Herbals from Mike Park Ltd

Bradford: Woodhouse, Cornthwaite & Co., Limited, 1921. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Small octavo, pp xvi, 253, slightly weak internally, the endpapers contain neat manuscript additional remedies, red cloth slightly worn and marked, the spine faded. RARE - both COPAC and WorldCat list only the copies at the British Library and Wellcome.. ["Published by direction of the General Council as… Read more about this item

Northville, Michigan: Holland House Press, 1974. Second edition, revised and enlarged. A few illustrations, octavo, pp 331, very clean internally, red cloth in very good condition, a very good copy in a slightly rubbed dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE.. Second edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly rubbed.

London: W. Swann Sonenschein, 1884. Second edition, revised. Illustrated, very thick octavo, pp xvi, 704, one page badly opened with tear to the margins, original blue cloth, gilt decorated, rubbed, the spine very poor, cracked and weak, the rear joint broken, the front and rear hinges repaired with thick tape, the hinge at the end of the index completely broken,… Read more about this item

New York: Walter J. Johnson Inc., 1975. Facsimile reprint, thick square octavo, a few woodcut illus, pp [20], 408, [Black Letter print], a very good hardback copy. [Conrad Gesner (1516 - 1565) was a Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist. He is regarded as the father of modern scientific bibliography, zoology and botany. He was frequently the first to… Read more about this item

New York: Delacorte Press (a Seymour Lawrence Book), 1967. With very atmospheric illustrations by Leonard Baskin, slim quarto, pp 74, traces of a pencil price on the front endpaper, black cloth, a very good copy in a slightly worn and faded, slightly chipped dustwrapper.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn and frayed. Illus. by Leonard Baskin.

Edinburgh and London: John Anderson & Co; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1813. Second edition. Two volumes, pp vi, 496; vi, 496, some age-toning and slight blemishes, a few lightly turned cornes, but overall good, sound and tight internally, contemporary full calf, a bit worn and bumped, the boards showing though at the corners, a tear to the upper… Read more about this item

New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1967. Fourth printing. Illustrated with simple line drawings, octavo, pp xvi, 303, very clean internally, cream cloth slightly faded and marked but a good sound 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. [Euell Theophilus Gibbons, 1911… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1969. First Edition in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 20 line drawings and a map, small octavo, pp.254, green cloth with gilt titles on spine, a very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. [From the library of the botanist Ron Payne, with his signature on the front endpaper.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

Conservatoire Botanique de Geneve, 1972. Illustrated with line drawings and distribution maps, octavo, pp 235, very clean internally, paperback, a slight crease to the spine otherwise very good. {Boissiera Volume 21}. [From the library of the Kew botanist Vicki Matthews, with her signature on the upper cover and bookplate internally.]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

London: Darton, Longman & Todd for The Herb Society, 1979. Illustrated, octavo, pp (2), 218, clean internally, green cloth, the corners slightly bruised, the dustwrapper is price-clipped and very slightly worn. SCARCE. . First Edition. Cloth. Good/Very Slightly Worn.

New York, St Louis, San Francisco: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1979. Well illustrated, large octavo, pp 192, the top edge foxed, the fore-edge slightly foxed, otherwise very clean internally, green cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is badly stretched and slightly worn and age-toned.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Rather worn and stretched.

London: Penguin Books, 1978. Illustrated, large thick octavo, pp xvi, 912, a little age-toned but otherwise very clean internally, paperback,the spine slightly concave, the covers in very good condition. A considerably better-than-usual copy [Originally published in 1931].. Paperback. Very Good.

Ashington & Manchester: The Mid Northumberland Arts Group and Carcanet Press, 1989. Illustrated with woodcuts, tall quarto, pp 326, fore-edge very slightly marked, brown cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is slightly creased and worn along the top edge. Printed in an edition of 500 copies. [A facsimile of the Blackletter 1551 edition, followed by a modernized transcript.]. First… Read more about this item

London: Studio Vista, 1979. Revised and enlarged edition. Well illustrated, large octavo, pp 206, very slightly used internally, endpapers a litle age-toned, paperback, the covers very slightly used and slightly curled.. Paperback. Good.

New York: Charle Scribner's Sons, 1900. Small octavo, pp (6), 307, edges untrimmed, very slight foxing, a contemporary bookplate of M Johnston on the front endpaper, original cloth-backed boards, slightly worn, lacking part of the papder title label on the spine. From the library of the botanist and garden historian Anthony Huxley, with his stamp on the… Read more about this item

London: Martin Hopkinson & Company, Ltd, 1924. First edition. Illustrated, octavo, ppxii, 144, top edge gilt, the other edgesuntrimmed, slight traces of foxing internally, original cloth-backed boards rather age-toned bumped and bruised, original printed title label on spine and upper cover. [From the library of Wilfrid Blunt, with his signature in pencil on th front endpaper.]. First Edition.… Read more about this item

Munchen: Konrad Kobl, 1964. Facsimile reproduction of the 1610 edition. German text, large octavo, pp 10, 469, [33], extremely clean internally, brown faux-leather, an excellent copy. . Faux-leather. Very Good.

London Illustrated, small octavo, pp 48, paperback, the covers slightly worn. [Not dated, but obviously not the first issue as many products have received manuscript price changes, almost certainly entered by the firm. Perhaps c.1935 ? On the first page "American Catalogue" has been written, though I see nothing else to support this. A fascinating booklet, with much information on… Read more about this item

London: The De La More Press Not dated - c. 1930 ? Illustrated with woodcuts of the people hoping to be cured, 12mo, pp 32, paperback, the covers slightly rubbed and marked. [From the collection of the Sussex nature writer "Ceres" {= Alison Ross = Alison Esplan} with her signature on the cover.]. Paperback. Good. Illus. by Olive… Read more about this item

Upsala: A - B Lunequistska Bokhandeln, 1950. Frontispiece (but no other illustrartons), large octavo, pp 328, the upper corner very slightly bruised, a duplicate from Royal Holloway College Library, with their stamps on both side of the title page, a bookplate and barcode on the front endpapers, but otherwise extremely clean internally, bound in green cloth in very bright condition.… Read more about this item