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rare botanical work describing one hundred woody plants, with fruit and flowers growing wild in Germany
REITER, I.D. & ABEL, G.F.
Abbildung der hundert deutschen wilden Holz-Arten nach dem Numern-Verzeichnis im Forst-Handbuch von F.A.L. von Burgsdorf.
Als eine Beilage zu diesem Werke, heraus gegeben. I.(-IV.) Heft (all published). Stuttgart, gedruktin der Drukerei der Herzoglichen Hohen Karls-Sch...
EUR 6,500
Barlett also speaks with appreciation of the beauty of the illustrations
RENAULME, P. DE.
Specimen historiae plantarum. Plantae typis aeneis expressae.
Paris, Hadrianus Beys, 1611. 4to (120 x 176mm). pp. (6), 154, 47, (1), with 25 full page engraved plates. 18th century half vellum, marbled sides ...
EUR 2,500
Rivinius was a pioneer of modern binomial nomenclature
RIVINUS, A.O.
Introductio generalis in Rem Herbariam.
Ordines Plantarum quae sunt Flore irregulari. Lipsiae, sumptibus Autoris, C. Güntheri; C. Fleischeri; J.H. Richteri, 1690-1699. 4 parts (bound in ...
EUR 30,000
rare work on the flora of Banat, an eastern province of the old kingdom of Hungary, now part of Rumania
ROCHEL, A.
Plantae Banatus Rariores, Iconibus et Descriptionibus Illustratae.
Praemisso tractatu phytogeographico et subnexis additamentis in terminologiam botanicam. Pestini, typis L. Landerer de Füskút, 1828. Folio. pp. (...
EUR 2,500
beautifully produced work on roses
ROESSIG, C.G.
Die Rosen nach der Natur gezeichnet und colorirt mit kurzen botanischen Bestimmungen begleitet. Les Roses dessinées et enluminées d'après nature avec une courte description botanique.
Leipzig, Industrie-Comptoir, (1802-1817). Parts 1-10 (of 12, bound in 1 volume). Large 4to (312 x 255mm). With 50 (of 60) beautifully handcoloured ...
EUR 16,500
The plates are meticulously hand-coloured and there are 4 plants shown on each plate
ROQUES, J.
Plantes Usuelles, Indigènes et Exotiques, dessinées et coloriées d'après nature, avec la description de leurs caractères distinctifs et de leurs propriétés médicales. Secondeédition.
Paris, chez l'auteur & Hocquart, 1809. 2 volumes. 4to (255 x 190mm). pp. (4), viii, 266; (4), 278, (1, errata) with 133 finely handcoloured engrave...
EUR 2,500
first major work on the Himalayan flora
ROYLE, J.F.
Illustrations of the Botany and other branches of the Natural History of the Himalayan mountains and the Flora of Cashmere.
London, W.H. Allen & Co., (1833-) 1839 (-1840). 2 volumes (text & atlas). Folio (370 x 270mm). pp. lxxx, 472; pp. (iv), with 1 aquatint frontispiec...
EUR 8,000
RUMPHIUS, G.E.
Engraved portrait of Georg Everhard Rumphius. Amsterdam 1741. 387 x 245mm.
The engraving has been mounted on old paper and on the verso is written a text in English by an oldhand about the importance of this famous botanis...
EUR 850
the first great survey of the flora of the East-Indies
RUMPHIUS, G.E.
Herbarium Amboinense, plurimas complectens arbores, frutices, herbas, plantas terrestres, & aquaticas, quae in Amboina et adjacentibus reperiuntur insulis ... nunc primum in lucem edita ... J. Burmanni/ Het Amboinsch Kruidboek, dat is beschryving van de meest bekende Boomen, Heesters, Kruiden, Land- en Water-Planten die men in Amboina, en de omleggende Eylanden vind ... nagezien en uitgegeeven door J. Burmannus.
Amsterdam, M. Uytwerf/, F. Changuion, J. Catulle, Uytwerf, 1741-1755. 6 volumes (bound in 4). Folio(390 x 255mm). With an engraved portrait of Rump...
EUR 28,000
SACHS, J.
Geschichte der Botanik vom 16. Jahrhundert bis 1860.
München, R. Oldenbourg, 1875. 8vo (210 x 130mm). pp. xii, 612. Recent blue cloth.
EUR 500
the most important work on hyacinths published in the 18th century
(SAINT SIMON, M.H. DE).
Des Jacintes, de leur anatomie, réproduction et culture.
Amsterdam, 1768. 4to (282 x 225mm). pp. (iv), 164, (4), 15, (1), with 10 folding engraved plates [bound up with:] Discours addressé à l'Académie...
EUR 950
He intensively surveyed the flora and fauna of Brazil from Jequitinhonha to Rio de la Plata for six years
SAINT-HILAIRE, A.F. DE.
Flora Brasiliae Meridionalis.
Paris, A. Belin, 1824-1833. 24 parts. Large 4to (365 x 280mm). With 193 engraved plates. Publishers printed wrappers, uncut.
EUR 15,000
SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, J., Fürst von.
Index plantarum Succulentarum in Horto Dyckensi cultae...
Aachen, Beaufort, 1822. 8vo (203 x 130mm). pp. (ii), 60; a fine copy in original wrappers.
EUR 550
SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, J., Fürst von.
Plantae Succulentae Horti Dyckensis. 1820.
(privately printed, Schloss Dyck, 1820). 12mo (155 x 105mm). pp. 42. Paper spine.
EUR 550
A foundation work on succulents, describing many South African species
SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, J.M. Fürst Von.
Monographia generum Aloes et Mesembryanthemi.
Düsseldorf, Arnz; Bonn, Cohen, 1836-1863. 4to (315 x 245mm). 7 parts bound in 3 volumes. With 352 partly hand-coloured lithographed plates and exp...
EUR 18,000
the finest work published in Germany on fungi
SCHAEFFER, J.C.
Fungorum qui in Bavaria et Palatinatu circa Ratisbonam nascuntur Icones nativis coloribus expressae. Edition Secunda.
Ratisbonae, impensis auctoris, 1772. 4 volumes bound in 2. Large-4to (270 x 225mm). With 2 engravedfrontispieces and 330 beautifully hand-coloured ...
EUR 18,000
Johan Jacob Scheuchzer (1672-1733; physician and scientist in Zurich) was the first to travel in Switzerland with mathematical and physical instruments
SCHEUCHZER, J.J.
Ouresiphoites (Greek types) Helveticus, sive itinera Alpina tria: in quibus incolae, animalia, plantae, montium altitudines barometricae, coeli & soli temperies, aquae medicatae, mineralia, metalla, lapides figurati, aliaque fossilia; & quicquid insuper in natura, artibus, & antiquitate, per Alpes Helveticas & Rhaeticas, rarum sit, & notatu dignum, exponitur, & iconibus illustratur.
Londini, H. Clements, 1708. 3 parts (bound in 1 volume). 4to (226 x 175mm). pp. (4), (2), 57, (1); (2), 72; (2), 22, with 1 engraved portrait (of ...
EUR 3,900
SCHLECHTENDAL, D.F.L. DE.
Adumbrationes Plantarum.
Fasciculus II-V (last). Berolini, F. Dümmler, 1825-1832. 4 parts. 4to. pp. 17-56, with engraved plates 7-30. Original printed wrappers.
EUR 450
SCHLECHTENDAL, D.F.L.
Hortus Halensis tam vivus quam siccus Iconibus et Descriptionibus illustratus.
Fasc. I-III. Halis Saxonum, C.A. Schwetschke et Filium/ H.W. Schmidt, 1841-(1853). 4to. (I) pp. (4), 1-8, with engraved plates 1-4 (3 handcoloured)...
EUR 500
SCHLECHTENDAL, D.F.L.
Hortus Halensis tam vivus quam siccus Iconibus et Descriptionibus illustratus.
Fasc. I-III. Halis Saxonum, C.A. Schwetschke et Filium/ H.W. Schmidt, 1841-(1853). 4to. (I) pp. (4), 1-8, with engraved plates 1-4 (3 handcoloured)...
EUR 500
SCHLECHTENDAL, D.F.L.
Hortus Halensis tam vivus quam siccus Iconibus et Descriptionibus illustratus.
Fasc. I-III. Halis Saxonum, C.A. Schwetschke et Filium/ H.W. Schmidt, 1841-(1853). 4to. (I) pp. (4), 1-8, with engraved plates 1-4 (3 handcoloured)...
EUR 500
SCHLECHTER, R.
Beiträge zur Orchideenkunde von Zentralamerika. I: Orchidaceae Powellianae Panamenses. II: Additamenta ad Orchideologiam Costaricensem.
Dahlem bei Berlin, Verlag des Repertoriums, 1922-1923. 2 volumes. 8vo. pp. 95; 307. Publisher's printed wrappers.
EUR 250
SCHLECHTER, R.
Orchidaceae Perrierianae. Ein Beitrag zur Orchideenkunde der Insel Madagascar.
Dahlem bei Berlin, Verlag des Repertoriums, 1925. 8vo. pp. 391. Publisher's printed wrappers.
EUR 250
SCHLECHTER, R.
Orchideologiae Sino-Japonicae Prodromus. Eine kritische Besprechung der Orchideen Ost-Asiens.
Dahlem bei Berlin, Verlag des Repertoriums, 1919. 8vo (252 x 165mm). pp. (4), 319. Publisher's printed wrappers.
EUR 750
plants growing in the Schönbrunn Gardens, the most splendid botanical garden of the period
SCHOT, R. VAN DER.
'Manuscript des Schönbrunner Hof-Gärtners Richard van der Schot, ein 1774 begonnenes und bis 1780 ergänztes systematisches Pflanzenverzeichnis nach Linné' & Richardus van derSchot gekregen den 21. November in het jaar 1759.
3 manuscript volumes listing plants growing in the Schönbrunn gardens. Together about 450 pages. 8vo. 2 vols. 185 x 112mm and a third volume sligh...
EUR 12,000
SCHRANK, F. VON PAULA (VON).
Baiersche Flora.
Muenchen, J.B. Strobl, 1789. 2 volumes. 8vo. pp. (2), 753; 670, (34), with 1 engraved frontispiece and 2 engraved title-vignettes. Contemporary boa...
EUR 1,400
SCHRANK, F. VON PAULA.
Briefe naturhistorischen, physikalischen und ökonomischen Inhaltes an Herrn Bernard Sebastian Nau, ehemaligen kurmainzischen Hofgerichtsrath und Professor, nebst drey vorausgeschicken naturhistorischen Abhandlungen.
Erlangen, J.C. Schubart, 1802. 8vo (196 x 125mm). pp (8), 384, wit 4 engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards, spine with gilt lettered label.
EUR 850
Das beste und meistgebrauchte Apotherhilfsbuch des 17. und 18. Jahrh.
SCHRÖDER, J. C.
Vollständige und nutzreiche Apotheke/ oder: Trefflich versehener Medicin-Chymischer höchstkostbarer Artzney-Schatz, nebst D. Friederich Hoffmanns darüber verfasseten herrlichen Anmerckungen in fünf Bücher eingetheilt ... Darinnen sowohl die einfachen Stücke der Metalle und Mineralien ...
Zweyten Edition. Franckfurt und Leipzig, bey J. Hoffmanns und E. Streckseel, 1709. Folio. (16), 1324, 120, 60, including 1 engraved frontispiece po...
EUR 3,000
SCHULTZ, F.J.
Abbildung der inn- und ausländischen Bäume, Stauden und Sträuche, welche in Oesterreich fortkommen.
Volume I-II (instead of III). Wien, R. Sammer, 1792-1808. 2 volumes. Folio (26 x 40,5 cm). With 2 engraved title-vignettes and 218 (instead of 220)...
EUR 7,500
devoted to the native, foreign and exotic trees and shrubs and splendidly executed in the tradition of the Austrian Golden Period of botanical book illustration
SCHULTZ, F.J.
Abbildung der inn- und ausländischen Bäume, Stauden und Sträuche, welche in Oesterreich fortkommen, nebst einer vollständig gegründeten Anweisung, wie diese Gewächse anzupflanzen sind, damit die Güterbesitzer, der Forstmann, Landwirth, ja auch der Gartenliebhaber nicht nur selbst seinen Garten auf jede mögliche Art zieren, sondern auch aus den Blättern, Blühten, Früchten, Harze, Säften, und Holze einen Nutzen ziehen könne.
Wien, R. Sammer, 1801-1804. 3 volumes. Folio (370 x 230mm). With 3 engraved title-vignettes and 299(of 300) handcoloured engraved plates of trees ...
EUR 12,000
Gems of the flora and fauna of Lombardy, including native and exotic species which have lived there
SCOPOLI, I.A.
Deliciae Florae et Faunae Insubricae seu novae, aut minus cognitae species plantarum et animalium quas in Insubria Austriaca tam spontaneas, quam exoticas vidit, descripsit, et aeri incidi curavit Ioannes Antonius Scopoli.
Ticini, ex typographia Reg. & Imp. Monasterii S. Salvatoris, 1786-1788. 3 parts (bound in 1 volume). Folio (422 x 280mm). pp. (2), ix, 85; (4), 115...
EUR 12,000
SEBASTIANI, A. & MAURI, E.
Florae Romanae prodromus exhibens centurias xii plantarum circa Romam et in Cisapenninis pontificiae ditionis provinciis sponte nascentium sexuali systemate digestas.
Romae, apud Vinc. Poggioli R.C.A. Typographum, 1818. 8vo (210 x 135mm). pp. xv, (1), 351 with 10 folded engraved plates. Contemporary red half calf...
EUR 850
A pioneering work on the fungi of Switzerland
SECRETAN, L.
Mycographie Suisse, ou description des Champignons qui croissent en Suisse, particulièrement dans le canton de Vaud, aux environs de Lausanne.
Genève, P.A. Bonnant, 1833. 3 volumes. 8vo (202 x 125mm). pp. lv, 522; (4), 576; viii, 759, (1), 95. Later half cloth and half vellum.
EUR 850
important botanical bliography
SÉGUIER, J.F.
Bibliotheca Botanica, sive Catalogus Auctorum et Librorum, qui de re Botanica, de Medicamentis ex Vegetabilibus paratis. de Re Rustica, & de Horticultura tractant... AccessitBibliotheca Botanica Jo. Ant. Bumaldi, seu potius Ovidii Montalbani Bononiensis nec non auctuarium in Bibliothecam Botanicam CL. Seguierii opera Laur.Theod. Gronovii.
Lugduni Batavorum, C. Haak, 1740 [err. for 1760]. 3 parts in one volume. 4to (245 x 190 mm). pp. 16, 450; 66 [recte 74]; 65, (7). Contemporary mot...
EUR 1,000
highly finished watercolours of the fungi of the Loire valley
SÉJOURNÉ, A.
Champignons des environs de Blois.
Blois circa 1880. 2 volumes. Folio (360 x 270mm). A collection of 161 very fine watercolours of mushrooms of the Blois area (Loire valley). Loose i...
EUR 12,000
The first and most important of four works by Senebier specifically on photosynthesis
SENEBIER, J.
Mémoires Physico-Chymiques, sur l'influence de la lumière solaire pour modifier les êtres des trois règnes de la Nature, & sur-tout ceux du règne végétal.
Genève, Barthelemi Chirol, 1782. 3 volumes. 8vo (215 x 145mm). pp. xvi, 408; viii, 411; viii, 412, with 2 folded engraved plates. Contemporary mar...
EUR 1,000
Species illustrated and described include three from the Cape, two from Mauritius, and several from Jamaica
SMITH, J.E.
Icones Pictae Plantarum Rariorum, descriptionibus et observationibus illustratae ... Coloured Figures of Rare Plants, illustrated with Descriptions and Observations.
London 1790-(1793). 3 parts. Folio. With 18 handcoloured engraved plates by James Sowerby. Contemporary half calf, a little rubbed and some repairs.
EUR 3,000
SONNINI, C.S.
Traité des Asclépiades, particulièrement de l'Asclépiade de Syrie; précédé de quelques observations sur la culture du coton en France.
Paris, F. Buisson, 1810. 8vo (210 x 133mm). pp. (2), 146, with 2 handcoloured folded engraved plates. Recent red half morocco, spine with gilt lett...
EUR 1,200
The most attractive illustrated English work on mycology
SOWERBY, J.
Coloured figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms.
London, printed by J. Davis and sold by the Author, 1797-1803, (1815). 3 volumes. Folio (320 x 200mm). With 440 hand-coloured engraved plates on 43...
EUR 16,000
The most attractive illustrated English work on mycology
SOWERBY, J.
Coloured figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms.
London, printed by J. Davis and sold by the Author, 1797-1803, (1815). 3 volumes, bound in 2. Folio(320 x 200mm). With 440 hand-coloured engraved p...
EUR 12,000
SPALLANZANI, L.
Expériences pour servir à l'histoire de la génération des animaux et des plantes.
Avec une ébauche de l'histoire des ètres organisés avant leur fécondation, par J. Senebier. Genève,B. Chirol, 1785. 8vo. pp. (4), xcvi, 413, (...
EUR 900
SPRENGEL, K.
Von dem Bau und der Natur der Gewächse.
Halle, K.A. Kümmel, 1812. 8vo (210 x 120mm). pp. ix, (1); 654, with 14 (11 partly coloured) engraved plates. Contemporary brown marbled boards, wi...
EUR 700
The colouring of plates is to a high standard
STEPHENSON, J. & CHURCHILL, J.M.
Medical Botany: or, illustrations and descriptions of the medical plants of the London, Edinburgh and Dublin Pharmacopoeias: comprising a popular and scientific account of all those poisonous vegetables, that are indigenous to Great Britain. A new edition edited by Gilbert Burnett.
London, John Churchill, 1834-1836. 3 volumes (235 x 150mm). With 187 fine hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary green half calf, gilt decorat...
EUR 2,800
rare treatise on the culture of citrus fruit in the Low Countries
STERBEECK, F. VAN.
Citricultura oft Regeringhe der uythemsche Boomen en te weten Oranien, Citroenen, Limoenen, Granaten, Laurieren en Andere...
Antwerpen, J. Jacops, 1682. 4to (210 x 160mm). pp. (xl), 1-74, (2), 75-296 (26), with engraved frontispiece, engraved coat-of-arms on inserted leaf...
EUR 4,500
the first separate general work on fungi, describing edible and poisonous varieties
STERBEECK, F. VAN.
Theatrum Fungorum oft het tooneel der Campernoelien. Waer inne vertoont wort de gedaente, ken-teeckens, natuere, crachten, voetsel, deught ende ondeught; mitsgaders het voorsichtigh schoonmaken ende bereyden van alderhande Fungien...
Antwerpen, Joseph Jacobs, 1675. 4to (198 x 160mm). pp. (38), 396, (20), with engraved frontispiece,1 folded engraved portrait and 36 (many folded) ...
EUR 15,000
the first separate general work on fungi, describing edible and poisonous varieties
STERBEECK, F. VAN.
Theatrum Fungorum oft het tooneel der Campernoelien. Waer inne vertoont wort de gedaente, ken-teeckens, natuere, crachten, voetsel, deught ende ondeught; mitsgaders het voorsichtigh schoonmaken ende bereyden van alderhande Fungien...
Antwerpen, Joseph Jacobs, 1675. 4to (200 x 155mm). pp. (38), 396, (20), with engraved frontispiece,1 folded engraved portrait and 36 (many folded) ...
EUR 15,000
SUTER, J.R.
Flora Helvetica exhibens plantas Helvetiae Phanerogamas/ Helvetiens Flora enthaltend die phanerogamischen Gewächse Helvetiens.
Vermehrt herausgegeben von J. Hegetschweiler. Zürich, Orell, Füssli & Co., 1822. 2 volumes. Small-8vo. pp. cxxii, 408; (4), 504. Contemporary cal...
EUR 550
SUTER, J.R.
Flora Helvetica exhibens plantas Helvetiae Phanerogamas/ Helvetiens Flora enthaltend die phanerogamischen Gewächse Helvetiens.
Vermehrt herausgegeben von J. Hegetschweiler. Zürich, Orell, Füssli & Co., 1822. 2 volumes. Small-8vo. pp. cxxii, 408; (4), 504. Contemporary sti...
EUR 500
He published a number of beautifully illustrated works on British garden plants
SWEET, R.
Cistineae. The Natural order of Cistus, or Rock-Rose; illustrated by coloured figures & descriptions of all the distinct species, and the most prominent varieties, that couldbe at present procured in the Gardens of Great Britain; ...
London, James Ridgway, 1825-1830. Royal-8vo (250 x 160mm). pp. xx, (4), with 112 fine handcoloured engraved plates and descriptive text. Contempora...
EUR 3,200
A fine complete copy in an impressive contemporary binding of the second enlarged edition to be edited by Caspar and Jean Bauhin
TABERNAEMONTANUS, J.T.
Neu vollkommen Kräuter-Buch/ Darinnen über 3000. Kräuter/ mit schönen und kunstlichen Figuren/ auch deren Unterscheid und Würckung/
samt ihren Namen in mancherley Sprachen/ beschrieben: Desgleichen auch/ wie dieselbige in allerhandKranckheiten/ beyde der Menschen und des Viehs ....
EUR 4,900
THORNTON, R.J.
Botanical Extracts: or Philosophy of botany, being botanical and philosophical Extracts.
London, White, Johnson?., 1810. 2 volumes. Folio (460 x 320mm). pp. 1-308; (2), 309-574, with 2 engraved title-vignettes and 14 (some double-page) ...
EUR 2,900
THUNBERG, C.P.
Icones Plantarum Japonicarum, quas in insulis Japonicis annis 1775 et 1776 collegit et descripsit...
Uppsala, J.F. Erdman, 1794-1805. Folio (430 x 275mm). Only 10 of 50 engraved plates, loose.
EUR 1,800
TORRE, G.
Dryadum, Amadryadum, Cloridisque triumphus, ubi Plantaru Universa natura spectatur...
Padova, P.M. Frambotti, 1685. Folio (328 x 220mm). pp. (28), 709, (90), with one beautiful engravedemblematic title and an engraved portait of dall...
EUR 1,800
il y a en très peu d'exemplaires avec les planches en couleur
TOURNEFORT, J.P.
Institutiones Rei Herbariae. Editio Tertia, Appendicibus aucta ab Antonio de Jussieu.
Parisiis, e typographia Regia, 1719. 3 volumes. 4to (240 x 180mm). pp. (6), xxxii, 695, (1), (6), 58 with 2 (1 handcoloured) engraved frontispieces...
EUR 2,200
complete set of the most important and beautiful British pomological journal
TRANSACTIONS OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.
First series, volumes 1-7 (all published). London, W. Bulmer/ W. Nicol, 1812-1830. [and] Second series, volumes 1-3 (all published).
London, W. Nicol, 1835-1848. 10 volumes. 4to (282 x 220mm). With 7 engraved titles and 176 engravedplates of which 93 (some double-page) superbly h...
EUR 13,000
The beautifully engraved plates show among others numerous exotic and bulbous plants
TRATTINNICK, L.
Auswahl vorzüglich schöner, seltener, berühmter, und sonst sehr merkwürdiger Gartenpflanzen, in getreuen Abbildungen...
Wien, auf Kosten des Herausgebers, 1821. 4to (238 x 190mm). 2 volumes. pp.xxiv, 148; vi, 97, with 2engraved portrait frontispieces, one of J. Banks...
EUR 2,000
TRATTINNICK, L.
Botanisches Album, oder Sammlung ausgewählter, naturgetreuer Abbildungen, der merkwürdigsten Pflanzen, Blumen, Früchte, Sträucher u.s.w. nebst deren Benennung. Zusammengetragen aus Leop. Trattinnick's sämmtlichen botanischen Werken.
Wien, R. Sammer, (1850 or 1851). 4to. With 150 engraved plates of which 148 fineley handcoloured. Contemporary half cloth (repair to hinges).
EUR 2,200
The fine engravings are by the author and show recently introduced plants
TRIONFETTI, G.B.
Observationes de Ortu, ac vegetatione Plantarum cum Novarum Stirpium historia iconibus illustrata...
Romae, Typis Dominici Antonii Herculis, 1685. 4to (245 x 175mm). pp. (6), 106, with 17 fine engraved plates. Recent red calf, spine in 6 compartmen...
EUR 2,800
one of the rarest and most beautifully illustrated works on mycology
TULASNE, L.R. & C.
Selecta Fungorum Carpologia, ea documenta et icones potissimum exhibens quae varia fructuum et seminum genera in eodem fungo simul aut vicissim adesse demonstrent.
Parisiis, in Imperiali Typographeo excudebatur, 1861-1865. 3 volumes. Folio (355 x 260mm.). pp. xxviii, 242, with 2 vignettes and 5 engraved plates...
EUR 4,800
VAILLANT, S.
Discours sur la structure des fleurs, leurs differences et l'usage de leurs parties. Prononcé à l'ouverture du Jardin Royal de Paris, le Xe. Jour du mois de Juin 1717. Et l'établissement de trois nouveaux genres de Plantes, l'Araliastrum, la Sherardia, la Boerhaavia. Avec la description de deux nouvelles Plantes rapportées au dernier genre.
Leide, Pierre van der Aa, 1718. 4to (260 x 205mm). pp. (4), 55, (1), with 2 engraved title vignettes. Contemporary boards (spine worn).
EUR 2,500
Valentini's 'Museum of museums', is a comprehensive survey of European Wunder-Kunst- & Schatzkammern
VALENTINI, M.B.
Historia simplicium reformata, Musei Museorum titulo antehâc in Vernaculâ edita... Accedit India Literata.
Francofurti ad Moenum, Officina Zunneriana, 1716. Folio (350 x 215mm). 2 parts bound in one. pp. (26), 664, (16), engraved title-vignette and 30 (s...
EUR 4,500
The publishing history of the present work is probably the most bizarre one in the history of botany
VELLOZO, J. M. da CONCEIÇAO.
Florae Fluminensis Icones.
Parisis, ex off. Lithogr. Senefelder, curante F.J. Knecht, 1827. 10 of 11 volumes (lacking volume 3). Large-folio (520 x 345mm). With 1472 (of 1640...
EUR 20,000
Madame Henriette Vincent (1786-1830) pupil of Van Spaendonck and Redouté
VINCENT, H.A.
Collection de 24 Bouquets de Fleurs. Dessinés et gravés d'après nature...
Paris, chez l'éditeur, 1835. 4to (280 x 210mm). With a fine pictorial title and 24 plates, all stipple engravings, printed in colour with extensiv...
EUR 8,000
VITMAN, F.
Svmma Plantarvm qvae hactenvs innotvervnt methodo Linnaeana per genera et species digesta illvstrata descripta.
Mediolani, typis Imper. Monast. Ambrosii Majoris, 1789-1792. 6 volumes. 8vo (202 x 120mm). pp. vi, 497; 459; 557; 487; 458; 397, xliii. Contemporar...
EUR 1,500
with 25 illustrations, 16 of which depict Cape plants
VOLCKAMER, J.G.
Flora Noribergensis sive Catalogus Plantarum in Agro Noribergensi tam sponte nascentium, quam exoticarum ...
Noribergae, sumtibus Michaellianis, 1700. 4to. pp. (22), 407, (2), with 25 engraved plates. Contemporary calf, spine with 5 raised bands, richly gi...
EUR 1,700
VOLCKAMER, J.G.
Flora Noribergensis sive Catalogus Plantarum in Agro Noribergensi tam sponte nascentium, quam exoticarum ... Noribergae, apud Petr.
Conr. Monath, 1718. 4to. pp. (20), 407, (3), with 25 engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards.
EUR 1,500
very rare thesis of this famous Dutch scientist
VRIES, H. DE.
De invloed der temperatuur op de levensverschijnselen der planten. Academisch proefschrift, ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor in de wis- en natuurkunde, aan de hoogeschool te Leiden op gezag van den rector magnificus Mr. J.E. Goudsmit...
's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1870. 8vo (222 x 145mm). pp. (8), 112, vi. Contemporary red cloth,spine with gilt lines, richly gilt decorated sid...
EUR 1,500
VRIES, H. DE.
Die Mutationstheorie.
Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Entstehung von Arten im Pfanzenreich. Leipzig, Veith & Comp., 1901-1903. 2 volumes. Royal-8vo (335 x 165mm). p...
EUR 800
monumental flora of Hungary
WALDSTEIN, F. DE PAULA ADAM GRAF VON & P. KITAIBEL.
Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae.
Vienna, Matthias Andreas Schmidt, (1799-) 1802-1812. 3 volumes. Folio (488 x 345mm). pp. (4), xxxii, 1-104; (2), xxxii, 105-221, (1); (2), 223-310...
EUR 68,000
important work introducing North American trees into Germany
WANGENHEIM, F.A.J. VON.
Beytrag zur teutschen holzgerechten Forstwissenschaft, die Anpflanzung Nordamericanischer Holzarten, mit Anwendung auf teutsche Forste, betreffend.
Goettingen, J.C. Dieterich, 1787. Folio (380 x 225mm). pp. (2), xlv, (1), 124, (8), with 31 (3 folded) engraved plates. Contemporary calf, spine in...
EUR 4,000
an important record of orchid varieties discovered and described in the 19th century
WARNER, R. & WILLIAMS, B.S.
The Orchid Album, comprising coloured figures and descriptions of New, Rare and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants.
London 1882-1897. 11 volumes. Large-4to (303 x 240mm). With 528 coloured plates. Publisher's pictorial gilt cloth, gilt edges.
EUR 14,000
the first botanical book to utilise colour-printed mezzotint successfully
WEINMANN, J.W.
Phytanthoza Iconographia, sive conspectus aliquot millium, tam indigenarum quam exoticarum, ex quatuor mundi partibus... plantarum, arborum, fruticum, florum, fructuum, fungorum, &c. [German title:] Phythanthoza Iconographia, oder eigentliche Vorstellung etlicher Tausend so wohl einheimisch-als ausländischer aus allen vier Welt-Theilen, in Verlauf vieler Jahr mit unermüdetem Fleisz... Pflanzen, Baüme, Stauden, Kraüter, Blumen, Früchte und Schwämme...
Regensburg, H. Lentzen [vol 4: H.G. Neubauer], 1737-45. 4 volumes and 1 index volume. Folio (382 x 250mm). With four engraved titles in red and bla...
EUR 120,000
The collection contains 13 drawings of Australian plants
WEISS, A.G.
A collection of ca 1700 original pen and wash drawings of plants from the botanical garden at Lemberg, [ca 1862-1872].
The drawings are on laid paper 215 x 140mm, and preserved in 9 blue folding boxes.
EUR 39,000
one of the rarest works on South African botany
WENDLAND, J.C.
Ericarum Icones et Descriptiones/ Abbildung und Beschreibung der Heiden.
Hannover, the author & Hahn, 1798-1823. 27 parts in 25. 4to (310 x 250mm). With 159 (of 162) beautifully handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary...
EUR 12,000
An interesting work on how to paint and draw flowers
WHITTOCK, N.
The art of drawing and colouring from nature Flowers, Fruit, and Shells; to which is added, correct directions for preparing the most brilliant colours for painting on velvet, with the mode of using them; also, the new method of oriental tinting.
London, I.T. Hinton, 1829. 4to (265 x 212mm). pp. (4), 96, with 24 lithographed plates in 2 states,one fineley handcoloured and the other one plain...
EUR 1,400
A fine example of the enlightened encyclopaedic science of the period, with an emphasis on education
WILHELM, G.T.
Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Des Pflanzenreichs.
Augsburg, in der Martin Engelbrechtschen Kunsthandlung, 1810-1821. 10 volumes. 8vo (167 x 105mm). With 10 engraved titles and 608 fine handcoloured...
EUR 4,000
The beautiful engraved and handcoloured plates are after drawings by Friederich Guimpel, a famous botanical artist
WILLDENOW, C.L. & HAYNE, F.G.
Abbildung der deutschen Holzarten für Forstmänner und Liebhaber der Botanik.
Berlin, in der Schüppelschen Buchhandlung, 1815-1820. 2 volumes. 4to (242 x 202mm). pp. (4), 302, with 216 fine handcoloured engraved plates. Cont...
EUR 8,000
WILLIAMS, J.
Faunula Grustensis: being an outline of the natural contents of the Parish of Llanrwst; Comprehending some account of its general history, commerce and agriculture; also, a trioglott catalogue (in Latin, English, and Welsh) of the animals and plants found in it, with some notes thereon...
Llanrwst, John Jones, 1830. Small-8vo (150 x 95mm). pp. 148. Publisher's printed boards.
EUR 650
WOLFFEN, C.
Entdeckung der wahren Ursache von der wunderbahren Vermehrung des Getreides, dadurch zugleich der Wachsthum der Bäume und Pflanzen überhaupt erläutert wird, als die erste Probe der Untersuchungen von dem Wachsthume der Pflanzen herausgegeben.
Halle, in der Rengerischen Buchhandlung, 1725. 4to. (208 x 165mm). pp. (10), 140, with an engraved frontispiece (together with:) WOLFFEN, C. Erläu...
EUR 750
only 100 copies were printed
WOOLWARD, F.H.
The genus Masdevallia.
Issued by the Marquess of Lothian, K.T., chiefly from plants in his collection of orchids at Newbattle Abbey. With additional notes by F.C. Lehmann...
EUR 11,000
only 100 copies were printed
WOOLWARD, F.H.
The genus Masdevallia.
Issued by the Marquess of Lothian, K.T., chiefly from plants in his collection of orchids at Newbattle Abbey. With additional notes by F.C. Lehmann...
EUR 11,000
The first Latin and best edition
ZANONI, G.
Rariorum Stirpium Historia ex parte olim edita. Nunc centum plus tabulis, ex commentariis auctoris ab ejusdem nepotibus ampliata opus universum digessit, latine reddidit, supplevitque Cajetanus Montius.
Bononiae, Ex Typographia Lealii a Vulpe, 1742. Folio (390 x 260mm). pp. (40), 247, with an engravedallegorical frontispiece and engraved portrait o...
EUR 3,900
great classic on the botany of the West Indies and Central America
ZORN, J.
Dreyhundert auserlesene Amerikanische Gewächse nach Linneischer Ordnung.
Nürnberg, auf Kosten der Raspischen Buchhandlung, 1786-1789. 6 parts bound in 3 volumes. 8vo (200 x125mm). pp. 72, with 300 beautifully handcolour...
EUR 5,500