Rachel Ruysch, 1664 - 1750 by Grant, Colonel M.H - 1956

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.

Royal Botanic Garden Kew, 2005. Dicotyledon Families Magnoliaceae to Winteraceae. Illustrated, thick 8vo, pp xiv, 609, dustwrapper, a very good copy. VERY HEAVY - EXTRA POSTAGE MAY BE REQUIRED. All volumes should be available - please enquire. [The principal objective of this project has been to provide an inventory of all vascular plants in the flora of Mount Kinabalu. This Volume 5 completes the inventory with an enumeration of the dicotyledons in families in alphabetical order from Magnoliaceae to Winteraceae. The other four volumes cover, respectively, the ferns and fern allies, orchids, gymnosperms and non-orchid monocotyledons, and dicotyledons in families Acanthaceae to Lythraceae. The Kinabalu flora includes about 5,000 species of vascular plants, and is arguably one of the richest floras in the world on the basis of number of species on a per-unit-area basis. Additionally, Mount Kinabalu has been a centre of extremely active plant evolution and speciation and presents an outstanding natural… Read More

London: W.H. & L. Collingridge Ltd, 1893. Second edition. Coloured frontispiece and extra coloured title page, 2 coloured plates (a little foxed, and one plate is loose), pp (6), 115, all edges gilt, very slightly weak internally, decorated cloth, very slightly marked and worn. [From the library of the garden historian Anthony Huxley, with his ownership stamp on the front blank.]. Pictorial Cloth. Good.

London: W.H. & L. Collingridge Ltd, 1893. Second edition. Coloured frontispiece and extra coloured title page, 2 coloured plates, pp (6), 115, all edges gilt, decorated cloth, the spine head is very slightly frayed, front end paper slightly creased, and with old price written neatly in pencil. [This is a duplicate from the Oxford Botanic Garden, but the only signs of this are the barest traces of a label on the spine, and their attractive pictorial circular stamp opposite the title page. The condition is really very bright].. Pictorial Cloth. Good.

Cambridge University Press, 1986. Introduction by Phillip Cribb, very large thick quarto, pp 525, the slightest signs of wear, in a very slightly worn and stretched dustwrapper. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR. [Reproduces nearly 1200 images of orchids published between 1787 and 1848]. Very heavy, extra postage may be required.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn. Illus. by Fitch, Walter Hood. Snelling, Lilian. Grierson, Mary..

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. 14 volumes + Index - The Northeastern States (2 vols), The Southeastern States (2 vols), Texas (2 vols), The Southwestern States (3 vols), The North-western States (2 vols), The Central Mountains and Plains (3 vols), Index (1 vol]. Superbly illustrated with colour photographs throughout, large quarto, the very slightest signs of wear, slight foxing to the top and fore-edges, otherwise a very good ex-library set, with very discrete shelf numbers at the base of the spines, labels on the half-titles and facIng pages, a number on the verso of each title page, but no other markings. New York 1966-onwards. [Still an absolutely stunning work, and very useful, even in today's internet age.] [Very heavy, and postal surcharges will apply. For sale in UK only - it will NOT be practical to post this overseas.] . Cloth. Very Good.