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Special Offers Natural history . 1st. Ed. Pub. Langford Press. 2011. pp.132 with illustrations throughout. Royal 4to. New hardback in new dw. Title Number 23 in the series. RRP £38.00. Last copy. Featuring works by Barry Peckham, Barry Miles, Janet Langford, Richard Tratt, Peter Frost and Hilary Tratt. This collection of superb paintings has been chosen to convey the wonderful diversity of wildlife and habitat within the New Forest boundaries.

van Voorst. , 1860. 1st. Ed.. pp.lvi, 327. Small 8vo. Some tick marks to text in pencil otherwise text in very clean condition. Fold-out map at front of book with 3 small spots of foxing. Scattered foxing to end-papers. Original boards in thoroughly vg. condition.

Botany British floras . Pub. E. Collings. 1834. pp.iv, 62 with uncut index. Small 8vo. Very minor spotting, some neat, historical notes to two pages of text, o/w. contents fine. Minor rubbing to contemporary marbled boards. More recent, sympathetic, spine. Overall a thor. vg. copy. Comes with a facsimile of ‘A new Map of the Country twelve miles Round Bath from a late Survey’ that accompanied the copy of Flora Bathoniensis held in Bath Reference Library.

Botany British floras . Pub. E. Collings. 1834. pp.vi, 62, (i), plus index. Small 8vo. Softback. Contents nr. fine with a photocopied map (made from a copy held in the Bath Reference Library), loosely inserted. Original printed covers neatly supported with later card.

pp.293 with colour and b/w. photographs and some other text figs. A vg. copy in same dw.

Garden Book Club., 1973. pp.246 with a few b/w. photographs. A very good copy in same dw.

Alpine Garden Soc., 1979. 1st.. pp. 293 with many plates both in colour and b/w. A vg. hdbk., in vg. dw. A great guide for those wishing to go plant hunting in Europe.

Botany Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. The Alpine Garden Society. 1979. pp.293 with colour and b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. A fine hdbk. in vg. to fine dw.

Fine illustrated and antiquarian Botany . 2nd. Ed. Pub. Lovell Reeve. 1863. pp.xvi, 152 with 12 fine hand coloured plates to rear plus 16-page Lovell Reeve catalogue. 8vo. Hardback. Contents fine. Original gilt decorated boards nr. fine.

Franckh-Kosmos., 1987. 1st. Ed.. pp.127 with colour photos., throughout, plus line drawings. Small 8vo. German with Latin names. Eric Duffey’s copy. Neat dedication by one of the Authors to ffep. A fine softback. A practical and authoratitive guide.

Botany Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Schloss Charlottenburg. 1979. pp.125 with 3 col. plates and b/w. text illus. 4to. Fine softback with gently bumped corners and light sunning to spine. German text. Exhibition catalogue.

Botany Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Kongelige Sølvkammer 1999. pp.277 with col. and b/w. illus. 4to. Fine hardback with very gently sunned spine. German text.

Univ. Illinois Press. , 1952. pp.x, 224 with text illus. throughout. Ex-lib. Thor. vg. hardback.

Ward, Lock & Co., 1945. Rev. Ed.. pp.416 with 8 colour plates, 60 b/w. photos. and many illus. 8vo. Thor. vg. hardback in vg. dw., with small tear on rear cover.

Botany Ferns, mosses & lichens . 3rd. Ed. Pub. Swan Sonnenschein. 1889. pp.viii, 96 with b/w. text figs., plus 8-page catalogue, Small 8vo. Nr. fine hardback..

Botany British floras . Fac. Rep. Pub. Kessinger Legacy Reprints. 2010. pp.xxxiv, 519. Large 8vo. Fine hardback. Originally published in 1891, this work includes chapters on the topography, geology and meteorology of Warwickshire.

Botany British floras . 1st. Ed. Pub. Gurney & Jackson. 1891. pp.xxxiv, 519, viii. 8vo. Hardback. Limited edition of 500 copies, this copy no. 116 and signed by the author. Folding map in rear pocket in fine condition. Light spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. contents fine. Original green cloth nr. fine. A super copy. As well as an account of the botany of Warwickshire, this work also includes chapters on the topography, geology and meteorology of the county.

Saunders and Otley, London., 1838. 2nd. Ed.. pp.xvi, 240 with fine hand-coloured frontis., illustrated title page, 40 wood engravings in text and 4 pages of publishers adverts. 8vo. Hardback. Contents in fine condition. Original yellow end-papers. In original green cloth boards, with gilt illus., showing some wear to outer casing at spine ends, a little darkened on spine o/w. vg. With small bookplate reading 'Duplicate - ex collection of John Hewitt, Bee Master, Sheffield, Eng.' to front paste-down. (Harding 222). The frontispiece depicts 'splendid [hand] coloured drawings of queen, worker and drone, 'magnified' and also life size' (Harding).

Saunders and Otley, London., 1838. 2nd. Ed.. pp.xvi, 240 with fine hand-coloured frontis., illustrated title page, 40 wood engravings in text and 4-pages of publisher’s adverts. 8vo. Hardback. Leonard Harrison Matthews (1901-86) copy with his signature, the leading academic, zoologist and prolific author who wrote British Mammals and Mammals in the British Isles in Collins’ New Naturalist series. Contemporary signature (dated 1841) to title page. Minor spotting, o/w. contents fine. Original yellow end-papers. In original green cloth boards, with gilt illus., a little darkened on spine o/w. thor. vg. (Harding 222). The frontispiece depicts ‘splendid [hand] coloured drawings of queen, worker and drone, ‘magnified’ and also life size’ (Harding).

Cassell., 1992. pp.377 informative line drawings throughout. A nr. fine copy in same dw. A very useful book with over 2,900 entries and 1,200 explanatory diagrams.