A Natural History of New and Rare Ferns, containiing species and varieties, none of which are included in any of the eight volumes of "Ferns British and Exotic" by Lowe, E.J - 1871

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1985 - 1994. Two volumes, covering families A-D and E-I. Two frontispieces, two maps, but no other illustrations, large octavo, pp xvi, 960; xii, 636, very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper of the first volume is a little rubbed. [From the library of the Kew botanist Nigel Hepper, with his signature in the first volume.] Very heavy - extra postage may be needed.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly rubbed.

London, Dublin & Edinburgh: Samuel Bagster; John Archer; Ross and Blackwood, 1802. Second edition, enlarged and improved. Two engraved plates (with stains, and virtually detached), pp 432, vii, untrimmed and unpressed, the first few pages rather weak, a small marginal stain to the last 25 pages, otherwise clean internally though rather weak, original boards with a later paper spine and small handwritten label. An over-industrious former owner has erased the printing date on the title page and erroneously entered 1828. [From the library of the botanist and garden historian Anthony Huxley, with his stamp on the front endpaper which also contains a contemporary signature. The authorship is frequently given as the agricultural writer Arthur Young, but I can find no justification for this ? Fussell certainly made no such assertion.]. Second edition. Boards. Fair.

Napoli: Emilio Prass, 1900. Small octavo, pp 95, one folding colour plate, foxing on some pages but otherwise extremely clean and sound, red cloth in very good condition. RARE. [ From the library of Kenneth Lazenby, an founding member of the Alpine Garden Society, with his bookplate on the front endpaper.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Shanghai: The National Review Office, 1911. Octavo, pp xvi, 255, slightly age-toned, a neat signature and date on the front endpaper, otherwise clean and sound internally, green cloth, slightly worn marked and wrinkled, the spine head slightly torn. [The final 18-page appendix - The Big Game of Western China - was written by Frank Kingdon Ward, though this is only ackowledged in the publishers' note.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

Belgrade, 1874. [Serbian text throughout, with Latin plant names]. Small thick octavo, pp xxxiv, (ii), 798, (6), age-toned but otherwise extremely clean and firm, solidly bound in green cloth, with the original front paper cover restored and bound in. RARE.Pancic was a Croatian botanist and physician, eventually becoming Director of the Belgrade Botanic Garden. [ With a fine botanical provenance - the blindstamp of A.J. Wilmott, Kew botanist and ping-pong champion; from whom it went to Arthur Hugh Garfit Alston of the British Museum with his bequest label on the front endpaper; and finally back to Kew again to bear the signature of Alan Radcliffe-Smith.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Crown Agents and Flora Zambesiaca Managing Committee Illustrated with line drawings, 8vo, paperbacks, withdrawn duplicates from the Royal Horticultural Society Library, Wisley, with neat stamps on front endpapers and title pages, and small labels on spines or on upper covers. Good copies, with very little wear. [Very heavy - extra postage will be required). Paperback. Good.

Heidelberg & New York: Springer, 2013. Illustrated, large octavo, pp xiv, 279, pictorial boards, a very good copy, almost as new. [Teide Volcano has many different meanings: For the Guanche aborigines, who endured several of its eruptions, it was Echeide (Hell). Early navigators had in Teide, a lifesaving widely visible landmark that was towering over the clouds. For the first explorers, Teide was a challenging and dangerous climb, since it was thought that Teide's peak was so high that from its summit the sun was too close and far too hot to survive. Teide was considered the highest mountain in the world at that time and measuring its height precisely was a great undertaking and at the time of global scientific significance. For von Buch, von Humboldt, Lyell and other great 18th and19th century naturalists, Teide helped to shape a new and now increasingly 'volcanic' picture, where the origin of volcanic rocks (from solidified magma) slowly casted aside Neptunism and removed some of… Read More

Colombo: Ceylon Government Press, 1938. Illustrated with 404 small line drawings, pp xviii, 110, slightly age-toned, slight creasing, fore and bottom edge a little marked, some pages a little turned or dog-eared, paperback, covers a little worn and marked, a tiny label on the upper cover. RARE.. First Edition. Paperback. Fair.

A very good run of 38 volumes, from 1948 to 1986, lacking only the volume for 1982, green cloth showing only very slight signs of use, duplicates from a botanic garden library with a withdrawn stamp on each front endpaper but no other markings. [Extremely heavy - weighing 17 kilos before packing. Extra postage will be required.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Portland: Timber Press, 2008. Well illustrated, large octavo, pp 304, very bright and clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper has just the slightest signs of use. [Signed and dated by author on the half-title].. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.