Flora of Baja California by Wiggins, Ira L - 1980

Crown Agents and Flora Zambesiaca Managing Committee Illustrated with line drawings, 8vo, paperbacks, withdrawn duplicates from the Royal Horticultural Society Library, Wisley, with neat stamps on front endpapers and title pages, and small labels on spines or on upper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.

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the volume for 1982, green cloth showing only very slight signs of use, duplicates from a botanic garden library with a withdrawn stamp on each front endpaper but no other markings.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.

Tokyo: Heibonsha Ltd, 1982. Three volumes,small quarto, pp 305; 318; 259, very well illustrated with several thousand colour photographs on 704 plates, decorated cloth, sadly the pages in the first volume are damp wrinkled (but not stained), otherwise this set would have been described as new ! Still a very good set of a scrace title.. Cloth. Good.

St James's Street, Fleet Street & Poultry, London: J. Harding; J. White & J. Mawman, 1808. Second edition. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of the Woburn Beech, seven other plates (of which three are tinted and folding), octavo, pp 4, 6-277, + an advertisement page, extremely clean internally, recently bound in green quarter morocco and marbled boards. A very smart copy. [Pontey was a Yorkshire nurseryman , and planter and tree-pruner to the Duke of Beford.]. Second edition. Quarter leather. Very Good.

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: Longmans Green & Co., 1876. Third edition. Illustrated with a stunning tinted lithograph frontispiece, two folding plates of ring growth, octavo, pp x, 235 + 24 page publisher's catalogue, edges uncut, slight age-toning but otherwise very clean internally, the front hi nge is slightly weak and is exposed for about 40mm at the top, original green cloth with only slight signs of wear, the spine head slightly pulled. [A work that seems little-known as, indeed, is the author within horticultural circles. Greenwood had an estate in Hampshire, at Brookwood [Brockwood] House near Bramdean. The tree-lifter was the Colonel’s invention for transplanting trees up to 30 feet in height with their ball of earth intact, a feat the apparatus apparently made possible for a single individual to do at a rate of one tree per day. The somewhat aptly-named Colonel Greenwood was very enthusiastic about the importance of trees to the landscape and the first edition was published in 1844. Colonel… Read More

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.

Tokyo University, 1930. Large octavo, pp 484, not illustrated, a small erata slip tipped-in at the rear, bound in brown buckram, a little faded and very slightly rubbed, a morocco label on the spine, with the original printed covers bound in. From the library of the foremost grass botanist of the later twentieth century, C.E. Hubbard, with his stamp on the front endpaper and his signature on the paper cover. [Journal of the Faculty of Science, Botany, Vol III part 1]. First Edition. Buckram. Very Good.