Category: Biography

Lettsom - His Life, Times, Friends and Descendants

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann Medical Books Limited : 1933

Seller ID: 015819

Binding: Buckram

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp xx, 498, dark blue buckram, bevelled edges, a very good copy. (Quaker physician and botanist, friend of Collinson and Fothergill, he played a major role in introducing plants and seed from America and the Indies, and in their distribution to botanists and farmers. He was responsible for the introduction of the mangel-wurzel.)
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El Pensamiento Biogeografico de Alfred Russel Wallace (Coleccion Luis Duque Gomez)

By: Alfredo Bueno, H. & Jorge Llorente B.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Bogota, Academia Colombiana de Cincas Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales : 2003

Seller ID: 012173

ISBN-13: 9789589205570

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A few illustrations and maps, small octavo, pp 191, paperback, a few very slight creases to the spine, otherwise this is virtually like new. Spanish text. [Presentation inscription on the front endpaper, signed by the author]
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Driven By Steam

By: Allan, Ian

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Shepperton, Ian Allen Publishing : 1992

Seller ID: 017198

ISBN-13: 9780711021181

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, octavo, pp 160, very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is faded on its upper cover, otherwise a very good copy. [An interesting biography of the publisher Ian Allan.]
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A Victorian Young Lady

By: Askwith, Betty

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Salisbury, Michael Russell : 1979

Seller ID: 013902

ISBN-13: 9780859550611

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Four plates, octavo, pp 155, a very good copy in a slightly worn and marked dustwrapper. [The author's account of her mother, Ellen Peel.
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The Sky Suspended; The Analysis of a Flying Experience 1940-1945

By: Bailey, Jim

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton : 1965

Seller ID: 016713

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, not illustrated, pp 166, slight foxing to the fore-edge and the top edge, a small neat signature on the front endpaper, otherwise extremely clean internally, maroon cloth in very bright condition; the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, it is slightly soiled on its lower cover and a little foxed on the fore-edges, but otherwise only very slightly worn. A much better than average copy.
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Sir Joseph Banks : a Global Perspective

By: Banks. R.R., Elliott, Brent, Desmond, Ray (etc).

Price: £16.50

Publisher: Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. : 1994

Seller ID: 018313

ISBN-13: 9780947643614

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp (4), ii, 235, paperback, very slight signs of use, but a good copy, with the bookplate of the Kew botanist David Field. . [ An excellent series of essays by H.B. Carter, Ray Desmond, Brent Elliott and others on Banks and the Royal Society, Banks' correspondence, the Swedish connection, Banks and the exploration of Iceland, the transformation of Kew, the planting of New South Wales, Banks and African exploration, Boston, Banks and Bonpland, the Chelsea Physic Garden, Banks' insect collection etc.]
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Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle - Unpublished Letters and Notebooks

By: Barlow, Nora (editor); Darwin, Charles

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Pilot Press Ltd : 1945

Seller ID: 018462

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

A few illustrations, octavo, pp (4), 279, a folding map at the rear, the fore-edge slightly rough, otherwise clean internally, blue cloth a little blotched, in a very poor dustwrapper.
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Evenings in Albany

By: Bax, Clifford

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Eyre & Spottiswoode : 1942

Seller ID: 017621

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Frontispiece, octavo, pp 153, slightly age-toned and very slight occasional fox mark, grey cloth, age-toned, faded and slightly worn.
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The Beginning of Rayon, (with Corrigenda & Supplement)

By: Beer, Edwin J.

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Shorton, Paignton, Phoebe Beer

Seller ID: 017534

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

[1962 - 1968]. Illustrated, octavo, pp (10), 206, (6), very clean internally, blue cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is slightly worn and marked. TOGETHER WITH : Corrignda & Supplement. 12mo, pp 36, paperback, very good. [Viscose Rayon, one of the most successful man-made fibres.]
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Captain Cook

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co Ltd : 1890

Seller ID: 007473

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Portrait frontispiece, pp 191, small slim 8vo, cloth faded and a little rubbed and worn.
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Travellers in Arabia

By: Bidwell, Robin

Price: £4.50

Publisher: London, Hamlyn : 1976

Seller ID: 014322

ISBN-13: 9780600329008

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp 224, a neat inscription on the half-title, otherwise very clean internally, blue cloth, binding leaning slightly, a good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper.
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William Robinson - the Wild Gardener

By: Bisgrove, Richard

Price: £85.00

Publisher: London, Frances Lincoln : 2008

Seller ID: 019595

ISBN-13: 9780711225428

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp 256, very clean internally, black cloth, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. Very scarce. [In this book Richard Bisgrove analyses William Robinson and his remarkable contribution to gardening. Robinson and Gertrude Jekyll were almost exact contemporaries and each made enormous contributions to the English garden - and so to the gardens of the whole English-speaking and Anglophile world - but in rather different ways. Robinson, more than any other gardener, was responsible for sweeping away the carpet bedding of the Victorians and promot...
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Diary of a Scotch Gardener at the French Court at the End of the Eighteenth Century

By: Blaikie, Thomas (edited by Francis Birrell)

Price: £22.50

Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons Ltd : 1931

Seller ID: 014040

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

A few illustrations, octavo, pp xii, 256, slight foxing, top edge stained, otherwise clean internally, green cloth very slightly worn, binding leaning slightly, a repaired tear to the spine head. [Blaikie (1750 -1838) was a Scottish botanist and gardener born in Edinburgh. Between 1775 and 1776 he was tasked by John Fothergill and William Pitcairn with travelling the Alps to collect and record rare species of plants. Whilst there he met Voltaire and travelled with Michel-Gabriel Paccard, who received later fame for achieving the first ascent of Mont Blanc. After briefly returning to Britain, B...
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Annals of the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society Written from Its Minute books

By: Bonney, T.G.

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co Ltd : 1919

Seller ID: 017370

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, pp x, 286, untrimmed as issues (but also unopened - so pages will need to be cut with a sharp knife) therefore in very good condition internally, indeed never been read!. Maroon cloth, very slightly worn and faded, the spine a little dull and spine head very slightly pulled.
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Adventures of a Botanist's Wife

By: Bor, Eleanor

Price: £11.00

Publisher: London, Hurst & Blackett Ltd : 1952

Seller ID: 018974

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp 204, very clean internally, orange cloth (possibly not the original binding ??), in a dustwrapper which is slightly worn and stretched.
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A Sense of Place - the life and work of Forrest Shreve

By: Bowers, Emily Jane

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Tucson, The University of Arizona Press : 1988

Seller ID: 011934

ISBN-13: 9780816510726

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small octavo, pp xii, 195, a very good copy in dustwrapper which has a slight fade on the spine. [Forrest Shreve (1878-1950) was an internationally known plant ecologist who spent most of his career at the Carnegie Institution's Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona. Shreve's contributions to the study of plant ecology laid the groundwork for modern studies and several of his works came to be regarded as classics by ecologists worldwide. This first full-length study of Shreve's life and work demonstrates that he was more than a desert ecologist. His early work in Maryland and Jamai...
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An Account of the Life, Travels and Christian Experiences in the Work of the Ministry of Samuel Bownas [Gillett family copy]

By: Bownas, Samuel (edited by Joseph Besse)

Price: £150.00

Publisher: At the Bible in George Yard, Lombard Street, Luke Hinde : 1756

Seller ID: 017803

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good

First edition. Small octavo, pp viii, 198, + publisher's advert 2 pages, a little used internally, some pages with slight tears to the gutter margin, contemporary full calf, rubbed, worn at the corners, raised bands to the spine but no label. With the signature of an early owner John Gillett on the rear endpaper. With the further Quaker signatures of Joseph Gillett of Somerton and William S. Clark. [Samuel Bownas was born in 1676, to Quaker parents, although his father died when he was a month old. His father had been a Friend during the time of Quaker persecution, with meetings of the Friends...
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Charles Darwin - a man of enlarged curiosity

By: Brent, Peter

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Heinemann : 1981

Seller ID: 010483

ISBN-13: 9780434085958

Binding: Cloth-backed boards

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large 8vo, pp 536, original cloth-backed boards in very good condition, a very good copy in a rather worn and frayed dustwrapper.
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St. Helena Story

By: Brookes, Dame Mabel

Price: £10.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company : 1961

Seller ID: 019181

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp xii, 309, the initials K.M.S. have been neatly written in the margin of the first apge, otherwise very clean internally, red cloth in very good condition, in a very slightly worn dustwrapper, now nicely protected in a removable clear cover.
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The Utmost Good Faith : R.A.J. Porter and the Secretan Syndicate at Lloyd's of London

By: Brown. Antony

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, The Oregon Press Limited : 1984

Seller ID: 017599

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, slender octavo, pp 27, very clean internally, blue cloth in excellent condition, in a very good dustwrapper. Signed by Porter on the title page. [Privately produced in a very small number].
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