Authors starting with S from Antiquariat Botanicum

London: : David Bogue, , 1880-1882. . 1/2 Leather. Very Good. 1st Edition. Large 8vo (25.6 x 16.7 cm). Bound in 19th century half green morocco and marble boards. 3 Volumes (1 Text and 1 Plates). Collation: Volume I: [vii] viii-x, [1] 2-472 pp. + hand colored frontispiece; Volume II [iv] [473] 474-914 pp.; Volume III: [iv] [104] pp. + 52 lithograph plates. All the plates were delineated by Kent with his signature as delineator. Spines with raised bands and panels with gilt floral pattern. Title and Vo... more information

Oxford:: Printed at the Theater, , 1705. . First edition, Large Paper Copy. Full Calf. Very Good +. Folio (43 x 27 cm). Contemporary leather rebacked. Spine with decorative panels, raised bands and title on red leather gilt. There are shallow cut marks on the front cover. Large paper with signature of John Wood (British architect) on title page. copy. Collation: [10] 282p. + in txt ills. This is a bright clean copy. This is Scarburgh’s annotated edition of the first six books of Euclid’s geo... more information

Paris: : Chez F. Buisson, , 1804 . First edition. Half Calf. Very Good. 8vo (19.6 x 20.0 cm). Original half leather on marble boards with new leatherback and end papers. Darkening stain on lower part of front cover. Internal condition with minor foxing. Collation: [1], 338p. Last two pages numbered 137/138. Includes 8 fine engraved folding plates, engraved by Adam. Library stamps of title page and half-title of Norwich & Norfold Medical Books Society. A generally sound copy. First edition o... more information

Regensburg: : Verlegts Johann Leopold Montag, , 1760. . Sewn Binding. Very Good. 8vo (24.3 x 19 cm). Disbound large paper copy. Collation: [xiii], 36 pp. + 5 folding, hand-colored engraved plates. Very clean and bright copy of this early work on mushrooms by Schäffer. This is a large uncut copy with plates from drawings of von Stephan Luibel. The text and plates are very clean and bright for this very scarce work on stinkhorn mushrooms. (Stafleu & Cowan, 10473; Nissen, 1745; Volbracht, 1875).... more information

Regensburg: : Academie der Wissenschaften, , 1759.. Sewn Binding. Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to (24.5 x 19.3 cm). Disbound. Collation: (I-viii), [1]-59 This is a large uncut and partially unopened paper copy. The plates are from drawings by Susanna Sophia Betzin and engraved by von Franz Schauer. The text and plates are in very good condition with some edge browning and dusting. The plates are in excellent condition with several images on each plate for external and internal structure. This is a scar... more information

Zurich: : Verlag des Waysenhauses, , 1774.. Full Calf. Very Good. Folio (38 x 23 cm). Contemporary half calf on deckled boards. Collation: [iv] 1-129 [1 blank] [1] [1 blank] pp. + 2 hand colored tables and 101 hand colored full page woodcuts. Binding has some wear along the hinges, ends of spine and corners. Spine has raised bands and blank panels. There is no label on spine or deckle-paper boards. All edges of text block in red. Internal condition is very good with only minor foxing, occasionally affec... more information

Erlangen:: Johann Jacob Palm,, 1793 . Second edition. 1/2 Vellum. Very Good +. 2nd edition. Folio (42.5 X 26.7 cm). Larrge paper copy. Modern half vellum with marble boards. New end papers damp staining in lower gutter to first 40 pages.Collation: [2], [5] 6-94;[2] [95]-197, [3]; [4] 199-280pp. + 75 uncolored plates, loose in separate box made with same marble paper. Text and plates uncut. Ther is some minor paper creasing and small tear at bottom of pp.261-265 that does not affect text. The text and plat... more information

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1953-59. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Blue cloth bindings with title, volume, editor, and publisher in gilt on spine. Vol 3 has some rubbing and is slightly faded. Collation: Vol. I- x, 1-789pp.; Vol. II- viii, 600pp.; Vol. III-xii, 811 pp. Volume III includes an article by Dr. McMillan on “Particle Accelerators”. These three volumes were published over several years with the first two in 1953 and the third in 1959. Each volume contains articles by distinguished... more information

Cambridge: : printed for the Author, sold by Corn..,, 1738. . First edition. 1/4 Leather. Very Good +. 2 vols. 4to.19th century quarter calf on marble boards with new end papers. Fore edge of text block in red ink. There are raised bands on the spines with gilt decoration on raised band and panels. Title and volume number are in separate panels. The gilt is bright and attractive. Internal condition generally very good with only occasional damp staining at head of spine. Collation: Vol. I - [6], vi, [8]... more information

Philadelphia: : Carey & Lea,, 1832.. First American edition. 1/2 cloth. Very Good. 8vo (25 cm). Orignal half maroon cloth and paper boards with new later matching spine having tooled panels and gilt lettering. Collation: vii, 207 pp., + 5 plates. First American edition. The binding is in good condition. Internal text with some foxing to plates as well. The lithograph plates illustrate dental chair, instrumentation and other aspects of dental restoration. Snell was the first dentist to invent a recl... more information

London, 1866-1881. . Half Calf. Very Good. 8vo. Bound in half calf and marble boards. These volumes cover the origin and first publications of the Quekett Microscopical Club. There are 96 lithograph plates and one folding graph. The plate numbering in Volume I suggests X plates, but there is no text evidence for plate IX.  These early issues of a journal that is still being published chronical the beginnings of a remarkable club. The founding fathers, M.C.Cooke, Thomas Ketteringham, and Wit... more information

London: : Macmillan and Co., , 1908. . First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good +. 1st Edition. 2 Volumes 8vo (21.7 x 13.7 cm). Original green cloth. Collation: Volume 1 - [iv]-lii, 1-518, [2 – catalog]; Volume 2 - [iv]- xii, 1-542, [2 - catalog] pp. The work is illustrated with a portrait, 71 illustrations and 7 maps (3 are folding; 1 colored). The binding is in very good condition with only minor rubbing and small stain one cover. Internally each volume is quite clean with only minor foxing; free... more information

London: : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, , 1890.. First edition. Original Cloth. Good +. 1st Edition. Roy. 8vo (25 x 18 cm). 2 Volumes. Original maroon cloth. Collation: Vol I – [iii] iv-xxxi, [1] 2- 529, [1- printer s imprint]pp. + folding colored map and numerous engravings and photogravure frontispiece.; Vol. II- [iii] iv- xv, [1 -blank], [1] 2- 472, [2, publisher s advertisements] pp. + wood-engraved frontispiece (with tissue guard) , 2 folding colored map and numerous engravings. ... more information

London: : published for the author by Baldwin and Cradock, , 1829. Half Morocco. Very Good +. 8vo (22.5 x 14.5 cm). Later nineteenth-century half morocco on green cloth. 2 volumes. Collation: xxxiv, [2] 416p. [26-blanks]; [2] 388 p. [30 – blanks]. Spines on both volumes are good condition and with minor wear to ends of spines, hinges, and corners. Minor spotting on front cover of volume 1. There are new end papers, which, along with edges of text block, have minor spotting. This is a large paper unc... more information