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Madrid: Sociedad Anonima Espanola de Traductores y Autores, 1940. Illustrated with several hundred small line drawings in the text, octavo, pp xvi, 617, very age-toned and slightly used internally, rear hinge cracking a little, a slight suggestion of weakness internally, brown cloth very slightly worn and marked, the rear joint slightly worn at the top. With the tiny stamp of the Essex Naturalists Trust on the title page, also on the front endpaper with a small early signature. [From the library of the botanist Ron Payne, with his signature also.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1943. Second reprint, 1943. Well illustrated, octavo, pp 133, a folding map at the rear, a name cut out of the front endpaper, otherwise extremely clean and sound internally, blue clothvery faded but otherwise clean and sound. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper.]. Cloth. Good.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 1998. New copy, and now just about out of print). Large tall quarto, pp lxxx, 198, soft covers, a very good copy. [Funded by DFID to aid conservation management on Mount Cameroon, The Plants of Mount Cameroon documents all 2,435 plant species known to be native to this region and, for the first time in a Tropical African checklist, includes a Red Data chapter. This gives ICUN rating, threats (mainly from the pressure of Agriculture), habitat, population status and management advice. Proceeds from the sale of the book by Kew go to the Mount Cameroon Project.]. Paperback. New.

London: Collins, 2009. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated, pp viv, 460, a very good copy in dustwrapper, still in the publisher's shrinkwrap.. [Provides a much-anticipated overview of the fascinating birds that have become icons of our diminishing wilderness areas. Wildfowl swans, geese and ducks have been the subject of poetry, fables, folklore and music, and a source of inspiration to writers, artists, historians and naturalists alike. Historically, they have featured prominently in our diet; more recently they have become the most widely domesticated group of birds. Wildfowl have been scientifically studied more intensively than any other group of birds and were one of the first groups to highlight more general issues of conservation. Their status as the most popular group of birds is underlined by the success of the original Wildfowl Trust (now the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust). David Cabot has been obsessed with wildfowl for nearly sixty years. In this seminal new work, he discusses the 56 species… Read More

Washington: Programa Regional de los Cientifico y Tecnologia, 1980. Second edition, illustrated, pp vi, 122, lower corner slightly bumped, otherwise clean internally, paperback, covers a little faded,. Second edition. Paperback. Very Good.

London: Sampson Low & Company, 1892. Illustrated with 8 colour plates, a folding frontispiece, other plates and text illustrations, small octavo (measures 120mm x 180mm], slightly used internally, fore-edge slightly marked, lacking the front endpaper, brown decorated cloth, slightly worn and marked. [With various plates and text devoted to Cadbury's Bournville estate.]. The Lindley Library dates this first edition at 1892.. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

Papeete: Les Editions du Pacifique, 1981. Well illustrated, 12mo, pp 131, pictorial boards, the spine slightly faded, otherwise a very good copy. [Sybil Sassoon's copy, with her signature on the front endpaper.]. First Edition. Boards. Very Good.

Singapore: Les Editions du Pacifique, 1984. Well illustrated, small octavo, pp 131, pictorial boardsw very good. [Sybil Sassoon's copy with a few notes on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally.]. Boards. Very Good.

Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company, 1948. Tower Books edition, first printing 1948 - the first hardback edition ? Slim octavo, pp 123, age-toned, otherwise clean and sound internally, blue cloth slightly rubbed at the extrmities, the dustwrapper is a little worn and rubbed, with slight loss at the corner and the head and tail of its spine.. Cloth. Good/Slightly worn and frayed.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1944. Large octavo, pp 556, very clean internally, cloth very slightly dull but otherwise very good. From the collection of the Cambridge botanist David Coombe, with his signature on the front endpaper. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1989. Illustrated with 100 colour plates, small quarto, pp 251, paperback, a very slight wave to the pages and cover, personal inscription on front endpaper, very slight fading to the spine, otherwise a very good copy. [From the library of the botanical artist Wendy Page, with her blind-stamp on the title page.] VERY SCARCE {A HEAVY BOOK - EXTRA SHIPPING MAY BE REQUIRED} . Paperback. Good.

Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1979. Well illustrated, tall slim quarto, pp 129, very clean internally, cloth-backed boards very slightly bumped, spine very slightly marked, otherwise a very good copy. [The preface states "The Tradition of Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century" explores the tension that results from modern craftsmen working in a traditional craft. The twentieth century binder must always contend with traditions of binding structure, material and cover design, and this conflict is compounded when facing the re-binding of an older book. We have attempted to gather representative examples of what we see as the two major divisions of modem binding : the traditional or retrospective approach, and the modem design or intuitive approach where the design is intended to be an expressive extension of the book within. Such distinctions are somewhat arbitrary, and the binders are even less easily categorized than their bindings. Retrospective bindings need… Read More

London: Academic Press, 1989. A few illustrations and charts, octavo, pp xii, 265, very clean internally, pictorial boards with the label of Dr Peter Moore on the upper cover. [The Alternation of Generations. Lipid Metabolism in Algae. The Formation and Interpretation of Plant Fossil Assemblages. Primary Productivity in the Shelf Areas of North-West Europe.]. First Edition. Boards. Very Good.

Madrid: Sociedad Micologia de Madrid, 1999. Very well illustrated, pp 159, horizontal octavo, paperback, a very good copy. . First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Stuttgart: Krais & Hoffmann, 1852. Well illustrated with 36 coloured plates, (including three of potatoes, two of other root vegetables, two of mushrooms, ten of cereals and grasses, many other agricultural and horticultural crops including melons), quarto, pp xii, 276, some age-toning and foxing throughout though the plates are clear of foxing, smartly re-bound in green cloth, very good. . Cloth. Very Good.

Stuttgart: Krais & Hoffmann, 1854. Dritte Abtheilung. Small slim quarto, pp vi, 50, (ii), with 12 very fine hand-coloured lithographic plates. The text pages show a little age-toning, with some foxing around the margins; the plates are exceptionally bright and clean. Neatly bound in green cloth, probably dating from the 1930's. The bookplate is of Kenneth Lazenby, a founder member of the Alpine Garden Society. RARE.. Second edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1966. Illustrated, octavo, pp xx, 341, a very fine clean copy in a price-clipped dustwrapper which is very slightly rubbed around the edges and now protected in a removable film cover.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

London: The Batchworth Press, 1952. Illustrated, octavo, pp xx, 341, cloth faded and slightly marked, lightly worn, binding leaning slightly. With the remains of the dustwrapper - the upper and lower covers are present, but worn, and its spine is missing. . First Edition. Cloth. Good/Poor.

Maidstone: Bachman & Turner, 1981. Well illustrated, tall quarto, pp 184, very clean internally, blue cloth in very good condition, in a dustwrapper with only very slight signs of use. A very good copy. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

Chatswood, NSW: Reed, 1992. Well illustrated, octavo, pp 120, very clean internally, paperback, corners very slightly bumped, otherwise a very good copy.. Paperback. Very Good.