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The Orchid in Lore and Legend.

By: Berliocchi, Luigi

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Oregon, Timber Press: 2001

Seller ID: 1678

ISBN: 0881924911

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

8vo. 184 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Translated by Lenore Rosenberg and Anita Weston. Firsy published in1996 as "Il flore degli dei, l'orchideadel mito alla storia" by Nuovo Equilibri, Viterbo, Italy. Foreword by Henry Oakley. Richly illustrated throughout with black and white period engravings and paintings and full page color plates from Warner and Williams "The Orchid Album". An account of the discovery of the orchid and it's place in literature, religion, the arts, magic, cuisine, lore and legend. Also included is an account of the most popular genera and their cultivation. Chapter...
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Medicina Medica. Metaphysical Healing Methods in Late-antique and Medieval Manuscripts With Thirty Facsimile Plates. The Classics of Medicine Library.. With Booklet of Notes from the Editors included.

By: Bierdermann, Hans

Price: $148.00

Publisher: Birmingham, Alabama, The Classics of Medicine Library, Gryphon Editions: 1986

Seller ID: 2587

ISBN: 3201010774

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Fine

4to. 107 pgs. Very Fine condition black leather hardcover with gilt decoration and embossment to covers and spine with die-stamped 22k gold. All edges of textblock gilt. Gold marker ribbon bound into headband, marbled endpapers. Pristine condition of the privately printed English language edition translated from the German by Rosemarie Werba. [from the Austrian Edition, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1972). Included is a 23pg booklet of notes from the editors. Table of Contents: Introduction, Metaphysical Healing Theories, The Postulate of the Four Humours, The Tacuinum sanitatis, Magic...
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Vanilla : Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid

By: Ecott, Tim

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Berkeley, California, U.S.A., Grove Press: 2004

Seller ID: 1729

ISBN: 0802117759

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

xx.278 pgs. Fine Hardcover in Fine dust jacket, clean and unmarked. Contents: List of Illustrations, Prologue, Foreword, Black Flower, An Indian Secret, The City That Perfumed the World, Mexican Money, From an English Garden, Ile Bourbon, Creole Hearts, The Slave's Crime, Homage to Albius, Empress of Tahiti, Murder in Madagascar, Ice Cream and Perfume, The Admiral's Legacy, Vanilla Prince, Epilogue, Acknowledgements, Select Bibliography. ISBN 0802117759. 1729.
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Fresh Cuts : Unexpected Arrangements With Branches, Buds and Blooms

By: Gal, Edwina Von

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Artisan (A Division of Workman Publishing): 2004

Seller ID: 1726

ISBN: 1579652662

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

148 pgs. Fine condition softcover, clean and unmarked. Lavishly illustrated with color photos by J. M. Hall throughout. Introduction by Ken Druse. "Fresh Cuts" offers one hundred unexpected flora arranging ideas gleaned from foraging expeditions, nature walks or backyard strolls. In addition, the text offers anecdotes, facts, observations and folklore along with practical guidance for the care and maintenance of the plant materials used to craft the arrangements. Contains new material on flower arranging and an updated source guide. ISBN 1579652662. #1726.
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Roots of Murder

By: Harrison, Janis

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1999

Seller ID: 1037

ISBN: 0312203047

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

8vo. 246 pgs. Fine condition first edition in Fine jacket. Author's first book, a gardening mystery. A small town widowed flower shop owner becomes rooted in a local murder. ISBN 0312203047. #1037.
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Pomona's Harvest. An Illustrated Chronicle of Antiquarian Fruit Literature.

By: Janson, H. Frederic

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Portland, Oregon, Timber Press: 1996

Seller ID: 773

ISBN: 0881923362

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

8vo. 433 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Green cloth, jacket illustrations: 1885 silk and wood tapestry Pomona, jacket back is frontis of Traite des arbres fruitiers. Illustrated endpapers, black and white engravings, illustrations and color plates throughout text. An in-depth review of European literature dealing with fruit from antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Contains a detailed bibliography of over 600 fruit-related works. Contents include: fruit texts of antiquity and the Middle Ages, organization of fruit literature, Renaissance printings of old and new fruit texts, literary r...
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Four Thousand Years of Pharmacy. An Outline History of Pharmacy and the Allied Sciences.

By: Lawall

Price: $43.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1927

Seller ID: 2553

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

xv.665 pgs. Good to Very Good. Illustrated with 64 black and white plates including frontis of a section of the Eders papyrus, one of the oldest pharmaceutical works known. Red cloth hard cover, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, top edge of text blockmatching red. Corners and edges rubbed and frayed, binding strong and sound. Faint lettering lower spine and owner name on front endpaper, light foxing to frontis, title page and the backs of some of the illustrations. Contents: I. Ancient Pharmacy and its Earliest Side-Line -Medicine. Science in Embryo. II. Pharmacy During the Greek, Alexa...
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The Wine Merchants' Book of Recipes

By: McWilliam, D.M.

Price: $194.00

Publisher: Glasglow, William Gilmour, Jun. & Co.:

Seller ID: 2601

Binding: Cloth Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

vii.106+pgs. Very Good condition wine-colored cloth hardcover. Faint spotting to front cloth as pictured, otherwise clean, sound and unmarked within. Not dated. Circa 1927. [Bound in with title page is a warning statement from the Preservatives Act of 1927 banning the use of salicylic acid as a preservative while allowing sulphur dioxide or benzoic acid]. Very uncommon. Collection of recipes for the "Trade" gathered into sections: British Fermented Wnes, Alcoholic Cordials and Liqueurs, Brandy, Gin, Rum, Whisky, Bitters. Plain Syrups, Non-Alcoholic Cordials and Wines, Syrups for Aerated Bevera...
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A Natural History of Ferns.

By: Moran, Robbin C.

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Portland, OR, U.S.A., Timber Press: 2005

Seller ID: 2574

ISBN: 0881926671

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

301pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Illustrated with a section of color plates and interspersed with blackand white drawings by Haruto M. Fukuda. Informative and botanically detailed while remaining refreshingly engrossing and very readable. Following a Foreword by Oliver Sachs, there are 33 chapters divided into six main sections: The Life Cycle of Ferns, Classification of Ferns, Fern Fossils, Adaptations by Ferns, Fern Geography, Ferns and People. A glossary, References and index follow. 0881926671. Book# 2574.
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Ingenious Kingdom : The Remarkable World of Plants

By: Northen, Henry and Northen Rebecca

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, Inc.: 1971

Seller ID: 1695

ISBN: 0134648595

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

xii. 274 pgs. Good to Very Good hardcover in Very Good jacket. Ex-library with the usual markings and stamps on fore edges, title and copyright pages and endpapers, else minor shelf wear with clean and unmarked text. Jacket in very nice condition, minimal signs of wear. Illustrated with photographs and line drawings by Stanley Wyatt. Chapters: Ingenious Kingdom, The Coming of Life, Algae, Viruses and Bacteria, True Fungi, Slime Molds, and Lichens, Mosses, Ferns and Their Relatives, The Ancient and Honorable Order of Conifers, Flowering Plants, Fruits and Seeds, The Engineering and Design of P...
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Healing Gardens

By: Rawlings, Rory

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Wisconsin, Willow Creek Press: 1998

Seller ID: 1075

ISBN: 1572232080

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

4to. 176 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine dust jacket. Color photographs throughout. Introduction, followed by nicely presented sections on holistic gardening, feng shui, color therapy, herbalism, aromatherapy, meditation, designing a zen garden, resources, suggested reading, index. ISBN 0572232080. #1075.
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The Family Companion and Physician, on Reformed Botanical Principles, Treating of the Symptoms and Remedies of Acute Diseases, in Men, Women, and Children, Together With a Short Lecture on the Laws of the Many Nervous Diseases to Which We are Subject.

By: Wilson, J.

Price: $73.00

Publisher: Owego, New York, Unknown: 1862

Seller ID: 2606

Binding: Embossed Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

v.120pgs. Very Good condition brown hardcover with embossed design and gilt lettering to front cover. Binding tight, slight wear to edges and corners. Vintage family medicine guide replete with recipes for various ailments for everything from poison ivy to rabies to cholera. A lecture on "The Laws of Many Nervous Diseases" and the dangers of intemperence is also included. An interesting, if not always scientifically informed, era in the history of medicine. Book# 2606.
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