History Of Science from Mike Park Ltd

Princes Street, Corner of Gerard Street, Soho: J. Callow, 1819. First edition. Illustrated with 12 engraved plates (several of them folding), octavo, pp xxiv, 579, (i), slight age-toning to the front endpaper, the half-title and the frontispiece, otherwise very clean internally, neatly bound in a recent brown half-leather and cloth. With the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates on the… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Pavilion Books Ltd, 1997. Well illustrated, square octavo, pp 104, green cloth in good condition, a very good copy in a dustwrapper with very slight fading.From the library of the botanical artist Wendy Page, with her blinstamp on the front endpaper. ["This volume reproduces the flower paintings of 17th-century botanical artist Johann Walther of Strassburg. They were commissioned… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Walter J. Johnson Inc., 1975. Facsimile reprint, thick square octavo, a few woodcut illus, pp [20], 408, [Black Letter print], a very good hardback copy. [Conrad Gesner (1516 - 1565) was a Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist. He is regarded as the father of modern scientific bibliography, zoology and botany. He was frequently the first to… Ler mais sobre este item

Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1982. 1982 - 1986., A few illustrations, large slender octavo, paperback, very good copies. Includes two copies of the last number. [One issue is completely devoted to Stieber's "Register of Plant Collectors' Field Notes Held in North American institutions. Also included are Woodger's biography of Wilson Popenoe with an inventory of his papers;… Ler mais sobre este item

Gregg Press, 1965. Portrait frontispiece, small slim octavo, pp 80, paperback, a very faint tiny dimple on the upper cover and first few pages, otherwise a very good copy, paperback in plain unlettered covers. SCARCE. [This is a seperate offprint from the rare five-volume Gregg Press reprint of the collected works. This little publication includes an account of Haworth's… Ler mais sobre este item

Winchester: Warren & Son Ltd, 1941. Illustrated, octavo, pp xviii, 142, edges untrimmed, a folding genealogical chart, very clean internally, cloth very slightly worn, but really a very good copy.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

The Kew Guild, 1993. Illustrated, octavo, pp viii, 188, a very good copy in a dustwrapper with the very slightest signs of use. [Signed by both authors on the title page.] . Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

Dublin: John Exshaw, 1778. Illustrated with three folding engraved maps and ten engraved plates (some folding), octavo, pp xvi, 118; 128; 132; 95; [13], a few folded corners, a little used and age-toned internally with a few paper imperfections and marks, the front endpaper slightly marked and lacking a corner, contemporary calf sound but rather worn at the edges, lacking… Ler mais sobre este item

Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1959. Illustrated with 12 plates and a few line drawings, thick octavo, pp x, 475, the top edge slightly foxed, the fore-edge faintly foxed, otherwise very clean internally, green cloth very slightly worn, the spine slightly faded and marked. [With the signature of Alan Roger, of Dundonnell House, Garden and Estate.]. First Edition. Cloth.… Ler mais sobre este item

London: The Royal Horticultural Society, 1956. Large octavo, pp vi, 282, endpapers and title page foxed, otherwise good internally, in blue cloth, a little faded, the lower corners slightly bruised. SCARCE. . First Edition. Cloth. Good.

1925. Illustrated with black and white plates and with three fine colour plates from watercolours by Norman Howard, [all the illustrations are high quality and tipped-in], large horizontal octavo, pp 30 + plates, the edges a little foxed, and large but faint foxing on several pages [not unsightly], paperback, yapp edges, in very good condition. In its original plain… Ler mais sobre este item

Tucson: The Arizona Historical Society, 1973. Illustrated, large octavo, pp (4), 74, slightly used internally, paperback, the covers a bit age-toned and curled. [An inscription on the front endpaper state that this was the "counter copy" of the Arizona Historical Society, and sold to Gren Lucas in 1984.). First Edition. Paperback. Fair.

Dublin: Published by the author, 1994. Well illustrated, octavo, pp viii, 181, paperback, the slightest signs of use, but really a very good copy. Signed by author on title page, and inscribed to the botanist and conservationist Gren Lucas - "for Gren at the Linnean Society, 15th October 1998". A numbered limited edition of only 500 copies, this… Ler mais sobre este item

Dublin: Published by the author, 1994. Well illustrated, octavo, pp viii, 181, quarter cloth and marbled boards, a really fine copy. Signed by author on title page. A limited edition of only 500 copies, this being A of lettered copies, and presumably limited to just a handfull thus. [Irish physician, botanist and explorer. He was a member of the… Ler mais sobre este item

Ruggell/Lichtenstein: A.R. Gantner, 2004. Second edution. Illustrated with just seven plates, thick octavo, pp 759, very clean internally, yelow cloth in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. An excellent copy. . Second edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

London: William Heinemann, 2008. A few illustrations, octavo, pp xii, 356, very clean internally, black cloth in excellent condition, a very good copy in dustwrapper (with a small publisher's sticker "as read on BBC Radio 4"]. {"One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from… Ler mais sobre este item

Singapore: Landmark Books, 2013. Illustrated, small thick octavo, pp xvi, 431, very clean internally, paperback, the spine a little creased, otherwise virtually as new. ["John (Kay) Corner left home in 1960, aged 19. He would never see his father, E. J. H. Corner, again. Edred John Henry Corner was one of the most colourful and productive biologists and mycologists of… Ler mais sobre este item

Paternoster Row, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814. Second edition. Illustrated with 10 engraved folding plates slightly foxed, pp xiv, 479, [9], a signature and date on the title page, otherwise very clean internally, original leather covers, rubbed, re-backed with a new leather spine, new cream endpapers. [The final hundred pages comprise the Duke of Bedford's "Account of… Ler mais sobre este item

Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 1986. Illustrated with a mounted colour frontispiece, four plates and two folding maps, octavo, pp xlviii, 366, very clean internally, brown cloth, a very good copy. [Van Riebeeck Society, Second Series number 17.]. First Edition thus. Cloth. New.

Fleet Street, London: White, Cochrane & co., 1814. Two volumes, 1814 [1813]. Octavo, illustrated with 24 plain stipple-engraved plates, pp xxxvi, 751, (i),(vi), untrimmed, age-toned and with foxing heavy on some pages and plates but almost , or entirely, lacking on the larger parts of the volumes, one page more heavily browned from the insertion of a paper at… Ler mais sobre este item