galpine john (11 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good Jacket. Previous owner's personal bookplate. hardcover in a jacket. There is no slipcase. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Limited edition of 750 copies, intro. and commentary by John Harvey, pp.55. A well produced facsimile of the earliest known catalogue of its kind, printed in Blandford, Dorset, in 1782. 8vo Size: 8vo.

Hardback. Zustand: Good Only. None (illustrator). The corrected and extended second edition of Galpine's impressive little volume on British botany for use in the field. The full title of this work is: A Synoptical Compend of British Botany, arranged after the Linnean System; And containing the essential characters of the genera, the specific characters, English Names, places of growth, soil and situation, colour of the flowers, times of flowering, duration, and references to figures. Originally by John Galpine. The Second Edition, with Corrections and considerable Additions, Including the Linnean orer of ferns, together with essential characters and types of the genera of all the orher orders of cryptogamia. Until the index, the pagination is numbered for a leaf, not a page. John Galpine, 1771 - 1806, was a English nurseryman. "He was elected an associate of the Linnean Society of London in 1798. On 1 January 1806 Galpine published A Synoptical Compend of British Botany, his translation of Compendium florae Britannicae (1800) by Sir James Edward Smith. It gave references to illustrations, mostly in English Botany (17901814, 36 vols.) by J. Sowerby and J. E. Smith, and was designed for taking on botanizing excursions, using its tabular check-list arrangement in the new, pocket-size, duodecimo format" -ODNB. In the original publisher's paper covered boards. Externally, generally smart. Edgewear to the extremities with some discolouration. A little loss to the head and tail of the spine. Light marking to the boards. Ink inscription to the front board. Joints are cracked. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and the odd spot. Good Only. book.

Octavo,55 pp.,quater morroco in slipcase.

Zustand: Very Good. London: Samuel Bagster, 1820. Second Edition, "With Corrections and considerable Additions, including the Linnean order of ferns, together with essential characters and types of the genera of all the other orders or cryptogamia." 12mo (16.5cm.); contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt; mixed paginations ([A]4 2A2 B-2R4 2S-2X2). Boards rather rubbed and joints cracked but holding, else Very Good, internally fresh and fine. Unstated English translation of Sir James Edward Smith's Compendium Florae Britannicae (1800). Contemporary ownership inscription of James Roe of Roesborough, a 19th-century estate in Tipperary, Ireland, today a ruin.

Second edition hard back binding in publisher's original quarter camel leather, blue marble paper sides and page edges, the spine divided into six panels with twin gilt lines across, gilt lettered in the second over burgundy morocco label. 12mo. 6½'' x 4½''. First published in 1806, includes the Preface to both editions. Contains (xii), b, 138 + [xx], 8 pp advertisements. Front paste down SIGNED by 'Charles Bowyer Adderley, Hams Hall, Warwickshire 12th January 1829' and the label of Hams Hall Library. Sun fading down the spine. Member of the P.B.F.A. divided BOTANY (Phytology).

12mo., Second Edition; strongly bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, expertly rebacked with original leather label laid down, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. First published in 1806. Includes the Preface to both editions, but the plate included in the first was not carried forward in subsequent issues. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Freeman 1295.