The Botanical Library of a Continental Gentleman

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Miscellany.- A mixed group of botanical plates including four nature prints by Ettingshausen (reprints) [c.2003], a group of five limited edition ...

M`Nab (William) A Treatise on the Propagation, Cultivation, and General Treatment of Cape Wreaths first edition, hand-coloured engraved frontispie...

Morris (Richard) Flora Conspicua; a selection of the most ornamental flowering, hardy, exotic and indigenous trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants,...

Mouillefert (Pierre) Traité des Arbres & Arbrisseaux Forestiers, Industriels et d`Ornement..., 3 vol. including Atlas, first edition, half-titles,...

Mueller (Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von, Baron) Iconography of Australian Species of Acacia and Cognate Genera, first edition, 130 lithographed pla...

Mutis y Bosis (José Célestino Bruno) and others. Flora de la Real Expedicion Botanica del Nuevo Reino de Granada vol. 1, 2, 3 parts 1 & 2, 4 parts...

Nissen (Claus) Kräuterbücher aus fünf Jahrhunderten: Medizinhistorischer und bibliographischer Beitrag, letter "G" from an edition limited to 100 ...

Oelhafen von Schöllenbach (Karl Christoph) Traite des Arbres, Arbrisseaux et Arbustes de nos Forets vol.1 only (of 3), first edition in French, ...

Ogawa Kazumasa. Some Japanese Flowers title and 37 colour collotype plates, captioned tissue guards, original crepe paper boards sewn with silk co...

Ogawa Kazumasa. Lilies of Japan first edition, 12 collotype plates, captioned tissue guards, original decorated thin card wrappers sewn with silk ...

Pallas (Peter Simon) Flora Rossica seu stirpium Imperii Rossici per Europam et Asiam indigenarum descriptiones et icones 2 parts in 1, first editi...

Pardé (Léon Gabriel Charles) Iconographie des Conifères Parts I-VI [all published], first edition, 30 photographic plates of trees and 32 hand-col...

Philibert (J.C.) Exercices de Botanique, a l`usage des commençans 2 vol., first edition, large paper copy, half-titles, 157 hand-coloured engraved...

Phillips (Henry) Pomarium Britannicum; an Historical and Botanical Account of Fruits known in Great Britain, third edition, 3 lithographed plates,...

Pihl (Axel) and Jakob Eriksson. Svenska Fruktsorter i Färglagda Avbildningar first edition, 100 fine chromolithographed plates of fruit after Henr...

Plant-Hunting.- Cox (E.H.M.) Farrer`s Last Journey: Upper Burma, 1919-20, presentation copy from the author inscribed "Bebe Xmas 1928 from E.H.C."...

Plant-Hunting.- Kingdon Ward (Frank) The Romance of Plant Hunting Peter Hopkirk`s copy with his book-label, 1924; A Plant Hunter in Tibet, 1934; P...

Plant-Hunting.- Kingdon Ward (Frank) Field Notes of Trees, Shrubs and Plants...collected...in 1926 [c.1927]; Field Notes of Rhododendrons and othe...

Plant-Hunting.- Lack (W.Walter) Alexander von Humboldt und die Botanische Erforschung Amerikas Munich, [2009] § Expedicion Botanica (La) al Virrei...

Plant-Hunting.- Oliver (Prof. Daniel) The Botany of the Speke and Grant Expedition: an Enumeration of the Plants collected during the Journey of ...

Plant-Hunting.- Wilson (Ernest H.) Plant Hunting 2 vol., `Special Autographed Edition` signed and inscribed by the author to T.A.Havemeyer on half...

Plant-Hunting.- Wilson (Ernest H.) China: Mother of Gardens first edition, plates, folding map at end (slightly frayed at edge), ex-library copy w...

Plenck (Joseph Jakob) Icones plantarum medicinalium... Centuria I only (of 8), first edition, engraved title with hand-coloured floral border by J...

Pokorny (Dr Alois) Plantae Lignosae Imperii Austriaci: Österreichs Holzpflanzen..., first edition, half-title, 80 plates, mostly of skeleton leav...

Pontey (William) The Forest Pruner; or, Timber Owner`s Assistant first edition, engraved frontispiece of the Woburn Beech and 7 other engraved pla...

Pradhan (Udai C.) and Sonam T.Lachungpa. Sikkim-Himalayan Rhododendrons first edition, number 125 of 200 copies on Nepal paper, from an edition li...

[Raffenau-Delile (Alire)] [Flore d`Égypte] Description de l`Égypte. Histoire Naturelle, vol.2: Botanique, plates only, first edition, 64 engraved ...

[Ravenscroft (Edward James)] The Pinetum Britannicum: A Descriptive Account of Hardy Coniferous Trees cultivated in Great Britain, 3 vol., first e...

[Re (Filippo)] Rapporto...sullo stato dell`Orto Agrario della R. Universita bi Bologna first edition, errata leaf and large folding engraved plan ...

Redouté (Pierre-Joseph) Les Roses avec le Texte, par Cl. Ant. Thory, 4 vol. comprising 3 vol. facsimile reprint and Commentaries... by Gisele de l...

Redouté (Pierre-Joseph) Die Schönsten Blumen und Früchte Hanau, n.d. § Besler (Basilius) Der Garten von Eichstätt: Das Pflanzenbuch, Cologne, 1999...

Regel (Edvard August von) Russkaya Pomologya [Russian Pomology] 2 parts in 1, first edition, text in Russian, text-illustrations of cross-sections...

Reichenbach (Anton Benedik) Naturgeschichte des Pflanzenreichs... bound from the parts, first edition, 80 hand-coloured engraved plates, title fox...

Reitter (Johann Daniel von) Abbildung der Hundert Deutschen Wilden Holz-Arten nach dem Numern-Verzeichnis im Forst-Handbuch von F.A.L. von Burgsdo...

Reitter (Johann Daniel von) Abbildung der Hundert Deutschen Wilden Holz-Arten... 4 parts in 1, first edition, lists of subscribers, 100 engraved p...

Repton (Humphry).- Red Books of Humphry Repton (The) 4 vol. comprising: facsimile reprints of Sherringham in Norfolk, Antony House in Cornwall and...

Rietsch (F.G.) Abbildungen der wichtigsten deutschen Holzpflanzen... first edition, titles and text in German and Czech, with 2 additional prelimi...

Rietsch (F.G.) Abbildungen der wichtigsten deutschen Holzpflanzen... first edition, titles and text in German and Czech (but no preliminary leaves...

Risso (Joseph Antoine) Histoire Naturelle des Orangers first edition, half-title, 109 stipple-engraved plates after P.A. Poiteau printed in colour...

Robinson (William, editor) Flora and Sylva: A Monthly Review for Lovers of Garden, Woodland, Tree or Flower, 3 vol., first edition, 66 colour pla...

Robley (Augusta J.) A Selection of Madeira Flowers... first edition, 9 hand-coloured lithographs by R.E.B. after the authoress on 8 plates, a litt...

Ronalds (Hugh) Pyrus Malus Brentfordiensis: or, A Concise Description of Selected Apples, first edition, half-title, 42 hand-coloured lithographed...

Rousseau (Jean Jacques) Lettres Élémentaires sur la Botanique 2 vol., Oeuvres vol.5 & 6, half-titles, engraved pictorial titles after Marillier,17...

Rousseau (Jean Jacques) La Botanique first illustrated edition, first issue, large paper copy, half-title, stipple-engraved title-vignette, 65 fin...

Royle (John Forbes) Illustrations of the Botany and other branches of the Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains and of the Flora of Cashmere,...

Russell (John, 6th Duke of Bedford).- Sinclair (George) Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis: or, An Account of the Results of Experiments on the Produce...

Russell (John, 6th Duke of Bedford).- [Sinclair (George)] Hortus Ericaeus Woburnensis: or, a Catalogue of Heaths, in the Collection of the Duke o...

Russell (John, 6th Duke of Bedford).- Sinclair (George) Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis..., third edition, 60 hand-coloured engraved or lithographed...

Russell (John, 6th Duke of Bedford).- Sinclair (George) Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis oder Versuche über den Ertrag und die Nahrungskräfte verschi...

Russell (John, 6th Duke of Bedford).- [Forbes (James)] Salictum Woburnense: or, a Catalogue of Willows, indigenous and foreign, in the collection...

Russell (John, 6th Duke of Bedford).- Forbes (James) Hortus Woburnensis; a Descriptive Catalogue of upwards of Six Thousand Ornamental Plants cul...

Russell (John, 6th Duke of Bedford).- [Forbes (James)] Pinetum Woburnense: or, a Catalogue of Coniferous Plants, in the collection of the Duke of...

Russell (John, 6th Duke of Bedford).- Sinclair (George) Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis..., fourth edition, 44 hand-coloured engraved plates (45 lis...

Salisbury (William) Hortus Siccus Gramineus or, a Collection of Dried Specimens of British Grasses, title and advertisement/index leaf (soiled and...

Sargent (Charles Sprague) Report on the Forests of North America (Exclusive of Mexico), first edition, 39 colour maps, some double-page, maps a li...

Sargent (Charles Sprague) The Silva of North America: A Description of the Trees which grow naturally in North America exclusive of Mexico, 14 vol...

Sargent (Charles Sprague) Trees and Shrubs: Illustrations of New or Little Known Ligneous Plants..., 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 200 plate...

Schleiden (Dr M.J.) and Dr Th. Vogel. Beiträge zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Blüthentheile bei den Leguminosen, extract, pp.61-84, 3 hand-colou...

Schreber (Johann Christian Daniel) Beschreibung der Gräser nebst ihren Abbildungen nach der Natur 2 parts in 1 vol. and plate vol., together 2 vol...

Schulze (Max) Die Orchidaceen Deutschlands, Deutsch-Oesterreichs und der Schweiz first edition, chromolithographed plates, ink inscription on half...

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