Various places and publishers: 1879-20. 3 vols. § Three works on algae published between 1879 and 1920, all inscribed by the author or from one botanist to another, the collection illustrating the collegiality of American and German botanists. 1) Engler, Adolf and Karl Prantl. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien - nebst ihren..... More
![Item #126235 The Botanic Garden. The Third Edition. [with] The Botanic Garden. Part II… The...](https://johnwindle.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/126235_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1725572350)
London: Johnson, 1795-94. 2 vols. in one, 4to, xx, 218, 124 (2, directions to binder and advertisement); (2), viii, 200, (2, directions to the binder, lacking the errata and ads) pp. With a frontispiece to each volume, ten plates in vol. I and 8 in vol. II. Early half calf..... More
[San Francisco: Edward Bosqui, 1877]. San Francisco: John Windle, 1980. Folio, [64] pp. 10 color plates with text. A fine copy in sheets and portfolio as issued. § Limited to 40 copies for sale in sheets (this is copy #131); this exact facsimile of the first California ampelography to show..... More
[San Francisco: Edward Bosqui, 1877]. San Francisco: John Windle, 1980. Folio, [64] pp. 10 color plates with text. A fine copy in sheets and portfolio as issued. § Limited to 40 copies for sale in sheets (this is copy #130); this exact facsimile of the first California ampelography to show..... More
London: John van Voorst, 1853. Sm. slim 8vo, xvii, 120, (4, ads.)pp. Color frontispiece (partially slightly faded). Original grey-green cloth rebacked, front end-paper creased, internally clean and sound. § First edition of this early book on the subject. John Cocks was the first to discover the red seaweed Stenogramme interrupta..... More
NY: Grolier Club, 2011. 2 vols. in one, 4to, printed dos à dos, 68, 60pp. Illustrated in b/w (Prints), and color (botany). Illustrated wrappers. § Ingenious catalogue of two very different collections put together by the Cohens. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. 8vo, (7 5/8 x 5 inches; 195 x 125 mm). 432 pp. Folding lithographed diagram (speciation tree) facing p. 108. Original dark green bead-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spine ruled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt. Original..... More
London: John Murray, 1880. 8vo, x, 592, 32 (ads dated May 1878) pp. Illustrated with 196 in-text woodcuts. Original green blind-stamped cloth, backstrip titled in gilt, brown coated endpapers, hinges cracked, a little wear to crown and foot of backstrip, text block edges (but not pages) stained, an unsophisticated copy..... More
York: Printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley et al., 1786. 4to, 2 vols: [46], 311, [9] pp. with portrait and 29 plates (1 folding); [2], 343, [10] pp. with 14 plates (2 folding), plus Terra [viii], 74, [4] pp. with separate title page, 2 tables and 1 plate. In..... More
Ottowa: Royal Society of Canada, 1942. Slim 8vo, pp. 59-78. Staple-bound offprint in the original printed wrapers. Inscribed by the author. § "From The Proceedings of The Royal Society of Canada, Third Series, Volume XXXVI, 1942" More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1977. Folio, 28 pp. Illustrated, original cloth, dust-jacket. A fine copy with the original prospectus laid in; the original plain wrapper has one short closed tear on the rear panel and has been lettered by hand on the spine panel. § Limited to 385..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1977. Folio, 28 pp. Illustrated, original cloth, dust-jacket, bookplate and owner's signature on front pastedown. A fine copy in the original plain wrapper, very lightly edgeworn and titled in pencil on the spine panel. Prospectus laid in. § Limited to 385 copies, printed by..... More
London: Published for the Author, 1830-1832. Lithograph with original hand color, 360 x 530 mm, framed size 650 x 820 mm. A few trivial spots of foxing, a magnificent plate well-framed. § Lear was renowned as one of Britain's finest ornithological artists before his nonsense verse was ever known. The..... More
Philadelphia: Wm. Rutter & Co., 1865. 6 vols. in 5, roy. 8vo, 184; 180; 180; 206; 215 pp. With 277 hand-colored plates as noted below. Original de luxe binding of publisher's full brown morocco, covers richly blind-stamped, blind-stamped and gilt-lettered backstrips, gilt edges, collector’s modern bookplate in each volume. Joints..... More
![Item #108215 Heliomaster Constanti [and] Helianthea Bonapartei. Henry Constantine Richter, John....](https://johnwindle.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/108215.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1551287150)
[circa 1849-87]. Two hand-colored lithographs, 14 1/2 x 21 1/4”, both with a second leaf of text; matted, very good and ready for framing. § Plates 236 and 260 with original corresponding text from A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds, Volume 4. Plates lithographed after John Gould..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1941. 8vo, 598 pp. Illustrated. Original green cloth lettered in silver, map endpapers, unclipped dustjacket (priced $5.00). Boards marked and scuffed, dust jacket worn and a little faded with moderate edgewear but no major chips, endpapers toned, scattered foxing. Custom cloth slipcase, somewhat spotted. A good..... More
[Edinburgh: Lizars and London: Bohn, 1837]. 4 x 6 3/8” hand-colored steel engraving, on paper. Overall light age toning and edge toning; very good. § The Common Dolphin, Plate XXIII from The Naturalist's Library, Mammalia Vol. XXVI (Whales). After a drawing by James Hope Stewart, engraved by William Horne Lizars..... More
[Edinburgh: Lizars and London: Bohn, 1837]. 4 x 6 3/8” hand-colored steel engraving, on paper. Closed tear in upper right corner, overall light age toning and edge toning; very good. § The Hyperoodon honfloriensis, Plate XIII from The Naturalist's Library, Mammalia Vol. XXVI (Whales). After a drawing by James Hope..... More
No date [circa 1810-1825]. 7 original watercolors on individual sheets (c.180 x 220 mm), handwritten notes in ink on versos recording the name of the animal in English, French and Latin, and, in some cases, comments on its appearance and habits, matted alike. Marginal browning, seemingly caused by the mats..... More
