Lacoste, M.. Le Buffon classique de la jeunesse ou résumé d'histoire naturelle. Ouvrage neuf, rédigé pour les jeunes gens des deux sexes, d'apres le texte de buffon, et de tous ses continuateurs, tome premier et second (in one binding). Londres et Bruxelles; 1837; Société de Paris; halfleather with marbled boards, spine renewed with velvet-like strip; 50 (32 bis) lithographed plates depicting 500 species of animals and plants, after drawings by Eug. Verboeckhoven; VIII, 300 & 403 pp. + plates. Spine renewed, cover with slight wear along extremities. Some leaves with occasionally slight foxing, certificate, mounted, on verso frontcover. Outer margins of some plates cut of. [23366]
Kuijs, W.D.J..
De paddestoelen van Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. Verslag van de inventarisatie van de paddestoelen van Zeeuws-Vlaanderen verricht in de jaren 1984-1996. Tevens zijn opgenomen inventarisaties door André de Meijer en anderen.
Goes; 1998; eigen beheer; gekartonneerd; ill, tabellen; typoscript; 465 p.
Band met wat lichte kreukjes.
[35245]Kops, Jan, H.C. van Hall a.o..
Flora Batava. Volume I-XXVI (no. 1-421) and no. 426-429.
Amsterdam / Leiden, etc.; 1800-1926; J.C. Sepp en Zoon, De Beruk & Smits etc.; 423 installments; large 4to (25 x 31/33 cm); engraved title page with contemporary handcoloured title vignette; 2085 (of 2096) full page contemporarary handcoloured (a few col. aquatint) engravings / chromo lithographs with accompanied text in French and Dutch. First 8 volumes kept in contemp. gilt lettered half roan / half calf portfolio's with ties; the other 18 volumes kept in modern half cloth portfolios with ties. Installments issued loose-leaf in original wrappers. Added: some sheets with notices of the editor during this edition and a memoir to the occasion of the dying of Frederik van Eeden (one of the authors).
Lacks installments 173 and 174 (with 10 plates), 422-425 and plate 926. Kept in very good and condition; only a few lithographs with marginal defects. Some wrappers with small tears or frayed. Despite these small defects a very attractive and large run which seldom is offered.
The Flora Batava is the most extensive illustrated flora of The Netherlands.This impressive series not only shows endemic Dutch plants but also various species of mushrooms and lichen aswell. Often the place is mentioned where the plants have been found, what the slang names are of the plants and their usage. The first 24 volumes all have engraved and lithographed plates, all coloured by hand. After volume 24 colour printed illustrations were gradually introduced.
The sought-after large 4to-edition with index volumes. The series continued up to 1934 (vol. 28) with a total of 2240 plates. Landwehr, Dutch Books Col. plates; Nissen BBI 2247; Pritzel 4822; Sitwell / Blunt, Freat flower books 1700-1900, p. 63.
[35243]Karsten, Hermann.
Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz. Mit Einschluss der fremdländischen medicinisch und technisch wichtigen Pflanzen, Droguen un deren chemisch-physiologischen Eigenschaften. I, II.
Berlin-Lichterfelde; 1895; Hugo Bermühler; 2 vols.; both vols. with 1400 woodengravings in b&w.; half leather with raised bands, marbled boards ; marbled edge; 20x26 cm.; vol. I:register unpaginated, 27, 491 pp.; vol. II: VIII, 791 pp.
Boards discoloured. Traces of wear at spine, corners and boards. Vol. II: changed editor by small tipped-in paper. Vol. I: remains of removed tipped-in paper.
[19010]Karsten, G. and H. Schenck. Vegetationsbilder. Reihe 1-17. Jena; 1903-1926; Verlag von Gustav Fischer. 17 Bindings with 8 separate numbers ("Hefte") each bound together by strings in the original covers ("Reihe" 17, bound in different cover). All together 136 numbers in very good condition! Very nice and scarce run! [24613]
Karsch, Prof. Dr.. Flora der Provinz Westfalen. Ein Taschbuch zu botanischen Excursionen für Schulen und zum Selbstbestimmen. Münster; 1875; Aschendorff'schen Buchhandlung; halfleather with marbled boards; small 8vo (10x15 cm.); 3rd revised edition; register in German and Latin; LX, 328 pp. Cover worn, paper over boards partly lacking. [29066]
Kamp, H.A. von.
De boomgaard en het woud of beschrijving van de voornaamste, meest vaderlandsche vrucht- en woudboomen, benevens eenige vertellingen en dichtstukjes, betrekkelijk dezelve. Een geschenk voor de jeugd.
Amsterdam; 1830; G.S. Leeneman van der Kroe; harde kaft; 11x18 cm.; gegraveerd frontispice; 176 p.
Band vernieuwd.
[37214]Jurdant, Jean-Marie. Les jardins aquatiques; un rêve, un défi, une découverte! Bruxelles; 1987; Vander; cloth with dust jacket; richly illustrated; photography and text by Jean-Marie Jurdant; 320 pp. With glossary and index. Very fine copy. [21489]
Hoek, Julie & Redeke, H.C.. Flora van Helder. Handleiding tot het bestemmen der in en om Helder, huisduinen en het koegras wildgroeiende en op openbare plaatsen algemeen aangeplante kruiden, heesters en boomen. Inclusief eerste supplement. Lijst van sedert de uitgave van de flora tot het einde van 1903 nieuw gevonden planten. Helder; 1904; C. de Boer jr.; zachte kaft; register der plantennamen; 216 p. Voorplat met lichte verkleuring. [33189]
Gerth van Wijk, H.L..
A Dictionary of Plant-Names by H.L. Gerth Van Wijk. (Teacher at the 'Hoogere Burgerschool'and at the 'Gymnasium' at Middelburg, Prov. Zealand; the Netherlands.) Pt. I, Pt. II.
Haarlem; 1909; Dutch Society of Sciences; one part in two volumes (part 2 is missing); cloth; 25x29,5 cm.; pt. I: XXIV, 710 pp.; pt. II:V, p.711 - p.1444.
Rare! Both vols. later cloth. Ex-library copy. Darkening to page ends. Endpapers discoloured. Some pp. slightly ruststained. Pt.II: crease on endpaper, first 6 pp. repaired.
[19080]Dunthorne, Gordon.
Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and early 19th Centuries. Their History, Makers and Uses, with a Catalogue Raisonne of the Works in which they are found.
Washington D.C.; 1938; published by the author/ Da Capo; clothbound with dust jacket; quarto; plates in colour and b&w; index; XIV, 275 pp.
Dust jacket slightly worn, mainly along extremities, and with small repair.
[37981]Dorrestein, Renate, Kleijn, Koen & Strak, Harold.
Behind the Facades. Gardens of Canal Houses in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam; 2005; d'Arts/ Architectura & Natura; hardcover; photography in colour by Harold Strak, figures with the text in colour and b&w ; English-language edition; 221 pp.
Very fine copy.
[29353]Dammann, Carl.
Die Gesundheitspflege der landwirtschaftlichen Haussäugetiere. Praktisches Handbuch.
Berlin; 1892; Verlag von Paul Parey; hardbound cloth; 8vo; 2nd revised edition; with 20 plates with botanic lithographs in colour; 63 engraved ills. with the text; XVII, 848 pp.
Near fine copy. Stamp with former owner's entry on French title page.
[33590]Court van der Voort, Pieter de la.
het aanleggen van pragtige en gemeene landhuizen, lusthoven, plantagien en aenklevende cieraeden. Waer by gevoegt is eene verhandeling aengaende het snoeijen en voortteelen van vrugt- en wilde boomen; inzonderheid eene nette beschryving om jaerlyks overvloedig druiven in de open lucht; ook by vervroeging in stook- en andere warme kassen, voort te brengen; als mede om onfeilbaer ananas-vrugten, ook citroen-, limoen-, oranje-boomen, en andere gewassen van warmer luchtstreek, onder onze koude voort te queeken en te vermenigvuldigen, nevens een berigt om de benoodigde weer-glazen daer toe te maken; nog beproefde waerneemingen wegens het voortteelen van aerd- en warmoes-vrugten, het behandelen der moestuinen, het aenleggen der broeibakken voor meloenen en soortgelyke gewassen, en hoe men de beste meloenen in dezelven kan teelen enz.
Amsteldam, K. van Tongerlo & F. Houttuin, 1763. Tweede druk. Vermeerderd met twee aenhangzels, handelende over het aenleggen der trekkassen voor de persikken enz. en over het kweeken der bloemen. 4to. (IV)+XII+(IV)+522+(18) pp. Complete with 16 engr. plts. (incl. 15 fold.) + 1 text ill. Index. Later vellum. Second edition. One of the most famous works on the planning and cultivation of country gardens, with advising about fruit- and kitchen-gardens and greenhouses for the cultivation of lemons, pine apples, oranges and other tropical fruits.
Some folding pages repaired (slightly torn). Some pp. slightly waterstained.
[28904]Ceuterick, Albert.
Le Comte Oswald de Kerchove de Denterghem/ notes biographiques.
Gand; 1908; Imprimerie Ad. Hoste; cardboard, hardcover; tipped in plates, in b&w; signed with dedication by the author, on endpaper; 163 pp.
Cover thumbed and frontcover occasionally chafed and rubbed. Leaves cut rather sloppy.
[23833]Burvenich, Fr. [ed] a.o..
Revue de l'Horticulture Belge et étrangère. Tome XIII, 1887.
Gand; 1887; Bureau de la Revue; with 22 fullpage chromolithos and 29 engravings in black&white; original decorated hardcover; 288 pp.
Edges of cover stained and slightly worn. Spine ends slightly damaged.
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