Search Results: Authors starting with S from Mike Park Ltd

1928. S.R. LOVE & SONS, WHOLESALE IRONMONGERS, PLUMBERS BUILDERS DECORATORS AND ENGINEERS MERCHANTS, 7 HARTFIELD ROAD WIMBLEDON. Illustrated Catalogue of Plumbers' Brasswork, Water Waste Preventers etc, Speciality Hot Metal pressings, the Highest Quality Brasswork Made. 1928. With 290 pages, exceptionally well illustrated throughout, fore-edge is thumb-indexed, front endpapers a bit marked, rear endpapers with pencil diagrams and notes, a little worn and marked throughout, original cloth a bit soiled and marked but still sound. [Plumbers' brasswork, bibcocks, hose and toilet cocks, stopcocks, lavatory and bathcocks, plugcocks beer cocks and ferrules, ball valves, brass taps, wastes and overflows, unions, ferrules, bushes and hose fittings, washers, plugs, chains, gratings, pumps, blow lamps, bath and lavatory trimmings, porcelain enammeled goods, steam & radiator valves, traps, brackets, cistern pulls, water waste preventors etc.] A WONDERFUL PERIOD BOOK.. Cloth. Fair.

Cairo: Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, 1983. [Taekholmia Additonal Series 2: 14-31.]. Illustrated with two line drawings, slim 8vo, pp (17), paperback, a very good copy.. Paperback. Very Good.

Tehran: University of Tehran, 1966. Large thick octavo, pp xii, + approximately 400 pages with many simple distribution maps, + 76 pages of black and white photographic plates (mainly of leaves against a black background), errata slip loosely inserted, the contents are clean but there are two badly cracked inner hinges, and the stitching will, with use, eventually break; paperback, covers a little worn, spine creased, with the signature of the plant collector T.F. Hewer on the upper cover. The text is in Farsi, but there are latin names, and common names in English. RARE. [Professor T.F. Hewer of Bristol University carried out two botanical expeditions to Iran and Afghanistan. The first saw him spend six months travelling through the two countries in 1969. The second took place in 1971, when he was accompanied by C. Grey-Wilson and at times by Brigadier Brian Archibald Mark Currie and Richard Hewer. This trip yielded 1,800 numbers. Hewer published an account of his 1971 expedition in the journal of… Read More

New York: Theo Gaus' Sins, Inc., 1973. Illusrated with two maps and a portrait frontispiece, octavo, pp 207, very clean internally, red cloth in very good condition in a price-clipped dustwrapper which is slightly chipped and rubbed, with a few marginal small tears. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn and frayed.

London & New York: John Lane : The Bodley Head, 1921. First edition. Octavo, pp (101),(i),(2), edges uncut, endpapers age-toned but otherwise very clean internally, cloth-backed boards a bit marked and used, rubbed at the edgesm corners a little worn, the top corner of the upper cover bruised, original title label on upper cover, the title label on the spine is rubbed and dull. [First edition of this selection of poetry.]. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Good.

Stellenbosch: National Department of Agriculture, 2007. Ninth edition. Small slim octavo, pp 60, paperback, a very good copy. [Postage will be much reduced]. Paperback. Very Good.

Dunedin: Royal Society of New Zealand, 1955. Illustrated with 76 plates of line drawings, octavo, pp 490, very clean internally, paperback, slight signs of use to the covers and spine wrinkled, but a good copy. [Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin number 5].. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

Dunedin: Royal Society of New Zealand, 1955. Illustrated with 76 plates of line drawings, octavo, pp 490, clean internally, paperback, the covers marked and a bit worn, the spine wrinkled. [Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin number 5].. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1991. Well illustrated, small octavo, pp xvi, 97, corners very slightly bruised, a small bookseller's label on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly worn and creased. . First Edition. Paperback. Good.

London Boroughof Newham., 1972. Slender tall small quarto, pp 20, a very good copy. TOGETHER WITH the accompanying 46 sheets of plates and maps, very good condition, in the original paper case which is rather creased and worn. SCARCE. . First Edition. Paperback in folder. Very Good.

London: The Studio, 1920. Well illustrated with 8 colour plates and over 90 monochrome plates, small quarto, pp 167, original cloth, slightly marked and worn, very slightly bowed.. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

Washington & New Delhi: Smithsonian Institution & National Science Foundation, 1976. Illustrated with a few colour plates and many full page botanical line drawings throughout, a folding map, thick octavo, pp viii, 915, clean internally, however a very poor copy. the front hinge completely broken so the text block is held by the rear hinge only, purple cloth slightly worn and marked, the dustwrapper is wrecked and barely worth keeping. A working/reference copy only. From the library of the Kew botanist Peter Taylor, with inscription from the first author. With an undated Apendix, also signed, paperback, 8 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Poor/Poor.

Rotterdam: A.A. Balkema 1985 - 1996. Two volumes, large octavo, pp xii, 535; (8), 304, well illustrated with botanical line drawings and a few colour plates, very clean internally, cloth just very slightly used, in very slightly worn dustwrappers. VERY SCARCE. A heavy set - extra postage may be needed. [Karnataka is a state in the southwestern region of India, bordered by the Lakshadweep Sea to the west, Goa to the northwest, Maharashtra to the north, Telangana to the northeast, Andhra Pradesh to the east, Tamil Nadu to the southeast, and Kerala to the southwest. Karnataka is home to a variety of wildlife. It has a recorded forest area of 38,720 km2 (14,950 sq mi) which constitutes 12.3% of the total geographical area of the state.[73] These forests support 25% of the elephant and 10% of the tiger population of India. Many regions of Karnataka are as yet unexplored, so new species of flora and fauna are found periodically. ]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

Seattle: The Mountaineers Books, 2002. Well illustrated, large 4to, pp 224, a very good copy in dustwrapper.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1952. Illustrated, large octavo, pp xiv, 328, fore-edge slightly foxed, top edge slightly bruised, a heavy signature of the botanist R.D. Tweed on the title page, otherwise a very good copy.. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

London: Collins, 1961. First edition. Illustrated, pp 384, top edge slightly foxed, a tiny bookseller's label on the front endpaper,very clean copy iinternally, green cloth very bright, the spine head very slightly curled, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but it is very slightly worn and age-toned, its spine head slightly creased, now nicely protected in a removable plastic cover. [How and why a well-managed garden plant or an introduction from abroad will suddenly become an aggressive weed. This is a work of the first importance by the leading authority on the subject. For though Sir Edward Salisbury was best known for his thirteen years’ work as Director of Kew, and for his outstandingly successful gardening books, he has accumulated over years of study a first-hand knowledge of our weed flora that is certainly unique. Weeds and Aliens was the result of half a century of observation and curiosity; it is likely to remain for a long time to come a standard work for botanists, farmers,… Read More

London: Collins, 1961. First edition. Illustrated, pp 384, green cloth with very slight blemishes on the upper cover, a duplicate from East Malling Research Station with their stamp on the front endpaper and a label on the spine otherwise very clean internally. [How and why a well-managed garden plant or an introduction from abroad will suddenly become an aggressive weed. This is a work of the first importance by the leading authority on the subject. For though Sir Edward Salisbury was best known for his thirteen years’ work as Director of Kew, and for his outstandingly successful gardening books, he has accumulated over years of study a first-hand knowledge of our weed flora that is certainly unique. Weeds and Aliens was the result of half a century of observation and curiosity; it is likely to remain for a long time to come a standard work for botanists, farmers, gardeners and naturalists alike. The history and geography of British weed flora and effects on them of social or agricultural… Read More

Paternoster Row, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1816. Two volumes. Illustrated with a folding plan in the first volume, 12mo, (measures 180mm x 108mm], the first volume is partly unpaginated, the second volume is (4), 211, (i), slight age-toning and the occasional blemish, the frontispiece is awkwardly folded and along with the title page a bit browned, but otherwise clean and sound internally, half calf and boards, rubbed, lacking most of the spine labels, with the tiny armorial bookplate of William Booth Grey - the son of George Harry Grey (1737, MP for Staffordshire in 1761 and succeeded as the 5th Earl of Stamford 30 May 1768). He is considered to be the artist of two plant collages, in the style of Mary Delany, acquired by the British Museum in 2008. RARE. [William Salisbury, botanical nurseryman, has been erroneously described as a brother of Richard Anthony Salisbury. In the preface he states that from 1791 he was employed by the Board of Agriculture in conducting… Read More

New York: Maurizio Martino, 1990. Originally published in two volumes in Stockholm, 1955, this facsimile reprint was published in one volume and limited to 400 copies only. Large very thick octavo, illustrated, pp xii, 471, (iii); (ii), 494, (ii), red cloth in excellent condition, as new.. Cloth. As New.

Portland: Timber Press, 1986. ["Includes selected, named forms of Rhododendron species"]. Illustrated, quarto, pp vi, 391, a good copy in faded and very slightly worn dustwrapper.With the bookplate of Dan Mayers (showing Lorien - his Arts and Crafts house at Wadhurst), and a handwritten letter from the first author, Homer Salley.. Signed letter from author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn and faded.