by Switzer, 1 full-page woodcut of parterre designs, 109 full-page woodcuts of plants (82 of flowers, 15 of vegetables and herbs and 12 of trees), 3 small woodcuts within the text. Publisher's ad on verso of the terminal leaf. Some leaves toned. Contemporary calf, covers ruled in blind, spine with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece, repairs to joints. Provenance: Peter Du Cane (armorial bookplate); Knut Olav Thulesius (bookplate).

The expanded second edition of "one of the most beloved of all early English books on gardening" (Hunt).

(#36179) $ 3,800. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

FREDERICK PURSH

Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or, A Systematic Arrangement and Description of the Plants of North America. Containing, besides what may have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country ... Second Edition.

London: printed for James Black & Son, 1816. 2 volumes, octavo (8 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches). 6pp. advertisements at the back of Vol. 1, 24 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates (1 plate signed as being by W, Hooker after Pursh, a second signed as by and after Hooker, the others unsigned). Publisher's purple cord-grained cloth, letterpress paper label to each spine. Provenance: C. Allen (early pencilled signature).

A fine copy of the rare second edition of the highly- desirable coloured issue of the first botanical record of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

(#23445) $ 10,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

EDWARD SAYERS

A Treatise on the Culture of the Dahlia and Cactus.

Boston: Weeks, Joran and Company, 1839. 12mo (6 x 3 1/2 inches). 72pp. Publisher's ad facing the title. Contemporary green cloth backed lettered glazed yellow paper covered boards.

Rare American monograph on the dahlia: amongst the earliest American works devoted to a special flower.

(#29456) $ 600. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN WORLIDGE

Dictionarium Rusticum & Urbanicum: or, a Dictionary of all Sorts of Country Affairs, Handicraft, Trading, and Merchandizing. Containing more particularly the Whole Art of Gardening, viz. Sowing, Setting, Grafting, Transplanting, Salleting, &c. with the Names, Descriptions, and Uses, of all kinds of Plants, Flowers, and Fruits ...

London: J. Nicholson, 1704. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches). [844]pp. Woodcut illustrations. Contemporary panelled calf, spine with raised bands, green morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Joseph Murray (early signature); Alexander Murray (early signature).

Ablactation to Zachine: 18th century English country living, from A to Z.

(#36877) $ 2,400.