Grant, Verne

Plant Speciation

New York: Columbia University Press, 1971. First edition. Pp. x, 435, 56 text-figures.  Publisher's printed, pictorial white wrappers lettered in black on spine and front cover, lg 8vo.  This book examines the evolutionary mechanisms in higher plants.  This volume is from the research collection of herpetologist Lauren E. Brown with his signature on the half title. Neat underlining on pages 6, 47, 58, 59, 111, 186, 188, 193, 295-297. Some wear to spine, a very good copy..

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Book number: 9055

Catalogue: Botany and Floras

Gray, Asa

Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gametopetalae

New York: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Company, 1886. Second edition Pp. (6), 480; vi, 494. Publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and with gilt panel lines, lg 8vo. This is the complete second edition of this classic descriptive flora covering the Gametopetalae. It includes volume I, part 2 (1884) and volume II, part 1 (1878) of the original edition. Ex-library from the Seattle Public Schools with bookplate on the front endpaper, faint name stamp on the page edges and labels removed from the rear endpapers. Edge wear to cloth at the head and foot of the spine, two outer corners worn with small bumps, the text is tight and clean, a solid reading copy in good condition..

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Book number: 3399

Catalogue: Botany and Floras

Keywords: Bontany flora plants

Gray, Asa

Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gametopetalae

New York: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Company, 1886. Second edition Pp. (6), 480; vi, 494. Original printed wrappers, lg 8vo. This is the complete second edition of this classic descriptive flora covering the Gametopetalae. It includes volume I, part 2 (1884) and volume II, part 1 (1878) of the original edition. Small circular stamp of Loyola College on the title page, no other marks. Front wrapper with marginal tears and a few pieces missing, rear wrap missing, spine label lettered in pencil, aside from a few small marginal tears to the first few pages, the text is clean and unused; this is solid reading copy in good condition..

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Book number: 3840

Catalogue: Botany and Floras

Keywords: Botany flora flowers gametopetalae Asteracea daisies daisy North America

Gray, Asa

Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gametopetalae

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1886. Second edition Pp. (Vol. 1): x, 480; pp. (Vol. 2): vi, 494, indexes. Original printed light green front wrapper only, thick 8vo. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, volume 31. This is the Smithsonian reissue of volume I, part 2 (1884) and volume II, part 1 (1878) of the original edition of this descriptive flora covering the Gametopetalae. Smithsonian title page has ink bookcase number neatly printed at the upper corner. The text pages are uncut and unopened. The front wrapper is chipped around the edges, the paper-covered spine has cracks along the spine with some chipping at the base, otherwise, very good..

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Book number: 3138

Catalogue: Botany and Floras

Keywords: Bontany flora plants

Gray, Asa

Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gametopetalae

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1886. Second edition Pp. (Vol. 1): x, 480; pp. (Vol. 2): vi, 494, indexes. Later one-half tan cloth over original black pebble cloth (original printed light green front wrapper bound in), lettered in gilt on the spine, thick 8vo. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, volume 31. This is the Smithsonian reissue of volume I, part 2 (1884) and volume II, part 1 (1878) of the original edition of this descriptive flora covering the Gametopetalae. Signature of M.W. Talbot dated December 1937 on the front endpaper. Small section of the outer corners of free endpapers a bit browned; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 3139

Catalogue: Botany and Floras

Keywords: Bontany flora plants

Gray, Asa

Synoptical Flora of North America, Volume I, Part I, fascicle II only

New York: American Book Co., 1897. First edition Pp. x-xv, 209-506. Original printed pale green wrappers, sm 4to. Fascicle II covers Polypetalae from the Caryophyllaceae to the Polygalaceae. This work was continued and edited by Benjamin Lincoln Robinson after Asa Gray's death. Also included is a section from the publisher containing pages ix and x as well as pages 207 and 208 with instructions to the binder. No ownership marks. A fine uncut and unopened copy in the original printed wrappers..

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Book number: 3373

Catalogue: Botany and Floras

Keywords: Bontany flora plants

Gray, Asa

Synoptical Flora of North America, Volume 1, Part 2 and Volume 2, Part 1 (in 2 volumes)

New York: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Co., 1878-1884. First edition Pp. vi, 402; (iv), 402. Publisher's original brown cloth, gilt-lettered on the spine, sm 4to. Vol. 1, Part 2 covers Caprifoliaceae to Compositae, Vol. 2, Part 1 covers Gamopetalae after Compositae. See Stafleu and Cowan, 2132. Vol. 1, Part 1 was published in 1895-97 after Gray's death. Name sticker of C.D. Fretz, M.D., Sellersville on the front endpaper. Spine cloth of volume 2, part 1 is a bit sunned and has a nick to cloth just below the title as well as wear to the cloth at the head and foot of the spine, there is also some light spotting to the cloth of volume 1, part 2 - overall a good solid copy..

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Book number: 3404

Catalogue: Botany and Floras

Keywords: Bontany flora plants

Grout, A. J.

Moss Flora of North America north of Mexico, in 12 parts bound in three volumes, complete

Newfane, VT: Published by the Author, 1928-1940. First edition. Pp. (volume I): pp. 264, 129 plates (fine line-drawings); (volume II): pp. 284, 115 plates (fine line-drawings and black-and-white photos); (volume III): pp. 276, 80 fine line-drawings Contemporary moss-green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and with gilt panel lines, all 12 original printed dark blue wrappers are bound in place, sm 4to (10.5 x 8 inches). This work is the first major revision of the North American moss flora since the appearance of Barnes and Heald's 1896 ""Analytical Keys to the genera and species of North American mosses."" The contents are as follows: Volume I - Part 1: Andreaeaceae by A. J. Sharp, Archidiaceae by Stanley A. Cain; Part 2: Polytrichaceae by T. C. Frye, Calymperaceae by William C. Steere; Part 3: Encalyptaceae by Seville Flowers, Tortella by Inez M. Haring, Didymodon and Barbula by William C. Steere; Part 4: Aloina by Ethelda J. Craig, Tortula by William C. Steere, Pottia and Pterygoneurum by W. T. Wareham. Volume II - Part 1: Grimmiaceae by George Neville Jones; Part 2: Erpodiaceae by William C. Steere; Splachnaceae by Geneva Sayre; Part 3: Bartramiaceae by Seville Flowers; Timiaceae and Aulacomniaceae by Geneva Sayre, Bryaceae (I) by A. LeRoy Andrews; Part 4: Bryaceae (II) by A. LeRoy Andrews. Volume III - Parts 1-3 by A. J. Grout; Part 4: Leskea and Pseudoleskea by A. J. Sharp, Fontinalaceae by Winona H. Welch. From the research collection of botanist Elizabeth Schmidt with her custom bookplate on the front endpaper of each volume. No other ownership marks. Scarce work. Faint browning to the endpapers only; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 8643

Catalogue: Botany and Floras

Harvey, William Henry

The Genera of South African Plants, arranged according to the Natural System.

Cape Town: A. S. Robertson, 1838. First edition. Pp. lxvi, 429. Contemporary one-half green morocco leather, spine with 5 raised bands lettered in gilt in 2 compartments and with gilt panel lines and decorations highlighting each raised band, over green cloth-covered boards, top page edge in gilt, other page edges are deckled, original marbled endpapers, 8vo. This volume is the first substantial botanical work published in South Africa. The work provided an introduction to the flora of South Africa and paved the way for Harvey's massive seven volume treatise, Flora Capensis. Inscribed by the author to Mr. Macqueen, dated 1838. No other ownership marks. See also Stafleu and Cowan 2436. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 6221

Catalogue: Botany and Floras

Hitchcock, C.L.

A Revision of the Drabas of Western North America.

Seattle: University of Washington, 1941, First edition. Pp. 132, 8 full page monochrome plates, supplemental insert Index of Plant Names. Publisher's gray wrappers lg 8vo. University of Washington Publications in Biology volume 11. Covers the Whitlow-grasses of North America. Ex-library from the Reading Public Museum with single ink stamp on supplement, no other ownership marks of any kind, several creases to wrappers, a tight, good copy..

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Book number: 2114

Catalogue: Botany and Floras

Keywords: Botany plants Brassicaceae Cruciferae crucifers Whitlow-grasses North America taxonomy Natural Sciences Natural Science

Hogberg, D.

Svensk flora, innefattande sveriges phanerogamvexter; med en kort, forberedande Vextlara

orebro: Lindhs Boktryckeri, 1843. First edition Pp. viii, 296, 3 plates. Later marbled wrappers with paper spine label, 8vo. A rare flora of Sweden. The page edges are untrimmed, title page with paper repairs to the edges, light foxing to a few pages; overall a good to very good copy..

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Book number: 2795

Catalogue: Botany and Floras

Keywords: Botany plants flowers flora Sweden Europe Natural Science

Jussieu, A.L.

Mémoire sur le Loasa, genre de plantes qui devra constituer avec le Mentzelia, une nouvelle famille

Paris: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 1804. First edition Pp. 10, 5 fine lithograph plates. Original printed blue wrappers, 4to. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, volume 5, pp. 18-27. Loasa and Mentzelia are genera of ornamental and flowering plants in the family Loasaceae that are native to the Americas. Light wear to edges of the wrappers, small ink stain to corner of rear wrapper with no effect to the text, a tight and clean copy in very good condition..

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Book number: 3078

Catalogue: Botany and Floras

Keywords: Bontany flora plants

Kirchner, O. von

Blumen und Insekten: Ihre Anpassungen aneinander und ihre gegenseitige Abhangigkeit

Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von B.G. Teubner, 1911. First edition Pp. iv, 436, (6, ads), 159 text-figures. Early gray cloth, spine with red morocco label lettered in gilt (original decorated wrappers bound in), speckled page edges, lg 8vo. This book describes the interdependence of flowers and insects and adaptations that each have developed. This the personal copy of Harvard entomologist W.M. Wheeler with his signature on the title page and a few of his neat pencil annotations in margins of the text. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 3622

Catalogue: Botany and Floras

Keywords: Botany flora plants entomology interdependence flowers insects

Knight, Alfred Ernest and Step, Edward

The Living Plant in Leaf, Flower, and Fruit

London: Hutchinson & Co, (1905). Second printing. Pp. viii, 420; color frontispiece from painting by Harry Johnson, 36 full page black-and-white photo-plates, 701 text-figures (woodcuts and halftones). Publisher's original one-half dark green polished calf leather over marbled boards, spines with five raised bands each outlined with gilt panel lines, the title is lettered in gilt on a red morocco in one compartment and the authors are blind-stamped in gilt in anther compartment, light brown endpapers, all page edges speckled in red, thick sm 4to. A turn-of-the-last-century account of the plant sciences with great illustrations. No ownership marks and few signs of use. Light rubbing to the outer joints and to the outer corners; the text is bright and clean; a tight copy in near fine condition..

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Book number: 7919

Catalogue: Botany and Floras

Lawrence, George H.M. et al.

B-P-H Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum

Pittsburgh: Hunt Botanical Library, 1968 Pp. 1063. Publisher's forest green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, original brown paper dust jacket, lg 4to. Original prospectus from publisher is laid in at front. This work presents a compendium of some 12,000 titles comprising the world's periodical literature important to the plant sciences. No ownership marks, a fine (as new) copy..

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Book number: 2649

Catalogue: Botany and Floras

Keywords: Botany plants plant science reference work