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 about Germination de L'Ascospore de la Truffe
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 about Les Mycelium Truffiers Blancs
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, printed by Grant Dahlstrom, 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 385 copies, folio size, [37] pp., with prospectus. Another leaf book from The Book Club of California, extra limited due to the available leaves from the Herbal; included in the Exhibition of Western... More about LEAF BOOK] A Leaf from the 1583 Rembert Dodoens Herbal, Printed by Christopher Plantin
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 about Cassell's Popular Gardening
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 about A Flora of California, Part IV (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935. Leighton, Clare. 1st Edition. Leather bound. Quarto size, [185] pp., illustrated, in a deluxe binding. Clare Leighton (1898-1989) was an English author and wood engraver. "Convinced that wood-engraving was an art for the masses rather than for an élite, Leighton worked independently of the... More about The Four Hedges; A Gardener's Chronicle
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 about The Gardeners Kalendar;; Directing what Works are necessary to be done Every Month in the...
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San Francisco: Printed by Lawton Kennedy for The Book Club of California, 1957. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, folio size, 47 pp., original leaf from 1499 tipped in, with prospectus. We cannot say it better than the author in her opening statement: "When Eve trod the pleasant... More about LEAF BOOK] The Garden of Health; An Account of Two Herbals: The Gart der Gesundheit and the...
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 about Wild Flowers of the Pacific Coast; From Original Water Color Sketches Drawn from Nature
(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 about Cépages; Illustrations Extraites de "L'Ampelographie"