Authors starting with L from Antiquariat Botanicum

Amsterdam: North Holland, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to (26.4 x 18 cm). Original beige cloth. Collation: [vii] viii-xix, [1], [1] 2- 543 + 3 photograveur plates and 4 folding diagrams. Binding is in very good condition. The text has minor age browning at top edge. Provenance: Signature of Edwin M. McMillan, Nobel Laureate 1951, on front, free- end, paper. ... more information

Paris: Guerin & Delatour, 1764. This is one of the seminal books for learning optics by France's famous astronomer and teacher. ... more information

Paris: : Hôtel de Thon, , 1788- 89. . Contemporary mottled calf. Very Good. 2 Volumes. 4to (25.6 x 18.8 cm). Contemporar mottled calf. Collation: Vol. I- 17, 651 pp. + 2 folding charts and 41 copper engraved plates; Vol. II- [4]. [1] 2-527 pp. + 22 copper engraved plates. Bindings have raised bands and floral decorated panels in gilt. Titles and subject of each volume identified in separate panels with red or maroon leather labels and gilt lettering, Ovipares, Serpens. The subject labels have some ... more information

Leiden: : Samuel Luchtmans & Meynard Uytwerf, , 1750. . First French edition. Full Vellum. Very Good. 4to (260 x 204 mm). Later vellum with decorative gilt on spine and cover; title gilt on separate leather; floral end papers. xiv [1]-412 [40] Berolzheimer copy. With 15 plates of glasshouses, fruits, and one plan. Minor browning and occasional spotting to text. Plate clean and bright with strong impressions. Van der Voort applied a number of techniques in his work on growth of vegetables and fruits ... more information

New York: Macmillan, 1937. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st edition, first printing. 8vo. Original dark blue cloth hardcover. Very good condition. Collation:xii, 115, [5] pp. Signature of Dr. Edwin McMillan on front free end paper. ... more information

Altdorfi: : Jodoci Guilielmi Kohles, , 1705. . First edition. Full Leather. Very Good +. 4to. Contemporary leather with new spine; raised bandes and floral stamp in panels; author in gilt. Collation: [18], 88, [12] p. + one copper engraved plate. The last 12 unnumbered pages provide four separate indices for text citations from Scripture, Authors, Hebrew, Syrian and Arabic, and Words and Important Items. This is an extensive thesis on biblical and ethno- botany of a plant from present day Iran, Kali... more information

Nuremberg: : C. Gerhard for J. Zieger, , 1680.. Second edition. Contemporary vellum. Very Good. 8vo (98 x 164 mm) Text is bound in contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine and embossed image in diamond area on both covers. [14] plate (signed by Nico Schum), 1-445 [18]pp. There are 10 woodcuts in text which is divided into nine parts: De Corporibus; De Qualitatibus; Mundi & Coeli; De Terra, Aqua, Igne, & Aere; De Fossilibus; De Meteoris; De Plantis; De Animalibus; De Homine. Moderate foxing i... more information

London: : Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington [etc.], , 1810.. Fourth edition. 1/4 Leather. Good +. 4th ed., corrected and enlarged 8vo (20.7 x 12.5 cm) . Mondern quarter calf and marble boards. Collation: xxiv 580 p. + Copper engraved Portrait and 12 hand-colored, copper engraved plates. New end papers. Offsetting of portrait to title page. Minor edge foxing and spotting throughout being most noticeable on a few of the plates collected at end of book. ... more information

Leiden: C. Boutesteyn, 1687. Contemporary vellum. Very Good. 4to. Contemporary vellum with minor wear. Two parts with continuous pagation. Some repairs to tears in a few folding plates. Collation: 78, 258, 124 pp. + 13 tipped in engraved plates (some folded) and numerous engraved images in text. Exceptional rare copy with complete Letters 43,42, 38, 28, 29, 30, 31, 35, 46, 47, 45, 48, 50, 51, 52 and 53-60 (last section). The date for the last section is 1689, first edition of these collected letters. T... more information

Ghent: : chez les editeurs et E. Gyselynck, , 1851- 1854.. First edition. Contemporary quarter leather. Very Good. 4 volumes. Royal-8vo (24.8 x 16.5 cm). Contemporary quarter leather with marble boards. This is a French serial that was published over 4 years and bound in yearly volumes. There are 430 unsigned chromolithograph plates and many uncolored engraved text figures. Some of the plates are folding comprising two ordinary pages and given separate plate numbers. Internal condition is very good and ge... more information

Leipzig: : Bernhard Christoph Breitkopfs und Sohn, , 1774.. Second edition. Contemporary calf. Very Good. 2nd edition. Folio, Contemporary full calf with some ware and loss to ends of spine . Collation: [12] 1-184 [4]p., with 51 copper-engraved plates. Internally this is a clean and bright copy with only minor spotting. Leupold unlike his contemporary Newton was a designerand builder of instruments. In this work Leupold provides information and illustration of numerous devices that he built that were use... more information

London: : Printed for Thomas Basset, Benjamin Tooke, Thomas Sawbridge, Awnsham and John Churchill, , 1690.. Full Calf. Very Good +. 4to(31.4 x 19.4 cm). Contemporary calf. Collation: [xvi] [1] 2-904, [96- Tables] pp. + [44] leaves of plates, many folding, one loosely inserted from another copy. The portrait of Leybourn by White is present as frontispiece. There are several maps in text. The binding has raised bands on spine, which has been laid down on later leather. There is some loss in upper p... more information

London: : Bradbury and Evans, , 1850-53.. 1/2 Leather. Very Good. 1st Edition. 3 Volumes. Half pebbled calf with maroon linen boards. 4to (25.9 x 20.3 cm). Collation: Vol. I – [iii] iv, [1] 2-194 pp. + plates 1-36; Vol. II – [ii], [1] 2-186 pp. + plates 37-72; Vol. II – [ii], [1] 2-178 pp. + plates 73-108. In addition, there are 314 finely executed text engravings. The 108 zincographic plates are expertly had colored. The spines have gilt lines and graphic design forming two panels with t... more information

Stockholm: : Laurentius Salvius, , 1744-1748.. 1/4 vellum. Very Good. 4to. (27.5 x 19.5 cm.) Vellum spine with blue paper boards. Ink label on panel; raised bands. Collation: [4], 132; [4], 122, [2 (errata)]; [4], 128 p. There are 10 copper engravings (5, 2, 3) with four folding. One of the engravings is by Ehret. There are woodcut initials and diagrams in the text. Loss to lower half of spine. Covers are in good condition with only minor bumping on corners. This volume contains 3 separate issues of the... more information

Paris: Levrault, 1823. Quarter Calf. Very Good. 4to. Collation: k xii, 174, viii pp. illustrated with 10 plates, 6 hand colored, 1 folding, 2 white on black. 2 of the plain plates were designed and engraved by F. Simon, Strasbourg 4to (29.0 x 22.7 cm). quarter leather on marble boards. Uncut copy. Minor foxing and edge browning, more so for the plates. Ex Libris. Institutional stamps on title page and verso of last plate.  Lobstein was a physician who believed in using anatomical dissections for teac... more information

London: Printed for the editor, and sold by Longman & Co.; [etc., etc.] , 1840. Original Cloth. Very Good. A new edition. 8vo (22 cm). Original blind stamp gray cloth. Collation: xxxi, 619, [1], 32 [catalog] pp. incl. front. (port.) + 253 illustrations, plans. Binding panels on spine and gilt title and suthor, some spotting on covers. Blind stamp vignette of Floral vase on both covers. Wear to ends of spine and along hinge. Internal condition is very good ... more information

Paris: : Chez J.-B. Bailliere..Londres, Meme Maison, , 1829. . First edition. 1/4 Leather. Very Good. 1st edition, 2 volumes, 8vo. Quarter leather; marble boards. Collation: xii, 458p.; [4] 531p. Some minor browning and spotting throughout. Both volumes previously rebacked with matching to marble paper along inner hinges. This is a highly significant work by Louis who had introduced the term typhoid fever in reference to the disturbed mental condition of the patient; he first described the lenticular ros... more information