[BOTANY & HORTICULTURE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY]. A group of 56 works in 59 volumes, various sizes, most illustrated, most in original bindings, most with dust jackets, many FIRST EDITION, condition generally very good.
Sale 1184 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
May 11, 2023
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$693
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Lot Description
[BOTANY & HORTICULTURE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY]. A group of 56 works, including:
JARVIS, Charlie. Order Out of Chaos. L, 2007. -- MASON, Philip A. American Bee Books. Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 2016. -- History of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 1829-1878. Boston, 1880. -- BENSON, Albert Emerson. History of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Boston, 1929. -- MAIENSCHEIN, Jane. Transforming Traditions in American Biology, 1880-1915. Baltimore et al, 1991. -- WALCOTT, Mary Vaux. North American Wild Flowers. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1925-29. 4 volumes (lacking vol. 5). Folded sheets; each volume in folding cases. LIMITED EDITION, number 414 of 500 copies, SIGNED. -- ADAMS, Ansel. Yosemite and the Range of Light. Boston et al, 1979. Second edition, SIGNED. -- URQUHART, Beryl Leslie, editor. The Rhododendron. Sussex: The Leslie Urquhart Press, 1958-1962. 2 volumes. -- LOY, Susan. Flowers, the Angel’s Alphabet. Moneta, VA, 2001. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED. -- And 47 others. Together, 56 works in 59 volumes, various sizes, most illustrated, most in original bindings, most with dust jackets, many FIRST EDITION, condition generally very good. Complete list available on request.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil
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