Wildeman, Émile Auguste Joseph de & Théophile Durand: Prodrome
de la flore belge.
Bruxelles, A. Castaigne, 1898-1907, 3 volumes, volume 1
& 2. Introduction, pp. [iii], 63, Cryptogames, pp. 543,
530, volume 3. Phanérogames, pp. 954, 1110 (of 1112); bound in 3
volumes, large 8vo, later half cloth (imit. morocco) with marbled boards,
ruled gilt spines.€ 320
* Stafleu & Cowan 1428. Volume 3, pp. 955-1110 Table
alphabétique ... bound in a separate volume. Pp. 1110-1112 is the Liste
complémentaire and has been largely inserted by handwriting in the
index.
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Wilkes, Charles: United States Exploring Expedition.
During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles
Wilkes, U.S.N.
Lehre, J. Cramer, 1971, reprint, volume 15. Botany I.
Phanerogamia by Asa Gray, (New York, George P. Putman, 1854-1857), pp.
[vii], 777, 100 plates; volume 16. Botany II. Cryptogamia. Filices,
including Lycopodiaceae and Hydropterides by William Dunlop Brackenridge.
(Philadelphia, C. Sherman, 1854-1855), pp. [iv*], viii, 357, 46 plates; volume
17. Botany III. I. Lower Cryptogamia. II. Phanerogamia of the Pacific
Coast of North America. (Philadelphia, C. Sherman, 1862, 1874), Musci by
William S. Sullivant, pp. 1-112, 26 plates; Lichenes by Edward Tuckerman, pp.
113-152, 2 plates; Algae by Jacob Whitman Bailey and William Henry Harvey, pp.
153-192, 9 plates; Fungi by M.A. Curtis and M.J. Berkeley, pp. 193-203, 1 plate;
Phanerogamia of Pacific North America by John Torrey, pp. 207-514, 17 plates;
8vo, 3 volumes and atlas-volume, 1857, pp. 4 with plates and 1862, pp. [i] with
plates, large folio (287 x 415 mm), cloth. Historiae naturalis classica.€ 1.000
Excellent facsimile of the botanical part of this most important
scientific expedition. For more information see the website of the
Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C.,
http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/usexex.
* Pritzel 10.674; Jackson p. 224*; Nissen BBI 2153; Stafleu & Cowan 17.647, etc.
(various authors).
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Williams, Iolo A.: Flowers of marsh and stream.
London,
King Penguin, 1946, pp. 39, text-illustrations and 16 colour-plates by
Noel Rooke, small 8vo, colour-decorated boards. The King Penguin Books. Nice copy.€ 30
* Nissen BBI 2161.
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Willkomm, Heinrich Moritz: Führer in das Reich der
Pflanzen Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz. Eine leicht
verständliche Anweisung, die im deutschen Reiche, im cisleithanischen
Österreich (mit Ausschluss Dalmatiens, Istriens und des Litorale), sowie
in der Schweiz wild wachsenden und häufig angebauten Gefässpflanzen
schnell und sicher zu bestimmen. … Zweite umgearbeitete und vielfach
vermehrte Auflage des Führers in das Reich der deutschen Pflanzen.
Leipzig, Hermann Mendelssohn, 1882, 2. edition, pp. xv, 928, 805
text-illustrations and 7 lithographed plates with several figures, 8vo,
cloth-backed marbled boards with mounted printed front wrapper (rebacked
library binding). Title-page neatly repaired.€ 100
* Cf. Pritzel 10.303 (1. edition, 1863); Stafleu & Cowan 17.852.
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