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106 WHELDON & WESLEY, Ltd., Lytton Lodge, Codicote, Hitchin, Herts.
1819 Kreig (M. B.) Green Medicine, the search for plants that heal, pp. 462, with 22 plates, 8vo, cloth, 1965
£2 ($5)
1820 Lonicer (A.) Kreuterbuch. Kunstliche Conterfeytung der Baume, Standen, Hecken, Kreuter Getreyde, Gewurze, ... item von furmepsten Gethiern der Erden, Vogen, Fischen und Gewurren etc., edited by P. Uffenbach, pp. [xvi], 750, [24] [1], with numerous woodcuts, roy, 8vo, half parchment (Ulm, 1679), facsimile reprint Munich, 1962
£7 10s (318)
An excellent facsimile. The woodcuts include animals as well as plants.
1821 Maplet (J.) A Greene Forest or a naturall historie, wherein may bee scene first the most sufferinge vertues in all the whole kindes of stones & metals: next of plants . . . lastly of brute beastes etc., reprinted from the edition of 1567, with an introduction by W. H. Davies, pp. ix, 184, [2], original boards, 8vo, cloth, London, Hakluyt Press, 1930
£4 10s (311)
Scarce. Edition limited to 500 copies.
1822 Northcote (R.) The Book of Herbs, pp. xi, 212, with 18 illustrations, 8vo, cloth, 1903
15s ($2)
Handbooks of Practical Gardening XII
1823 Oudeman (C. A. J. A.) Aanteekeningen, het systematisch en pharmacognostisch botanische gedeelte der Pharmacopoea Neerlandica, pp. xii, 111, xxvii, 661, 31, with 37 anatomical plates, 8vo, boards, Rotterdam, 1854-56
£7 10s (318)
1824 Pharmacopoeia Internationalis, published by the World Health Organisation, 2 vols., 8vo, cloth, Geneva, 1951
£4 10s (311)
Scarce. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, Supplement 2.
1825 Rohde (E. S.) A Garden of Herbs, pp. ix, 224, 8vo, cloth (1922)
£1 10s ($3.60)
1826 Tabernaemontanus (J. T.) Neu vollkommen Krauterbuch darin uber 3000 krauter mit schonen und kunstlichen figuren, etc., pp. [xiii], 1529, [96], with numerous woodcuts, sm. folio, parchment (Basel, 1731), facsimile reprint Munich, 1962
£17 10s ($42)
1827 Takatori (I.) Color Atlas of the Medicinal Plants of Japan, pp. xii, 80, with 80 coloured plates, 4to, cloth, Tokyo, 1966
£18 ($43.50)
Text in English and Japanese. The plates, from paintings by the author, are exceptionally fine. They illustrate 113 species.
1828 Thunberg (C. B.) Profitable herb growing and collecting, pp. xi, 180, with 13 text-figures, small 8vo, cloth, 1916
£1 ($2.40)
1829 Triana (J.) Nouvelles etudes sur les Quinquinas d'apres les materiaux presentes en 1867 a l'exposition universelle de Paris, pp. 80, with 33 plates of Chinchona, folio, original half cloth, Paris, 1870
£22 10s ($54)
Rare. The plates are numbered 2-31, 20 bis, 22 bis, 24 bis. Plate 1 was not published.
1830 Watt (J. M.) and Breyer-Brandwijk (M. G.) The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. Being an account of their medicinal and other uses, chemical composition, Pharmacological effects and toxicology in man and animal, 2nd edn., pp. xii, 1457, with 286 illustrations (many coloured), roy, 8vo, cloth, Edinburgh, 1962
£12 15s ($30.60)
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1831 "Adventure" and "Beagle". Narrative of the surveying voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle, between 1826-36, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe, by P. P. King, R. Fitz-Roy and C. Darwin, with 10 maps and 46 plates, 3 vols, and Appendix to Vol. 2, together 4 vols., roy, original cloth (nearly repaired) 1839
£120 ($288)
A complete copy of this rare and important work, 8 of the plates inserted loose in the covers in the original state. Published in 1839-43. First edition, 1839-43.
1832 Allman (G. J.) A monograph of the Gymnoblastic or Tubularian Hydroids, pp. xxiv, 450, with 23 coloured plates, folio, new buckram, 1871-72
£25 ($60)
Source. Published by the Ray Society in 2 parts.
1833 Belon (P.) L'Histoire de la nature des Osseaux, avec leurs descriptions, et naifs portraits, [xxviii], 381, [1], with a portrait of the author (on reverse of title) and 160 woodcuts of birds, folio, new buckram, original cloth, cat. Paris, 1555
£320 ($768)
A rare and important work and one of the earliest dealing entirely with Birds. Dr. Casey Wood notes "On pp. 40 and 41 are the portraits of the skeletons of man and bird to show the affinity between them. This is a very early attempt at comparative anatomy. It is also the first to attempt to identify the species of birds given by Aristotle and by Pliny with those current in France."
A hole in inner blank margin of title-page repaired. Some worming in last two leaves which appear to have been inserted from another copy. A piece torn from lower blank margin of pp. 99/100, otherwise a nice crisp copy.
