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

New York: Assouline, 2016. 250 illustrations. 272 pages. 4to, pictorial silk boards. New York: Assouline, (2016). A fine copy, as new in original plastic shrink wrap. 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

Zurich: Urs Graf, 1973. Volumes II through VIII only. With over 150 mounted color plate facsimiles, many with overslips; other black and white plates and many smaller illustrations throughout. Tall folios, 1/2 parchment, printed dust wrappers, individual slipcases. Zurich: Urs Graf Verlag, 1973-80. Second volume without slipcase but still a near fine set, LACKING the first volume. Limited Edition, one of 500 numbered copies. A fine facsimile of Gessner's manuscript which was never published. An invaluable source for botanists. Gessner's..... 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

Topsfield: Salem House, 1986. Illustrated in color and b/w throughout. 104 pages. Slim 4to, orange cloth with color illustration mounted on front cover. Topsfield: Salem House, (1986). Reprint of the 1766 edition. A very good(+) copy with a touch of spotting to front cloth. More

London: Griffiths, 1751. 265pp. 4to, linen-backed modern boards. London: R. Griffiths, 1751. Very good (+). Satirical criticism of the Royal Society and its Philosophical Transactions, by the London apothecary and physician, "well known for his various literary entanglements and voluminous publications in science". A versatile man of unscrupulous character, with considerable abilities and unlimited impudence, Hill published works on botany, zoology, mineralogy and medicine, making some important contributions to science. He was the first, for example, to introduce the classification..... More