Wild Flowers of British Columbia ( Limited Edition ) by Clark, Thomas ( SIGNED ) - 1973

Albany: New York Department of Agriculture, 1919. Large quarto ( x cm.), 686 pages. FIRST EDITION. Includes information on nearly 2900 edible foods, by far the largest and most complete study of its kind to the date of its publication. Very good in green cloth.

Kempten,: Verlag der Jos. Kösel'schen Buchhandlung, 1890.. [iv], [92], [vi] pp. Small 4to. Contemporary half chagrin, spine gilt lettered. With 61 plant portraits on 41 coloured plates. A fine atlas of medicinal plants in coloured colllotype, based on early color photograph of plants. A technique rarely applied. See Nissen, BBI, 1 252 ff. The text for the foreign platns was supplied by author's brother, Max, the director of the botanical garden at München. -- (Cancelled library stamp on title and preface; lower corner of title very slightly damaged).

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..

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.

Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1908. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CONTRIBUTOR William Phipps Blake at front end page - "Professor Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill, N.C. with compliments of W.P. Blake (?) Oct. 28, 1908 (Leafs 45)". Phipps contribution starts at p. 45, titled "Geological Sketch of the Region of Tucson, Arizona". Phipps (1826-1910) was the Territorial Geologist of Arizona, a noted mining consultant and educator who started the first school of mines in the Far West in 1864. Professor Joseph Hyde Pratt (1870-1942) was a prominent North Carolina geologist, conservationist, and state and civic leader. Near Fine, bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering at spine, 111 pages, illustrated with numerous black and white photographs, 3 fold-out maps, scattered light toning and light rubbing to boards, Pratt's ownership signature front paste down. SCARCE in hardcover, a great geology ASSOCIATION COPY.. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CONTRIBUTOR. First Edition.… Read More

London: Oxford University Press. Very Good+. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Comprising a History and Bibliography of Botanical and Horticultural books printed in England, Scotland and Ireland from the earliest times until 1800. Complete set in VG slip case. Texts tight, clean & intact. Pictorial frontispiece. Profusely illustrated with engravings, some plates in color. Vol. #1, 290 pp. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries History and Bibliography. Vol. #2, 748 pp. The Eighteenth Century History. Vol. #3, 142 pp. The Eighteenth Century Bibliography. Clean grey cloth that has gilt title on spines. First three pages of volume #2 have bottom corners folded. Prior owners signature with personal note on front endpaper. Science, Botany ; Engraved Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1180 pages .

Simkin and Marshall; Groombridge & Sons, [1825-1850] Two Parts bound in one volume. Small quarto. Engraved half title, Title page Part I, xvi, 240pp; Title page Part II, 13, 144pp. 3066 woodcuts. Contemporary half morocco, gilt, raised bands to spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners rubbed. Index to Part II and pp141-144 originally published in smaller state (8vo), expertly relaid to quarto. Comprehensively cataloguing the origins, date of introduction and British gardens and their owners of foreign introductions during the golden age of plant-hunting, the Floral Register was the resource for all newly introduced plants.
Benjamin Maund (1790-1864) botanist and horticulturist, "he prospered as a bookseller, stationer, printer, bookbinder, publisher, and chemist in a combination normal for the time". He experimented with seeds and plants introduced from around the world and particularly with varieties of wheat. Fellow of the Linnean Society. ODNB.
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From the library of Enid Lucy… Read More

Edinburch: Printed for the Author and Sold By J. Murray. Good+. 1778. Second Edition. Hardcover. Title Continued: Plain Directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of Forest-Trees, to the height of thirty feet and upwards, with certain success and on the same principles, (with as certain success) for transplanting Hedges of Sundry kinds, which will at once resist Cattle: to which are added Directions for the Disposition, Planting and culture of Hedges by observing which, they will be handsomer and stronger Fences in five years, than they now usually are in ten. 1778 second edition in original leather binding. 259pp +(ii) -(xxvi) , Preface, +(xxvii ) -(xliii) , Subscribers. + 3 pages of Postscript. Both covers are decorated with a narrow gilt border. Spine has raised bands with geometric gilt designs in panels. Clean brown leather. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Marble endpaper. Front hinge cracked with cover firmly attached. Spine ends and front corners lightly… Read More

Aberdeen: Geo Clark and Son, 1845 An extremely scarce original copy of Edmondston's Shetland flora. Thomas Edmonston produced his first list of Shetland plants when he was 11 years old and had the good fortune to be able to discuss and share it with Joseph Hooker. He expanded the list and produced this work when he was 20 years old. It was and has remained an important work on Shetland's flora. It is in the original blind stamped decorative cloth binding with gilt titles to the front board. The binding is in very good condition. The original yellow endpapers are present and a previous owner has glued the top flap of an envelope to the fpd with their ink notes of plants and a reference to Tingwall manse. There is also a small ink '35' to the top corner of the fep. Contents: title, dedication, preface, introduction pp xxvii; arrangement of Shetland plants 1-67 with errata slip. Contents clean with extensive scholarly annotation - such as references to locations and Icelandic flora.

New York: William Wood & Co, 1884. xi, 292 pp. plus nine wonderful chromolithograph plates (including frontispiece). Original mustard yellow cloth binding stamped in black, gilt lettering at spine. Very Good Plus, prior owner name front end page, minor wear at spine ends. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.