11. Eucalyptus – Turnbull, J.W. / Eldridge, K.G./Orme, R.K./ Walduck, T.G. / Potts, B.M. / Griffin, A.R. / Paton, D.M. / Harwood, C.E. / Destremau, D.X. and many others.

Colloque International sur les Eucalyptus Résistants au froid [International Conference on Eucalyptus Resistance to cold / frost]. [Includes for example: The natural environment of eucalyptus as the basis for selecting frost resistant species, Natural variation in Eucalyptus gunnii Hook F., Eucalyptus from Tasmania’s cold country, Physiology of frost resistance in eucalyptus etc. etc. etc. 26-30 septembre 1983 Bordeaux-France.

Nangis, 1983. 8°. 652 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition.

12. Goodman More, Alexander / Colgan, Nathaniel / Scully, Reginald W.

Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica, being Outlines of the Geographical Distribution of Plants in Ireland [Including: “A List of the Principal Books, Papers, MSS. and Herbaria relating to the Flora of Ireland].

Second Edition – Founded on the Papers of the Late Alexander Goodman More. Dublin, Edward Ponsonby, 1898. Large Octavo (16 cm x 22,5 cm). Frontispiece-Map (folded), XCVI, 538 pages. Original Hardcover / Original publisher’s green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Unusual in this condition ! The second edition is the definitive, enlarged and revised version of this book.

13. [The Ebenezer Sibly Edition] – Culpeper, Nicholas / Ebenezer Sibly (Astrologer and Writer of the Occult).

Culpeper’s English Physician And Complete Herbal. To which are now first added, upwards of One Hundred additional Herbs, with a display of their Medicinal and Occult Properties, physically applied to the Cure of all Disorders incident to Mankind. To which are annexed Rules for compounding Medicine according to the true System of Nature; Forming a complete Family Dispensatory and Natural System of Physic. Beautified and enriched with Engravings of upwards of Four Hundred and Fifty different Plants and a set of Anatomical Figures. Illustrated with Notes and Observations, critical and Explanatory. By E[benezer] Sibly, Fellow of the Harmonic Philosophical Society at Paris; and Author of the Complete Illustration of Astrology. [With the Famous Quote of Dryden on the Titlepage: “Happy The Man, Who, Studying Nature’s Laws, Through Known Effects Can Trace The Secret Cause”.] [Volume I: Containing the Herbal / Volume II: Containing the Medical (as well as the Occult and Astrological Part].

Two Volumes in One (complete set). London, Printed for the Author, And Sold at The British Directory Office, Ave Maria Lane; and By Champante and Witrow, Jewry-Street, Aldgate, [Printed in the Anno Lucis [Year of Light], The Masonic Year 5793 [which is the year 1793 in the Gregorian Calendar]. Quarto. Pagination: Volume I (Herbal): Frontispiece – Portrait of Nicholas Culpeper with Astrological Properties, XVI, 396 pages including an extensive “Index to the Herbs and Plants” / Volume II: (Medical, Occult and Astrological Part): Frontispiece [The two Rare Engravings of Celestial Influx of the Body of Man and Woman are both included], 256 pages with an explanatory Index to the Medical Part, basically being an Index of Diseases cured by the Foregoing Herbs and Plants. Hardcover / original 18th century leather with restored spine by a Masterbinder in the style of the 18th century. This is the most firm and strong version of a Culpeper we ever handled ! With the scarce portrait of Culpeper ! This is the very rare occasion of a complete Culpeper with the Astrological Plates of Celestial Impact on the body of men and women separately illustrated. A stunning publication with all the secret knowledge of plant properties of the 18th century laid out in front of you.

14. Bronn, Heinrich Georg.

De Formis Plantarum Leguminosarum – Primitivis et Derivatis. [Originale, gedruckte Dissertation des spaeteren Darwin – uebersetzers].

Heidelberg, Carl Groos, 1822 Octavo. 140 Seiten. Hardcover / Originaler Pappband des 19.Jahrhunderts. Rueckenschildchen etwas beschaedigt. 1 Lage lose. Sonst sehr guter Zustand mit der oft fehlenden Falttafel. / Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. 1 layer of pages cleanly detached. Otherwise excellent and including the often missing, multiple folding plate.

15. (Fritzsche, J. G.).

Der Gesellschafter für die Jugend auf ländlichen Spaziergängen. Mit 24 hand-kolorierten, gestochenen Tafeln.

Band 2. Dresden, Gerlach, 1802. Octavo (12 cm x 13,5 cm). 106 Seiten. Enthält 74 Abbildungen in Deutschland gängiger Nutzpflanzen in schönem zeitgenössischem Kolorit, je mit beschreibendem Text und Erklärungen zum Nutzen und der Anwendung. Hardcover / Originaler Pappband der Zeit. Sehr guter Zustand. Bd. 2 der seltenen Reihe, die von 1801-1810 erschien.

16. First International Polar Year (1882-1883) – Wohlgemuth, Emil von.

Die österreichische Polarstation Jan Mayen – Ausgerüstet durch seine Excellenz Graf Hanns Wilczek. Geleitet von K.K. Corvetten-Capitän Emil Edlen von Wohlgemuth. Beobachtungs-Ergebnisse Herausgegeben von der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. [Inklusive Ephemera] Band I – III (Komplett in vier Bänden mit dem eingebundenen Vorbericht zur Publikation welcher manchmal auch separat gebunden wurde: I. Band / II.Band 1. und 2. Abtheilung / III.Band).

Erste und einzige Ausgabe. Wien, K. und K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei in Commission bei Karl Gerold’s Sohn, 1886. Quarto (24.5 cm x 31.5 cm). Collation: Band I: 118 Seiten mit vier Falttafeln (Beobachtungsstation im Wilczeck-Thale / Sternwarte / Helligkeitsgrad der Polarnacht / Kreuzung / [Route] des S.M.Dampfer “Pola” laengs der Eiskante bei der Insel Jan Mayen (farbig) / ), 26, 50, 202, 76, 16,18 Seiten / Band II,1: 232 Seiten / Band II,2: 175 Seiten / Band III: X, 132, 24, 20 Seiten [The set includes 85 text-illustrations, 61 plates (some folded) and four maps (original lithographs of which one is in colour)]. Original publisher’s Hardcover-Boards, now in protective collector’s Mylar. [Inclusive grossformatiger Werbung zu den Druckschriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien vom Jahre 1885] The boards of the thicker Volume One, as often, cleanly detached. All other Volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor signs of foxing only. Unopened, unread version of this rare publication !

17. Irish Society of Botanical Arts.

EireAnnach [Éireannach] – Celebrating Native Plants of Ireland. Botanical Art Worldwide 2018.

Dublin, ISBA, 2018. Quarto (21 cm wide x 29.5 cm high). 136 pages with numerous illustrations throughout. Illustrated Softcover. Unusually excellent. close to new condition with only minor signs of wear.

18. Davy, Sir Humphry / John Duke of Bedford / [Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot / Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel].

Elements of Agricultural Chemistry – In a Course of Lectures delivered before the Board of Agriculture [With an Appendix: “An Account of the Results of Experiments on the Produce and nutritive Qualities of different Grasses and other Plants, used as the Food of Animals” – Instituted by John Duke of Bedford].

The Fourth Edition. Londo, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827. Large Octavo. X, (1), 403 pages with 10 fold-out plates, showing experiments in Botany and Agricultural Chemistry like Thomas Andrew Knight’s Water Wheel, which applied Gravity to Seedlings. Hardcover / The original book-block was recently bound in a stunning new half – leather with marbled-paper-covered boards, bound to style of an early 19th-century binding with a new spine-label. Excellent condition.

19. Jill Duchess of Hamilton / Hart, Penny / Simmons, John / Berwick, Don (photography).

English Plants for your Garden.

London, Frances Linkcoln Limited, 2000. 23 cm x 28 cm. 176 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

20. (Garcia, F.González).

Estudio Agrobiologico de la provincia de Sevilla. I: Memoria.

Sevilla, Instituto Nacional de edafología y agrobiologia del C.S.I.C / Centro de Edafologia y Biologia Aplicada del Cuardto, 1962. 8°. XI+173 págs. + numerosas láminas + 2 grandes mapas plegados. Original Hardcover Slipcase with softcover publicationa nd including two folded maps.( I: Mapa de Vegetacion – II: Mapa de Suelos) Very good condition. [Publicaciones de la DIPUTACION PROVINCIAL DE SEVILLA]