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Image for Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States - Washington, Oregon and California : Volume 1 Ferns to Birthworts (Ophioglossaceae to Aristolochiaceae)

Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States - Washington, Oregon and California : Volume 1 Ferns to Birthworts (Ophioglossaceae to Aristolochiaceae)

By: Abrams, Leroy

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Stanford & London, Stanford University Press: 1940

Seller ID: 012474

Condition: Good

Well illustrated with many small line drawings, large thick octavo, pp x, 538, a little age-toned, a neat name on the front endpaper, hinge at title page slightly weak, otherwise good and clean internally, green cloth, upper corners very slightly bumped, slightly rubbed, spine a little dull. [Covers the ferns and horsetails, grasses, gymnosperms, Liliaceae, Orchidaceae, Iridaceae, Salicaceae,Betulaceae, Fagaceae, Ulmaceae etc].
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Upland Kenya Wildflowers - a flora of the ferns and herbaceous flowering plants of upland Kenya

By: Agnew, A.D.Q.

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1974

Seller ID: 008924

ISBN: 0198545037

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated with simple line drawings of over 800 species, thick quarto, pp x, 827, the dustwrapper has been protected at one time and there are cellotape marks on the fold-over flaps (and a very slight suggestion on the endpapers), otherwise this is an extremely good copy. SCARCE.
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Upland Kenya Wildflowers - a flora of the ferns and herbaceous flowering plants of upland Kenya

By: Agnew, A.D.Q.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1974

Seller ID: 009105

ISBN: 0198545037

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 A remarkably clean duplicate from the RHS Wisley Library,with two withdrawn labels on the front endpapers, otherwise no other markings.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 Victorian Fern Craze - a history of Pteridomania (Richard Fitter's copy)

By: Allen, D.E.

Price: £39.00

Publisher: Hutchinson of London: 1969

Seller ID: 004208

ISBN: 0090998707

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small octavo, decorated cloth, pp xii, 85, a very good copy in a better than average dustwrapper which is slightly worn and marked, and faded on the spine. [From the library of the conservationist and naturalist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the half-title).
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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

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

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

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: 9838121223

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: 9775429145

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

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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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

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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Pteridology in Perspective - Proceedings of the Holttum Memorial Pteridophyte Symposium, Kew, 1995

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

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Royal Botanic Garden Kew: 1996

Seller ID: 004877

ISBN: 1900347091

Illustrated, large thick 8vo, 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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A Review of the Ferns of Northern India

By: Clarke, Charles Baron

Price: £95.00

Publisher: London, Linnean Society: 1880

Seller ID: 009413

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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Biology of Pteridophytes

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

Price: £10.00

Publisher: The Royal Society of Edinburgh: 1985

Seller ID: 012681

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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The Kew Magazine ( Curtis's Botanical Magazine) Volume 8 Part 3 - Special Volume devoted to Ferns,

By: Edwards. Peter J. & Johns, R.J.

Price: £6.95

Publisher: Oxford, Basil Blackwood for the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: 1991

Seller ID: 007418

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated with 6 fine botanical colour plates, pp 51, paperback, a very good copy. [Entirely devoted to ferns - Vegetative reproduction in pteridophytes, Variation in Fadyenia hookeri (with a plate), the fern herbarium of Thomas Moore, Tropical pteridophytes in the Princess of Wales Conservatory, and 5 plant portraits of Nephrolepsis cordifolia, Elaphoglossum crinitum, Huperzia pinifolia, Diplazium proliferum and Angiopteris elliptica.
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The Benmore Fernery - celebrating the world of ferns

By: Gibby, Mary

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Edinburgh, 2009

Seller ID: 006240

ISBN: 1906129290

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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Fern Books in English Published Before 1900

By: HALL, Nigel & Rickard, Martin

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, British Pteridological Society: 2006

Seller ID: 003660

ISBN: 0950980692

Condition: New

Illustrated, including 4 pages of colour plates, pp iv, 98, paperback, a very good new copy. (An excellent addition to fern bibliography, as well as to those interested in county floras and Victorian books.]
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Somerset Ferns - a field guide

By: Hill-Cottingham, Pat

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Taunton, Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society: 1989

Seller ID: 012920

ISBN: 0902152157

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, slim octavo, pp 84, paperback, covers very slightly worn, but a very good copy. [Ron Payne's copy, with annotations, his review for Watsonia, and a typed signed note from the author enclosing an updated dichotomous key].
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Thelypteridaceae of Africa and Adjacent Islands (Eric Groves copy]

By: Holttum, R.E.

Price: £5.50

Publisher: 1974

Seller ID: 015538

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, not illustrated, pp (45), stapled, no covers, a very good copy. An offprint from Jl S. Afr. Bot Volume 40. [From the library of Eric Groves, with his stamp at front and rear.]
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The amphi-Atlantic plants and their phytogeographical connections

By: Hulten, E.

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksells: 1958

Seller ID: 008618

Condition: Very Good

Large quarto, 279 maps, pp 340, untrimmed edges, paperback, covers slightly browned and worn. RARE. [Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, band 7. no. 1]
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