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By: Aitken, J.R.
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London and Edinburgh, T n Foulis: 1913
Seller ID: 004031
Condition: Fair
Olive green paper covered boards with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Page edges untrimmed. Condition: Fair to good, cover edges and spine are sunned and lightly shelfworn with light bumping to head and tail of spine. Front cover has some paper residue from a small label to right of gilt emblem (see image). Binding sound, no inscriptions.Very occasional light foxing. Approx three pages have some linear foxing possibly from a green silk bookmark, present, but detached. 107pp. 7 colour tipped in plates from watercolour drawings by Katharine Cameron. A charming book detaili... View more info
By: Allan, Mea
Price: £28.00
Publisher: London, Michael Joseph: 1964
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 005397
Condition: Very Good
Green cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light shelfwear, light sunning to spine and some light soiling to top of rear cover of dustjacket. Not price-clipped. 345pp. Colour frontispiece and many b/w illustrations. In this book, the author tells the story of John Tradescant and his son, who were royal gardeners in the times of Charles I and Charles II. As well as being plant-hunters, they created the Musaeum Tradescantium, the first "Cabinet of Curiosities" to be open to the public... View more info
By: Bacon, Francis and Cowley, Abraham
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Guildford, A.C.Curtis: 1903
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004497
Condition: Good
Grey paper covered boards withlight red cloth spine, and titled in dark greeen on front cover and in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers, and light rubbing to cover corners. Previous owners name and the date 1903 on front endpaper. Light browning to endpapers. Binding sound. 23pp. One of the Astolat Oakleaf Series. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View more info
By: Baker, H.A. And Oliver, E.G.H.
Price: £28.00
Publisher: Capetown and Johannesburg, South Africa, Purnell: 1967
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 003991
Condition: Fine
Dark green cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Fine, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light soiling and shelfwear, and light sunning to spine. 180pp. 163 colour plates. This work represents a cross-section of the genus Erica as a whole throughout Southern Africa and 167 species are illustrated in full colour and great detail. Species representative of each section of the genus are chosen with special reference to size, range of form, colour variations and geographical distribution. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall View more info
By: Baker, J.G.
Price: £33.00
Publisher: London and New York, George Bell & Sons: 1892
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 003425
Condition: Good
Dark green cloth with titles in gilt on front cover and spine. Black endpapers. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers and some bumping to cloth of head and tail of spine.Light foxing to endpapers and occasionally within book. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. The front pastedown has a bookplate bearing the motto "tuta latebris nullis fraus". 247pp. No illustrations. This book was the last in a series of botanical handbooks written by J.G.Baker, then the keeper of the herbarium of the Royal Gardens, Kew. In the nomenclature and circumscription of the genera, he follo... View more info
By: Bloom, J.Harvey
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1903
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 003935
Condition: Good
Red cloth with title in gilt on front cover and spine, and olive green ruled decoration to front cover edges and head and tail of spine. Top edge gilt. Condition: Good, covers have very light shelfwear. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Some foxing to endpapers and general light foxing throughout the book, sligthly heavier in places. 243pp. 4 b/w photographic plates. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View more info
By: Boyle, Eleanor Vere (E.V.B.)
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, John Lane, the Bodley Head: 1908
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003318
Condition: Good
Green cloth with titles in gilt on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Condition: Fair to good, covers and spine have general light shelfwear. Binding sound, although pages 55-58 are loose. Occasional light foxing to endpapers and within text. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown together with inscription from the previous owner to a friend, dated 1953. 258pp. 8 b/w plates. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View more info
By: Burberry, H.A.
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Liverpool, Blake & Mackenzie: 1895
Seller ID: 003862
Condition: Good
Second edition. Dark green cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, covers have light shelfwear with light bumping to spine and cover corners. Some browning to endpapers. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 172pp. 4 colour and several b/w plates. This book includes chapters on the various types or orchids, the correct termperature and atmosphere for their successful cultivation, potting, propagation, diseases, protection from cold during winter and tabulated instructions for the treatment of orchids. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Glasgow and London, Blackie: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003913
ISBN: 021691874X
Condition: Very Good
Green hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, previous owners name on front endpaper, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear, and sunning to spine. 260pp. This book presents a balanced description of the causes and consequences of land contamination, and provides practical guidance on safe and economic reclamation. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Kilkenny, Ireland, Boethius Press: 1984
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 003384
ISBN: 0863140955
Condition: Good
Dark blue cloth with titles in gilt on front cover and spine, and an image (pasted on) of an Anemone obtusiloba f.patula. Condition: Good, with light sunning to spine and approx one inch of sunning to the top of the front cover. Very faint sunning to very edges of text. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 218pp. 4 colour and 18 b/w plates. A charmingly written history of plants and gardens in Ireland, including many imported from distant lands, such as Edgeworth's rhododendron and Tommy Watters' Viburnum. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Collings Brehaut, The Rev.T.
Price: £115.00
Publisher: London, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts: 1860
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 003800
Condition: Good
Dark green cloth with titles in gilt on spine and blindstamped decoration to covers. Chocolate brown endpapers with black printed advertising on both front and rear pastedowns for two other contemporary publications by Longman, Green and Co. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Light bumping to head and tail of spine and cover corners. Light foxing to endpapers. Previous owners name written in ink at top of title page (Frederick Collingwood of Glanton Pyke, Northumberland). Light creasing to top corner of pages 73 to 81. 119pp. B/w frontispiece and eight other b/w illustrations. Si... View more info
By: Cooke, M.C.
Price: £22.00
Publisher: London, Spottiswoode & Co.Ltd.: 1906
Seller ID: 003496
Condition: Good
Pale brown buckram with titles in gilt on spine, brown endpapers. Condition: Good, with light soiling and sunning to covers. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 278pp. 24 colour plates. Numerous b/w figures in text. Chapters include pests of the flower garden, garden vegetables, forest trees and field crops. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Correvon, H.
Price: £260.00
Publisher: Geneva and Paris, Librairie Georg & Cie, Librairie O.Doin: 1899
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 003875
Condition: Fair
NB: Text is in French throughout with common names in English, German and French. Turquoise blue cloth with titles in gilt on spine and front cover. Condition: Fair, covers have general light shelfwear and bumping to spine and cover corners, with heavier shelfwear and sunning to spine. Front inner hinge cracked but holding firmly. Binding becoming a little loose in general, with some internal cracking. Light browning to endpapers and text edges, with occasional foxing to the colour plates. Previous owners name on front endpaper. No inscriptions. 90pp text and 2pp. list of plates (59 colour and... View more info
By: Cowlard, C.M.
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Oxford, The Holywell Press Ltd.: 1956
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004058
Condition: Good
Dark green paper covered boards with green cloth spine and title in dark green on front cover and spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear and light scuffing to covers, and light bumping to head and tail of spine. Internally, the book is in very good condition, with no inscriptions.105pp. 50 b/w line drawn plates. This book identifies the wild flowers that are typically found on the Italian Riviera. Fifty plants are listed with a description of the flowers, their habitat and method of growth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Burlington, Vermont, University of Vermont: 1936
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003418
Condition: Good
Pale grey card covers with titles in black on front cover. The book comes together with a 14pp. paper supplement by Frances Whittier Pennell, giving indices of states, places and railroad routes of Mexico. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear and scuffing to covers and spine. Some sunning to spine and surrounding area. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 756pp. No illustrations apart from a b/w frontispiece photographic portrait of Cyrus Guernsey Pringle. The book includes chapters on the life of Pringle, diaries of his Mexican trips, and classified and numerical lists of the ... View more info
Price: £150.00
Publisher: Croix-Place, Mons, A.Libert: 1906
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 003945
Condition: Very Good
NB: Text in French throughout. From the collection of C E Hubbard, the British botanist (1900-1980). Ten issues in sequence from No. 1 to 10 of the French periodical Le Bambou, first issued on 15th January 1906.Privately bound together in a blue hardcover binding with title in gilt on spine. The front pastedown has C E Hubbard stamped in black and below it, Hubbards' signature. Issue no.1 of Le Bambou bears the inscription in ink "Hommage de l'auteur" and the signature of the author, Jean Houzeau De Lehaie below. The issues are all in very good condition, with light sunning to text edg... View more info
By: Desch, H.E. (revised by J.M.Dinwoodie)
Price: £28.00
Publisher: London, The Macmillan Press Ltd.: 1981
Seller ID: 006489
ISBN: 0333257510
Condition: Very Good
Dark brown hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscirptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear. Price-clipped. 410pp. Several b/w illustrations. The first part of the book contains a detailed examination of timber at four different levels of magnitude: molecular, ultrastructural, microscopic and macroscopic. The middle chapters are concerned with a detailed study of the various properties of wood, with particular emphasis on moisture relationships, density, strength, stiffness, toughness and the conductivity of heat. The third part... View more info
By: Dodwell, E.S.
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Groombridge & Sons: 1886
Seller ID: 002502
Condition: Good
Presentation copy. Second edition, with appendix. Scarlet cloth with titles in gilt on front cover. Pale yellow endpapers. All edges are red. Condition: Good, covers are generally lightly soiled and rubbed with bumping to spine and cover corners. Colour from the cover cloth has bled around the very edge of the front and rear endpapers. Fep has the inscription "presented by the author" in ink. Title page has a small white paper label with the number 289 on it in black, and a red stamp from the Birmingham and Midlands Counties Gardeners Mutual Society. Binding cracked internally in once ... View more info
By: Dowling B.A., Alfred E.P.Raymund
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Kegan Paul Trench & Trubner: 1900
Seller ID: 003839
Condition: Good
Buff coloured buckram with bevelled edges and titles in red on front cover and spine. Pages untrimmed. Title page is printed in red and black. Condition: Good, covers are lightly soiled with light bumping to head and tail of spine. Spine is sunned so that title on spine is faded. Browning to endpapers. No inscriptions. Binding sound. 226pp. The book includes an introductory essay on the Flora Sacra, sections on flowering trees, such as the Holy Thorn of Glastonbury and the Cadnam Oak, types of the Incarnation, such as the tree of Jesse and the Burning Bush, together with the flora seen during ... View more info
Price: £105.00
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1875
Seller ID: 003931
Condition: Good
Second edition. Olive green cloth with titles in gilt on spines of both volumes. Binding and endpapers appear to be later than 1875, possibly 1950's. Condition: Both volumes have very light shelfwear and soiling to the covers, inner hinges beginning to crack, and binding cracked internally in one place in each volume, otherwise binding sound, occasional light foxing, otherwise text clean, no inscriptions. 624pp. in total, 145 plates, 36 of them chromolithographs, drawn by Isaac Sprague, then Americas' foremost botanical artist. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
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