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Of Men and Orchids - Volume 2

By: Jenny, Rudolf

Price: £87.50

Publisher: Allmendingen, Switzerland, Published by the author: 2017

Seller ID: 013384

ISBN: 9942283129

Condition: New

NEW. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 312, black cloth, a very good copy in dustwrapper. LIMITED EDITION OF 250 COPIES ONLY. Further volumes are promised in the future. A heavy book - extra postage will probably be necessary. ["This is neither a book on how humans grow orchids nor a treatise of how they classsify plants, but an extraordinary look at the bond that unites men - botanists, gardeners, plant hunters, explorers - to the names of orchids and the histories behind their discovery and scientific apprehension. The work is a great step into the realm of history, and orchids ...
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Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Volume LVIII part 1(Includes Monograph of Narcissus subgenus Ajax;

By: Kingdon Ward, F.; Oscar Warburg; E.F. Warburg; F. Streeter; H.W. Pugsley; Viscountess Byng;

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, RHS: 1933

Seller ID: 015514

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated (including a colour frontispiece by Lilian Snelling), large octavo, pp 234 + Proceedings, very clean internally, paperback, covers in very good condition. [Includes Kingdon Ward on Plant Collecting at the Source of the Irrawaddy; Pugsley's Monograph of Narcissus subgenus Ajax; articles on strawberries, early Chrysanthemums, violet cultivation, Thorpe Hall; Cultivated Oaks in Britain. Reports on Wisley trials on Strawberries.]
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Plant Hunting on the Edge of the World - Travels of a Naturalist in Upper Assam and Burma

By: Kingdon Ward, Frank

Price: £13.50

Publisher: London, Minerva Press: 1974

Seller ID: 014867

ISBN: 0856360066

Condition: Very Good

Originally published in 1930. Illustrated, large octavo, pp x, 224, very clean internally, green cloth in excellent condition, the dustwrapper has very slight wear at the upper corners.
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Potted Histories - An Artistic Voyage Through Plant Exploration

By: Knapp, Sandra

Price: £21.50

Publisher: London, Scriptum Editions: 2003

Seller ID: 014370

ISBN: 1902686284

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, large square quarto, pp 336, white cloth, an excellent copy in dustwrapper. [This book tells the stories of the adventurous botanist explorers who collected plants under dangerous conditions, which are now commonly grown in our gardens. The paintings have been selected from the archives of The Natural History Museum, London. Every garden plant has a name - it has been discovered by someone, described by someone and has often been the subject of a life's work. Each one has a story to tell, some are from the harshest environments on earth, some have flowers which mimic ro...
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A Preliminary Verified List of Plant Collectors in Mexico

By: Knobloch, Irving William

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Plainfield, New Jersey, Harold N. Moldenke & Alma L. Moldenke: 1983

Seller ID: 015259

Condition: Very Good

[Phytologia Memoirs VI]. Quarto, pp iv, 179, paperback, very slight signs of use, but a very good copy. RARE.
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Green Medicine - the search for plants that heal

By: Kreig, Margaret B.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Rand McNally & Company: 1964

Seller ID: 015996

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp 462, top edge a little foxed and marked, otherwise very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, a very good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper.
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A Plantsman in Nepal

By: Lancaster, Roy

Price: £21.50

Publisher: Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club: 1995

Seller ID: 014769

ISBN: 1851491791

Condition: Very Good

Enlarged and revised edition. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 291, very clean internally, green cloth showing only very slight signs of use, in a very good dustwrapper. [In 1971 a small group of botanists and horticulturists organised a three month expedition to the Upper Arun Valley region of eastern Nepal. Their aim was to collect seed and specimens of ornamental and economic plants both wild and cultivated in a remote comer of this landlocked kingdom. This book, originally published in 1981, chronicles the travels and activities of the three-man horticultural team. The journey, which too...
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Travels in China - A Plantsman's Paradise

By: Lancaster, Roy

Price: £11.50

Publisher: Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club: 1989

Seller ID: 013041

ISBN: 1851490191

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, thick quarto, pp 516, a very good copy in a dustwrapper with vey slight signs of use. A heavy book - extra postage may be required. [This book successfully combines a most enjoyable and detailed account of the well-known author's many journeys through China. Roy Lancaster follows in the footsteps of the great Victorian plant hunters and describes, in this, his magnum opus, some 1,000 different plants in their natural habitat. This is a book about plants from a country so rich in variety that there are 50 percent more species on one mountain in China than in the whole o...
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The Kew Magazine (Curtis's Botanical Magazine) Volume 7 Part 4 - includes William Colenso, New Zealand botanist - something of his life and work

By: Le Lievre, Audrey; Andrews, Susyn

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Basil Blackwell for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 1990

Seller ID: 009039

Condition: New

Le Lievre's articles runs to 15 pages and is illustrated with a few line drawings and a photograph, (it does not have any colour plates). There are, however, the usual six fine botanical plates (five plant portraits of Acanthus dioscoridis, Espletia schultzii, Pachpodium rosulatum var gracilis, Viburnum japonicum and Rhododendrum russatum) and then one of Cornus "Porlock" to illustrate Susyn Andrew's article on 'The Hybrid Cornus at Underway, Somerset'. Paperback, 50 pages, a very good copy. [One other article discusses a new Crocus species from Yugoslavia - C. rujanensis.]
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The Kew Magazine (incorporating Curtis's Botanical Magazine) Volume 2 part 1 - includes Searching for Legumes in the Caatinga, south-eastern Piaui, Brazil

By: Lewis, Gwilym; Halliwell, Brian

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: 1985

Seller ID: 009042

Condition: As New

Large slim 8vo, paperback, in very good condition. [The main article runs to 13 pages and is illustrated with a few line drawings. A further short article is by Brian Halliwell - "A Japanese Forest Floor". Six fine botanical colour plates, by Pandora Sellars, Christabel King and Susie Ray, depict Encyclia mariae, Aechmea streptocalycoides, Magnolia 'Albatross', Dionysia involucrata, Rhododendron christii & Dendrobium rarum.]
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A Botanist in Borneo. Hugh Low's Sarawak Journals, 1844-1846.: Edited and Introduced by R.H.W. Reece and with notes on Hugh Low's plant portraits by P.J. Cribb.

By: Low, Hugh. (Edited By R.H.W. Reece, and with Notes By P.J. Cribb)

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Sabah, 2002

Seller ID: 003445

ISBN: 9838120650

Condition: New

Illustrated with 66 watercolours by Low, 8vo, pp vi, 206, a very good copy in dust wrapper. [Hugh Low was one of the adventurous group of nineteenth century European botanical collectors whose commercially-driven expeditions to less-known parts of the globe made enormous contributions to botanical knowledge. Low’s promising collecting career was abandoned in favour of a colonial government posting at Labuan from 1848, but during his two short years in Sarawak he discovered a number of spectacular new orchids and other flowers. Specimens and paintings of these were duly sent to Kew, where his...
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Frank Kingdon-Ward - the last of the great plant hunters.

By: Lyte, Charles

Price: £10.50

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1989

Seller ID: 012343

ISBN: 0719547350

Condition: New

Illustrated, large octavo, pp xvi, 218, a very good new copy in dustwrapper. [Frank Kingdon-Ward was the last of a long line of plant collectors and explorers that began in the 18th century with Sir Joseph Banks, architect of the Botanical Gardens at Kew. Kingdon-Ward's excursions to North Burma, China and Tibet uncovered varieties of such plant species as rhododendrons, primula, lilies and poppies - species which now grow prolifically in English gardens. This account of Kingdon-Ward's life explores his various travels and contributions to botany. The author weaves Kingdon-Ward's own descripti...
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The Flowering of Kew - 350 years of flower painting from the Royal Botanic Gardens

By: Mabey, Richard

Price: £3.50

Publisher: London, Century: 1988

Seller ID: 013688

ISBN: 0712611347

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, small quarto, pp xvi, 208, a neat inscription on the front endpaper, otherwise an extremely good clean copy in a price-clipped dustwrapper. [This is an illustrated history of flower painting over the last 200 years, based upon Kew's archives of botanical illustrations. The author has made a selection of pictures from these archives and accompanies them with a text about the artists and their work at Kew. The work is divided into four main historical sections: the early years, up to 1780; the artist as explorer, 1780-1830; the wonder of creation, 1830-1900; and the artist...
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The Flowering of Kew - 350 years of flower painting from the Royal Botanic Gardens

By: Mabey, Richard

Price: £3.75

Publisher: London, Century: 1988

Seller ID: 013918

ISBN: 0712611347

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, small quarto, pp xvi, 208, an extremely good clean copy in a price-clipped dustwrapper. [This is an illustrated history of flower painting over the last 200 years, based upon Kew's archives of botanical illustrations. The author has made a selection of pictures from these archives and accompanies them with a text about the artists and their work at Kew. The work is divided into four main historical sections: the early years, up to 1780; the artist as explorer, 1780-1830; the wonder of creation, 1830-1900; and the artist as conservationist, 1900 to the present day. As wel...
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Plant Explorations in Guiana in 1944, Chiefly to the Tafelberg and the Kaieteur Plateau

By: Maguire, Bassett (and collaborators)

Price: £35.00

Publisher: New York, Torrey Botanical Club: 1948

Seller ID: 016359

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with a few botanical line drawings. large octavo, pp (c, 295), paperback, a very good copy, signed by Maguire on the upper cover. SCARCE.
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A La Recherche des Varietes Locales de Plantes Cultivees - guide method-ologique [Alan Davidson's copy]

By: Marchenay, Philippe

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Paris, Diffusion: 1987

Seller ID: 009151

ISBN: 2950145108

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large 8vo, pp 211, paperback, a very good copy. [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fish" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, Tunis, Brussels, Cairo, the Hague; from 1973 to 1975, he was ambassador to Laos. While living in Tunis, his wife a...
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Longwood Plant Explorations - Plant Explorations of Ornamentals in Southern Japan (1956). In Italy, Southern France, Spain, Portugal, England and Scotland (1959). In Australia (1962). In the Netherlands, West Germany & Belgium (1959). In Japan (1961)

By: Meyer, Frederick G.; Spalding, George (editors).

Price: £50.00

Publisher: U.S. Department of Agriculture in collaboration with Longwood Gardens:

Seller ID: 016232

Condition: Good

Plant Explorations of Ornamentals in Southern Japan (1956). In Italy, Southern France, Spain, Portugal, England and Scotland (1959). In Australia (1962). In the Netherlands, West Germany & Belgium (1959). In Japan (1961). Nearly 600 pages in total, neatly bound in one volume, green cloth, original wrappers bound in. The first report, on Southern Japan, is a photo copy. SCARCE. [Detailed expeditions to assess the garden flora of many countries, with a view to their introduction to USA.]. TOGETHER WITH : Evaluation of Ornamental Plant Introductions, by H.H. Fisher. paperback, 44 pages. 1...
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Curtis's Botanical Magazine Volume 21 part 2 (Kew Magazine) - The Genus Lechenaultia

By: Morrison, David & George, Alex. ( with Stephen D. Hopper) edited by Martyn Rix

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing for the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: 2004

Seller ID: 007120

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated pp 76, paperback, a very good copy. [The main article on Lechenaultia runs to 26 pages with six fine botanical colour plates. This issue also includes the second part of Stephen Hopper's "South-Western Australia - Cinderella of the world's temperate floristic regions" - an account of its botanical exploration from Baudin onwards (37 pages).]
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Traveller in a Vanished Landscape - the life and times of David Douglas

By: Morwood, William

Price: £3.00

Publisher: London, Gentry Books: 1973

Seller ID: 013706

ISBN: 0856140228

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp (8), 244, top and fore edge foxed, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper.
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A Man Who Can Speak of Plants: Dr.Thomas Coulter (1793-1843) of Dundalk in Ireland, Mexico and Alta California

By: Nelson, E. Charles & Probert, Alan

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Dublin, Published by the author: 1994

Seller ID: 013424

ISBN: 0952487406

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, octavo, pp viii, 181, paperback, the slightest signs of use, but really a very good copy. Signed by author on title page. A numbered limited edition of only 500 copies, this being number 361.[Irish physician, botanist and explorer. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, where he founded the college's herbarium. After taking his medical degree in Dublin, Coulter studied botany in Geneva for seventeen months under Swiss taxonomist Augustin de Candolle. Coulter then served as physician with the Real del Monte Company in Mexico, duri...
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