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Mountains of the Moon - an expedition to the Equatorial Mountains of Africa

By: Synge, P.M.

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, The Travel Book Club & Lindsay Drummond Ltd: 1938

Seller ID: 013577

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp xxiv, 221, very slght foxing to the fore-edge, a small neat contemporary signature and date on the front endpaper, otherwise extremely clean internally, cloth a little marked and age-toned, spine slightly faded. [The illustrations are atmospheric sepia photographic plates.].
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Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society Volumes LXXIII - LXXXVIII (73 - 87) - Sixteen volumes

By: Synge, Patrick M. (editor)

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, Royal Horticultural Society:

Seller ID: 016918

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

[1948 - 1963]. Volumes 73 - 88, a very good run of 16 volumes, smartly bound in blue cloth in two different styles, extremely clean internally. Includes many articles on plant-hunting, garden design, garden history, monographs etc by authors such as E.A. Bowles, Kingdon Ward, William Stearn, John Gilmour, Peter Davis, Harold Comber, Oleg Polunin, Major Pam, Frank Ludlow, A.T. Johnson, Vita Sackville-West etc. [Very heavy - weighing 16 kilos before packing - extra postage will be needed.]
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The Kew Magazine ( Curtis's Botanical Magazine) Volume 4 Part 4 - includes The Genus Skimmia

By: Taylor, Nigel P.

Price: £5.50

Publisher: The Bentham-Moxon Trust in association with Collingridge Books: 1987

Seller ID: 007424

Condition: Very Good

Nigel Taylor's article runs to 25 pages and is illustrated with two botanical plates and some line drawings. The other four plates are plant portraits of Helleborus x nigricors 'Alabaster', Paphiopedilum malipoense, Chamaedorea metallica and Rhododendron pleianthemum. William T. Stearn contributes an Allium article - "A Paradoxical Onion". Paperback, 56 pages, a very good copy.
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Rhododendron Society Notes Volume III Numbers 3 and 5

By: The Rhododendron Society. (edited by J.B. Stevenson) [E.H. Wilson]. [Kingdon Ward].

Price: £9.00

Publisher: Edinburgh,

Seller ID: 000371

Condition: Very Good

Vol III numbers 3 and 5, (1929-1931). (c. 120 pp), very clean internally, quarto, paperbacks, covers slightly age-toned and a little worn, but very good copies. (Includes an address by Kingdon Ward, an account of Farrer's expedition of 1924-5, E.H. Wilson's identification of Rhodos collected by Rock 1924-27, an obituary of Forrest by Wright Smith, and one of E.H. Wilson by Balfour, together with notes on Rhodos at Headfort, Lamellen, Scorier, Rostrevor, Wakehurst, Trewidden and Lochinch). SCARCE.
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Image for List of Published Names of Plants Introduced to Cultivation: 1876 to 1890 [Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Additional Series IV]

List of Published Names of Plants Introduced to Cultivation: 1876 to 1890 [Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Additional Series IV]

By: Thiselton-Dyer, W.T. (introduction)

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office: 1900

Seller ID: 014129

Condition: Good

Octavo, pp x, 410, age-toned, slightly weak internally, front and rear hinges cracking, cloth-backed boards a little worn and rubbed. Extremely scarce. [Brief descriptions are given, with references to illustrations, country of origin and any synonyms. The work covers a time of intense and important plant introduction.]
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Botanical Explorations in Washington, Oregon, California and adjacent regions

By: Thomas, John H.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Huntia: 1969

Seller ID: 016222

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated, large slim octavo, pp 66, age-toned, paperback, covers slightly worn. [Reprinted from Huntia.] Postage will be reduced.
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The Land of the Blue Poppy - Travels of a Naturalist in Eastern Tibet

By: Ward, F. Kingdon

Price: £585.00

Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press: 1913

Seller ID: 014096

Condition: Good

First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 39 plates, five maps (of which three are folding), pp xii, 283, (i), some age-toning and marking throughout, upper corner bumped and bruised throughout, blue-green cloth bumped at the corners, a little marked, the upper cover with a faint crease (which also shows on the front endpaper) and a very faint impression which suggests it might have had a label at one time (possibly a circulating library ? - but there are no other marks), the spine faded, a bit frayed at the head and tail. VERY SCARCE.
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Plant Hunter's Paradise

By: Ward, F. Kingdon

Price: £10.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1938

Seller ID: 016267

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Illustrated, two maps, octavo, pp 347, a little age-toned, cloth slighjtly worn, spine very faded, binding leaning slightly.
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On the Growth of Plants in Closely Glazed Cases

By: Ward, N.B.

Price: £250.00

Publisher: London, John van Voorst: 1852

Seller ID: 016697

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Second edition. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and several engraved chapter headings, small octavo, pp x, (4), 143, (4), (i) + a four-page publisher's catalogue tipped-in at the end, a little age-toned and thumbed internally but otherwise sound and tight, a tiny Victorian bookseller's label in the corner of the front endpaper (Sandell & Smith, City Road, London), original brown cloth, slightly worn, spine lacking a few tiny pieces at head and tail, joints slightly worn. [Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward was, as David Allen has pointed out, the populariser but not the discoverer of the princip...
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Aristocrats of the Trees. (1930).

By: Wilson, Ernest H.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: New York, Dover Publications Inc.: 1974

Seller ID: 016273

ISBN: 0486200388

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Dover reprint, small 8vo, pp xxii, 279, very slightly jused internally, paperback, covers creased, slightly worn and curled.
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History of Popular Garden Plants from A to Z

By: Witham Fogg, H.G.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Kaye & Ward Ltd: 1976

Seller ID: 016275

ISBN: 0718211405

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Small octavo, pp (4), 152, very clean internally, green cloth in excellent condition, the dustwrapper is price-clipped and age-toned.
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Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Volume LVII part 1

By: Worsley, A.; Hutchison, A.W.; Comber, H.F.; Osborn, A.;

Price: £7.00

Publisher: London, RHS: 1932

Seller ID: 016048

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp 156 + Proceedings, a little foxing but generally good condition, paperback, covers very slightly age-toned and worn. [[Includes Worsley's Genus Amaryllis, and articles on seed-growing in California, Greenland's Flowery Valleys, Plant Collecting in Tasmania, Impressions of gardening in New England, and reports on the Wisley trials on bearded irises, dahlias, Olearia macrodonta, Rodgersia pinnata, Narcissi, Fuchsias, Hemerocallis, Pentstemons, Annual Scabious, celery, shallots and parsnips.]
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