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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: R. Hardwick, London, R. Hardwick, [1857] - 1861. 1861
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. HARDBACK half-calf with marbled boards marbled end-papers coloured plates 1 - 144 145mm x 235mm (5.75 x 9.25") spine faded and blotchy corners lightly bumped boards a little rubbed former owners names on front end-paper spotting in varying degrees otherwise a fine item. The text volume comprising title-…page pages: xxxii 1-192 including index is not present.

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Gebunden. Zustand: New. Über den AutorCharles Johnson, Jr., is an associate professor at Morgan State University and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.KlappentextrnrnThis book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as mark. Sowerby, John E (illustrator).

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, pr…eserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Sowerby, John E (illustrator).

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Verlag: Gurney and Jackson
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. By J. E. Sowerby & C. P. Johnson, published by Gurney and Jackson in 1894.Illustrated by John E. Sowerby, described by C. Pierpoint Johnson, plus a supplement of lately discovered flowering plants by John W. Salter and Ferns , Horsetails and Club-mosses by John E. Sowerby. In good used condition, bound…in green cloth withgold decoration and lettering. Marks to boards, scuffing and rubbing due to age and a small loss at base of spine. Gold edges to block. Ink ed owner s name on title page. Binding good and tight, but hinge starting at back. Damage to edge of title page.

Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: John Van Voorst
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. This work is intended as a reference guide to the amateur botanist, the field-botanist, the country resident, or the summer rambler. It offers information of a wide variety of wild flowers that can be found in the British countryside, offering a little sc…ientific information to accompany it. In fair condition. Some bumps and scuffs to edges. Pages tanned. Some foxing, particularly to the pages with illustrations.

Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: John E. Sowerby / Taylor And Francis, London 1856
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. [Ii], 52, [I]. Full Diced Morocco, Five Raised Bands, Gilt Lettering On Spine " Fern Allies" , Gilt Rules Next To Bands, Gilt Rules On Covers, Yellow Endpapers And Matching Marbling To Edges Of Page Block. 31 Hand-Colored Plates Inserted At Proper Places Facing The Description Of Each.… Text Block 9" 1/8" Tall. Wear, No Fraying, Gilt Bright, Hinges Tight, No Names Or Marks. Light Foxing In Small Areas Of Some Plates. .
Verlag: 1857 - 1858 1857
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p. I - XXIV, 1 - 30, 51 - 72, col. Plates 1 - 26, 28 - 46, 48 - 53, 55 - 56. Old leather, gilded, corners rubbed. Half of the plates are loose.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1861 2nd. edition complete with 32 hand coloured plates. Small snag to top of spine, and a few loose plates, else a very good copy . This edition has four more plates than the 1st.
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Pergamon Press, Oxford 1982. xii, 364 pp. Hardcover. Bookplate. Good condition.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Ca. 1862, complete with 25 colour plates. pps,324, Rebacked, with original spine relaid. new end papers, original gilt stamped binding a little faded, but a good copy.
Weitere BilderVerlag: London: Robert Hardwicke 1861
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First edition, royal 8vo, xxxii, 192pp., 144 coloured plates, orig. publishers green embossed cloth, inner hinges strengthened, upper joint and head and foot of spine frayed.
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Hard Cover. Undated. Large octavo, pp., [2, xxxii, 192]. With 144 hand-coloured plates as called for. Bottle green half morocco with gilt titles to spine and gilt fillets, and light green cloth-covered boards; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Spine lightly sunned and leather a little scuffed, Free endpapers and title page toned…; scattered foxing, mainly to prelims and endpapers. No annotation or inscriptions. A attractive copy. Comprehensive guide to the numerous species of British grass, "described with observations on their natural history and uses". Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Gurney and Jackson, London 1894
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Illustrated by John Sowerby with an introduction and a key to the Natural Orders, by C. Peirpoint Johnson. Re-issue: To which is added a supplement containing 180 figures of lately discovered flowering plants by John W. Salter and the ferns, Horsetails, and Club-Mosses by E. Sowerby. Clean green p…ublishers cloth decorated with gilt borders and titles All edges gilt. (xxiv) 180pp. Mainly illustrated with hand color plates with a few b/w engravings. Pictorial frontispiece. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Dark green endpaper. Botany, British Wild Flowers. Plants; Color Plates; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 186 pages. Illustrated by John A. Sowerby (illustrator).
Verlag: John E. Sowerby 1860
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Rebound in modern green cloth with green leather spine label and title in gilt, cover shows minimal wear. All edges gilt. Pages are lightly tanned and clean. With 80 hand-colored plates.

Verlag: Pub. Gurney & Jackson. 1902 1902
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Hardcover. pp.lii, 186 with hand-coloured frontis., with 89 hand-coloured plates illustrating 1,780 figures plus 2 b/w. plates. Small 4to. Hardback. AEG. Internal hinges reinforced. Small surface marking to plate no. 38 and to text opposite o/w. contents fine. Original gilt lettered and decorated boards with spine relaid, showin…g some rubbing to extremities o/w. fine. Includes ferns, horsetails and club mosses. First published in 1858, 'British Wild Flowers' proved to be a popular title and this edition is enlarged from the original with additional material in the supplement of flowering plants and the appendix of ferns and fern-allies.
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Tall 8vo (9¾ x 6¾ ins). Original gilt decorated bevelled-edges green cloth, all edges gilt (scuffed at corners - otherwise bright VG). Pp. lii + 186, all plates complete and unmarked (previous owner's neat 1904 gift inscription on verso of front endpaper).
Weitere BilderVerlag: London Robert Hardwicke
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Undated, but c. Mid-19th century. Large 8vo., bound in half dark green morocco gilt, raised bands with gilt lines and decoration to spine, line borders to boards and t.e.g., marbled endpapers; [xxxii] + 192pp, indexed, illustrated with 144 hand-coloured plates. No previous ownership inscriptions or annotation. Foxing to endpaper…s and occasionally lightly throughout, boards slightly scuffed at edges, outer corners a little bumped, fading and a few scuffs to spine. A Good+ copy overall. (Shelf 7) PLEASE NOTE: Heavy BOOK ( 1.2kg+) Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Robert Hardwick [1861], London 1861
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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated study on British grasses by Charles Johnson, with numerous hand coloured plates by John E. Sowerby. The first edition.Beautifully illustrated by John Edward Sowerby with one hundred and forty-four hand coloured plates. Collated complete.T…his work was written by Charles Johnson and provides a study on British grasses, accompanied with detailed illustrations by John Edward Sowerby, the British botanical artist and publisher.Undated, dated by copies held at the British Library.In the publisher's original cloth. Institutional library copy with the usual stamps. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with minimal rubbing and bumping to the extremities and a library location to the spine. Library stamp to the front free endpaper and a binder's label to the rear. Internally, firmly bound with occasional light spotting and a library stamp to the title page. Very Good. John E. Sowerby (illustrator). book.

Verlag: John Van Voorst 1863
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Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Reissue with Supplement. Bookplate of P.H Oswald. Top covering of spine starting to delaminate at edges. Sporadic foxing to frontispiece. An early attempt to illustrate, in colour, the entire British flora in a single volume. Weight: 1.0 Language: English Publisher's green cloth, gilt motif.
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Zustand: Good. iv, 87, (1); ii, 52, 49 + 31 hand col plates. . HB. Roy. 8vo, orig. green cloth, blind stamped rules and decorative corners to boards, gt design to front cover, rebacked and recased, preserving original spine, new endpapers. Occasional foxing to text, plates largely clean. Combined edition of 'Ferns of Great Brita…in' and 'Fern Allies of Great Britain', first published separately in 1855 and 1856 repectively. Spine title: 'Ferns and Fern Allies of Great Britain - Sowerby'. Illustrated with fine hand coloured lithographs by John E. Sowerby, The Descriptions, Synonyms, &c. by Charles Johnson.Freeman, 1984 + 1986.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Gurney & Jackson, London 1914
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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A beautifully illustrated botanical reference work, looking at the wild flowers of Britain, complete with ninety hand coloured plates. Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, eighty-nine hand-coloured plates, and two monochrome plates.Collated, complete.This work is intended as a reference guide… to the amaeatuer botanist, the field-botanist, the country resident, or the summer rambler. It offers information of a wide variety of wild flowers that can be found in the British countryside, offering a little scientific information to accompany it.Illustrated by John E. Sowerby Sowerby was a botanical illustrator who inherited a taste for botanical drawing from his grandfather, James Sowerby. He also illustrated 'Illustrated Catalogue of British Plants', 'An Illustrated Key to the Natural Orders of British WIld Flowers', 'The Ferns of Great Britain', and more.Written by C. Pierpoint Johnson. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A little light rubbing to the spine and extremities. A few small marks to the cloth. Spine is discoloured. Gift inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean with the occasional scattered spot. Very Good. John E. Sowerby; John W. Slater (illustrator). book.
Verlag: John E. Sowerby 1855
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: John E. Sowerby, 1855. With 49 hand-coloured plates illustrated by John Edward Sowerby (1825-1870). Text by Charles Johnson (1791-1870). Octavo (9 1/2" x 6", 240mm x 160mm). Bound in brown cloth with gilt and blind. Title gilt to the smooth spine. . Boards, extremities and spin…e rubbed. Light foxing. Pencil inscription of Jane Moos, 1856, to the front pastedown. The Sowerby family was comprised of generations of naturalists, illustrators, botanists and zoologists. John Sowerby collaborated with Charles Johnson on several projects.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Robert Hardwicke [1862], London 1862
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Cloth. Zustand: Good. Beautifully illustrated, extensive botanical work on British plants and their uses for food, medicine and more. In decorative green cloth binding. Rebacked with spine laid down.Featuring 25 beautiful colour plates, with plate 14 bound as the frontispiece. Collated, complete. Illustrated by prominent botanic…al artist, John Edward Sowerby.Resourceful and detailled exploration of various British vegetables and plants and their uses for food, medicine and more. From botanist and editor, Charles Pierpoint Johnson, best known for British Wildflowers (1876). In decorative green cloth binding. Rebacked with spine laid down. Externally, with slight rubbing to spine tips, minor loss of cloth and staining to both boards. Internally, binding to frontispiece delicate, otherwise firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, featuring light spotting, heavier to front and rear. Good. John E. Sowerby (illustrator). book.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Pub. Gurney & Jackson. 1914 1914
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Hardcover. pp.lii, 186 with hand-coloured frontis., with 89 hand-coloured plates illustrating 1,780 figures plus 2 b/w. plates. Small 4to. Hardback. AEG. Neat, period inscription. Contents exceptionally clean and in nr. fine condition. Original gilt lettered and decorated boards in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy. Inclu…des ferns, horsetails and club mosses. First published in 1858, 'British Wild Flowers' proved to be a popular title and this edition is enlarged from the original with additional material in the supplement of flowering plants and the appendix of ferns and fern-allies.
Weitere BilderVerlag: John Van Voorst, London 1861
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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A scarce copy of this guide to British poisonous plants, the second edition complete with thirty-two hand-coloured plates by John E Sowerby . The second edition of this work, scarce in all editions. A short and comprehensive guide to British poisonous plants described by Charles Johnson and C. Pierpoin…t Johnson, compiled due to the occurrence of accidental poisoning in the country during the nineteenth century.This edition contains four additional plates and descriptive text of the principal Fungi in Britain. Collated, complete with thirty-two full page plates, masterfully hand-coloured, by John E. Sowerby. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Previous ownership inscription in pencil to the front pastedown, dated 1973. Internally, firmly bound, the hinges starting to the first leaf of plate bound in to the rear. The pages are bright and clean with only the odd minor faint spotting to the odd leaf. Illustrated with thirty-two hand-coloured plates. Collated, complete. Very Good. John E Sowerby (illustrator). book.