Category: Trees and Shrubs

Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica. Volume 15 number 2; Volume 16 numbers 1, 2, 3 & 4; Volume XVII Numbers 1, 3 & 4

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Beijing, Institute of Botany

Seller ID: 018279

Condition: Good

1977-1979. Illustrated with botanical line drawings and photographs, large octavo, paperbacks, the covers very slightly worn. [ Chinese text, with Latin plant names and some Latin plant descriptions. Contents lists in English. Contains a large number of important papers.]. {A heavy item, extra postage may be required.]
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The Rhododendron Society Notes, Volumes I - III in 15 parts. [Reprinted by The Pacific Rhododendron Society]

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Washington, The Pacific Rhododendron Society : 1976

Seller ID: 016456

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

[Originally published 1916 - 1931]. A complete set, three volumes in 15 parts, a reduced size facsimile, paperback, the upper cover of the first part very slightly worn and with a slight splash mark, otherwise a very good clean set. Very scarce.
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Heyday of the Gymnosperms - systematics and biodiversity of the Late triassic Molteno fructifications

By: Anderson, John M. & Anderson, Heidi M.

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Pretoria, National Botanic Institute : 2003

Seller ID: 008574

ISBN-13: 9781919795980

Binding: Pictorial laminated boards

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, very large tall quarto, pp viii, 398, pictorial laminated boards. Top edge very slightly marked, otherwise as new. SCARCE. A heavy book - extra postage will be needed. [This book is based on extensive fieldwork and collections in the Karoo Basin of South Africa and provides the most comprehensive insight so far into extinct seed plants from the Mesozoic of the southern hemisphere. Large numbers of specimens have been used to delimit species and careful note has been taken of associations between different fossil species. A key feature is the focus on fossil seed plant rep...
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Brief History of the Gymnosperms: Classification, Biodiversity, Phytogeography and Ecology (Strelitzia 20)

By: Anderson, John M; Anderson, Heidi, M and Cleal, Chris J

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Pretoria, South African National Biodiversity Institute : 2007

Seller ID: 018307

ISBN-13: 9781919976396

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated with line drawings and coloured charts, tall quarto, pp x, 280. lower and upper corners a little bruised, a large name on the title page, otherwise clean and sound internally, paperback, covers slightly worn. Extremely scarce. [This book offers a global synthesis of gymnosperm families, fossil and extant, providing a new and distinctive perspective on the macroevolutionary biodiversity trends within this group through their 375 million-year history. The stratigraphic ranges of the 84 gymnosperm families are plotted according to their first and last appearances in the fossil record....
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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

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, small octavo, pp 146, paperback, lower corners very slightly bruised, otherwise a very good 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

Binding: Paperback

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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Image for The Kew Magazine Volume 5 Part 3, (incorporating Curtis's Botanical Magazine) - includes 'Some Attractive Vireya Rhododendrons', 'Australasian Ferns in Irish Gardens' & 'Riverine Forests of the Jubba River, Somalia'

The Kew Magazine Volume 5 Part 3, (incorporating Curtis's Botanical Magazine) - includes 'Some Attractive Vireya Rhododendrons', 'Australasian Ferns in Irish Gardens' & 'Riverine Forests of the Jubba River, Somalia'

By: Argent, George; Maunder, Michael; Nelson, E. Charles.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Basil Blackwell for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : 1988

Seller ID: 008579

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New

Illustrated with 6 colour plates by Rodella Purves and other line drawings, 8vo, paperback, a very good copy. (This volume covers mainly Vireya Rhododendrons. Other articles : The Riverine Forests of the Jubba River, Southern Somalia - by Michael Maunder, (who also contributes Plants in Peril - Ulmus wallichiana), Some Australasian Ferns in Irish Gardens - by Charles Nelson.)
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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

Seller ID: 014289

Binding: Paperback

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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Ericas in Southern Africa

By: Baker, H.A. & Oliver, E.G.H.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Cape Town, Purnell : 1967

Seller ID: 010288

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Well illusrated with many botanical colour plates, large 8vo, pp lxvi, 180, a little aged and marked internally, cloth slightly worn, shelf-rubbed on the bottom edge, in a dustwrapper which is a bit aged and marked and which has been permanently covered in plastic, with previous owner's bookplate on half-title. [Signed by second author].
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Ericas in Southern Africa

By: Baker, H.A. & Oliver, E.G.H.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Cape Town, Purnell : 1967

Seller ID: 010289

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illusrated with many botanical colour plates, large 8vo, pp lxvi, 180, very clean internally, cloth in very good condition, in a frated, chipped and slightly aged dustwrapper.
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Famous Trees (Alan Mitchell's copy)

By: Baker, Richard St. Barbe

Price: £70.00

Publisher: London, The Dropmore Press : 1992

Seller ID: 019406

Binding: Buckram

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition of 999 copies - this one being number 212. Well illustrated with twenty line-drawn plates by S.R. Badmin, octavo, pp 117, (i), untrimmed edges, very clean internally, green buckram with small gilt decoration, the dustwrapper is poor and worn, lacking several pieces with sellotape marks and repairs and rather foxed, now protected in a removable clear cover. [With the bookplate of Green Scene - Alan Mitchell and Victoria Hallett.]
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Trees of Westonbirt School

By: Barkley, Sylvia Y.

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Private printing : 1952

Seller ID: 015046

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated with photographs, line drawings, and a folding plate at the rear, large octavo, pp 72, front endpaper slightly marked, a neat signature on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, covers slightly worn and faded.
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Trees of Westonbirt School [James Russell's copy]

By: Barkley, Sylvia Y.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Private printing : 1952

Seller ID: 018725

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

Illustrated with photographs, line drawings, and a folding plate at the rear, large octavo, pp 72, slightly weak internally but very clean, bound in half leather and cloth, slightly worn, lacking a small portion of the spine at the head. [From the library of the plantsman and garden designer Jim Russell, with his bookplate on the front endpaper.]
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Calluna - a Monograph on the Scotch Heather

By: Beijerinck, W.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, N.V. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij : 1940

Seller ID: 009216

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece (corner a little creased) , 29 plain plates (mainly physiological), and line drawings in the text, large 8vo, pp 180, upper corners of pages heavily bumped throughout, otherwise a clean ex-library copy in library cloth binding, a dupl;icate from the RHS Lindley Library, original wrappers bound in, (stamp dates and label on front endpapers, traces of a label on rear endpaper, label on verso of front wrapper, cloth slightly dull and a little worn and wrinkled, upper corner bumped, label and stamp on the spine. SCARCE.
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Western Forest Trees : a Guide to the Identification of Trees and Woods for Students, Teachers, Farmers and Woodsmen

By: Berry, James Berthold

Price: £3.50

Publisher: New York, Dover Publications Inc. : 1966

Seller ID: 013247

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

[Originally published i n 1924]. Facsimile reprint, small octavo, pp xviii, 251, fore-edge slightly foxed, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, covers slightly curled, lower cover a little marked.
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Some Beautiful Indian Trees

By: Blatter, Rev E. & Millard, Walter S.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, John Bale, Sons & Curlow : 1937

Seller ID: 013878

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated with 31 very attractive coloured lithographic plates, plus many black and white photographic illustrations, large octavo, pp x, 110, a neat name and date on the front endpaper, otherwise a clean and sound copy internally, green cloth slightly marked and very slightly worn. [The best edition].
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Rhododendrons and Azaleas - their origins, cultivation and development [Dan Mayers' copy]

By: Bowers, Clement Gray

Price: £8.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company : 1960

Seller ID: 018432

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Second edition, large octavo, illustrated, pp xx, 525, very slightly age-toned, cloth slightly marked and worn, spine a little faded, otherwise a good copy. [From the library of Dan E. Mayers, plantsman, chess-master, limerick-lover and eccentric, with bookplate showing his Arts & Crafts house "Lorien" in Wadhurst.]
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Image for Notes on the Acanthaceae of Surinam. Revision of the Lauraceae III - The Genera Aiouea, Systemodaphne, Urbanodendron, Mezilaurus, additions and corrections to Licaria and Cryptocarya [Recueil Trav. Bot. Ne ´erl.35] {+ unidentified article on Cactaceae}

Notes on the Acanthaceae of Surinam. Revision of the Lauraceae III - The Genera Aiouea, Systemodaphne, Urbanodendron, Mezilaurus, additions and corrections to Licaria and Cryptocarya [Recueil Trav. Bot. Ne ´erl.35] {+ unidentified article on Cactaceae}

By: Bremekamp, C.E.B. ; Kostermans, A.J.G.H.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Netherlands, : 1938

Seller ID: 014852

Binding: Disbound

Condition: Fair

Two articles in a disbound journal. That by Bremekamp is 40 pages + two plates; the Kostermans is 75 pages. There is also a 24 page article on Cactaceae on the islands off the north coast of South America but this lacks anything before the key to the species, so I have not ben able to identify it.]
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Heath, Francis George

By: British Woodland Trees

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Paternoster Row, London, Charles H, Kelly : 1913

Seller ID: 002453

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

8 coloured plates, with tissue guards, and numerous engravings, 8vo, pp xiii, 364, green cloth with gilt titles on upper cover and spine, cloth slightly worn and marked, lower cover bears a 4cm circular dried glue patch (?), some joints beginning to crack, some scattered foxing throughout, owner's signature on front free endpaper.
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Trees of Georgia and Adjacent States

By: Brown, Claud L. & Kirkman, L. Katherine

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Portland, Timber Press : 1990

Seller ID: 018916

ISBN-13: 9780881921489

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

Illustrated, octavo, pp 292, very clean internally, green cloth in excellent condition, the dustwrapper is very slightly worn along the top edge, otherwise virtually as new. [This field guide identifies 205 species and varieties, with plant descriptions that highlight differences between similar taxa. It also includes range maps and botanical keys for summer and winter.]
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