Titles starting with J from Antiquariat Botanicum

Kyôto: : Unsôdô, , Meiji 41 [1908].. Second edition. Original Wraps. Good +. 4 Volumes. 4to (33.8 x 26.4 cm). Contemporary silk string, bound Japanese style stiff paper boards contained in printed fabric in chitsu clasped case. The volumes and chitsu in good condition. Collation: 100 full pate color prints in 4 volumes. 4to (33.8 x 26.4 cm). Collation: 100 full pate color prints in 4 volumes. Most strikingly beautiful and artistically set of flowers set in circles with fine woodblock ... more information

London: : Longmans, Green, , 1873. . First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good +. 1st Edition. Roy. 8vo (25.5 x 18 cm). Original green cloth binding. Collation:[v] vi- xxviii, [1] 2- 487 pp. + 2 chromo -lithograph plates (colored folding frontispiece and village hall Uji), 8 wood cut engravings, 36 in text engravings, 50 lithograph plates (41 hand colored: 21 birds, 7 shells, 8 insects and 5 fish) and folding map with outline coloring. Cloth binding has wear along hinges, more noticeable on rear hinge. Th... more information

London: William Wesley & Son for the Royal Horticultural Society, 1914. ... 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

Kyoto, , Genroku period 12 (1699). . Sewn Binding. Good +. 2 volumes. 4to (216 x 150 mm). Contemporary Japanese blue rice paper with silk ties, paper worn and torn in places; opening leaves of vol. 1 wormed in blank upper margins. Collation:[126] ; [90] pp. + 11 large, mostly full page woodcuts and several smaller woodcuts in text. The volumes are worn; opening leaves of vol. 1 wormed in blank upper margins, occasionally affecting part of a character. There is some staining and foxing in text areas and ... more information