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Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2014.. Edition of 15. 8.5 x 6.5" closed; 5 leaves. Screen printed on a Gocco printer, hand-colored, and hand-cut. Fan book structure with tie closure at the handle/spine. In stiff green paper open-ended envelope. Signed and numbered by the artist. Each book varies slightly because of the handcoloring. Goodale continues her documentation of imperiled fauna with Maine's Alpine Marsh Violet. The viola palustris in Maine is "critically imperiled because of extreme rarity or vulnerability to extirpation."
The Succulent Euphorbieae (Southern Africa) by White, A.; Dyer, R. Allen and & Sloane, B.L - 1941
by White, A.; Dyer, R. Allen and & Sloane, B.L
The Succulent Euphorbieae (Southern Africa)
by White, A.; Dyer, R. Allen and & Sloane, B.L
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- Date Published 1941
- Keywords euphorbia.
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Viola palustris.
by [Goodale, Rebecca] .
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THE LADIES COMPANION TO THE FLOWER GARDEN. Being an Alphabetical arrangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in Gardens and Shrubberies; With full directions for their culture
by LOUDON. MRS
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Published (for the Proprietor) by Bradbury & Evans. London. 1849. Fifth Edition, with considerable additions and corrections. 8vo. (6.9 x 4.6 inches). Hand finished colour printed frontispiece and several small engravings throughout the text. Neat previous owners inscription, dated 1852, on the front free endpaper. A very good copy in original green cloth binding with blind stamped decoration and ruled lines to spine and boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Front board with floral gilt border around gilt lettering. Yellow coated endpapers. All edges gilt. Spine is a bit faded and edges rubbed but generally still quite bright. Inner hinges cracked but still holding firm. Overall a near very good copy of this attractive and in formative book.
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Parallel Botany (English and Italian Edition)
by Lionni, Leo
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NY: Knopf, 1977. First American edition. Trade softcover. Published NY: Knopf, 1977, first printing. Large 8vo., 6 1/4" x 9 1/4", x+181pp., illustrated with plates. Fine. . 1st. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo..
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New York State Museum 72nd Annual Report 1918: Volume 2 and 3, containing Wild Flowers of New York Parts I & II
by House, Homer D.
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Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1918. Wild Flowers of New York Parts I & II. Complete in 2 volumes. Published Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1918-1920. Folio, 9 1/4" x 11 3/4", 362pp., 264 full page color plates. Text and plates printed on heavy, bright white coated stock. Staining/abrasion to the covers, wear at the edges, damp stain to the edge of some margins, volume 2 has light waviness to bottom 2 inches of sheets, name of flyleafs, tiny mark in pencil to the headings of some entries and paltes, but pages mostly clean and bright, bindings strong and tight. A good working set, plates clean and sharp. . Hard. Good/No Jacket. 4to.
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The Cherries of New York. Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1914
by Hedrick, U. P.; Assisted by N. O. Booth, O. M. Taylor, R. Wellington and M. J. Dorsey
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Albany: J. B. Lyon, 1915. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon, 1915, first printing. Large 4to. 9 3/4" x 12 1/4", b/w frontis+xii+371pp., illustrated with 56 full page color plates. A historical account of cultivated cherries, and extensive survey of varieties grown in New York. Minor scuff to rear cover, previous owner name stamp on fly leaf and pastedow, else fine, clean, bright.. 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.
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Viola palustris.
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Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2014.. Edition of 15. 8.5 x 6.5" closed; 5 leaves. Screen printed on a Gocco printer, hand-colored, and hand-cut. Fan book structure with tie closure at the handle/spine. In stiff green paper open-ended envelope. Signed and numbered by the artist. Each book varies slightly because of the handcoloring. Goodale continues her documentation of imperiled fauna with Maine's Alpine Marsh Violet. The viola palustris in Maine is "critically imperiled because of extreme rarity or vulnerability to extirpation."
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Draculas Of Ecuador ( Draculas Del Ecuador ) Duel Language Text English And Spanish
by Franco Pupulin, Gilberto Merino And Hugo Medina
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2009. Hardcover. Very Good. English & Spanish Language Text.Hardcover Edition With Dustjacket.First Edition, First Printing.Nice Copy With Brodart Dustjacket Cover Included.Text Unmarked.Binding Is Solid. D.J. Has Small Closed Tear And Scratch On Back Cover . Not Ex-Library. English & Spanish Language Text.
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Woman's Home Companion Garden Book
by Wister
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Mena, Arkansas, United States
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Doubleday New York 1947 First Edition. Near FIne/none . Like New Condition with no DJ as issued. Dark Burgundy boards with blue and gilt titles and illustrations to spine. Corners ever so slightly bumped. No marks, clean copy. BEAUTIFUL copy . Would make a great gift.
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Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Vines, Shrubs, &c. &c. for sale by... at Cellar no. 4 Central Street, two doors down from Essex Street..
by [Broadside - American nursery]; Andrew Nichols, Danvers, Mass
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Alfred, Maine, United States
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[Salem, Mass: Salem Gazette Press, 1875. Broadside (32.5 x 16 cm.). A handsomely printed broadside, with ornamental border, advertising Dwarf Apple Trees, Quince Trees, Peach Trees, Ornamental Trees, Hardy Grape Varieties, Bedding Plants (currant, gooseberry, raspberry, etc.), and Climbing Vines. individual varietals are listed with prices. Andrew Nichols (born 1837) was son of Andrew Nichols (1785-1853), a President of the Essex County Natural History Society, Trustee of the Essex County Agricultural Association, and author of works on botany and poetry. The younger Nichols career as a lawyer was cut short by ill health, and he established himself as a farmer, with a nursery in Danvers and a shop in Salem on Central Street. Scarce. [OCLC locates no copies].
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Parallel Botany (English and Italian Edition)
by Lionni, Leo
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NY: Knopf, 1977. First American edition. Trade softcover. Published NY: Knopf, 1977, first printing. Large 8vo., 6 1/4" x 9 1/4", x+181pp., illustrated with plates. Fine. . 1st. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo..
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Flowers of Hawaii: Hawaii's most complete flower guide
by Allan Seiden
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Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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Beautiful Flowers Complete Guide, an Island Heritage Book 1989, all pages clean and unmarked
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Mushrooms of Northern California
by Biek, David
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Magalia, California, United States
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Spore Prints. Very Good+. 1984. First Edition. Softcover. 0961202009 . Very light shelfwear, slight toning to top page ends; drawings and b/w photos; 302 pages .
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Flora Brasilica, Vol. XLI, I
by Philip A. Munz (F.C. Hoehne, Editor)
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Instituto de Botanica, Saõ Paolo, 1947; First Edition; Quarto, 113 pages. Detailed monograph of the family Onagraceae covering the genera Jussiaea, Oocarpon, Epilobium, Oenothera, and Fuchsia. Vol. XLI, I of the prodigious series edited by Frederico Carlos Hoehne, director of the Instituto de Botanica at Saõ Paolo, Brazil from 1940 to 1959. Authored by distinguished American botanist/taxonomist Philip A Munz. Sixty-two pages of text in Portuguese accompanied by 51 finely detailed full-page illustration plates, forty-nine in b&w and two in color, covering 5 genera and 45 species of Onagraceae. Very Good, in printed stiff wraps. A few small closed splits in the paper covering of the spine panel. Custom engraved bookplate of Pasadena, California horticulturist Charlotte Hoak on the verso of the front wrap.
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The Microscope: From the Museum of Science and Art
by Dr. Lardner
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A very nice volume of an extensive 19th century popular science partwork - The Museum of Science and Art - from the age of optimism."The 'Museum of Science and Art' is the most valuable contribution that has ever been made to Scientific Instruction of every class of society" - Sir David Brewster.....( Brewster of the Brewster Angle?)One hundred and Forty-Seven engravings. Front cover partly detached as shown - otherwise the binding is tight. Pages unmarked throughout. Some foxing on endpapers, otherwise very good.First owners bookplate inside front cover "Godding MBS".Includes fascinating ads at the back.
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The Carrot Seed
by Ruth Krauss & Crockett Johnson
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Krauss, Ruth: The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers FIRST EDITION. States 1945 on the title page. Beige Boards. USED. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. 6 X 8 ¼. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something, or the basis of knowledge"
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A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Higher Cryptograms: Both Native and Introduced, Found Within about 30 Miles of Hanover, N. H. , Including a Few Cultivated Species, to Which is Appended a List of Vertebrate Animals of the Same Region
by Jesup, Henry G
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Hanover, NH: Self Published. Good with no dust jacket; Call letters on spine, spine darkened by . shellac, corners bumped, edges rubbed, binder's label on inside of front . cover, front endpaper detached, endpapers toned, one page with small fold . and tear.. 1891. Hardcover. Green decorated cloth. vi, 91pp. Fold-out map, indexes. A highly detailed natural history study of this New Hampshire community undertaken and presented by a Dartmouth college professor. Inscribed and dated, with compliments of the author card tipped in. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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CYTISUS NIGRICANS [Black Broom], Original Hand-Colored Copper Engraving (plate # 470) from Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum
by Vietz, Ferdinand Bernhard
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Vienna: Schrämblischen, 1817. Image is 8 1/8 inches by 6 1/4 inches on a sheet that is 9 1/16 inches by 7 1/8 inches. Drawn and engraved by pharmacist turned naturalist Ferdinand Vietz ((1772-1815) and published in volume 7 of Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum, edited by J. L. Kerndl and published by Schrämblischen in Vienna in 1818. Original hand-coloring. Like all the plates from Vietz's classic work on medicinal uses of plants, this is a lovely original print on high-quality watermarked laid paper. Condition is very good: clean and bright. Binding edge is untrimmed. This original engraving is guaranteed to be more than 200 years old.. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good+. Illus. by Ferdinand Vietz. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Art Print.
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Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.-A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France
by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur; Nicolas-Martin Petit; Jacqueline Bonnemains (ed); Elliott Forsyth (ed); Bernard Smith (ed)
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and…
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The Last Days of Mankind A Tragedy in Five Acts
by KRAUS, Karl (Alexander Gode and Sue Ellen Wright, translators)
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New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co, 1974. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. 8vo. Pp. xxii; 263. Abridged and Edited by Frederick Ungar, with a several-page introduction by him. With a critical analysis by Franz H. Mautner. Bound in red cloth with lettering stamped in black and yellow on spine. Price-clipped dust jacket with a dime-size chip to front panel and slight edge-wear. Else Fine. This edition, in hardcover with jacket, is somewhat scarce. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
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HELVELLA MITZA [Elfin Saddle Mushroom], Original Hand-Colored Copper Engraving (plate # 556) from Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum
by Vietz, Ferdinand Bernhard
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Vienna: Schrämblischen, 1818. Image is 6 1/4 inches by 2 3/4 inches on a sheet that is 9 inches by 7 inches. Drawn and engraved by pharmacist turned naturalist Ferdinand Vietz ((1772-1815) and published in volume 7 of Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum, edited by J. L. Kerndl and published by Schrämblischen in Vienna in 1818. Original hand-coloring. Like all the plates from Vietz's classic work on medicinal uses of plants, this is a lovely original print on high-quality watermarked laid paper. Condition is very good: clean and bright. Binding edge is untrimmed. This original engraving is guaranteed to be more than 200 years old.. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good+. Illus. by Ferdinand Vietz. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Art Print.
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