Category: Alpines

Flora of the Pyrenees

Price: £7.50

Seller ID: 015897

Condition: Good

A large ring-bound quarto binder containing many dozens of articles dealing with the flora. Illustrated with extra illustrations from magazines and postcards. Mainly dating from gardening journals of the 1960's ? Slightly worn, the binder covers very discoloured.
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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

Binding: Paperback

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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Alpine Garden Society Bulletin : Consolidated Index to Volumes 1 - 61 (1930-1993)

By: Alpine Garden Society

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Pershore, AGS

Seller ID: 017797

ISBN-13: 9780900048647

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Small octavo, pp 281, very clean internally, paperback, very slight signs of use to the covers. (With the erratum slip loosely inserted).
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Alpine Garden Society Bulletins Volumes 24, 25, 26 & 29 [numbers 103 - 114, and 123 - 126]

By: Alpine Garden Society

Price: £16.50

Publisher: Woking, Alpine Garden Society

Seller ID: 017808

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Bulletin numbers 103 - 114, and 123 - 126, fore-edges slightly foxed, smartly bound in green mottled cloth. [The last two parts comprise the Report of the Third International Rock Garden Plant Conference.]
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Alpine Garden Society Bulletins Volumes 31 & 32 [numbers 131 - 138]

By: Alpine Garden Society

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Woking, Alpine Garden Society

Seller ID: 017809

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Bulletin numbers 131 - 138, in original parts.pp 380; 396, paperbacks, the covers just very slightly worn.
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Alpine Garden Society Bulletins Volumes 39 & 40 [numbers 163 - 170]

By: Alpine Garden Society

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Woking, Alpine Garden Society

Seller ID: 017807

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Bulletin numbers 163 - 170, in original parts.pp 344; 345, paperbacks, the covers just very slightly worn. [Includes "Alpines of the World - Special International Rock garden Conference Number"].
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A Revision of the Genus Petrorhagia (Eric Groves' copy)

By: Ball, P.W. & Heywood, V.H.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, British Museum (Natural History) : 1964

Seller ID: 016492

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with three photographic plates of seeds and several small line drawings, large slim octavo, pp (51), a slight crease to the upper margins throughout, otherwise a very good copy, paperback. SCARCE. Bulletin of the British Museum (NH), Botany, Volume 3 number 4. [From the library of the botanist Eric Groves, with his stamp on both covers.]. {Petrorhagia is a small genus of annual and perennial plants of the family Caryophyllaceae, mostly native to the Mediterranean region. The genus is often referred to as Tunica, which is an obsolete synonym. It is low-growing with wiry stems and na...
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Beautiful Flowers of Kashmir. [Two volumes]

By: Blatter, Ethelbert

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, John Bale, Sons & Danielsson

Seller ID: 019314

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

[1927 - 1928]. Two volumes, octavo, illustrated with two colour frontispieces, 61 colour plates and one plain plate, pp xvi, 198; xvi, 204, becoming weak internally, light foxing on the fore-edges, a little used generally internally, inscriptions on the endpapers, brown cloth rubbed and slightly worn, traces of labels on the spines, a duplicate from the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library with their labels and barcodes on the front endpapers.
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Beautiful Flowers of Kashmir. [Two volumes]

By: Blatter, Ethelbert

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, John Bale, Sons & Danielsson

Seller ID: 019772

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

[1927 - 1928]. Two volumes, octavo, illustrated with two colour frontispieces, 61 colour plates and one plain plate, pp xvi, 198; xvi, 204, slight foxing of the top and fore-edge, but an unusually fine copy internally, the brown cloth extremely clean and bright, and with the original dustwrappers [the first one being a bit worn and repaired and with a few pieces lacking; the second one being just lightly worn].
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Flora of the Yukon Territory

By: Cody, William J.

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Ottawa, NRC Research Press : 2000

Seller ID: 019282

ISBN-13: 9780660181103

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated with hundreds of small line drawings and distribution maps, large thick octavo, pp xviii, 669, paperback, a very good clean copy throughout. [SCARCE].
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The Ecology of the Alpine Zone of Mount Kenya

By: Coe, Malcolm James

Price: £12.50

Publisher: The Hague, W. Junk : 1967

Seller ID: 019219

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated, slim octavo, pp viii, 136, occasional ink lining in the margins, brown cloth with just slight signs of use. [With the signature of T.D.V. Swinscow, doctor and founder of the British Lichen Society.]
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Les Plantes des Montagnes et des Rochers, leur Acclimatation et leur Culture dans les Jardins [Peter Barr's copy]

By: Correvon, H.

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Paris and Geneva, Octave Doin et Fils; and the author : 1914

Seller ID: 019536

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A few small illustrations, small thick 12mo, pp xx, 491, a little age-toned internally, paperback, the covers a little worn and frayed, a few neat repairs using archival tape. SCARCE. [A presentation copy to the nurseryman Peter Barr, signed by the author. A duplicate from the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library with their label inside the front cover; they acquired it via the Peter Barr bequest of 1945.]
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Rock Garden and Alpine Plants

By: Correvon, Henry

Price: £9.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company : 1930

Seller ID: 014071

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp xvi, 544, slightly age-toned but otherwise very clean and sound internally, orange cloth very slightly worn, spine slightly faded.
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Kosciusko Alpine Flora [Kosciuszko)

By: Costin, Alec; Gray, Max; Totterdell, Colin & Wimbush, Dane

Price: £11.00

Publisher: Collingwood, Victoria, CSIRO : 1979

Seller ID: 018813

ISBN-13: 9780643024731

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, large octavo, pp 408, very clean internally, green cloth in good condition, a very good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper with slightly faded spine and a slight marginal tear. [Around Australia's highest mountain lies a rare ecosystem, an alpine area of outstanding beauty and diversity, strikingly different from other alpine ecosystems of the world but with common features. Kosciuszko Alpine Flora describes and illustrates the area's 212 flowering plants and ferns, of which 21 are endemic. It discusses the geological and human history of the area, the life-forms and habita...
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Western American Alpines

By: Gabrielson, Ira N.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company : 1932

Seller ID: 003698

First edition, illustrated, pp xviii, 271, fore-edge a little foxed, spine slightly dull and very slightly worn.
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A Survey of Dionysia in Cultivation (The Plantsman Volume 10 part 2)

By: Grey-Wilson, Christopher

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Royal Horticultural Society : 1988

Seller ID: 018779

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A 20 page article with line drawings by the author and a colour plate by Chistabel King, contained in the complete issue of The Plantsman Volume 10 Part 2, paperback, the covers slightly rubbed. [Also includes Barry Starling on Phyllodoce, and Nigel Muir's Additional Notes on Hybrid Limes.]
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The Czech and Slovak Houseleeks

By: Hadrava, Jan & Miklanek, Martin

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Prague, Kaktusy : 2007

Seller ID: 017170

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Well illustrated, small slender octavo, pp 35, paperback, a very good new copy. English text. (Kaktusy Special Issue.] SCARCE.
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The Propagation of Alpine Plants and Dwarf Bulbs

By: Halliwell, Brian (compiler and editor)

Price: £6.00

Publisher: London, Batsford : 1992

Seller ID: 006952

ISBN-13: 9780713470192

Illustrated, pp xii, 193, a good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper.
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Systematische Monographie der Gattung Leontopodium

By: Handel-Mazzetti, Heinrich

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Leipzig, : 1927

Seller ID: 014801

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with two plates of herbarium specimens and five text illustrations, octavo, drop-head title, pp 178, very clean internally, red cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. The cloth is slightly wrinkled, otherwise this is a very good copy. With the bookplate of Kenneth Lazenby, a founding member of the Alpine Garden Society. VERY SCARCE. [Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt, Bd XLIV, Abt II, Heft 1.]
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The Seedlist Handbook

By: Harkness, Bernard E.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: New York, Kashong Publications : 1974

Seller ID: 003004

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Small quarto, pp 187, paperback, very slightly worn. [An indispensable aid to the propagator of alpine and herbaceous plants, together with a few woody genera also. Gives one-line descriptions to plant seed offered by The Scottish Rock Garden Club, the Alpine Garden Society and the American Rock Garden Society.]
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Category: Alpines

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