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MOHL, H. VON.
Vermischte Schriften botanischen Inhalts.
Tübingen, L.F. Fues, 1845. 4to (262 x 215mm). pp. viii, 442, with 13 (5 partly coloured) lithographed plates drawn by the author. Contemporary mar...
EUR 500
LINK, H.F. & OTTO, F.
Abbildung auserlesener Gewächse des Königlichen Botanischen Gartens zu Berlin nebst Beschreibungen und Anleitung Sie zu ziehen/ Icones Plantarum selectarum Horti Regii Botanici Berlinensis cum descriptionibus et colendi ratione.
Berlin, (Reimer), 1820-1822. Parts I-V (of X). 4to. pp. 68, with 30 handcoloured engraved plates. Original printed wrappers.
EUR 700
A fine copy of noble provenance of the most attractive fruit book ever produced
POITEAU, A.
Pomologie française. Recueil des plus beaux Fruits cultivés en France...
Paris, Langlois et Leclercq, 1846. 4 volumes. Folio (413 x 280mm). With three plain and 420 stipple-engraved plates printed in colours and finished...
EUR 135,000
NEES VON ESENBECK, C.G., BISCHOF, C.G. & ROTHE. H. A.
Die Entwicklung der Pflanzensubstanz physiologisch, chemisch und mathematisch dargestellt mit combinatorischen Tafeln der möglichen Pflanzenstoffe und den Gesetzen ihrer stöchiometrischen Zusammensetzung.
Erlangen, J,J. Palm & E. Enkem 1819. 4to. pp. (6), 232, with numerous tabs in the text. Contemporary malbled boards.
EUR 1,500
the first great survey of the flora of the East-Indies
RUMPHIUS, G.E.
Herbarium Amboinense, plurimas complectens arbores, frutices, herbas, plantas terrestres, & aquaticas, quae in Amboina et adjacentibus reperiuntur insulis ... nunc primum in lucem edita ... J. Burmanni/ Het Amboinsch Kruidboek, dat is beschryving van de meest bekende Boomen, Heesters, Kruiden, Land- en Water-Planten die men in Amboina, en de omleggende Eylanden vind ... nagezien en uitgegeeven door J. Burmannus.
Amsterdam, M. Uytwerf/, F. Changuion, J. Catulle, Uytwerf, 1741-1755. 6 volumes (bound in 4). Folio(390 x 255mm). With an engraved portrait of Rump...
EUR 28,000
very scarce pioneer work on the mollusca of Japan
DUNKER, W.
Mollusca Japonica descripta et tabulis tribus iconum.
Stuttgart, Schweizerbart, 1861. 4to. pp. iv, 36, (3), with 3 handcoloured lithographed plates. Recent half calf, calf gilt-lettered label on frontc...
EUR 1,200
POLLINI, C.
Flora Veronensis quam in prodromum florae Italiae Septentrionalis exhibit.
Veronae, Typis et expensis Soc. Typogr., 1822-1824. 3 volumes. 8vo (225 x 145mm). (I) pp. xxxv, 535, with 2 engraved folded plates; (II) pp. 754, w...
EUR 1,500
The plates are meticulously hand-coloured and there are 4 plants shown on each plate
ROQUES, J.
Plantes Usuelles, Indigènes et Exotiques, dessinées et coloriées d'après nature, avec la description de leurs caractères distinctifs et de leurs propriétés médicales. Secondeédition.
Paris, chez l'auteur & Hocquart, 1809. 2 volumes. 4to (255 x 190mm). pp. (4), viii, 266; (4), 278, (1, errata) with 133 finely handcoloured engrave...
EUR 2,500
plants growing in the Schönbrunn Gardens, the most splendid botanical garden of the period
SCHOT, R. VAN DER.
'Manuscript des Schönbrunner Hof-Gärtners Richard van der Schot, ein 1774 begonnenes und bis 1780 ergänztes systematisches Pflanzenverzeichnis nach Linné' & Richardus van derSchot gekregen den 21. November in het jaar 1759.
3 manuscript volumes listing plants growing in the Schönbrunn gardens. Together about 450 pages. 8vo. 2 vols. 185 x 112mm and a third volume sligh...
EUR 12,000
BURBIDGE, F.W.
The Narcissus: its history and culture with coloured plates and descriptions of all known species and principal varieties. To which is added, by kind permission, a scientificreview of the entire genus, By J.G. Baker.
London, L. Reeve, 1875. 8vo (245 x 170mm). pp. xvi, 95, with 48 handcoloured lithographed plates. Contemporary red cloth, spine with gilt lettering
EUR 800
This is a very fine series of floral engravings in the style of Spaendonck, Redouté, Bessa, etc
PREVOST, B.L.
Principes et leçons de fleurs.
Paris, Demarteau l'ainé (after 1850). Small-folio (330 x 245mm). With 16 etchings printed in bistre, by Giles Demarteau after crayon drawings by P...
EUR 2,000
rare mycological classic
PERSOON, C.H.
Mycologia Europaea seu completa omnium Fungorum in variis Europaeae regionibus detectorum enumeratio, methodo naturali disposita; descriptione succincta, synonymia selecta etobservationibus criticis additis.
Erlangae, I.I. Palmii, 1822-1828. 3 volumes. Royal-8vo (220 x 125mm). pp. (2), 356, (2); 214, 9(1);(4), 282, with 30 handcoloured engraved plates....
EUR 2,500