[BOTANY -- PLANT HYBRIDIZATION]. A group of 25 works, including:

VAVILOV, N.I. The Origin, Variation, Immunity and Breeding of Cultivated Plants. NY, 1951. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED. -- ZIRKLE, Conway. The Beginnings of Plant Hybridization. Philadelphia et al, 1935. Provenance: Thomas W. Childs (inscription), gifted to; The Berry Botanic Garden Library (bookplate). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED. -- HOFMEISTER, Wilhelm. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher Cryptogamia, and on the Fructification of the Coniferae. L: The Ray Society, 1862. -- COULTER, John M. Fundamentals of Plant-Breeding. NY et al, 1914. SIGNED BY COULTER. -- WILSON, Edmund B et al. An Atlas of the Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum. NY & L, 1895. Provenance: Mahlon B. Hoagland (1921-2009), Biochemist who discovered transfer RNA. -- ABBOT, Charles Greeley, editor. Smithsonian Scientific Series. Old and New Plant Lore. NY, 1931. Volume XI only (of 12). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY A.S. HITCHCOCK. -- [MANUSCRIPT]. “Dictionnaire Étymologique les noms Latins le Végétaux.” 430 pages. In French. Written in neat cursive in dark brown ink. Bound in later quarter black calf. -- HALLER, Albert. Flora Ienensis. Jena, Germany: Christopher Henrik Cunonis, 1745. -- And 17 others. Together, 25 works in 25 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, most illustrated, most in original or contemporary bindings (occasionally repaired), most FIRST EDITION, condition generally very good. Complete list available on request.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil