A Book of White Flowers - Twenty four paintings de Lloyd, Christopher (foreword), Cameron, Elizabeth (artist) - 1980

Tokyo: Shokubutso Bunken, Kankokwa, 1934. Two volumes, pp (120, 1200, (58), very clean internally, original tan half calf, faded and a little rubbed. RARE. From the library of the Kew botanist C.E. Hubbard, with his signature in both books. Several relevant offprints inserted, and an original photograph of a pressed bamboo specimen. [The second ever facsimile printing. It is printed on slightly tanned paper and has a good "feel" to it, similar to an earlier book.]. Half-Leather. Very Good.

New York: Hastings House, 1974. Illustrated, octavo, pp 334, a tiny mark on the fore-edge otherwise as new internally, red cloth showing the slightest signs of use, the dustwrapper is lightly price-clipped and slightly rubbed. Overall a remarkably good copy of a surprisingly rare book.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly rubbed.

Manchester: R. & W. Dean, 1799. First edition. Two parts in one volume, octavo, pp viii, 1-227, (i), second title page, 229-449, (i), slight age-toning and the very odd fox-mark, but really very clean internally, contemporary tree calf, slightly worn at the corners, re-backed with a new calf spine, the original label preserved. A rare work, and especially so with its second title page preserved; this was frequently discarded because of the continuous pagination. [Soulsby - add. 772. Blanche Henry 861 - "Hull took up botany as a relaxation from medical duties". She also comments that of the other edition, the second of 1808, only the first part exists.]. [John Hull, M.D., was born at Poulton in Lancashire in 1764, and received his medical education at Leyden, where he graduated doctor of medicine 18th May, 1792. He settled at Manchester, and devoted himself especially to the practice of midwifery, and held the appointment of physician to the Lying-in Hospital there. He was admitted an… Leer más

London: John Murray, 1874. First edition. Illustrated, small folding map ay the rear, small thick octavo, pp xvi, 403, slightly weak internally, a contemporary owner's signature and date on the preface page, with a Victorian W.H. Smith Lending Library label on the front endpaper and their tiny embossed stamp opposite, original blue blind-stamped cloth, rubbed and a bit marked, the lower cover more scuffed, head and tail of the spine worn. [Dedicated to Henry Walter Bates, and much admired by Charles Darwin. The author was an English geologist and naturalist, born at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1832, and educated in that city. He is remembered for his work on the geology of gold bearing minerals, glacial geology, and for his description of the mutualistic relationship between certain bullthorn Acacia species and their Pseudomyrmex ants. As a youth Belt became actively interested in natural history through the Tyneside Naturalists Field Club. In 1852 he went to Australia and for about eight years worked… Leer más

Henrietta Street, Covent Garden: Lovell, Reeve [1980 - 1891]. Illustrated with 1 plain and 23 hand-coloured plates, octavo, pp xviii, 442, the frontispiece a bit loose, a neat owner's signature and a bookseller's stamp on the front endpapers, otherwise a very bright copy in green publishers' cloth. TOGETHER WITH Supplement, 1891. Octavo, pp xii, 386 + 18 page publisher's catalogue, pages slightly age-toned, the half-title foxed, an owner's very small pencil notes, original brown cloth, very slightly worn. . First Edition. Cloth. Good.

Tokyo: Shokubutso Bunken, Kankokwa, 1934. Two volumes, pp (120, 1200, (58), very clean internally, original tan half calf, faded and a little rubbed. RARE. From the library of the Kew botanist C.E. Hubbard, with his signature in both books. Several relevant offprints inserted, and an original photograph of a pressed bamboo specimen. [The second ever facsimile printing. It is printed on slightly tanned paper and has a good "feel" to it, similar to an earlier book.]. Half-Leather. Very Good.

New York: Hastings House, 1974. Illustrated, octavo, pp 334, a tiny mark on the fore-edge otherwise as new internally, red cloth showing the slightest signs of use, the dustwrapper is lightly price-clipped and slightly rubbed. Overall a remarkably good copy of a surprisingly rare book.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly rubbed.

Manchester: R. & W. Dean, 1799. First edition. Two parts in one volume, octavo, pp viii, 1-227, (i), second title page, 229-449, (i), slight age-toning and the very odd fox-mark, but really very clean internally, contemporary tree calf, slightly worn at the corners, re-backed with a new calf spine, the original label preserved. A rare work, and especially so with its second title page preserved; this was frequently discarded because of the continuous pagination. [Soulsby - add. 772. Blanche Henry 861 - "Hull took up botany as a relaxation from medical duties". She also comments that of the other edition, the second of 1808, only the first part exists.]. [John Hull, M.D., was born at Poulton in Lancashire in 1764, and received his medical education at Leyden, where he graduated doctor of medicine 18th May, 1792. He settled at Manchester, and devoted himself especially to the practice of midwifery, and held the appointment of physician to the Lying-in Hospital there. He was admitted an… Leer más

London: John Murray, 1874. First edition. Illustrated, small folding map ay the rear, small thick octavo, pp xvi, 403, slightly weak internally, a contemporary owner's signature and date on the preface page, with a Victorian W.H. Smith Lending Library label on the front endpaper and their tiny embossed stamp opposite, original blue blind-stamped cloth, rubbed and a bit marked, the lower cover more scuffed, head and tail of the spine worn. [Dedicated to Henry Walter Bates, and much admired by Charles Darwin. The author was an English geologist and naturalist, born at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1832, and educated in that city. He is remembered for his work on the geology of gold bearing minerals, glacial geology, and for his description of the mutualistic relationship between certain bullthorn Acacia species and their Pseudomyrmex ants. As a youth Belt became actively interested in natural history through the Tyneside Naturalists Field Club. In 1852 he went to Australia and for about eight years worked… Leer más

Henrietta Street, Covent Garden: Lovell, Reeve [1980 - 1891]. Illustrated with 1 plain and 23 hand-coloured plates, octavo, pp xviii, 442, the frontispiece a bit loose, a neat owner's signature and a bookseller's stamp on the front endpapers, otherwise a very bright copy in green publishers' cloth. TOGETHER WITH Supplement, 1891. Octavo, pp xii, 386 + 18 page publisher's catalogue, pages slightly age-toned, the half-title foxed, an owner's very small pencil notes, original brown cloth, very slightly worn. . First Edition. Cloth. Good.