Minchen e a (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. xii, 520, 8pp, illustrated with numerous line drawings and diagrams in text. Black cloth-covered boards with blind rules, gilt lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth is marked and worn, rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, spine annotated with a shelf number. An ex library copy with a small stamp on the front paste down and small stamp and pencil annotation on the copyright page (although no copyright asserted). Text block edges and endpapers a little toned else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.…

Card Cover - Stapled. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket as Issued. Most covers have some moderate tears to spine. Part VI has a tear almost the length of the spine but the cover is still attached. Part VII has a tear along about 50% of spine. Parts I and VI have some nibbles to fore-edge of covers. Internally there is some scattered foxing varying from light to heavy in places. The plates are clean and in good order. 80pp. Dated from 1895 to 1898. Size: 185mm x 235mm. E. W. Minchen and H. J. A. Baron (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. First Edition. Maiden was a Director of the Botanic Gardens of Sydney. Full leather with gilt decoration and lettering. Marbled endpapers. 28 full page colour lithographs of plants. Donor inscription. Acquired from the library of the Duke of Gloucester, who was Govenor General of Australia. Loosely inserted is a postcard of a South African plant signed W. H. Chater 1913. Full leather decorated and lettered in gilt. Rubbed around the spine and a little around edges and corners. A touch of foxing and one page foredge has a line of damp. Ow very good indeed.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Printed Paper wraps, 250x185mm approx. Seven Parts complete. Each part containing 4 coloured lithographic plates and descriptions and published over the period April 1895 to Nov 1898 by Charles Potter Government Printer on behalf of of Department of Mines and Agriculture (Forest Branch) New South Wales. The parts include two forest trees (consequently of economic value) and two flowering shrubs or smaller plants because of their beauty or scientific interest of their flowers or foliage. The vernacular, aboriginal and botanical names are given with origins and the descriptions (in brevier) mainly follow those of Bentham in the Flora Australiensis. This is an uncommon set and in collectible condition. VG (Booklets - Light shelf rubbing to extremities with no notable shelf soiling. Part VII has a 10x2mm approx chip to for edge of rear cover and a small tear of approx 4mm. There is light sporadic foxing to the prelim and rear pages of each part - not significant and plates unaffected). Please see our images of the actual set offered for sale. MINCHEN, E.W. & BARON, H.J.A. (illustrator).…