1845. [PERIODICALS]. ANNALES DES SCIENCES NATURELLES: BOTANIQUE. Paris: G. Masson. "Comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification des vegetaux vivants et fossiles." 8vo, blue wrappers; ed. Decaisne. Some unopened edges; ex-library; monochrome plates. 1845: 3 ser, Tome 4 384 pp. + 15 plates 1846: 3 Ser, Tome 5 384 pp..... More
19. QUINBY, Jane, and Allan Stevenson, compilers. CATALOGUE OF BOTANICAL BOOKS IN THE COLLECTION OF RACHEL MCMASTERS MILLER HUNT. Volume I[-II]. (New York: Maurizio Martino), [n.d., circa 1990]. A reprint of the 1958 edition, limited to 400 copies. Two volumes. B&w illustrations. lxxxiv, 517 pp.; ccxliv, ix, 655 pp. 4to...... More
1782. QUINCY, John. PHARMACOPAEIA OFFICINALIS & EXTEMPORANEA: OR, A COMPLETE ENGLISH DISPENSATORY, IN TWO PARTS. THEORETIC AND PRACTICAL. London: T. Longman, 1782. Fifteenth Edition, much enlarged and corrected. x. 656p. [62p.] Octavo. Calf with leather spine label. Some wear at hinges and edges. Bookplate (Samuel A.D. Sheppard) at front pastedown..... More
1716. RADCLIFFE, John. PHARMACOPOEIA RADCLIFFEANA; or Dr. Radcliff's prescriptions, faithfully gather'd from his Original Recipe's. To which are annex'd, Useful Observations upon each Prescription. [By Edward Strother.] London: Printed for Charles Rivington ..., 1716. First edition. 12mo. xii, 166, [2] pp. The final leaf is a publisher's advertisement. Bookblock sound;..... More
1817. RICHARD, Louis-Claude. A BOTANICAL DICTIONARY, being a translation from the French ...; with additions from Martyn, Smith, Milne, Wildenow, Acharius, &c. New-Haven: Published by Hezekiah Howe; N. Whiting, Printer, 1817. First edition. 12mo., worn contemporary paper-covered boards. Ex library, but with only two old ink stamps within and a...... More
1913. ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH VOL XLVIII PART III 1912-1913. Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son/London: Williams and Norgate, 1913. pp. 521-798. 4to., tan wrappers printed in black. Spine chipped, not affecting text; light soil to wrappers. Unopened. Text fine, with b/w and color..... More
1914. ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, VOL. L PART I SESSION 1913-14. Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son and Williams & Norgate, London, 1914. Pp. 1-251 + plates. 4to., burgundy cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Spine sunned and edges of boards shelfworn, corners bumped..... More
1918. ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, VOL. LII PART I SESSION 1917-18. Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son and Williams & Norgate, London, 1918. Pp. 1-253 + plates. 4to., burgundy cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Spine shelfworn, 3/4 inch chip to "Transactions," 2 inch..... More
1902. ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, VOL. XL PART II FOR THE SESSION 1901-2. Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son and Williams & Norgate, London, 1902. Pp. 221-467 + plates. 4to., burgundy cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Ex-library with usual markings. Spine sunned and..... More
1913. ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, VOL. XLIX PART III SESSION 1912-13. Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son and Williams & Norgate, London, 1913. Pp. 531-828 + plates. 4to., burgundy cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Ex-library with usual markings. Spine and edges of boards..... More
1900. ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, VOL. XXXIX PART IV FOR THE SESSION 1898-99. Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son and Williams & Norgate, London, 1900. Pp. 865-998 + [8] + plates. 4to., burgundy cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Ex-library with usual markings. Spine..... More
1801. FIRST AMERICAN HERBAL IN CONTEMPORARY FULL CALF STEARNS, Samuel. THE AMERICAN HERBAL, OR MATERIA MEDICA. Wherein the virtues of the mineral, vegetable, and animal productions of North and South America are laid open, so far as they are known; and their uses in the practice of physic and surgery..... More
1831. STEPHENSON, John & James Morss CHURCHILL. MEDICAL BOTANY: OR, ILLUSTRATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE LONDON, EDINBURGH AND DUBLIN PHARMACOPOEIAS; COMPRISING A POPULAR AND SCIENTIFIC ACCOUNT OF ALL THOSE POISONOUS VEGETABLES THAT ARE INDIGENOUS TO GREAT BRITAIN. VOL. IV. London: John Churchill, 1831. Unpaginated; with indexes..... More
1831. STEPHENSON, John A., and John Morss CHURCHILL. MEDICAL BOTANY: OR, ILLUSTRATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MEDICAL PLANTS OF THE LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND DUBLIN PHARMACOPOEIAS; comprising a popular and scientific account of all those poisonous vegetables that are indigenous to Great Britain. Vol. I.[-IV.] London: John Churchill, 1831. Illustrated with..... More
1812. THORNTON, Robert John. BRITISH FLORA; OR, GENERA AND SPECIES OF BRITISH PLANTS: ARRANGED AFTER THE REFORMED SEXUAL SYSTEM; AND ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS TABLES, AND DISSECTIONS. London: J. Whiting, 1812. Five volumes bound in two. 8vo. 120pp., 138pp., 126pp., 100pp.,52pp.+ 347 leaves of b/w plates. Three-quarter dark brown leather over..... More
1891. [United States Department of Agriculture, Division of Botany]. VASEY, George. ILLUSTRATIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN GRASSES. Vol. I.(- II.) Published by authority of the Secretary of Agriculture. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891(-1893). Two quarto volumes: 1. Grasses of the Southwest: Plates and descriptions of the grasses of the desert region..... More
1811. WAKEFIELD, Priscilla. INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY, IN A SERIES OF FAMILIAR LETTERS, WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ENGRAVINGS. Boston: J. Belcher & J.W. Burditt, 1811. First American Edition from 5th London Edition. Full calf, stamped in gilt to red leather spine label. Ex-library with label to spine and stamps to front pastedown and..... More
1849. riocreux. WEDDELL, Hugh Algernon. HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES QUINQUINAS, ou Monographie du Genre Chinchona, suivie d'une Description du Genre Cascarella et de quelques autres Plantes de la meme Tribu. Ouvrage accompagnee de 21 Planches dessinees par Riocreux et de Steinheil. Paris: Victor Masson, 1849. First edition of Weddell's major work..... More
1811. WILLDENOW, D.C. [Actually Willdenow, Karl Ludwig]. THE PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY AND VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY. Translated from the German. A New [Second] Edition, Greatly Enlarged by the Author. Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1811. Octavo. [4] ff., iv, 544 pp. + 11 ff. plates, one hand-colored. Willdenow was the Director of the Berlin Botanical..... More
1878. WILLS, George S. V. A MANUAL OF VEGETABLE MATERIA MEDICA. London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1878. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. With a large folding, colored world map, and 25 leaves of colored, lithographic plates showing 158 illustrated specimens. Octavo. 114 pp. + 25 ff. plates + [36] pp..... More
1832. SOWERBY, James. WOODVILLE, William. MEDICAL BOTANY: Containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburg, and Dublin; together with the principal medicinal plants not included in those..... More
1839. WYATT, Thomas. A SYNOPSIS OF NATURAL HISTORY Embracing the Natural History of Animals, with Human and General Animal Physiology, Botany, Vegetable Physiology and Geology. Translated from the Latest French Edition of C. Lemmonnier, with Additions from the Works of Cuvier, Dumaril, Lacepede etc.; and Arranged as a Textbook for..... More