Noltie, H.J. Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah and Govindoo. Vol.1. - The Life and Work of Robert Wight, Vol.2. - Botanical Drawings by Rungiah & Govindoo: The Wight Collection. and Vol.3. - Journeys in Search of Robert Wight.
Pub. R.B.G. Edinburgh. 2007 Three volume set with b/w., colour and other figs. All three volumes are softbacks in fine condition with very gently sunned spines. In a slipcase in fine condition.
This trilogy forms the second in a series of illustrated works devoted to collections of botanical drawings made by Indian artists for Scottish surgeon-botanists, held in the library of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. In the central volume are reproduced some 200 of the drawings commissioned between 1826 and 1853 by Robert Wight (1796-1872) from the artists Rungiah and Govindoo. The first volume documents Wight's life and work as an East India Company surgeon and his major contributions to taxonomy and economic botany. The third volume is a travelogue, describing the author's journeys in search of Wight in Britain and India.
£37.50 [ref: 68868]

Noltie, H.J. Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah and Govindoo. Vol.1. - The Life and Work of Robert Wight, Vol.2. - Botanical Drawings by Rungiah & Govindoo: The Wight Collection. and Vol.3. - Journeys in Search of Robert Wight.
Pub. R.B.G. Edinburgh. 2007 Three volume set with b/w., colour and other figs. 4to. Softback. All three volumes are in fine condition. In a slipcase which is also in fine condition.
This trilogy forms the second in a series of illustrated works devoted to collections of botanical drawings made by Indian artists for Scottish surgeon-botanists, held in the library of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. In the central volume are reproduced some 200 of the drawings commissioned between 1826 and 1853 by Robert Wight (1796-1872) from the artists Rungiah and Govindoo. The first volume documents Wight's life and work as an East India Company surgeon and his major contributions to taxonomy and economic botany. The third volume is a travelogue, describing the author's journeys in search of Wight in Britain and India.
£37.50 [ref: 72057]

Noltie, H.J. Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah and Govindoo. Vol.1. - The Life and Work of Robert Wight, Vol.2. - Botanical Drawings by Rungiah & Govindoo: The Wight Collection. and Vol.3. - Journeys in Search of Robert Wight.
Pub. R.B.G. Edinburgh. 2007 Three volume set with b/w., colour and other figs. 4to. Softback. All three volumes are in fine condition. In a slipcase which is also in fine condition.
This trilogy forms the second in a series of illustrated works devoted to collections of botanical drawings made by Indian artists for Scottish surgeon-botanists, held in the library of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. In the central volume are reproduced some 200 of the drawings commissioned between 1826 and 1853 by Robert Wight (1796-1872) from the artists Rungiah and Govindoo. The first volume documents Wight's life and work as an East India Company surgeon and his major contributions to taxonomy and economic botany. The third volume is a travelogue, describing the author's journeys in search of Wight in Britain and India.
£37.50 [ref: 71860]

Noltie, H.J. The Dapuri Drawings. Alexander Gibson and The Bombay Botanic Gardens.
1st. Ed. Pub. Antique Collectors’ Club/RBG. Edinburgh. 2002 pp.240 with col. illus. throughout. Large 4to. Fine hardback. in fine dw. with just a hint of sunning to spine.
A remarkable collection of botanical drawings belonging to the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. The watercolours were commissioned by Alexander Gibson, an East India Company surgeon, and depict plants grown in the botanic garden under his control in the Bombay presidency. They are the work of an unknown Portuguese-Indian artist and were produced between 1847 and 1850. The main section of the book includes colour reproductions of the 170 drawings arranged in the order of the Bombay Flora, which Gibson co-authored.
£10.00 [ref: 68610]

Nordenstam, B., et al. Carl Peter Thunberg. Linnean, resenär, naturforskare 1743-1828.
1st. Ed. Pub. Atlantis. 1993 pp.191 with col. & b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw.
Thunberg became the most successful of all Linnaeus’ disciples and considered ‘the Linnaeus of Japan’.
£10.00 [ref: 70807]

North, M. (et al). A Vision of Eden. The Life and Work of Marianne North.
5th. Imp. Pub. RBG, Kew. 2006 pp.240 with colour plates throughout. 4to. Minor spotting to top-edge of text block o/w. a fine hardback in vg. dw.
Marianne North was a prolific English Victorian biologist and botanical artist and in 1871, she set off on an expedition to make a pictorial record of tropical & exotic plants. This is an abridged version of her travel memoirs and autobiography, with a selection of her paintings.
£7.50 [ref: 71990]

Oelbaum, Z. Blue Prints. The Natural World of Cyanotype Photographs.
1st. Ed. Pub. Rizzoli. 2002 pp.[96] with col. illus. throughout. Small 4to. Nr. fine hardback. Publisher’s illustrated flyer for this book loosely inserted.
The cyanotype print is a visually arresting printing method whose fame dates back to the pioneering nineteenth-century botanist Anna Atkins. Photographer Zeva Oelbaum revisits the beauty of the natural world, and pays homage to this botanist and this little-used and compelling process.
£50.00 [ref: 66296]

Okada, K. Flowers in Turkey.
Pub. mag2libro. 2006 pp.190 with col, illus. and maps. 8vo. Fine softback. Text in English, Latin, Turkish, Japanese, German, French and Italian. Scarce.
A tourist orientated guide to the plants and flowers of Turkey.
£30.00 [ref: 65808]

Okada, T. Illustrations of Fruits and Seeds of Japan. No. 1.
1st. Ed. Pub. Nankodo Co. 1964 pp.ii, 292 (of which 278 pages feature multiple b/w. illustrations). 8vo. Text in English and Japanese. Very minor spotting, o/w. a fine hardback. Very scarce.
Not all-emcompassing, but nevertheless, a superb work on the fruits and seeds of Japanese flora. The author undertook this work in his spare time, in which he drew the external morphology of fruits and seeds.
£195.00 [ref: 57654]

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Onions, A.H.S. et al. Smith’s Introduction to Industrial Mycology.
7th. Ed. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1981 pp.viii, 398 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. Signature. Fine hardback in thor. vg. dw.
Preferred edition.
£30.00 [ref: 62223]