Natural History / Floras & Flowering Plants

FITZGERALD, Robert Desmond. Australian orchids.
Sydney, Thomas Richards (vol. 1, part 1-2, 4-7; vol. 2, part 1-2), Charles Potter (vol. 1, part 3; vol. 2, part 4 & 5) & George Stephan Chapman (vol. 2, part 4), [1875--1894]. 12 parts in 2 volumes (vol. 1: part 1-7; vol. 2: part 1-5). Large folio (ca. 50 x 34 cm). With 118 lithographed plates (10 double-page) all but 1 coloured by a contemporary hand in watercolour. The plates were all drawn by Fitzgerald and lithographed by himself and Arthur J. Stopps. All plates are interleaved with accompanying letterpress descriptions. Contemporary half cloth in a uniform style (various colours) with the original publisher's wrappers (also in various colours: yellow, green, blue, turquoise) mounted on the cloth. The 12 volumes are preserved in 20th-century green cloth boxes with a uniform black morocco spine label. 118 plates plus letterpress descriptions. Full description

FLINDERS, Matthew. A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in his majesty's ship the investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner. With an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the commander during six years and a half in that island.
London, W. Bulmer & Co., for G. and W. Nicol, 1814. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. 4to and large folio. With 9 full-page engraved plates by J. Byrne, John Pye, W. Woolnoth, L. Scott, W. Finden, S. Middiman after William Westall in the text volumes. Further with 16 charts (9 folding, 7 double-page), 2 plates of coastal views (on 4 leaves each) after William Westall, and 10 double-page etched botanical plates by Elizabeth Byrne, F. Sanson and I. Pye after drawings by Ferdinand Bauer in the atlas volume. The text volumes in contemporary gold-tooled brown calf, the atlas volume in contemporary half brown calf. [2], IX, [11], CCIV, 269, [1 blank]; [2], 613, [1 blank] pp. Full description

FORSSKÅL, Peter and Martin VAHL. Symbolae botanicae, sive plantarum, tam earum, quas in itinere, inprimis orientali, collegit Petrus Forskål, quam aliarum, recentius detectarum, exactiores descriptiones, nec non observationes circa quasdam plantas dudum cognitas.
Comprising:
(1) Symbolae botanicae, sive plantarum ... Pars prima.
(2) Symbolae botanicae, sive plantarum ... Pars secunda.
(3) Symbolae botanicae, sive plantarum ... Pars tertia.
Copenhagen, for the author by Nicolaus Möller and son, 1790, 1791, and 1794. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio (40 x 25 cm). With 75 numbered, full-page plates (74 engraved, 1 ink drawing). Near contemporary half mottled calf. [8], "81" [=85], [1 blank]; [2], 105, [3]; [4], 104, [2] pp. + 75 plates Full description

FRIEDRICH AUGUST II, Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE and Karl Joseph HEIDLER. Pflanzen und Gebirgsarten von Marienbad, ... ergänzt, und mit einem anhange über die andern naturhistorischen Verhältnisse der Curortes.
Prague, Kronberger and Weber ("Druck und Papier von Gottlieb Haase Söhne"), 1837. 8vo. With 5 lithographed plates numbered I-II, [III], IV-V, namely a frontispiece view by Sandtner, 3 further illustration plates (1 hand-coloured) and a hand-coloured folding petrographic map of Marienbad. Also with a folding letterpress table. Contemporary brown half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. X, 203, [1 blank] pp. Full description

FRIES, Elias Magnus. Novitiarum florae Sueciae mantissa altera.
Uppsala, 1839. 4 parts. 8vo. Unbound. [2], 64 pp. Full description

GABBEMA, Simon Abbes. Friesche lust-gaarde ofte Boom-heester-bloem- en kruyd-waarande, bestaande uyt der gewassen beschrijvinge, die in Hoog- en Neder-duyds-land en de aangrenzende land-schappen bekent zijn.
Leeuwarden, Hendrik Rintjes, 1686 (second title-page after preliminaries: 1687). 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, ascribed to Jan Luyken. Contemporary vellum, sprinkled edges, new endpapers. [1], [1 blank], [44], 660, [60] pp. Full description

GENOOTSCHAP VOOR LANDBOUW EN KRUIDKUNDE TE UTRECHT. Lijst der planten voor de jaarlijksche waarnemingen.
Including: Lijst der planten voor de dagelijksche waarnemingen der bloemen.
Utrecht, W.F. Schultze, 19th century [after 1841]. Large 4to (28.5 x 23.5 cm). Contemporary blue paper wrappers, stitched through 3 holes. [12] pp. Full description

GUIOT. Catalogo de flores.
[Barcelona, Francisco Suria y Burgada, ca. 1775]. Small 8vo (14 x 9.5 cm). Later(?) decorated-paper wrappers. XX pp. Full description

HALLER, Albrecht von Nomenclator ex Historia plantarum indigenarum Helvetiae excerptus auctore.
Bern, Societatis Typographicæ [colophon: [D.] Brunner & [Albrecht von] Haller], 1769. 8vo. With title-vignette. 19th-century boards, covered with sprinkled paper. [4], 216 pp. Full description

HARTSINCK, Jan Jacob. Beschryving van Guiana, of de wilde kust, in Zuid-America ...
Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg, 1770. 2 volumes. 4to. With 6 engraved folding maps and plans, 6 engraved full page plates, and 2 engraved folding views, 1 engraving in text. Contemporary three quarter calf, black speckled light brown paper sides, richly gold-tooled spines with a red morocco title label and an oval green morocco volume label, both lettered in gold. 1 blank, [2], XII, [4], 520; [2], 521-962, [16] pp. Full description