Sowerby J E (54 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Reprint. unnumbered pages 5 colour plates, numerous black and white drawings, cream cloth spine with much red decoration, , illustrated front cover with colour images pasted on, decorative brown endpapers. The book appears to lack the first gathering and has no frontispiece, or title page, first page…

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. xx+159+32pp.advs. Blue cloth boards with gilt and black floral decoration to spine and cover; rubbed, wear to extremities, some spine fade. AEG; the gilt of the fore-edge remains bright though the top edge gilt is dulled. For the most part the contents remain fairly crisp, clean and bright, however 2…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 159pp. Bound in the publisher's decorated green cloth gilt with faded spine. Internally clean but lacking the front free end-paper and with a former owner's label to the front paste-down and the same owner's signature to the head of the front free end-paper. Tightly bound with (it is said)…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Scarce 1st edition. 16mo in green blind stamped cloth with gilt spine titles and gilt cover emblem; frontis(plate 7)+viii+238pp. 12 colour plates + 1 black and white microscopy plate numbered XVI showing sandwort mould and dock mould. Brown advertorial endpapers promoting the monthly inst…

Hardback. Condition: Fine. re-issue. A Selection of Some of Our Native Plants Which are Most Attractive from Their Beauty, Uses, or Associations.135pp, [ii] pub. ad. A fine copy bound in the pub. original pebble-grain cloth with blind dec. embossed border . Gilt titles to the length of the spine. The front board with gilt titles…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. NO Dustwrapper. 4th Edition. Chapters include: The Old And The New Philosophy Of Flowers; Their Origin, Shapes, Perfumes and Colours. Geological Antiquity Of Flowers And Insects; The Geographical Distribution Of Flowers; The Structure Of Flowering Plants; Relations Between Flowers And Their Physical S…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. By J. E. Sowerby & C. P. Johnson, published by Gurney and Jackson in 1894.Illustrated by John E. Sowerby, described by C. Pierpoint Johnson, plus a supplement of lately discovered flowering plants by John W. Salter and Ferns , Horsetails and Club-mosses by John E. Sowerby. In good used condition, boun…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair-Good. 1st Edition. Full leather, blind tooled and gilt titles. Lacks 1/2 of spine leather but spine titles still present. Boards lightly stained and well rubbed with worn corners and bottom edge. Joints cracked but firm. Rebacked in recent decades with plain green endpapers. No title page. Textblock cr…

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good-. Re-Issue, revised. Publishers original green cloth, embossed in gilt and blind stamped; all edges gilt. Recently rebacked using original covers with spine strip pasted over a barely visible well-matching green cloth; new cream endpapers. Very slight wear to bottom corners. 1863 re-issue of the f…

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. this is the coloured edition not to be confused with the edition with a coloured frontispiece but uncoloured plates, 2 works bound in one volume, 1855/1856, (iv) 87 [1]: (ii) 52pp, 49 coloured plates in the first work and 31 in the second, early green morocco, boards gilt ruled, spine heavily…

Bound in Card Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The full set of 39 parts of the first and second supplement volumes (of the first edition of Sowerby's English Botany), all in original blue wrappers. The supplements have been bound into a two bespoke hardback boxes as seen. All are uncoloured apart from plate n…

Hard Back. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Contemporary quarter leather with gilt spine titles and marbled boards. 3 indexes + 72 descriptions with matching plates opposite, numbered 721-792, in numerical order. Attractively untrimmed page edges. Boards and leather worn all round, particularly at corners; marbled paper partially p…

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Dark red half leather with gilt spine titles, blind tooling and 5 bands; Textured dark red boards; red marbled endpapers and textblock edges, the latter of which are a little faded with a small ink stain to the lower fore-edge. Binding edges well rubbed, worn in places. Joints and hi…