Rennes-Paris: Imprimerie Oberthur, 1903. First Edition. Softcover. Folio size, 20 pp., in French. Emile Boulanger (1867-1939) was a French pharmacist and biologist; these papers comprise portions of his study on the artificial culture of the truffle following various experiments. Boulanger continued his experiments for some years and published numerous reports..... More
Rennes-Paris: Imprimerie Oberthur, 1903. 1st Edition. Wraps. Folio size, 23 pp., text in French. Emile Boulanger (1867-1939) was a French pharmacist and biologist. These papers comprise portions of a study on the artificial culture of the truffle following various experiments. Boulanger continued his experiments for some years and published numerous..... More
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, ca. 1880s. Hardcover. Four volumes (complete), octavo size, 1604 total pp. This four-volume set contains instructions on how to grow plants in various indoor and outdoor settings, as well as descriptions of various plants, vegetables and flowers alike; each book is filled with detailed wood..... More
San Francisco: H.S. Crocker Co. and Cunningham, Curtiss & Welch (printed by Taylor, Nash & Taylor), 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto size, [94] pp., inscribed by the author, Willis Linn Jepson. Willis Linn Jepson (1867-1946) is known as California's most distinguished early botanist, being identified with the University of California..... More
London: Printed by Charles Rivington, 1757. Leather bound. "The Eleventh Edition, Adapted to the New Style", octavo size, 381 pp. English botanist Philip Miller (1691-1771), who was chief gardener of Chelsea Physic Garden in London, England, for nearly fifty years, wrote this book to encompass a variety of advice pertaining..... More
New York: Cassell & Company, Limited, ca. 1887. Thayer, Emma Homan. Hardcover. Folio size, approx. [110] pp. Emma Homan Thayer (1842-1908) was a botanical artist and author; an avid painter, Thayer created "Wild Flowers of the Pacific Coast" with watercolours of her observations and impressions of flowers accompanied by her..... More
(Turin): Printed by Vincenzo Bona for Editions Glenat, (1991). Viala, Pierre; Vermorel, Victor. Hardcover. Folio size, 167 pp., in French. All oenophiles revel in the beauty not just of the wine sparkling in the glass, but in the delicate vines and glowing fruit; to be in a vineyard, surrounded by..... More