Category: Ferns

Upland Kenya Wild Flowers - a flora of the ferns and herbaceous flowering plants of upland Kenya

By: Agnew, A.D.Q.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : 1974

Seller ID: 009105

ISBN-13: 9780198545033

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated with simple line drawings of over 800 species, thick quarto, pp x, 827, the dustwrapper is protected with a removable plastic cover. A remarkably clean duplicate from the RHS Wisley Library,with two withdrawn labels on the front endpapers, otherwise no other markings. This is an extremely good, and apparently unused, copy. SCARCE.
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The Ferns and Fern-Allies of West Tropical Africa (being a supplement to the second edition of Flora of West Tropical Africa)

By: Alston, A.H.G.

Price: £13.50

Publisher: London, Crown Agents for Overseas Administration : 1959

Seller ID: 009951

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

14 botanical line drawings, large slim 8vo, pp 89, inscription on half-title, lower corner slightly bumped, paperback, covers permanently (but neatly) covered in plastic. A good sound copy.
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The Ferns and Fern-Allies of West Tropical Africa (being a supplement to the second edition of Flora of West Tropical Africa)

By: Alston, A.H.G.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Crown Agents for Overseas Administration : 1959

Seller ID: 012195

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

14 botanical line drawings, large slim 8vo, pp 89, paperback, 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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Ferns of Kinabalu - an introduction

By: BEAMAN, John & EDWARDS, Peter

Price: £29.50

Publisher: Kota Kinabalu, : 2007

Seller ID: 008218

ISBN-13: 9789838121224

Binding: Pictorial laminated boards

Condition: New

NEW. Well illustrated, 8vo, pp vi, 198, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [The Kinabalu flora includes about 5000 species of vascular plants, of which some 12 percent are ferns. They occur from the lowest elevations to the highest and in every conceivable habitat, are common as terrestrial species & as epiphytes. The first fern specimens from the mountain were obtained by Hugh Low in 1851, and they have been actively collected ever since. The inventory of ferns published in 1992 included 593 taxa (excluding the Lycopodiaceae and Selaginellaceae, which no longer are considered fern allies). ...
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Flora of Egypt. Volume One. Azollaceae - Oxalidaceae (Nigel Hepper's copy]

By: Boulos, Loutfy

Price: £85.00

Publisher: Cairo, Al Hadara Publishing : 1999

Seller ID: 015103

ISBN-13: 9789775429148

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated with small botanical line drawings, large octavo, pp xvi, 419, very clean internally, red cloth with slight markings, in a dustwrapper which is very slightly worn at the corners. VERY SCARCE. [With a signed letter from the author to the Kew botanist Nigel Hepper.]
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Bracken in Scotland - a Symposium

By: Boyd, J.Morton; Dyer, A.F. & Fryer, J.D.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: The Royal Society of Edinburgh : 1982

Seller ID: 012679

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A few illustrations, large octavo, pp 143, paperback, a very good copy. [Royal Society of Edinburgh Proceedings, Section B, Volume 81 parts 1 & 2.]
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The Oxford Book of Flowerless Plants - ferns, fungi, mosses and liverworts, lichens and seaweeds

By: Brightman, Frank H. & Nicholson, B.E.

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press : 1974

Seller ID: 019592

ISBN-13: 9780199100040

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Well illustrated with colour plates, large octavo, pp viii, 208, signature of front endpaper, the title page and the first few pages with thumb-crease, but a good copy in clean cloth, leaning slightly, with a slightly faded dustwrapper.
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A Key to the Genera of New Zealand Ferns and Allied Plants

By: Brownsey, P.J. & Galloway, T.N.H.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Wellington, National Museum of New Zealand : 1987

Seller ID: 014234

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated, large slim octavo, pp 31, paperback, covers and pages a little waved throughout, otherwise a very good copy.
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The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns [Archegoniatae]

By: Campbell, Douglas Houghton

Price: £27.50

Publisher: New York & London, The Macmillan Company : 1918

Seller ID: 019648

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Third edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo, illustrated with line drawings and diagrams, pp x, 708, a few neat manuscript marginal notes, otherwise a good hardback copy. [The third edition seems very elusive.]
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Pteridology in Perspective - Proceedings of the Holttum Memorial Pteridophyte Symposium, Kew, 1995

By: Camus, J.M., Gibby, M. & Johns R.J. (eds)

Price: £55.00

Publisher: Royal Botanic Garden Kew : 1996

Seller ID: 004877

ISBN-13: 9781900347099

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large thick octavo, pp xx, 700, a very good copy in a dustwrapper which is showing the very faintest signs of wear. Signature of the pteridophyte botanist Peter Edwards on the front endpaper.
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Common Ferns and Fern Allies: Mobil New Zealand Nature Series

By: Chinnock, R.J.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Wellington & Sydney, A.H. and A.W. Reed : 1981

Seller ID: 016561

ISBN-13: 9780589013677

Binding: Ringbound paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated, large 12mo (measures 132mm x 120mm), pp 79, very slightly age-toned, lower corner very slightly bumped, paperback, ringbound, clear plastic cover. A good copy.
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A Review of the Ferns of Northern India

By: Clarke, Charles Baron

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, Linnean Society : 1880

Seller ID: 009413

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Good

A set of the original printing in Transactions of the Linnean Society, 2nd Series Botany, parts VII, VIII & IX. In original blue paperback covers - Part VII - a very faint stain to the corner of the plates. Spine cracking slightly. Part VIII - Stitching a bit weak and cracking internally, lacking part of the paper spine. Very slight foxing and dustiness to the plates. Part 3 - Very slight foxing. Lacking part of the spine, but no real weakness. With a total of 36 plain litho plates. This first edition is very scarce, and particularly so in original wrappers.
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Image for A.H.G. Alston (1902-1958) [Obituary and complete bibliography of publications] together with Bolivian Pteridophytes Collected by Winifred Brooke

A.H.G. Alston (1902-1958) [Obituary and complete bibliography of publications] together with Bolivian Pteridophytes Collected by Winifred Brooke

By: Crabbe, J.A.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: : 1960

Seller ID: 016412

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

The bibliography is reprinted from Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History. Volume 3 part 7 (21 pages, paperback). The Bolivian Pteridophytes paper is offprinted from British Fern Gazette, Volume 9 part8, (11 pages, loose-leaf and stapled) and was based on a manuscript left by Alston in 1958. From the library of the botanist Eric Groves, with his stamps. Interestingly, also included is a set of four passport photos of Alston. [Alston was a botanical systematist specialising in pteridology and was, apparently, the first pteridologist to work at the British Museum (Natu...
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Biology of Pteridophytes

By: Dyer, A.F. & Page, C.N. (editors)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: The Royal Society of Edinburgh : 1985

Seller ID: 012681

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with a few photographs and line drawings, large thick octavo, pp xviii, 474, slight foxing to the edges, lower corner creased to the half-title, otherwise a very clean copy internally, paperback, covers showing the slightest signs of use. [Cellular aspects of reproduction, environmental and biotic interactions, the biology of economic ferns, cellular aspects of development, ecology and diversification, the field approach.]. {Royal Society of Edinburgh Proceedings Section B Volume 86}
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British Natural History Books: 1495-1900, A Handlist

By: Freeman, R.B.

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Folkestone & Hamden, Dawson Archon : 1980

Seller ID: 018306

ISBN-13: 9780712909716

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Not ill;ustrated, octavo, pp 437, very clean internally, green cloth with only the slightest signs of use. [The main listing is alphabetical by author, but there is also date order and, most usefully, an extensive subject index.]
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The Liverworts, Mosses and Ferns of Europe

By: Frey, W.; Frahm, J.-P.; Fischer, E. & Lobin, W.

Price: £55.00

Publisher: Colchester, Harley Books : 2006

Seller ID: 019206

ISBN-13: 9780946589708

Binding: Pictorial boards

Condition: Very Good

English edition, revised by T.L. Blockeel. Illustrated with line drawings, small thick octavo, pp xvi, 512, very clean internally, pictorial boards, the lower corners slightly bruised, otherwise an excellent copy. [From the library of the Kew botanist Peter Taylor, with his bookplate.]
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Notes sur les Fougeres, Notes 1 - 5

By: Gadeau de Kerville, Henri

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Rouen, Lecere Fils

Seller ID: 017239

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

1915 - 1917. First edition. Illustrated with 15 photographic plates, slim octavo, pp [27; 53], uncut and unopened, very clean internally, paperback, covers chipped, age-toned and a little worn.
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Notes sur les Fougeres, Notes 1 - 5

By: Gadeau de Kerville, Henri

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Rouen, Lecere Fils

Seller ID: 017241

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

1915 - 1917. First edition. Illustrated with 15 photographic plates, slim octavo, pp [27; 53], uncut, very clean internally, paperback, covers chipped, age-toned and a little worn.
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The Benmore Fernery - celebrating the world of ferns

By: Gibby, Mary

Price: £6.95

Publisher: Edinburgh, : 2009

Seller ID: 006240

ISBN-13: 9781906129293

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Well illustrated, large slim 8vo, pp 40, paperback, a very good copy. [The story of the reconstruction of the Victorian fernery in the wonderful Highland garden of Benmore, with much on ferns generally and on the Victorian fern craze.] Postage will be reduced.
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