Titles starting with R from Antiquariat Botanicum

London: : Edward Arnold, , 1921.. First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 1st edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth boards with gilt title, author and publisher on spine and title on cover. Binding slightly rubbed with minor loss to ink, especially on hinges. Uncut pages. Collation: [vi] vii-xi, 1-393, [1]-16 (catalogue) p. There are 16 reproduced photographs and one folding map. There is general light spotting mainly to fore edge of pages. Provenance: Signature of J. Howard Wilson, Dorrydge House (sic) on... more information

Italy, [1790] . Contemporary marble boards. Very Good. 8vo (22.0 x 15.8 cm). Contemporary marble boards; paper loss along hinges, ends of spine and edges of boards. Collation: 364 pages of neatly hand written text on half of each page + numerous drawings in pencil and pen in clear half of page and several tables. There are occasional addition of text in the clear area of a page. This is an extensive series of lectures in astronomy with 36 lessons labeled and supplementary information on physics and astron... more information

Leipzig : : B.G. Teubner, , 1909. . Original Wraps. Very Good +. 8vo (24.9 x 17.3 cm). Original separate issue in wrappers. Collation: 14, [2-ads]pp. + portrait and illustrations. The offprint fits nicely in a clamshell box with leather spine and linen boards. The front cover of the box has an oval paper label with author and title in calligraphic printing. This is a very good copy of a classical paper by Minkowski on Space and Time. Minkowski was a Russian mathematician who “provided the mathe-mat... more information

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1921. Original green cloth gilt labeling on spine. Collation: xvii, 523 pp. Chapter XXXVI is on Eugenics and Euthenics written by Paul Popenoe and Roswell H. Johnson. Inscribed copy, “Complements of H. H. Newman” and in pencil “ to WmB. Spencer Biology Class. This is first edition in very good condition. ... 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

London: G. Kearsley, 1803. First English language edition.... more information

Paris: : Chez l’auteur,, 1783.. Full Calf. Very Good. 4to (27.0 x 20.5 cm), Contemporary decorative calf with red morocco label. Collation: [6] pp. + 6 [i.e. 5], 6, 6, 10 (folded) plates. The book is bound in a decorative, mottled calf French binding of the period. The spine has raised bands and floral gilt decorations in panels, with red morocco label in upper panel. The Ends of spines and corners show some wear. There is worming spot on front cover near fore edge with light scuffing to boards,... more information