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Alpine Garden Society, Bulletin Number 23 (March 1936) - Alpine Plant Conference Number. (Fred Whitsey's copy)

By: A.G.S.

Price: £7.50

Publisher: 1936

Seller ID: 008710

Condition: Fair

Illustrated, pp 136, a bit worn, covers a bit marked and worn. [Fred Whitsey's copy with his bookplate. He was the gardening correspondent of the Sunday and Daily Telegraph for a total of 45 years. A quiet unassuming man, a pacifist, a notable amateur violin player and a great gardener.]
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Scientific Paradoxes and Problems, and their solutions

By: Ackermann, A.S.E.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, The Old Westminster Press: 1925

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 007912

Condition: Good

Small slim 8vo, pp viii, 131, very clean internally, blue cloth slightly faded on the spine, one small tear on the upper cover, otherwise very good. [SCARCE. The title page states " simultaneously broadcast from 2LO". This was the second radio statio to regularly broadcast in the UK. It began broadcasting on 11 May 1922, for one hour a day from the seventh floor of Marconi House in the Strand. This building, opposite Somerset House was demolished in 2006, apart from the listed façade, which is now incorporated into the new hotel.]
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The South African Species of Lightfootia [Eric Groves' copy]

By: Adamson, R.S.

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Kirstenbosch, National Botanic Gardens of South Africa: 1955

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 016445

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Large slim octavo, pp (66), not illustrated, paperback, a very good clean copy. [Journal of South African Botany, Volume XXI part IV]. From the library of the botanist Eric Groves, with his stamp on both covers. [This generic name is illegitimate, and the genus is transferred to Wahlenbergia]
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Flora of the Cape Peninsula

By: Adamson, R.S. & Salter, T.M.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Cape Town & Johannesburg, Juta & Co., Ltd: 1950

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 012599

Condition: Very Good

Large very thick octavo, pp xx, 889, a slight mark to the fore-edge otherwise very clean internally, green cloth, a slight abrasion to the lower hinge, otherwise only the very slightest signs of wear. [The work is not illustrated].
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Image for The Pteridophyta of Iraq. The Family Lythraceae in Iraq. The Genus Plantago in Iraq. Some New records of Lizards to Iraq.Iaq Bird Notes - 1960 {Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum, Volume 1 parts 1,2,3,4 & 6

The Pteridophyta of Iraq. The Family Lythraceae in Iraq. The Genus Plantago in Iraq. Some New records of Lizards to Iraq.Iaq Bird Notes - 1960 {Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum, Volume 1 parts 1,2,3,4 & 6

By: Agnew, A.D.Q.; Zahra Chalabi Ka'bi; Hadag, Emil; Marchant, S. Khalaf, Kamel T.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Baghdad, University of Baghdad: 1961

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 015859

Condition: Good

Volume 1, parts 1 - 4, & 6. Stapled, as issued, loose in cover, a little worn, unopened, duplicates from University Museum Oxford, with stamps on each title page. [Comprises The Family Lythraceae, The Genus Plantago, the Pteridophyta, Iraq Bird Notes, & Some New Lizards to Iraq.] RARE
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Plant Life of South Asia (proceedings of the International Symposium, University of Karachi)

By: Ali, S.I. & Ghaffar, A.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Department of Botany, University of Karachi: 1991

Seller ID: 005739

ISBN: 9694700019

[Dedicated to Dr R.R. Stewart, on his centennial]. A few illustrations, large 8vo, pp 275, covers very slightly bowed, contents very slightly thumbed, otherwise a good sound copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. [Articles on the vegetation of Bangladesh, Mongolia, on the Euphorbiaceae of Pakistan, Chenopodiaceae, medicinal plants of Pakistan etc.]
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The Flora of Savantwadi

By: Almeida, Mrs S.M.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Jodhpur, Pawan Kumar, Scientific Publishers: 1990

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 015820

Condition: Good

Two volumes, large octavo, pp (10), 411; (2), 303, very clean internally, pictorial cloth, very slightly worn, in slightly worn and marked dustwrappers. SCARCE. [Savantwadi is in the Indian state of Maharashtra, close to the western coast.]
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Threatened Cacti of Mexico

By: Anderson, E.F.; Montes, S.A. & Taylor, N.P.

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 1994

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 000117

ISBN: 0947643699

Condition: New

Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp 135,very slightly age-toned, paperback, a very good copy.
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Threatened Cacti of Mexico

By: Anderson, E.F.; Montes, S.A. & Taylor, N.P.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 1994

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 006358

ISBN: 0947643702

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp 135,very slightly age-toned, otherwise a very good copy of the hardback edition in a slightly rubbed dustwrapper.
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Rhododendrons of Sabah

By: Argent, G., Lamb, A., Phillipps, A., & Collenette, S.

Price: £11.50

Publisher: Sabah Parks Trustees: 1988

Seller ID: 003425

Condition: New

Well illustrated, small 8vo, pp 146, paperback, a very good new copy.
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Rhododendrons of Sabah [Sybil Sassoon's copy]

By: Argent, G., Lamb, A., Phillipps, A., & Collenette, S.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Sabah Parks Trustees: 1988

Seller ID: 014266

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, small 8vo, pp 146, paperback, signature of Sybil Sassoon and date on the title page, otherwise a very good copy.
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The Kew Magazine, Volume 8 Part 2. (Curtis's Botanical Magazine] (Curtis). Includes articles on Bromeliads and Nepenthes

By: Argent, George. Andrews, Susyn. Nelson, E Charles. Green, Peter S.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Royal Botanic Garden Kew: 1991

Seller ID: 002936

Condition: As New

Illustrated with 6 botanical colour plates by Christabel King, Mary Bates etc, paperback, a very good copy. [Includes George Argent on Three Interesting Bromeliads from South America, Peter Green on Ligustrum Sempervirens, Susyn Andrews on Cornus nuttallii, Rosemary Simpson on Nepenthes rajah, and entries by Isobyl La Croix and Kenneth Beckett. Also a 5 page article by Rosemary Simpson on "Plants in Peril : Nepenthes rajah", and for the accompanying article by Charles Nelson - "The Waxing of a Glorious Rajah" which descibes the history of the plant in Victorian times, the wax m...
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Ecological Studies in the Mixed Dipterocarp Forests of Brunei State [Frank White's copy]

By: Ashton, P.S.

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Oxford at The Clarendon Press: 1964

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 014289

Condition: Good

A few photogarphic illustrations, large octavo, pp 75 + many tables and folding charts at rear, a card-mounted overlay slip loose at rear, a small errata slip tipped-in after the title page, very clean internally, paperback, covers slightly worn, the spine is torn at the head and tail. Presentation copy signed by author to the botanist Frank White. [Oxford Forest Memoirs, number 25]
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Villas and Gardens of Tuscany (Hardback edition)

By: Bajard, S. & Bencini, R.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Paris, 1993

Seller ID: 000845

Well illustrated, hardback, quarto, pp 223, a very good copy in dustwrapper as new. (Originally published at £35.00).
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The Brackish-Water Fauna of Northwestern Europe - an identification guide to brackish-water habitats, ecology and macrofauna for field workers, naturalists and students.

By: Barnes, R.S.K.

Price: £13.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 005181

ISBN: 0521455561

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp xvi, 287, fore-edge very slightly marked, topr corners of last few pages very slightly turned, paperback, slight crease to corner of lower cover, otherwise a very good copy.
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The Taff Vale Railway

By: Barrie, D.S.M.

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Lingfield, The Oakwood Press: 1962

Edition: Second edition

Seller ID: 015423

Condition: Very Good

Second edition, reprinted 1962. Illustrated, small slim octavo, pp 47, very clean internally, cloth-backed boards, slightly age-toned, a small scuff to the upper cover but otherwise very sound.
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A Revised Catalogue of Irish Macrolepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths) [Richard Fitter's copy]

By: Baynes, E.S.A.

Price: £5.85

Publisher: Hampton, E.W. Classey Ltd: 1964

Seller ID: 009174

Condition: Very Good

Slim 8vo, pp iii, 110, a very good copy in original boards. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper.]
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The Microscope in Medicine

By: Beale, Lionel S.

Price: £85.00

Publisher: London & Philadelphia, J. & A. Churchill, and Lindsay & Blakiston: 1877

Seller ID: 008814

Condition: Good

Fourth edition, much enlarged. 86 plates, large thick 8vo, pp xxxvi, 539, a little age-toned and dusty internally, front hinge slightly cracked, cloth slightly rubbed and worn, spine slightly frayed and chipped at the head and the foot. [Presentation copy from the author to Dr R. Fowler]
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The Plants of Mount Kinabalu. Volume 3 - Gymnosperms and Non-Orchid Monocotyledons

By: BEAMAN, John H & Beaman, Reed S.

Price: £42.95

Publisher: 1998

Seller ID: 004613

ISBN: 983812026X

Condition: New

NEW. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp xii, 220, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [Mount Kinabalu has been a centre of extremely active plant evolution and speciation and presents a spectacular natural laboratory for studying these processes. This third volume in the series includes sections on the history of botanical research on Mount Kinabalu, analysis of collecting activities, geographical distributions and endemism, ecological associations of the species, life-forms, classification and evolution of the monocotyledons, an enumeration of the species and indexes to numbered collections. Information...
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The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Volume 4 - Dicotyledon Families Acanthaceae to Lythraceae

By: BEAMAN, John; ANDERSON, Christiane & Beaman, Reed S.

Price: £55.00

Publisher: 2001

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 000750

ISBN: 9838120510

Condition: New

Illustrated, octavo, pp xiv, 570, a very good new copy in dustwrapper. [The Kinabalu flora includes over 5000 species of vascular plants, and is one of the most diverse if not the most diverse flora in the world. The primary objective of this project is to provide an inventory of all vascular plants in the flora of Mount Kinabalu. The Plants of Mount Kinabalu, 4 enumerates the dicotyledon families Acanthaceae to Lythraceae, roughly half of this major group. This fourth volume in the series contains sections on the historical aspects of plant collecting on Mount Kinabalu, a biographical sketch ...
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