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 PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)AuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 1-43 of 43. Previous|1|Next Lot #7 The Birds of America. A Selection of Plates Facsimile. AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineAriel Press Birds of America One of 250 copiesPublisherEdition Leipzig and Ariel PressDate Published[1972-73] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #71 The Aquatic Resources of the Hawaiian Islands AuthorJordan, David Starr, & Barton W. EvermannHeadlineThe Aquatic Resources of the Hawaiian IslandsPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1905 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #111 American Ornithology; Or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States AuthorWilson, AlexanderHeadlineWilson's American Ornithology 1828-29 76 PlatesPublisherCollins & Co.Date Published1828-29 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$20,000StatusSold Lot #113 The Heathery; Or a Monograph of the Genus Erica AuthorAndrews, H[enry] C.HeadlineH.C. Andrews The Heathery 250 hand colored platesPublisherRichard TaylorDate Published1804-09 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #117 The American Flower Garden HeadingzzgAuthorBlanchan, NeltjeHeadlineNeltje Blanchan The American Flower GardenPublisherDoubledayDate Published1909 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #121 Plantarum Succulentarum Historia. Histoire des Plantes Grasses AuthorCandolle, A[ugust] P[ryamus] deHeadlineRedoute's Succulents 1837 182 color platesPublisherChez GarneryDate Published1827 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$16,250StatusSold Lot #123 The Botanical Magazine; Or, Flower Garden Displayed AuthorCurtis, William & John SimsHeadlineCurtis' Botanical Magazine Over 1800 Color PlatesPublisherW. Curtis, et alDate Published1786-1815 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold Lot #129 The New Botanic Garden, illustrated with one hundred and thirty-three plants, engraved by Sansom, from the original pictures, and coloured with the greatest exactness from drawings by Sydenham Edwards AuthorEdwards, SydenhamHeadlineEdward's New Botanic Garden with colored platesPublisherJohn StockdaleDate Published1812 View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #135 Exotic Flora, Containing Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare or Otherwise Interesting Exotic Plants... AuthorHooker, William JacksonHeadlineHookers' Exotic Flora 233 Hand-colored PlatesPublisherBlackwoodDate Published1823-27 View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Lot #137 Oxalis. Monographia, Iconibus Illustrata AuthorJacquin, Nicolaus Joseph vonHeadlineJacquin's Oxalis with colored plates, 1794PublisherChristianum F. Wappler, et al.Date Published1794 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold Lot #138 Flora Superba AuthorJones, PaulHeadlinePaul Jones Flora Superba 1 of 400 copiesPublisherTryon GalleryDate Published[1971] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #140 British Wild Flowers AuthorLoudon, Mrs. [Jane Webb]HeadlineMrs. Loudon British Wild Flowers 1st EditionPublisherWilliam SmithDate Published1844-45 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #141 The Ladies' Flower-Garden AuthorLoudon, Mrs. [Jane Webb]HeadlineMrs. Loudon's The Ladies Flower Garden 5 VolumesPublisherWilliam S. OrrDate Published[c. 1855-59] View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Lot #142 The Botanic Garden; Consisting of Highly Finished Figures of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants Cultivated in Great Britain... AuthorMaund, B[enjamin]HeadlineMaund's Botanic Garden 6 Vols. 250 Colored PlatesPublisherGeorge BellDate Published1878 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #145 A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening AuthorMcDonald, AlexanderHeadlineA Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening 1807PublisherGeorge KearsleyDate Published1807 View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #146 The Greenhouse, Hot House, and Stove AuthorMcIntosh, CharlesHeadlineCharles McIntosh The Greenhouse 1840PublisherWm. S. OrrDate Published1840 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold 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 #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 #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 #157 The Bouquet, For 1847 HeadingzzcAuthorPhillips, Alfred A., editorHeadlineThe Bouquet for 1847 - Beautiful Color PlatesPublisherNafis & CornishDate Published1847 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold 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 #160 Album de Redouté Headingzzc(Redouté, Pierre Joseph)AuthorSitwell, Sacheverell and Roger MadolHeadlineSitwell and Madol - Album de RedoutéPublisherCollinsDate Published1954 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold 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 #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 #164 Floral Illustrations of the Seasons, Consisting of Drawings From Nature of Some of the Most Beautiful, Hardy and Rare Herbaceous Plants... HeadingzzcAuthorRoscoe, Mrs. EdwardHeadlineMrs. Roscoe's Floral Illustrations of the SeasonsPublisherR. HavellDate Published1838 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #165 Great Flower Books 1700-1900: A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books HeadingzzcAuthorSitwell, Sacheverell & Wilfred BluntHeadlineSitwell & Blunt Great Flower Books 1 of 295PublisherCollinsDate Published1956 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold 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 Lot #176 Alpine Plants HeadingzzcAuthorWooster, DavidHeadlineDavid Wooster Alpine Plants 1872PublisherBell and DaldyDate Published1872 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next