1824. BIGELOW, JACOB. Florula Bostoniensis. A Collection of Plants of Boston and its Vicinity ... Second Edition Greatly Enlarged.... Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, & Co., 1824. 5, [3], 422, [2] p. Original boards, untrimmed; neatly rebacked. Some foxing, top blank margin of final leaf neatly repaired. In 1814 Bigelow published the..... Item #3310
1800. CULPEPER, NICHOLAS. Culpeper's British Herbal; and Complete English Physician. London: For H. Hogg, [undated but early 1800s]. 1 vol. in 2. vi, [1], x-xii, [1], 10-728, 96, [4] p. Frontis. of Culpeper and his home, 194 botanical plates, and 4 anatomical plates, all handcolored. Contemporary black calf, very neatly..... Item #14441
1799. GEOFFROY, ETIENNE L. Histoire Abregee des Insectes. Paris: Calixte-Volland and Remont, an VII [i.e., 1799]. 4to. 2 vols. [4], xxviii, 556 p.; [4], 744 p. Fold. table. 22 hand colored plates. Contemporary half calf (rubbed at extremities). Scattered foxing, but very good. Later edition, revised and enlarged. Chiefly a...... Item #12250
1799. GEOFFROY, ETIENNE L. Histoire Abregee des Insectes. Paris: Calixte-Volland and Remont, an VII [i.e., 1799]. 4to. 2 vols. [4], xxviii, 556 p.; [4], 744 p. Fold. table. 22 hand colored plates. Mid-nineteenth-century French half morocco, spines gilt. A very good copy, clean and fresh. Later edition, revised and enlarged..... Item #12251
1633. GERARD, JOHN. The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. London: By Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 1633. Folio. Engraved title, [36], 30, 29-30, 29-1630, [48] p. Illustrated with over 2500 woodcuts of plants. Early nineteenth-century panelled calf, rebacked retaining original fully gilt spine. Title lightly soiled but..... Item #13230
1802. (HERBS). Annuaire de l'Herboriste ... Par un Medecin Botaniste. Paris: Chez Serviere, 1802. [4], 499, [1] p. Contemporary sheep-backed boards, spine nicely gilt. Light overall rubbing, but a near-fine copy. With the bookplate of Victor Duc de Saint Simon Vermandois. A comprehensive manual of French herbs, treating flowering seasons..... Item #110
1763. LIGER, LOUIS. Le Jardinier Fleuriste, ou La Culture Universelle des Fleurs, Arbres, Arbustes, Artrisseaux Servant a L'Embellissement des Jardins.... Paris: Chez Saugrain fils, 1763. 8vo. xxiv, 504 p. Illus. 8 folding plates. Contemporary sheep, gilt decorated spine. Covers scuffed but very sound; lacks front free marbled endsheet; minor staining;..... Item #151
1813. (SHEEP). Livingston, Robert R. Essay on Sheep: Their Varieties--Account of the Merinoes ... Reflections on the Best Method of Treating them, and Raising a Flock in the United States; Together with Miscellaneous Remarks on Sheep and Woolen Manufactures. Concord, N.H.: Daniel Cooledge, 1813. 143 p. Woodcut of sheep on..... Item #6934
1819. MAWE, THOMAS, and JOHN ABERCROMBIE. The Complete Gardener; Being a Gardener's Calendar and General Directory ... in the Kitchen and Fruit Garden, Pleasure Ground, Flower Garden, Shrubbery, Nursery, Green-house, and Hot-house ... Enlarged and Improved by R. Forsyth. London, 1819. [2], 658, [10] p. Frontis. + 5 plates. Calf-backed..... Item #3392
1857. MICHAUX, FRANCOIS A. The North American Sylva; or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia ... [with:] THOMAS NUTTALL. The North American Sylva ... Philadelphia, 1857. 5 vols. 277 handcolored plates. Bound in contemporary ornately blindstamped full dark brown morocco, spines lettered..... Item #13231
1766. SCHAEFFER, JACOB C. ... Elementa Entomologica.... Regensburg: Gedruckt mit Weissischen Schriften, 1766. 4to. [186] p. 140 hand colored engraved plates on 72 leaves (of which 4 are printed on one side only). Text in Latin and German. Modern full calf, antique. Margins of first few leaves stained from turn-in..... Item #12249
1953. SITWELL, SACHEVERELL, HANDASYDE BUCHANAN, and JAMES FISHER. Fine Bird Books, 1700-1900. London and New York: Collins and Van Nostrand, 1953. Large folio. [8], 120 p. Color and black-and-white plates. Half red morocco. Spine somewhat darkened, light foxing on the endpapers. Bookplate. In the publisher's slipcase, worn at the extremities..... Item #14502
1831. (CONCHOLOGY). Turton, William. A Manual of the Land and Fresh-Water Shells of the British Islands.... London, 1831. viii, 150, 16 p. 10 colored plates. Slightly later half calf. Half-title wanting, extremities rubbed, else a nice clean copy. First edition. Turton's manual remained the standard work on British shells for..... Item #5908