Hooker william j (17 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

hardcover. Zustand: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Synopsis Filicum | A synopsis of all known ferns, including the Osmundaceæ, Schizæsveæ, Marattiaceæ, and Ophioglossaceæ | William J. Hooker (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | 528 S. | Englisch | 2018 | hansebooks | EAN 9783337423216 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Hansebooks GmbH, Trakehner Weg 52, 22844 Norderstedt, gb[at]hansebooks[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.…

Decorative Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Three volumes only. Vol I - Containing Gleichenia-Dictyoxyphium.

Bound in Card Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The full set of 39 parts of the first and second supplement volumes (of the first edition of Sowerby's English Botany), all in original blue wrappers. The supplements have been bound into a two bespoke hardback boxes as seen. All are uncoloured apart from plate nos. 2593 to 2692 of which 12 hand-coloured. Each volume has over 100 finely engraved botanical plates. Two plates are folding and are partially finely hand coloured. All the original wrappers are near fine whist the wrapper of the very first issue is too small as issued. Contents clean and tight and unmarked with no foxing, inscriptions or significant marks. A near fine set of the first two supplements. See scans and email for more.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Specifically containing 'On the Existence of Two Forms, and on their reciprocal sexual relation, in several species of the genus Linum' by Charles Darwin. With many other papers by George Bentham, Arthur Church, J. D. Hooker, Gustav Mann, William Mitten, et al. Two volumes bound in one. Half leather binding with marbled boards and gilt title to spine. All edges yellow. Wear to exterior as shown with slight cracking to joints, general marks and scuffs, small loss to bottom of spine. Title with blind stamp of Wigan Free Public Library to bottom outer corner. Pages with a total of 19 plates, plus illustrations in the text. Mostly marginal age toning and the odd little mark here and there, otherwise pages are generally clean as shown. Size: 21cm by 13.5cm. Pages: Vol. VII - iv, [1], 254pp, 2 plates, Vol. VIII - iv, 279pp, 17 plates. …

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 4to. pp 52. Printed by Richardson and Hutchison in Glasgow and denoted on the title page 'unpublished.' Errata slip at table 15 ('Inflorescence.') Produced by Hooker as a teaching aid to show the plant to students ather than have to provide the real thing. Signed presentation from W J Hooker - 'To his young botanical friend Miss Bickersteth. The Author.' Miss Bickersteth is proabbly 'the Honourable Miss Bickersteth' mentioned in the Botanical Gazette of 1850 (Dec) in connection with the finding of a new species of fern.Wkisource notes 'In 1837 a thin quarto volume of Botanical Illustrations was produced, "being a series of above a thousand figures, selected from the best sources, designed to explain the terms employed in a course of Lectures on Botany." The plates were executed by Walter Fitch, who was originally a pattern-drawer in a calico-printing establishment, and entered the service of Sir William in 1834. This great botanical artist continued to assist Sir William till the death of the latter, and himself died at Kew in 1892. A number of copies of this early work of Fitch remain to the present day in the Botanical Department in Glasgow.' There are 26 plates/ tables (the copy at Cambridge University has 25 plates) each with multiple small b/w drawings of plants, seemingly less than a 1000 in total, more like 700. Soundly boiund in recent half green leather lettered gilt at the spine with marbled boards. Some slight foxing to title page and first few and last few plates. Attractive binding. Very good. Signedes.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-xxxv, 678 pp, portrait frontispiece of the author , later binder's cloth (early 20th century ?), all edges gilt, some light staining to the margins of the portrait but otherwise a very good clean copy , very scarce . Copies were issued with and without a map this copy lacks the map , it is possible that it was present at one time bound in after the frontispiece but is now not present .…

Hardcover. pp.xxxv, 678 with map. 8vo. Hardback. Contemporary binding of green full-calf leather, richly decorated on spine and boards - spine professionally relaid, all in near fine condition. All edges marbled with matching marbled end-papers. Contents beautifully clean and in fine condition. Association copy, with dedication of 'To the Rev. John Vernon, with the best wishes of the Author's Sister' neatly written on ffep. With the 'Botanico-Topographic' map which shows some wear at folds, still in vg. condition. Scarce, especially so with the map. This work was published in two formats, one with the map, the other without. …

First edition. 22 cm; xliii, 472 pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations (some folded), 2 folded maps, plan. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, tooled in blind, titled in gilt on leather label. Marbled edges. Tissue guards. Armorial bookplate of Lord Blantyre (probably Robert Walter Stuart, 1777-1830). Some wear to edges and to joints, with light to moderate foxing. References: Arctic Bib 15614; Sabin 78171. William Scoresby, a multi-talented individual, was a commercial whaler, a scientist, and ultimately a religious cleric. In his commercial whaling endeavors, he set the pace for the British exploration of polar regions. In the 1822 whaling expedition to Greenland and Baffin Bay, he mapped about 400 miles of uncharted Greenland coast. The account is intended as a scientific report, describing weather conditions, optical illusions caused by ice and raking light, and Inuit dwellings and burials. In appendix is a list of rock specimens by W.Jameson, an annotated list of 45 species of plants by Sir W.J.Hooker, a list of animals, a meteorological table and extracts from the journals of other whalers.…