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ROBERTS, Thomas S.
The Birds Of Minnesota.
Minneapolis: The University Of Minnesota Press, 1936..
2 Vols. 4tos. pp. xxvi, [1], 718, [1]; xvii, [1 leaf], 850, [1]. 92 colour plates (incl. frontis. for each volume) & 606 text illus. cloth (one corner frayed, previous owner's signature, back hinge of vol. 1 partly cracked). Second Edition, Revised.
$359 USD Book Number: NBEeROBE41 Order / Enquire
ROBINSON, W[illiam] [1838-1935].
The English Flower Garden Style, Position, And Arrangement; Followed By A Description Of All The Best Plants For It; Their Culture And Arrangement. Forming Vol. I. Of The 'Garden Cyclopaedia'.
London: John Murray, 1889..
8vo. pp. x, 832. text in double columns. numerous text illus. original gilt-stamped cloth (spine discoloured, extremities frayed, inner front hinge cracked, endpapers & outer leaves foxed). long note in ink on front flyleaf. Second Revised Edition.
$262 USD Book Number: NBIeROBI24 Order / Enquire
ROGERS Julia Ellen [b. 1866].
The Shell Book. A Popular Guide To A Knowledge Of The Families Of Living Mollusks, And An Aid To The Identification Of Shells Native And Foreign.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920..
large 8vo. pp. xxi, 485, [1]. 8 colour plates (incl. frontis.). 48 double-sided black & white plates mostly from photos by A.R.Dugmore. 1 text diagram. original cloth (extremities trifle frayed, cellotape repair to tear in upper margin of pp. 135-36 touching letters in 3 lines of text on p. 136, pp. 183-86 heavily trimmed & with long horizontal tears touching several letters).
$109 USD Book Number: elala2937 Order / Enquire
ROGET, Peter Mark [1769-1856].
Animal And Vegetable Physiology Considered With Reference To Natural Theology.
London: William Pickering, 1834..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xxxvii, 593, [1]; vii, 661, [1]. complete with half-titles. text illus. anchor device on titles. modern bds. First Edition.
$173 USD Book Number: NGEimROG8 Order / Enquire
ROQUES, Joseph.
Histoire Des Champignons Comestibles Et Vénéneux.
Paris: Hocquart Aîné, Gosselin, Treuttel Et Wirtz, 1832..
2 Volumes (1 containing the plates). 4to. pp. 2 p.l., 192. with half-title. 24 engraved plates, printed in colour & finished by hand. with tissue guards. contemporary quarter roan (rubbed, lower front joints starting, considerable foxing in the text volume, the plates with only some minor spotting and one lightly embrowned). First Edition. Roques discusses the various species of mushrooms, their distinctive characteristics and nutritional properties, ways of distinguishing poisonous mushrooms and remedies for poisoning, culinary preparation, &c. He intended his book to be of use to doctors, naturalists, rural property owners as well as mushroom enthusiasts. Nissen, BBI, 1672. Vicaire 749.
$3497 USD Book Number: elala258 Order / Enquire
SAUMAISE, Claude De [1588-1653].
Plinianae Exercitationes In Caii Julii Solini Polyhistora.
Utrecht: Ernest Voskuyl, 1688-89..
3 Parts in 1. folio. pp. 25 p.l., 63, [1]blank, 625; 1 p.l., [626]-943, [1]blank, 16, 157, [1]errata; 5 p.l., 27, 259, [1]blank, 20. with half-title. 2 of 3 titles printed in red & black, all with large engraved vignette. several large woodcuts in the text (most of plants). 1 engraved headpiece. woodcut ornaments & initials. text in double columns. contemporary blind-stamped pigskin (binding slightly soiled & with few tiny wormholes). Second and Best Edition, with an added third volume, of one of the most celebrated critical commentaries on an ancient text ever written. This massive commentary is devoted to an elucidation of the portions of Pliny's Natural History contained in Solinus' third-century geographical compendium and description of the social, religious, historical, and scientific aspects of the ancient world, the Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium, later revised under the title Polyhistor. It is commonly regarded as the magnum opus of French classical scholar Claude de Saumaise (Salmasius), who succeeded Scaliger as honorary professor at Leyden in 1631. Saumaise was the first to reveal Solinus' extensive debt to Pliny and his Exercitationes, originally published in two volumes at Paris in 1629, won the highest admiration of contemporary scholars. It is still considered to be an indispensable study and a monument of erudition and learning. In the present edition a whole new third part, totaling over three hundred pages, was added from unpublished manuscripts found after Saumaise's death. This third volume, entitled Exercitationes de Homonymis Hyles Iatricae, deals with the botanical nomenclature of medicinal plants, with an appended essay on the identification and etymology of manna and saccarum. Brunet V 92-93 ("Ouvrage estimé."). Clark VI 38. Pritzel 8045. cfSarton I 341.
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SAVILE, D.B.O.
Collection And Care Of Botanical Specimens [Cat. No. A53-1113].
[Ottawa]: Research Branch, Canada Department Of Agriculture, 1962..
12mo. pp. xii, 124. index. cloth.
$31 USD Book Number: NVIllSAV77 Order / Enquire
SEELEY, H[arry] G[ovier].
The Fresh-Water Fish Of Europe, A History of their Genera, Species, Structure, Habits, and Distribution.
London.: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886..
8vo. pp. x, 444 + [16]ads. with half-title. frontis. over 200 text illus. index. original black & gilt-stamped cloth (spine discoloured, headpiece damaged, spotting to rear cover). First Edition. Casey Wood p. 561. Freeman 3347.
$175 USD Book Number: elala2867 Order / Enquire
SIMMS, Eric.
Bird Migrants Some Aspects and Observations.photographs by Eric Hosking.
London: Cleaver-Hume Press Ltd., [c. 1952]..
8vo. pp. 212. 22 illus. on 8 double-sided plates. biblio. index. cloth (previous owner's signature). dw. (chipped & bit rubbed).
$41 USD Book Number: NMMrdSIM86 Order / Enquire
SMELLIE, William [1740-1795].
The Philosophy Of Natural History.
Dublin: Printed by William Porter, For Chamberlaine And Rice, W.Wilson, P.Wogan, L.White., 1790..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xiv, 317 [i.e. 417]; vii, 469. contemporary tree calf, rebacked preserving endleaves. engraved bookplate of William Blacker, of Carrick. First Dublin Edition, comprising the contents of Volume I only (the second volume of the Edinburgh first edition was posthumously published in 1799). The Edinburgh printer, naturalist and antiquary printed the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1771, in addition to contributing fifteen major articles and preparing the work for the press. In 1778 he became secretary of the Newtonian Club, and in 1793 of the Scottish Antiquaries' Society, of which he was an original member and keeper of their natural history museum. He is also noted for having translated and edited Buffon's Natural History, 1781. Smellie in the present work pioneered a psychological behavioural approach to zoology, discussing inter alia puberty and love, the hostilities and society of animals, and the principle of imitation in animals. Freeman 3437. cfCasey Wood p. 570.
$599 USD Book Number: elala2667 Order / Enquire
SMITH, Helen V.
Michigan Wildflowers [Bulletin 42 of the Cranbrook Institute of Science].
[Bloomfield Hills, MI]: Cranbrook Institute of Science, 1966..
8vo. pp. xii, 468. 483 species described. colour frontis., 8 double-sided colour plates, & 231 full-page b/w illus. biblio. index. cloth. dw. (slightly chipped). For this book, Smith was awarded the Minnie Robinson Medal of the Michigan Horticultural Society. Revised Edition.
$61 USD Book Number: NITchSMI88 Order / Enquire
SOCIÉTÉ NATIONAL D'HORTICULTURE DE FRANCE. SECTION DES ROSES.
Les Plus Belles Roses Au Début Du XXe Siècle. Ouvrage honoré du prix Joubert De L'Hiberderie.
Paris: Charles Amat, [c1912].
vo. pp. x, [1 leaf], 235, [1]. 1 plate of portraits of members of the Rose Section of the French National Society of Horticulture, with tissue guard printed with the names of the members, 9 other black & white plates, 2 plates in sepia, & 16 beautiful chromolithographs of different varieties of roses J.L.Goffart after drawings by P.Seguin-Bertault & others, all with tissue guards. numerous text illus. (some full-page incl. 2 plans, & 1 double-page plan). A very nice uncut copy in original colour illus. wrs. (light soiling & foxing to wrs., spine faded, some light offsetting from some plates, a few tissue guards torn). First Edition. Werger & Burton 1123.
| $1456 USD | Book Number: NCIsSOCI54 | Order / Enquire |
SOUTHWELL, Thomas [1831-1909].
The Seals And Whales Of The British Seas.
London: Jarrold And Sons, 1881..
square 8vo. pp. vi, [1 leaf], 128, [2]ads. 12 wood-engraved plates & 17 text illus. original gilt-stamped cloth, rebacked with portion of spine mounted. First Edition. Freeman 3488.
$225 USD Book Number: elala2975 Order / Enquire
SOWERBY, George Brettingham [1812-1884].
Popular British Conchology.
London: Lovell Reeve, 1854..
16mo. pp. 2 p.l., xii, 304. 20 hand-coloured lithographed plates. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth, rebacked with spine mounted. First Edition. Freeman 3494.
$350 USD Book Number: elala2976 Order / Enquire
SOWERBY, John E[dward] [1825-1870] (Illus.) & Charles JOHNSON [1791-1880] (Text).
The Ferns Of Great Britain: Illustrated By John E.Sowerby, Proprietor Of Sowerby's English Botany. The Descriptions, Synonyms, &c. By., Botanical Lecturer At Guy's Hospital. [WITH:] The Fern Allies: A Supplement.
London; John E.Sowerby, 1855-56..
2 Volumes in 1. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 87, [1]; 1 p.l., 52. 80 partly hand-coloured engraved plates. contemporary half calf (worn but solid, endleaves foxed). Freeman 1284 & 1286. Nissen 994-95. Pritzel 8793-94 [vide SOWERBY].
$1048 USD Book Number: NChe& Ch49 Order / Enquire
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