1845 pub (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 240 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.56 inches. In Stock.

pp.xxvii, 67 with publisher's errata. Small 8vo. Hardback. Signature of Charles John Guthrie, a prominent Scottish lawyer and judge (dated 1870) to front pastedown. Minor marks to endpapers o/w.contents fine. Original cloth with blind decoration and gilt title to front in nr. fine condition. Very scarce. Edmondston compiled the first known list of Shetland plants at the age of 11. He discovered several rare plants growing on the serpentine rocks on Unst, including the endemic Shetland Mouse-ear Cerastium nigrescens, known as Edmondston's Chickweed on the island. In 1845, he produced his Flora of Shetland, which, despite a few shortcomings, was a considerable achievement given his age (20) and it is still an important reference for Shetland botany.

pp.[viii], 17-301 with portrait frontis., hand-col. vignette to half-title and 30 plates, (19 hand-col.) as published. Small 8vo. Hardback. Minor spotting to half-title & frontis., and a very minor amount elsewhere o/w. contents fine. Cords a little stretched in one section. Original decorated green cloth thor. vg. Contains a memoir of Francis Huber. 'The colour plates are particularly attractive.' (Harding 236).

pp.xxxiv, 306 with fold-out engraved frontis., one further fold-out engraved plate (of the apiary at Delabere Park, Berkshire) and 10 other engravings. 8vo. Hardback. Neat signature date 1855 and small blind stamp of J. Calt, Bookseller to the Queen [Victoria] to ffep. Just occasional minor spotting and marking o/w. contents fine. Original blind-decorated boards in thor. vg. condition. A very pleasing copy indeed. Harding 215. This work benefited greatly from revisions and enlargements. 'Nutt lived as a boy at Wisbech. A draper's assistant of no great schooling, he became interested in bees during a long convalescence. He asserts that he invented his collateral hive before ever reading a book on bees. He acquired many patrons and subscribers and made the hive and method very well known.' (Harding).

Two volume set with 124 hand-coloured lithograph plates. 4to. Hardback. AEG. With two bookplates to front pastedowns and ownership stamp of later owner to ffeps. Occ. quite minor spotting and minor marks to contents o/w. contents fine. Some tissue guards removed. Very charming early full morocco leather binding with very attractive gilt floral decoration to spines and boards. Author of the excellent book on the great butterfly collectors, 'The Aurelian Legacy', Michael Salmon believes Henry Noel Humphreys was equal in talent to one of the finest insect illustrators of the 19th Century, John Curtis. High praise indeed. Coupled with the prodigously talented John Obadiah Westwood, it is no wonder that this work is thought of so highly.