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| [LAMBERT (AYLMER BOURKE)] A Description of the Genus Cinchona, comprehending the various species of vegetables from which the Peruvian and other Barks of a similar quality are taken ..... To which is prefixed Professor Vahl’s Dissertation on this Genus, .... Also a Description, Printed for B. and J. White. 1779. First Edition, 4to, ix,[3],54,[2] pp., without half-title, the dedication is signed Aylmer Bourke Lambert, 13 folding etched and aquatint plates, the description of the plates is in Latin, a few spots and some minor marginal foxing, modern antique-style quarter calf, spine gilt, red morocco label, a nice copy. “What Sir Joseph Bank’s meetings were in his day, Mr. Lambert’s are at the present time; and every Saturday during the London season, his reception-rooms are crowded with persons eminent for their learning or talents, ...... Lambert is well known by his splendid work on the pine and fir tribe; and he possess the finest library of botanical works in England ....”. —Ladies’ Magazine of Gardening, by Mrs. Loudon, no. VII, p.221. This was Lambert’s first independent work and is dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks and the Linnean Society, it describes eight species, mostly from Banks’s specimens. Henrey, 919. GBP 650.00 [Appr.: EURO 721 US$ 1079.65 | JP 95383] Book number: 24955 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| DE BELDER (ROBERT) A Magnificent Collection of Botanical Books. Being the Finest Colour-Plate Books from the Celebrated Library formed by Robert de Belder. Sotheby’s. 1987. 4to, numerous coloured illustrs., orig. cloth, 388 lots. The finest botanical colour-plate library to be sold at auction since the Arpad Plesch sales. GBP 38.00 [Appr.: EURO 42.25 US$ 63.12 | JP 5576] Book number: 23594 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| BOTANICAL BOOKS.: Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Botanical Books... The Property of the Society of Herbalists. Sotheby & Co. 1958. 9 Plates, prices and buyers' names loosely inserted, orig. printed wrappers, 236 lots. GBP 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.75 US$ 23.25 | JP 2054] Book number: 645 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| COATS (PETER): Flowers in History. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1970. First Edition, 4to, frontis., illustrs., throughout (some coloured, orig. cloth, d.w. Traces the stories of some of the best-loved and familiar plants to be found in Western gardens. GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 17.75 US$ 26.58 | JP 2348] Book number: 814 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| SIMPSON (N. DOUGLAS) COMPILER. A Bibliographical Index of the British Flora. Including Floras, Herbals, Periodicals, Societies and References Relating to the Identification and Occurrence of Phanerogams, Vascular Cryptograms and Charophytes in the British Isles. Privately Printed, Bournemouth. 1960. First Edition, 4to, xx,429pp., one of 750 copies, orig. cloth. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 US$ 49.83 | JP 4402] Book number: 26397 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| HENREY (BLANCHE) British Botanical and Horticultural Literature Before 1800. Comprising a History and Bibliography of Botanical and Horticultural Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the Earliest Times until 1800. Oxford University Press. 1975. First Edition, 3 vols., 4to, 3 frontispieces of which 2 are coloured, 30 coloured plates, 208 illustrs., orig. cloth, covers slightly marked. Awarded the Triennial bibliographical prize of the international league of antiquarian booksellers. GBP 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 133.25 US$ 199.32 | JP 17609] Book number: 25666 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| PLESCH (ARPAD) The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung Fur Botanik Vaduz Liechtenstein Collected by the Late Arpad Plesch. Sotheby & Co. 1975-76. 3 Vols., 4to, coloured frontispieces, plates throughout, prices and buyers’ names loosely inserted, orig. boards, slightly soiled, 863 lots. An important sale and an excellent reference work. From the library of Frederick B. Adams, Jr. GBP 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 61 US$ 91.36 | JP 8071] Book number: 19091 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| PLESCH (ARPAD): The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung Fur Botanik Vaduz Liechtenstein Collected by the late Arpad Plesch. Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. 1975-76. 3 Vols., 4to, coloured frontipieces, plates throughout, prices and buyer’s names loosely inserted, orig. boards, soiled, 863 lots. GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 72.25 US$ 107.97 | JP 9538] Book number: 6 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| PLESCH (ARPAD): The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung Fur Botanik Vaduz Liechtenstein Collected by the late Arpad Plesch. Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. 1975-76. 3 Vols., 4to, coloured frontipieces, plates throughout, prices and buyer’s names loosely inserted, orig. boards, hinges a little torn, soiled, 863 lots. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 55.5 US$ 83.05 | JP 7337] Book number: 1034 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| PLESCH (ARPAD) Mille et un Livres Botaniques de la Collection Arpad Plesch. Arcade, Brussels. 1973. First Edition, large 4to, 520pp., bookplate removed, ink marks (ticks or crosses) against each item, 34 coloured illustrs., (full page), with a number of monochrome illustrs., (mostly facsimiles), orig. cloth, d.w. slip-case. Plesch’s catalogue of his own magnificent library of illustrated botanical books, which was dispersed at Sotheby’s in 1975-76. An important work giving full collations, footnotes and bibliographical references. Records several thousand botanical works, well in excess of the 863 items in the Sotheby’s sale catalogues. GBP 295.00 [Appr.: EURO 327.25 US$ 490 | JP 43289] Book number: 14831 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| PRITZEL (G.A.) Thesaurus Literaturae Botanicae. Omnium Gentium inde a Rerum Botanicarum Initiis ad Nostra Usque Tempora. Gorlich Editore, Milan. (Reprint of the 1871-1877 Edition) 1950. 4to, [vi],577pp., orig. cloth. The standard botanical bibliography for books published up to 1872. GBP 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 83.25 US$ 124.58 | JP 11006] Book number: 24305 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| REDOUTÉ. Pierre-Joseph Redouté’s Les Liliacées. The Empress Josephine’s Copy with the Original Drawings and the Text on Vellum. Sotheby’s, New York. 1985. 4to, 486 coloured illustrs., orig. cloth, 486 lots. GBP 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 61 US$ 91.36 | JP 8071] Book number: 19318 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| ROTENBERG (MARISA) Catalogus Librorum Musaei Goeldiani I. Cimelia. Catalogo Descritivo das Obras Raras, Seculos XVI, XVII e XVIII. Verano, Brasilia. 1987. 257pp., facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.25 US$ 33.22 | JP 2935] Book number: 15480 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. |
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