BOTANY SEPTEMBER 2019 a short list e-catalogue Donald A. Heald | Rare Books Donald A. Heald | Rare Books BOTANY SEPTEMBER 2019 a short list e-catalogue Just click the title of each item in this illustrated short list and follow the link to a full description and images on our website Questions? Contact us or email [email protected] DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss 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