SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany Books

Corporation of Luton Museum and Art Gallery, 1953. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine /V.g. Author's signature on ffep. Top edge green. A comprehensive [even includes fungi!] treatment of the flora of a county whose diversity is surpisingly high for such a small area. The map on p. 16 shows the county boundary in red; the book is otherwise unillustrated, save for the wrapper which has a composite of cuckoo pint, bee orchid and other flowers. An outstanding work for the 1950s. 532 pp. ... more information

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Thomas Nelson , 1962. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /No Jacket. ... more information

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Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1835. 3rd edition. Half leather. Good /No Jacket. Boards rather worn, internally very good. ... more information

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Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1828. 5th edition. Hard covers. V.g. /No Jacket. Handwritten index to Linnaean classes facing last page of index, some notes in text; a very good copy in original boards, with minor foxing to title page and facing page with publisher's motif. viii, 212 pp.. ... more information

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West, Newman & Co., London, 1905. 1st edition. Green buckram. Good /No Jacket. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and library bookplate. xvi, 208 pp. ... more information

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Thomas Nelson , 1962. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /No Jacket. The original edition, with the rare loosely inserted leaflet 'first list of corrections to the Atlas of the British Flora'. Jacket badly torn and incomplete; all overlays present. xxiv, 432 pp. ... more information

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Corporation of Luton Museum and Art Gallery, 1953. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /V.g. Jacket sl. dulled around spine, pages a smidgeon tanned. Top edge green. A comprehensive [even includes fungi!] treatment of the flora of a county whose diversity is surpisingly high for such a small area. The map on p. 16 shows the county boundary in red; the book is otherwise unillustrated, save for the wrapper which has a composite of cuckoo pint, bee orchid and other flowers. An outstanding work for t... more information

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Brambleby Books, Harpenden, 2005. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. New /New. In transparent polyester wrapper. Covers not only vascular plants and bryophytes but also charophytes, lichens and non-lichenized fungi, and extends its coverage into the current county of Oxfordshire that formerly belonged to Berkshire. 1375 pp., 16 plates. ... more information

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CMFE / Societas Biologica Fennica Vanamo, 1986. vol. 7 only. Paper covers. V.g/No Jacket. V.g.; owner's signature confessing to it being a review copy. ... more information

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Ebury Press / Michael Joseph, 1965. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/Good. V.g./g., flaps adhered by old sellotape. Deservedly popular illustrated guide to British wild flowers. 231 pp. ... more information

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John Smith & Son, Glasgow, 1933. 1st edition. Hard covers, gilt lettering to spine, no dust jacket. Fine /No Jacket. A fine, little-used copy. Foyle sticker on front end paper; owner's signature. A rare example of a local flora which treats infraspecific taxa (in this case, mostly varieties) as well as species. Although there were several previous floras covering at least part of the study area, such as Hennedy's Clydesdale Flora, Ewing's Glasgow Catalogue and of course Hooker's Flor... more information

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Nauka Press, Leningrad, 1972. Publisher's mustard-brown boards, no dust jacket. Fine /No Jacket. Fine, one corner bumped. In Russian with Armenian and Russian summaries. Modern flora of southern Armenia, including the Araks valley [the classical Araxes], from the environs of Erevan southwards to the border of Nakhichevan. Illustrated with 117 well-drawn text figures. ... more information

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Longmans, 1899. 1st edition. Presentation inscription on rear of ffep. V.g. /No Jacket. Rear of cover sl. marked, otherwise in almost unread condition (pages uncut). cxiv, 399 pp., sl. foxed map (with small tear along hinge) at rear. ... more information

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the author, Bournemouth, 1994. 1st edition. Paper covers. New /No Jacket. Twelve years' fieldwork went into this account of the flora of the eastern part of modern Dorset, which abuts the New Forest (now a National Park) and the coast around and to the west of Poole Harbour. It is technically the area formerly in vice-county 11 (Hampshire) now lying mainly in modern Dorset but including an area of Bournemouth (the Ensbury-Wallisdown salient) which has always been in vice-county 9. Dot distribution m... more information

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Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1965. Cover worn and creased..Softback,Ex-Library,with usual stamps markings, ,in fair to good all-round condition, ,243pages., 450grams, ISBN:" . ... more information

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Pergamon Press, 1965. Softback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition., 450grams, ISBN:" . ... more information

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New York: A.S. Barnes. Fair with no dust jacket. 1873. Hardbound. cover worn; 447 pages . ... more information

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Kew, Richmond, Surrey: Royal Botanic Garden Kew, 2005. Corrected edition. This beautifully-produced volume celebrates the extraordinarily rich and unique flora of Crete. There are more than 1900 plant and habitat colour photographs with extended, informative captions. Over 800 species are illustrated in full colour, often with habitat, habit and close-up details of flowers. Many endemics are illustrated in colour for the first time. Areas of special interest include orchids, cyclamen, aroids, crocus, euphor... more information

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London: Colllins, 1986. Reprinted, 1986. Very well illustrated by Marjorie Blamey, small 8vo, pp 384, paperback in limp laminated covers, very slight signs of wear, a slight mark to the fore-edge, a three line presentation inscription on the title page in red ink, no other markings internally. Overall, a much better and cleaner copy than average. {"An illustrated guide for the Alps, Pyrenees and northern Europe." One of the best pocket guides, and now extremely scarce.}. ... more information

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Collins, 1985 "Here is a comprehensive guide that will open your eyes to the beauty and wonder of everlastings, those flowers that are as lovely and fascinating dried as they are in their flowering state." Superb copy in excellent but price clipped jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Anita Marci and Mary Close. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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