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Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of Large Extent
John Parkinson
London: Tho. Cotes, 1640.Containing therein a more ample and exact History and declaration of the Physicall Herbs and Plants that are in other Authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of new, rare, and strange Plants from all the parts of the world, with sundry Gummes and other Physicall materials, than hath beene hitherto published by any before; And a most large demonstration of their Natures and Venues. Shewing withall the many errors, differences, and oversights of sundry Authors that have formerly written of them; and a certaine confidence, or most probable conjecture of the true and genuines Herbes and Plants. Distributes into sundry Classes or Tribes. The monumental work of herbal medicine by the English herbalist and botanist John Parkinson (1567-1650) in which over 3,800 plants are described and illustrated by approximately 2,600 woodcut illustrations. Theatrum Botanicum was a standard reference for apothecaries for over a century after it was published.
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Groups of Fruit, Accurately Drawn and Coloured After Nature, with Full Directions for the Young Artist: Designed as a Companion to the Treatises on Flowers and Birds.
George Brookshaw
London: For William Stockdale by Augustus Applegath and Henry Mitton, 1817.The rare first edition of the second part of the three part treatise on natural history painting by the English artist and author of Pomono Britannica, George Brookshaw (c.1751-1823). Each plate: Apples, Apricots, Cherries, Currants, Pears, Plums; is presented in two states, un-coloured and with hand-colouring, and each is accompanied by 1 or 2 pages of instructive text. This copy complete, but with the plates bound in alphabetical order, rather than the order of the instructive text.
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Travels of a Naturalist in Japan and Manchuria
Arthur Adams
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1870. -
Ampelographie Rhenane ou Description Caracteristique, Historique, Synonymique, Agronomique et Economique des Cepages les Plus Estimes
M. J. L. Stoltz
Paris and Mulhouse: Dusacq and J. P. Risler, 1852.One of the foundational texts of European ampelography with 30 colour lithorgraphs of grapes, grapevines and leaves. The standard work on Alsace and southern German grape varieties, wine, and viticultural history in the Rhine Valley.
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A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display of Animated Nature. With Accurate Representations of the Most Curious and Beautiful Animals, Elegantly Coloured.
William Frederic Martyn
London: Harrison and Co., 1785.Popular 18th century reference work by William Fordyce Mavor under his Martyn pseudonym, with 100 hand-coloured plates each depicting 4 to 9 animals, insects, or shells.
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Bushfire ’97 Proceedings: Australian Bushfire Conference, 8 – 10 July, 1997
B. J. McKaige; R. J. Williams; W. M. Waggitt
Darwin: CSIRO Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, 1997. -
Silva: or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesty’s Dominions: ..
John Evelyn; A. Hunter
York: A. Ward for J. Dodsley, T. Cadell, J. Robson, T. Durham, W. Crrech and J. Balfour, 1776.with An Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves. One of the most influential works on forestry ever published in which Evelyn implores landowners to plant trees. This, the 1776 edition, being the First Edition edited by Scottish physician Alexander Hunter and with illustrations by German engraver and botanist John Miller. This copy with the portrait frontispiece of Evelyn by Francesco Bartolozzi, 8 pages of subscribers including James Boswell, Joseph Banks, and Edward Gibbon (among many others), and the large folding explanatory table; also the armorial bookplate of William Moore and with neat marginalia to three leaves providing further commentary on remarkable oaks from the regions.
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Zoology of New Holland
George Shaw
Adelaide: Friends of the Library of South Australia, 1998.Originally published in 1794, this the standard edition of the high quality Friends of the State Library of South Australia Facsimile. The Figures by James Sowerby. Introductions by Valmai Hankel and Ed McAlister.
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The Naturalised Flora of South Australia
J. M. Black
Adelaide: J. M. Black, 1909. -
Toadstools and Mushrooms and other Larger Fungi of South Australia (Parts I and II, 1934-1935)
John Burton Cleland
Adelaide: A. B. James, Government Printer, 1976.The photolitho reprint edition with the two parts in one with a new foreword and additional notes.
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A Field Guide to Fungi of South-Eastern Australia
Ross McDonald; John Westerman
Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1979. -
Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants
Ahmed Fayaz
Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2011. -
Atlas of Fungi
K. Kavina
London: Lincolns-Prager, 1947. -
Practical Mycology: Manual for Identification of Fungi
Sigurd Funder
New York and Kingston-Upon-Thames: Hafner Publishing Company, 1968. -
Les Champignons Comestibles & Veneneux
A. de La Rocque
Paris: Nodot Editeur, No date.Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms: General Notions. Classification. Study of Characteristics.
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Some Edible Mushrooms and How to Know Them
Nina Lane Faubion
Portland: Binfords & Mort, 1938.Pocket mushroom hunting manual on edible varieties together with a chapter on poisonous amanitas.
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British Edible Fungi: How to Distinguish and to Cook Them
M. C. Cooke
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1891.With coloured figures of upwards of 40 species. This copy with 2 manuscript notes in the hand of mycologist John Ramsbottom and a 1919 postcard addressed to Edward King from an unidentifiable hand with mention of Paxillus involutus.
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A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England,
Charles David Badham
London: Reeve Brothers, 1847.Containing an Account of their Classical History, Uses, Characters, Development, Structure, Nutritious properties, Modes of Cooking and Preserving, &c.,.
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Description de Deux Nouvelles Especes de Ptychogaster et nouvelle preuve de l’identite de ce genre avec les Polyporus
M. Boudier
Paris: J. Mersch, 1887.Description of Two New Species of Ptychogaster and New Evidence for the Identity of This Genus with Polyporus. Extract from the Journal de Botanique 15 February, 1887. This copy inscribed by Boudier.
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A Guide to the Poisonous Mushrooms in the Greater New York Area
The New York Mycological Society
New York: The New York Mycological Society, 1976.