Sale 363: Rare Books, including the Botanical Library of J. Roy Barrette of Brooklin, Maine (#363) 09/13/2007 1:00 PM PDT Closed Starts Ending 09/13/2007 1:00 PM PDT Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViewsAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 101-125 of 125. Previous|12|Next Lot #147 The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States in their Botanical, Horticultural, and Popular Aspects AuthorMeehan, ThomasHeadlineMeehan's Native Flowers & Ferns 192 Color platesPublisherL. Prang & othersDate Published1878-80 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #148 The North American Sylva; Or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia... AuthorMichaux, F[rancois] Andre & Thomas NuttallHeadlineMichaux & Nuttall The North American Sylva 1859PublisherD. Rice & A.N. HartDate Published1859 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #149 Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful, and Uncommon Plants described in the Gardeners dictionary, exhibited on three hundred copper plates, accurately engraved after drawings taken from nature. With the characters of their flowers and seed-vessels, drawn when they were in their greatest perfection AuthorMiller, PhillipHeadlineMiller's Beautiful Plants with 300 colored platesPublisherPrinted for the author and sold by John Rivington, et al.Date Published1760 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #150 The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, and flower-garden, as also the physic-garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard ... Abridg'd from the two volumes lately published in folio... AuthorMiller, PhillipHeadlineMiller's Gardeners Dictionary, 3 volumes, 1741PublisherPrinted for the author, and Sold by C. RivingtonDate Published1741 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #151 Flora Conspicua: A Selection of the Most Ornamental Flowering, Hardy, Exotic and Indigenous Trees, Shrubs, and Herbaceous Plants, for embellishing Flower-Gardens and Pleasure-Grounds AuthorMorris, RichardHeadlineMorris' Flora Conspicua with colored platesPublisherLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and GreenDate Published1826 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #152 Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up: with a Kitchin-Garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sauce used with us, and An Orchard of all sorte of fruit-bearing Trees and shrubbes fit for our Land together with the right ordering planting & preserving them and their uses & vertues... AuthorParkinson, JohnHeadlineJohn Parkinson Paradisus Terrestris 1629Publisher[Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young]Date Published1629 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #153 The Rose Garden HeadingzzcAuthorPaul, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Paul The Rose Garden 20 Colored PlatesPublisherKent & Co.Date Published[c. 1888] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #154 Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Flowering Plants HeadingzzcAuthorPaxton, JosephHeadlinePaxton's Magazine of Botany and Flowering PlantsPublisherOrr & Smith/ William S. Orr & Co.Date Published1834-1849 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Lot #155 Paxton's Flower Garden HeadingzzcAuthorPaxton, Joseph and John LindleyHeadlinePaxton's Flower Gardem 108 Handcolored platesPublisherBradbury and EvansDate Published1850-53 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #156 British Flowering Plants HeadingzzcAuthorPerrin, Mrs. Henry and Professor BoulgerHeadlineBritish Flowering Plants 1914 Limited EditionPublisherBernard QuaritchDate Published1914 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #158 Flowering Plants of Great Britain HeadingzzcAuthorPratt, AnneHeadlineAnne Pratt Flowering Plants of Great BritainPublisherFrederick WarneDate Published[c. 1885] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #159 La Botanique de J.J. Rousseau, Ornée de Soixante-Cing Plances, Imprimées en Coleurs d'apres les Peintures de P.J. Redouté HeadingzzcAuthorRedouté, PierreHeadlineRedoute illustrates Rousseau's BotaniquePublisherDelachaussèe and GarneryDate Published1805 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #161 Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening HeadingzzcAuthorRepton, H[umphry]HeadlineRepton's Observations on Landscape Gardening 1805PublisherJ. TaylorDate Published1805 View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #162 Wild Flowers of the United States HeadingzzcAuthorRickett, Harold WilliamHeadlineRickett's Wild Flowers of the United StatesPublisherMcGraw-HillDate Published[1966-73] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #163 Flora and Sylva HeadingzzcAuthorRobinson, W[illiam], EditorHeadlineFlora and Sylva Vols. 1-3 66 colored platesPublisher[W. Robinson]Date Published1903-05 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #166 The Florists' Museum: A Register of the Newest and Most Beautiful Varieties of Florists' Flowers HeadingzzcAuthorSmith, Frederick W.HeadlineF.W. Smith The Florists' Museum 59 color platesPublisherOrr and SmithDate Published[c. 1836] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #167 Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms HeadingzzcAuthorSowerby, JamesHeadlineSowerby's English Fungi 440 Hand-Colored PlatesPublisherJ. Davis and R. Wilks, for the authorDate Published1797; 1799; 1803; & 1809 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #168 The British Flower Garden HeadingzzcAuthorSweet, RobertHeadlineSweet's British Flower Garden 712 Color PlatesPublisherJames Ridgway & SonsDate Published1838 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold Lot #169 Cistineae: The Natural Order of Cistus, or Rock-Rose, illustrated by coloured figures & descriptions of all the distinct species, and the most prominent varieties, that could be at present procured in the gardens of Great Britain, with the best directions for their cultivation and propagation HeadingzzcAuthorSweet, RobertHeadlineRobert Sweet's Cistineae with 112 colored platesPublisherJ. RidgwayDate Published1825-1830 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #170 Flora Australasica; or a selection of handsome or curious plants, natives of New Holland, and the South Sea Islands; containing coloured figures and descriptions of some of the choicest species... AuthorSweet, RobertHeadlineSweet's Flora Australasica with colored platesPublisherJames RidgwayDate Published1827-1828 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #171 The Florist's Guide and Cultivator's Directory; Containing coloured figures of the choicest flowers cultivated by florists; including ranunculus, carnations, picotees, pinks, georginas, polyanthus, auriculas, hyacinths, and tulips, with their descriptions and an account of the most approved methods of culture HeadingzzcAuthorSweet, RobertHeadlineSweet's Florist's Guide with colored platesPublisherJ. RidgwayDate Published1827-1832 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$13,750StatusSold Lot #172 Geraniaceae. The Natural Order of Gerania, Illustrated by Coloured Figures and Descriptions; Comprising the Numerous and Beautiful Mule-Varieties Cultivated in the Gardens of Great Britain, with Directions for their Treatment HeadingzzcAuthorSweet, RobertHeadlineSweet's Geraniaceae, with 400 hand-colored platesPublisherPrinted for James RidgewayDate Published1820-28 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #173 Description des plantes nouvelles et peu connues, cultivées dans le jardin de J.M. Cels AuthorVentenat, E[tienne] P[ierre]HeadlineDescription des Plantes illus by P.J. RedoutePublisherCrapeletDate PublishedAn VIII [1800] View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000Sold for$21,250StatusSold Lot #174 North American Wild Flowers HeadingzzcAuthorWalcott, Mary VauxHeadlineM.V. Walcott - North American Wild FlowersPublisherSmithsonian InstitutionDate Published1925 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #175 Medical Botany, containing Systematic and General Descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh... HeadingzzcAuthorWoodville, WilliamHeadlineWoodville's Medical Botany with colored platesPublisherPrinted and sold for the author, by J. PhillipsDate Published1790-1794 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next