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40 - (Botany) – 6 volumes
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(Botany) – 6 volumes - REHDER (Alfred). The Bradley Bibliography. A guide to the literature on the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century. Compiled at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University... by... Cambridge, printed at the Riverside Press, 1911–1918 (Reprint, circa 1990). 5 substantial in-8 volumes, in the publisher’s grey cloth. This imposing catalogue, now impossible to find, which lists several tens of thousands of works, had never been reprinted. It is organised as follows: Volume I: Dendrology Part 1, XX pp, [1 f], 566 pp - Volume II: Dendrology, Part 2, VI pp, [1 f], 926 pp - Volume III: Arboriculture. Economic properties of woody plants. X pp, [1 f], 806 pp - Volume IV: Forestry. XIII pp, [1 f], 589 pp - Volume V: Index of authors and titles, subject index. XXXII, 1008 pp. - SCHROETER (A.I.) and V.A. PANASIUK. Dictionary of plant names: over 100,000 names of approximately 10,000 species and varieties of flowering plants and fern-like plants in Latin, Russian, English and Chinese. Edited by V. A. Bykov. Königstein (Germany), 1999. In-4, [8 ff], 1033 pp, publisher’s cloth. “Efforts to establish an inventory of the world’s flora to facilitate the conservation and use of plants are currently hindered by a lack of knowledge regarding the correct scientific (Latin) names and common names of plants”. - SOULSBY (Basil H.). A catalogue of the works of Linnaeus (and publications more immediately related thereto) preserved in the libraries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) and the British Museum (Natural History, South Kensington). Second edition. London, Trustees of the British Museum, 1933. Large quarto, XI, 246 pp, 68 pp (addenda and corrigenda), in the publisher’s green cloth. This catalogue, which lists and describes over 4,000 books and articles, highlights both the significance of the Swedish naturalist’s work and the extraordinary wealth of the British Museum’s collections. Without the index published in 1936. - URBAN (Ignatius). *Bibliographia Indiae Occidentalis Botanica*. Berlin, 1898–1908 (Reprint, 2001). 8vo, 231 pp, publisher’s cloth. This bibliography is taken from the author’s monumental work: *Symbolae Antillanae*. seu fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis, where it appeared in volumes 1 (pages 1–195), 2 (pages 1–7), 3 (pages 1–13) and 5 (pages 1–16). The commentaries are in German. Untraceable. - KRIEGER (Louis C.C.). Catalogue of the Mycological Library of Howard A. Kelly. Compiled by... Baltimore, Privately printed, 1924 (Reprint, 2002). - LIGER (Louis). The Florist and Historiographer, or the Universal Cultivation of Flowers, Trees, Shrubs and Bushes, Used for the Beautification of Gardens. Amsterdam, 1706. (Reprint, 1999). 2 volumes in one sturdy in-16 volume, [14 ff], 308 pp and pages (309) to 679, [35 pp]: table of contents and catalogue, publisher’s green Bradel cloth binding. A famous book that was reprinted several times throughout the 18th century. It has, however, become very difficult to find. Numerous double-page, out-of-text plates of gardens. Illustrations within the text.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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