Cum praefatione Hermanni Boerhaave. Editio altera Leidensis, cujus textum recensuit, passim emendavit, supplevit; citata Hippocratis loca accuravit Hieron. Dav. Gaubius. Rubricated title with an engraved vignette. Fine large folding copperplate portrait of the author. 558 (i.e. 564)pp., index. Sm. 4to, modern leather. Lugduni Batavorum, 1733. Excellent Leiden edition of the Italian physician's "classical work on prognosis". G-M 2194 (1st ed. Venice 1601). De praesagienda is "a detailed study of prognostics in which attention is devoted to the patient's mental state..... More

Paris: Anthese, 1991. Introduction to Antoine Schnapper. 100 beautiful full-page color plates, illustrating more than 200 plants and 32 insects. 239 pages, folio, green cloth, d.w., thin board slipcase. Paris: Editions Anthese, (1991). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper of this beautiful book. More

Paris: Audot, 1825. Oblong 8vo. (6 1/2 x 8 inches). Text in two columns. vi, 156, [2]pp. of text. 97 engraved black & white plates. Plate number 34 is hand colored. Brown mottled calf backed green boards (rubbed), red spine label, marbled end papers. Paris: Audot, 1825. Third Edition. Very good. Popular illustrated work on landscape design. The present third edition, revised and augmented, includes engravings of garden designs, pavilions, fountains, monuments, bridges, temples, pagodas, obelisks, hydraulic machines for water..... More

Baltimore: F. Lucas. The text is interspersed with blank sheets of colored paper, possibly for owner's notations or where plates were to have been inserted (clearly nothing has been removed). Small 4to, contemporary 3/4 leather (edges well-rubbed but sound; some light foxing). Baltimore: F. Lucas, no date [1830]. Errata slip for second edition is laid-in and with a very neat owner's inscription dated 1830. A charming dictionary of flowers as mentioned in poetry and literature of the past... More

Paris: Panckoucke, 1814. 5 (of 8) Volumes. Illustrated with 291 exquisite color plates from drawings by P.J.F Turpin, interleaved with tissue guards. xvi, 209; iv, 236; 265; 266; & 280pp. Water stain effects lower right corner on the set. The tissue guards have protected most of the plates from the water stain and foxing. 8vo, red leather-backed marbled boards with ornate gilt-stamped spines (boards are well-worn at edges). Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1814-1818. First edition. Text in French. A very scarce..... More

Rio De Janeiro: Laemmert, 1856. 668 pages, thick 12mo, brown cloth; early ownership signatures, worming, mostly minor (most significant through around page 130), covers worn, spines and front joint repaired, but sound. Rio De Janeiro: Eduardo & Henrique Laemmert, 1856. A few issues but still a very good copy. More

Birmingham: Classics of Cardiology, 1988. Frontis portrait of William Withering, illustrated, XI + 303pp, 8vo, full gilt-decorated broiwn leather, a.e.g. Birmingham: Privately Printed for The Classics of Cardiology Library, 1988. A Fine Copy. GM 1912. Facsimile of the 1925 First English Edition. More

Venice: Bertano, 1631. Diviso in Due Libri. Illustrated with 32 full-page exquisite copperplate engravings of marine flora. Numerous decorative initials & head/tailpieces throughout. [8], 120 pages. Thin square 8vo, bound in contemporary vellum (binding worn but very sound; some pages have a very pale damp-stain in the upper gutter). Venetia: Appresso Pietro Maria Bertano, 1631. Scarce. Text in Italian. Very scarce pre-Linnean natural history. OCLC lists 18 copies including those at Yale, Harvard, & Cambridge. No copies sold at auction..... More

John Stockdale, 1812. Volume II only of 2, 4to brown leather with gilt spine rebacked, scuffing and corners bumped. Plates 30 to 60 only. 235-503pp. Beautiful engraved plates with lavish original hand coloring. Hard to find. Sydenham Teast Edwards was a natural history illustrator. This is a good example of his work. More

London: Edward Arnold, 1908. Frontis., illustrated in b/w, 288pp., 8vo, gilt-lettered cloth, t.e.g.; bookplate inside front cover, some marginalia on a few pages. London: Edward Arnold, 1908. First Edition. Very Good. More

London: Adam Islip, 1633. Packed with over 2700 woodcut illustrations throughout the text. Copper-engraved title page by John Pyne, damaged and neatly spliced with partial facsimile. [37], 1630, 2, [32) pages. Very thick folio, full early paneled calf, neatly re-cased with similar leather spine. London: Adam Islip Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633. Second edition. Overall a good copy - solid and complete. Title page in partial facsimile and upper right corner of license and dedication pages repaired, with minor..... More

Rhodesia: Livingstone Museum, 1964. 4 black & white photographic plates. 32 pages, Short slim 8vo, stiff, decorative printed wrappers. Northern Rhodesia: Livingstone Museum, 1964. Reprint. A very good(+) copy. More

New York: Martin, 1847. 2 volumes. Extra illustrated title pages and 52 additional steel engraved plates, 50 with delicate hand coloring and featuring Grandville's delightful anthropomorphized plants, each protected with tissue. (4), iv, 3-278; 281-385, (4), 152, 8pp. Short 4to, handsomely bound in contemporary full red morocco with a floral gilt border on covers (spines a bit darkened with leather crackled; well-rubbed at joints and corners, but sound and attractive). New York: R. Martin, 1847. A very good copy, internally..... More