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So Many Sweet Flowers - a Seventeenth-Century Florilegium : Paintings by Johann Walther, 1654 [Wendy Page's copy]
by Walther, Johann
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- 1997
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London: Pavilion Books Ltd, 1997. Well illustrated, square octavo, pp 104, green cloth in good condition, a very good copy in a dustwrapper with very slight fading.From the library of the botanical artist Wendy Page, with her blinstamp on the front endpaper. ["This volume reproduces the flower paintings of 17th-century botanical artist Johann Walther of Strassburg. They were commissioned… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Treasure of Euonymus, containing the wonderful hid secretes of nature, Touchinge the Most Apte Formes to Prepare and Destyl Medicines, for the Conservation of Helth: as Quintessence, aromatical wynes, balmes, oyles, perfumes.... [1559]
by Gesner, Conrad
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- 1975
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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 Item Price
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Huntia. Volume 4 number 3, Volume 5 numbers 1 & 2, Vol ume 6 number 2.
by Kiger, Robert; Brindle, John V. & Bridson, Gavin D.R. (editors)
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- 1982
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Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1982. 1982 - 1986., A few illustrations, large slender octavo, paperback, very good copies. Includes two copies of the last number. [One issue is completely devoted to Stieber's "Register of Plant Collectors' Field Notes Held in North American institutions. Also included are Woodger's biography of Wilson Popenoe with an inventory of his papers;… Read more about this item Item Price
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Adrian Hardy Haworth, 1768 - 1833 : botanist, entomologist and gardener: his life and publications.
by Stearn, William T.
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- 1965
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Gregg Press, 1965. Portrait frontispiece, small slim octavo, pp 80, paperback, a very faint tiny dimple on the upper cover and first few pages, otherwise a very good copy, paperback in plain unlettered covers. SCARCE. [This is a seperate offprint from the rare five-volume Gregg Press reprint of the collected works. This little publication includes an account of Haworth's… Read more about this item Item Price
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William Curtis, 1746 - 1799, Fellow of the Linnean Society, botanist & entomologist; with some notes on his son-in-law Samuel Curtis, F.L.S.
by Curtis, W. Hugh
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- 1941
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Winchester: Warren & Son Ltd, 1941. Illustrated, octavo, pp xviii, 142, edges untrimmed, a folding genealogical chart, very clean internally, cloth very slightly worn, but really a very good copy.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Item Price
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A Century of Kew Plantsmen - a Celebration of the Kew Guild [Signed copy]
by Desmond, Ray & Hepper, F. Nigel
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- 1993
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- 9780950414911
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The Kew Guild, 1993. Illustrated, octavo, pp viii, 188, a very good copy in a dustwrapper with the very slightest signs of use. [Signed by both authors on the title page.] . Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn. Item Price
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The Georgics of Virgil, with an English translation [Pub. Virgilii Maronis Georgicum Libri Quatuor]
by Martyn, John
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- 1778
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Dublin: John Exshaw, 1778. Illustrated with three folding engraved maps and ten engraved plates (some folding), octavo, pp xvi, 118; 128; 132; 95; [13], a few folded corners, a little used and age-toned internally with a few paper imperfections and marks, the front endpaper slightly marked and lacking a corner, contemporary calf sound but rather worn at the edges, lacking… Read more about this item Item Price
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Scottish Farming - Past and Present [Alan Roger's copy]
by Symon, J.A.
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- 1959
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Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1959. Illustrated with 12 plates and a few line drawings, thick octavo, pp x, 475, the top edge slightly foxed, the fore-edge faintly foxed, otherwise very clean internally, green cloth very slightly worn, the spine slightly faded and marked. [With the signature of Alan Roger, of Dundonnell House, Garden and Estate.]. First Edition. Cloth.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Curtis's Botanical Magazine Index, with a revision of the names of plants depicted from the beginning in 1787 to the end of 1947 - Volume 1 to Volume 164; to which is appended a brief history of the magazine
by Chittenden, F.J. (editor)
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- 1956
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London: The Royal Horticultural Society, 1956. Large octavo, pp vi, 282, endpapers and title page foxed, otherwise good internally, in blue cloth, a little faded, the lower corners slightly bruised. SCARCE. . First Edition. Cloth. Good. Item Price
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Memoirs of an Old Balloonatic
by Hodges, Goderic
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- 1972
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London: William Kimber, 1972. Illustrated, octavo, pp 175, the fore-edge slightly foxed, otherwise clean internally, brown cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is slightly worn and creased. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn and creased. Item Price
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Opening of the Company's New Power House at Creekmouth, Barking, by His Majesty King George V on 19th May, 1925
by County of London Electric Supply Co. Ltd
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- 1925
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1925. Illustrated with black and white plates and with three fine colour plates from watercolours by Norman Howard, [all the illustrations are high quality and tipped-in], large horizontal octavo, pp 30 + plates, the edges a little foxed, and large but faint foxing on several pages [not unsightly], paperback, yapp edges, in very good condition. In its original plain… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Soldier-Scientist in the American Southwest Being a Narrative of the Travels of Elliott Coues, Assistant Surgeon, U.S.A., With His Observations Upon Natural History, especially the Avifauna, of the Regions Traversed, 1864-1865 [Gren Lucas' copy]
by Coues, Elliott (edited by Michael J. Brodhead)
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- 1973
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Tucson: The Arizona Historical Society, 1973. Illustrated, large octavo, pp (4), 74, slightly used internally, paperback, the covers a bit age-toned and curled. [An inscription on the front endpaper state that this was the "counter copy" of the Arizona Historical Society, and sold to Gren Lucas in 1984.). First Edition. Paperback. Fair. Item Price
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A Man Who Can Speak of Plants: Dr.Thomas Coulter (1793-1843) of Dundalk in Ireland, Mexico and Alta California [Gren Lucas' copy]
by Nelson, E. Charles & Probert, Alan
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- 1994
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Dublin: Published by the author, 1994. Well illustrated, octavo, pp viii, 181, paperback, the slightest signs of use, but really a very good copy. Signed by author on title page, and inscribed to the botanist and conservationist Gren Lucas - "for Gren at the Linnean Society, 15th October 1998". A numbered limited edition of only 500 copies, this… Read more about this item Item Price
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Leonard Jenyns - Darwin's Lifelong Friend
by Wallace, Ian (editor)
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- 2005
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- 9780954494117
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The Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 2005. Illustrated, large octavo, pp xiv, 372, very clean internally, blue cloth with silver decoration, a very bright copy, as new. [This is the subscribers cloth binding, rather than the standard pictorial boards.]. First Edition. Cloth. As New. Item Price
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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
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- 1994
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Dublin: Published by the author, 1994. Well illustrated, octavo, pp viii, 181, quarter cloth and marbled boards, a really fine copy. Signed by author on title page. A limited edition of only 500 copies, this being A of ettered copies, and presumably limited ti just a handfull thus. [Irish physician, botanist and explorer. He was a member of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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On Growth and Form
by Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth
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- 1942
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Cambridge at the University Press, 1942. [A New Edition, 1942]. Illustrated with several hundred graphs and small text figures, thick octavo, pp (ii), 1116, slightly used internally, the last 150 pages have a faint fold mark but not serious, a duplicate from East Malling Research Station with a stamp on the front endpaper and a shelf number on… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Forsters and the Botany of the Second Cook Expedition (1772 - 1775)
by Nicolson, Dan H. & Fosberg, F. Raymond
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- Second edition
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- 2004
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- 9783906166025
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Ruggell/Lichtenstein: A.R. Gantner, 2004. Second edution. Illustrated with just seven plates, thick octavo, pp 759, very clean internally, yelow cloth in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. An excellent copy. . Second edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Item Price
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The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
by Wulf, Andrea
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- 2008
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- 9780434016129
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London: William Heinemann, 2008. A few illustrations, octavo, pp xii, 356, very clean internally, black cloth in excellent condition, a very good copy in dustwrapper (with a small publisher's sticker "as read on BBC Radio 4"]. {"One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from… Read more about this item Item Price
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My Father in His Suitcase - in search of E.J.H. Corner the relentless botanist
by Corner, John K.
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- 2013
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Singapore: Landmark Books, 2013. Illustrated, small thick octavo, pp xvi, 431, very clean internally, paperback, the spine a little creased, otherwise virtually as new. ["John (Kay) Corner left home in 1960, aged 19. He would never see his father, E. J. H. Corner, again. Edred John Henry Corner was one of the most colourful and productive biologists and mycologists of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Elements of Agricultural Chemistry in a Series of Lectures for The Board of Agriculture
by Davy, Sir Humphrey
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- 1814
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Paternoster Row, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814. Second edition. Illustrated with 10 engraved folding plates slightly foxed, pp xiv, 479, [9], a signature and date on the title page, otherwise very clean internally, original leather covers, rubbed, re-backed with a new leather spine, new cream endpapers. [The final hundred pages comprise the Duke of Bedford's "Account of… Read more about this item Item Price
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