Natural History / Floras & Flowering Plants

[BOTANY - HORTICULTURE]. Bloemkundig woordenboek bevattende eene beschrijving van meer dan 2200 gewassen, (waaronder 170 van de mooiste heiden) zoo boomen, heesters als planten...
Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp & zoon, [1821]. 8vo. Contemporary red sprinkled paper wrappers, with a printed paper title-label on the spine. [2], L, 521, [1 blank] pp. Full description

BROWN, Robert. Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen exhibens characteres plantarum, quas annis 1802-1805 ... insertis passim aliis speciebus, auctori hucuque cognitis, seu evulgatis, seu ineditis, praesertim Banksianis, in primo itinere navarchi Cook detectis.
Nürnberg, Leonard Schrag, 1827.
With: (2) BROWN, Robert. Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae: exhibens Proteaceas novas quas in Australasia legerunt DD. Baxter, Caley, Cunningham, Fraser et Sieber; ...
London, Richard Taylor, 1830.
2 works in 1 volume. Large 8vo. 20th-century half brown morocco. xiv, 460; 40; [2] pp. Full description

CAMUS, Edmond Gustave and Aimée Antoinette CAMUS. Iconographie des orchidées d'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen.
Paris, Paul Lechevalier (colophon: printed by Jouve et Cie (part 1), Winter, Heidelberg (part 2)), 1821-1929. 2 text parts (4to, bound in one volume) and an atlas (folio). With a photographical frontispiece portrait in the text volume and 133 lithographed plates, including 120 coloured by hand. Contemporary brown half morocco. 559, [1]; 72 pp. Full description

CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de and Jean-Baptiste LAMARCK. Synopsis plantarum in flora Gallica descriptarum.
Paris, H. Aghasse, 1806. 8vo. 19-century half scheepskin parchment. XXIV, 432 pp. Full description

CARRIÉRE, Jan Ph. Herbarium van bloemen en planten. 1ste deel.
[Watergraafsmeer, ca. 1884]. 1 volume. Small folio (22.5×20.5 cm). With 30 drawings of flowers in watercolour and ink, each with a description in Dutch on a separate leaf. The whole preceded by a title-page, a table of contents (1 page), and an introduction (2 pages). Contemporary black cloth, rebacked, modern endpapers.
With: (2) CARRIÉRE, Jan Ph. Herbarium van naar de natuurgeteekende bladeren, "afdeeling boomgewassen". [Title volume 2:] Herbarium van boombladeren.
Watergraafsmeer, 1884. 3 volumes. Small folio (22.5×20.5 cm). With 90 drawings of tree leaves in watercolour and ink, with a description in Dutch on a separate leaf. The first two volumes each with a title-page, a table of contents (1 page) and an introduction (1 page), and the third volume without preliminaries. Contemporary blue (vols. 1-2) and black (vol. 3) half cloth. The third volume rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Full description

[CATALOGUE - BOTANY - TULIPS]. Catalogue d'une tres-belle collection de tulipes ...
Brussels, L. Jorez, [1818]. 8vo. Stitched through two holes. 26 pp. Full description

COSTANTIN, Julien Noël. Atlas en couleurs des orchidées cultivées.
Paris, E. Orlhac, [1911-1926]. Folio. With ca. 1000 coloured figures on 30 chromo-lithographed plates. Contemporary half cloth, publisher's front wrapper laid down on front board. 106, [2] pp. Full description

DAVIES, Hugh. Welsh botanology. A systematic catalogue of the native plants of the Isle of Anglesey, in Latin, English, and Welsh; with the habitats of the rarer species, and a few observations.
Including: An alphabetical catalogue of the Welsh names of vegetables rendered into Latin and English; with some account of the qualities, economical or medicinal, of the most remarkable.
London, for the author by W. Marchant, 1813. 2 works (the 1st in 2 parts) in 1 volume. 8vo. With 1 engraved plate, often lacking.
With: (2) PAGE, William Bridgewater. Pages prodromus; as a general nomenclature of all the plants, indigenous and exotic, cultivated in the Southampton Botanic Gardens: arranged, alphabetically ... trees, shrubs herbaceous ... an appendix, containing selected lists of annuals; all the choicest kinds of fruit ...
London, John Murray, 1818.
19th-century black half sheepskin with marbled sides, new endpapers. [2], XIV, [2], 152; XVI, 256; 8, [2], 270, [1 blank] pp. Full description

DELARUE, Claire. [Watercolour with flowers and fruits on vellum, signed].
[Paris, ca. 1840]. (43.5 x 35 cm). With peaches, raspberries and blue flax. Framed. Full description

DESFONTAINES, René Louiche. Flora Atlantica, sive Historia plantarum, quae in Atlante, agro Tunetano et Algeriensi crescunt.
Paris, L. G. Desgranges, Imprimerie Panckoucke, 1798-1799 (anno sexto). 3 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. With "261" [=263] numbered, full-page, engraved plates. Late 19th-century black morocco. [6], XX, 444; 458 pp. Full description