The Botanical Library of a Continental Gentleman

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Schweinfurth (Dr Georg) Reliquiae Kotschyanae. Beschreibung und Abbildung einer Anzahl unbeschriebener oder wenig gekannter Pflanzenarten..., fir...

Secondat (Jean Baptiste de, Baron) Mémoires sur l`Histoire Naturelle du Chêne..., first edition, large paper copy, half-title, 3pp. errata/addend...

Seemen (Karl Otto) Salices Japonicae 18 plates, verso of final plate soiled, text lightly browned, modern boards, original upper wrapper bound in ...

Selby (Prideaux John) A History of British Forest-Trees... original cloth, spine faded, 1842 § Maxwell (Sir Herbert) Trees: A Woodland Notebook, o...

[Seligmann (Johann Michael)] Icones lignorum exoticorum et nostratium germanicorum ex arboribus, arbusculis et fructibus..., mixed edition, title ...

Shaw (George Russell) The Genus Pinus first edition, a few pencil annotations to plates, contemporary half morocco, spine faded, Cambridge, Mass.,...

Sierstorpff (Kaspar Heinrich von) Ueber die forstmäßige Erziehung, Erhaltung und Benutzung der vorzüglichsten inländischen Holzarten vol.1 only [?...

[Sievert (August, 1820-1840, Lutheran minister)] A collection of over 1,100 original watercolour botanical drawings, pen and ink with watercolour...

Sitwell (Sacheverell) & others. Old Garden Roses 2 vol., colour plates after Charles Raymond, original cloth, dust-jackets, a little rubbed, 1955-...

[Smith (Sir James Edward)] [Icones pictae plantarum rariorum...], first edition, 3 parts in 1, with dedication, preface and text but no title (as...

Smith (Sir James Edward) Spicilegium botanicum; Gleanings of Botany, 2 parts in 1 [all published], first edition, no title, text in Latin and Eng...

Smith (Sir James Edward) Exotic Botany: consisting of Coloured Figures, and Scientific Description, of such New, Beautiful, or Rare Plants as are...

Smith (Sir James Edward) and James Sowerby. English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, 12 vol., second edition, 2754 partly hand-col...

Sole (William) Menthae Britannicae: bein a New Botanical Arrangement of all the British Mints..., first edition, half-title, 24 engraved plates by...

[Spratt (George)] Flora Medica: containing Coloured Delineations of the various Medicinal Plants admitted into the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin P...

Stearn (William T.) and Wilfrid Blunt. The Australian Flower Paintings of Ferdinand Bauer number 222 of 515 copies, tipped-in colour plates, origi...

Stevenson (J.B., editor) The Species of Rhododendron, 1930 § Wilson (E.H.) and Alfred Rehder. A Monograph of Azaleas, original printed grey wrapp...

Stewart (J.Lindsay) and Dietrich Brandis. The Forest Flora of North-West and Central India... 2 vol. including plate vol., first edition, text wit...

Strutt (Jacob George) Sylva Britannica; or, Portraits of Forest Trees, in the original 12 parts, first edition, first issue, large paper copy, etc...

Sweet (Robert).- Trial of Robert Sweet (The), at the Old Bailey, before Mr.Justice Best at the Old Bailey, before Mr.Justice Best. Upon a charge.....

Sweet (Robert) Cistineae. The Natural Order of Cistus, or Rock-Rose... first edition, second issue, 112 hand-coloured engraved plates by S.Watts a...

Sweet (Robert) Flora Australasica; or, a Selection of Handsome, or Curious Plants, Natives of New Holland, and the South Sea Islands..., first edi...

Thornton (Dr Robert) New Illustration of the Sexual System of...Linnaeus..., Parts 1 & 2 only (of 3, lacking the Temple of Flora) bound in 1 vol....

Thornton (Robert).- Grigson (Geoffrey) and others. Thornton`s Temple of Flora..., number 70 of 250 copies signed by the authors, calligraphic tit...

Titford (William Jowit) Sketches towards a Hortus Botanicus Americanus... first edition, hand-coloured engraved aquatint frontispiece, hand-colour...

Trattinnick (Leopold) Flora des österreichischen Kaiserthumes Parts 1 & 2 only (of 24), first edition, 24 finely hand-coloured engraved plates, ti...

Trechslin (Anne Marie) and Stelvio Coggiatti. Old Garden Roses out-of-series copy from a limited edition and signed by the artist and author, text...

Veitch (James and Sons, Royal Exotic Nursery, King`s Road, Chelsea) A Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, 2 vol. bound from the original 10 parts, fir...

Veitch (James Herbert) A Traveller`s Notes or Notes of a Tour through India, Malaysia, Japan, Corea, the Australian Colonies and New Zealand durin...

Veitch (James Herbert) Hortus Veitchii: A History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons..., first edition, pr...

Ventenat (Etienne Pierre) Description des Plantes Nouvelles et peu Connues Cultivées dans le Jardin de J.M.Cels, first edition, half-title, 100 fi...

Verschaffelt (Ambroise, publisher) Nouvelle Iconographie des Camellias, first edition, 93 hand-coloured lithographed plates only by Severeyns aft...

Vries (Hugo de) Die Mutationstheorie. Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Entstehung von Arten im Pflanzenreich, 2 vol., first edition in book fo...

Wade (Walter) Salices; or, an Essay towards a General History of Sallows, Willows, & Osiers first edition, hand-coloured engraved folding frontisp...

Walsh (Wendy) and Charles Nelson. An Irish Florilegium: Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland first edition, colour plates by Wendy Walsh, 1987 § Rick...

Wangenheim (Friedrich Adam Julius von) Beytrag zur teutschen holzgerechten Forstwissenschaft die Anpflanzung Nordamericanischer Holzarten..., firs...

Watson (Peter William) Dendrologia Britannica or Trees and Shrubs that will live in the open air of Britain..., 2 vol., first edition, 172 hand-co...

Weber (Joseph Carl) Die Alpen-Pflanzen Deutschlands und der Schweiz 4 vol., fourth edition, 400 hand-coloured plates, advertisement leaf on blue p...

Wildeman (Émile de) Icones Selectae Horti Thenensis: Iconographie de Plantes...de M. van den Bossche...à Tirlemon (Belgique). 8 vol. in 46 parts, ...

Willdenow (Carl Ludwig) Historia Amaranthorum first edition, first issue with title dated 1790, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates by J.R.Schellenbe...

Willdenow (Carl Ludwig) Berlinische Baumzucht... second edition, additional engraved pictorial title, 7 engraved plates, one slightly shaved at fo...

Willdenow (Carl Ludwig) Abbildung der deutschen Holzarten für Forstmänner und Liebhaber der Botanik, 36 parts in 2 vol., first edition, 216 hand-c...

Willdenow (Carl Ludwig) Abbildung der deutschen Holzarten... pp.1-194 only, 144 hand-coloured engraved plates after Friedrich Guimpel, a few plate...

Willmott (Ellen) Warley Garden in Spring and Summer first edition, photogravure frontispiece and 40 plates, tissue guards, bookplate of Edward Kel...

Willmott (Ellen) The Genus Rosa 2 vol. bound from the original 25 parts, first edition, 134 chromolithographed and 81 plain plates after Alfred Pa...

Woodville (William) Medical Botany... 5 vol., third edition, vol.1-4 with 273 hand-coloured engraved plates by James Sowerby (numbered 1-273, plat...

Woolward (Florence H.) The Genus Masdevallia Issued by the Marquess of Lothian, K.T., chiefly from Plants in his Collection of Orchids at Newbattl...

Wooster (David) Alpine Plants [First & Second Series], together 2 vol., 2 vol. in 1, 110 wood-engraved plates printed in colours by Benjamin Fawce...

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