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Lansdowne/Hill House. -, 19811995. 1st. Ed.. Seven volume set with colour plates throughout. Folio. Small address label to each volume. Fine hardbacks in fine dws.

Entomology Butterflies and moths . 1st. Ed. Pub. Lansdowne. 1981. pp.xiv, 172 with colour photos. and plates throughout. Crown folio. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw.

Entomology Butterflies and moths . 1st. Ed. Pub. Lansdowne. 1981. pp.xiv, 172 with colour photos. and plates throughout. Crown folio. First 12 pages not bound in but present, o/w. a fine hardback. in vg. to nr. fine dw.

Lansdowne., 1980. 1st. Ed.. pp.xx, 593 with colour plates throughout and a map of the region. Folio. Hardback. End-papers pasted to boards, contents in fine condition; with dw. in nr. fine condition. Covers all tropical African countries, including Madagascar, then also Yemen, South Yemen, Socrotra, the Seychelles, Mauritius and Reunion Island.

Lansdowne., 1977. 2nd. Ed.. pp.415 with colour plates throughout and a map of the region. Folio. Title-page removed. Small address label. Thor. vg. hardback in nr. fine dw. "This revised edition is not simply a reprint; it is a new edition and has been extensively revised. New taxa and butterfly distributions are included and those species omitted from the the first edition now appear in the work."

Entomology Butterflies and moths . 1st. Ed. Pub. Lansdowne. 1980. pp.xx, 593 with colour plates throughout and a map of the region. Folio. Hardback. Minor spotting to fore-edges of text block and endpapers o/w. a fine hardback in fine dw. Covers all tropical African countries, including Madagascar, then also Yemen, South Yemen, Socrotra, the Seychelles, Mauritius and Reunion Island.

Entomology Butterflies and moths . 2nd. Ed. Pub. Lansdowne. 1977. pp.415 with colour plates throughout and a map of the region. Folio. Minor spotting to fore-edge of text block, o/w. a fine hardback in fine dw. With three articles (dated 1977-1979) about Bernard D’Abrera, which include information on his photographic techniques, loosely inserted. ‘Covering Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Moluccas, New Zealand and the islands of the South Pacific. All the major species are described and illustrated....’

Academic Press., 1979. pp.xvi, 222 with many figs. Fine copy in dw. which shows some wear and is marked in places. Scarce.

Bees Books Published Between 1901 + 1999 . Rev. Ed. Rep. Pub. American Bee Journal. 1947. pp.127 with bw. photos. Large 8vo. Nr. fine hardback.

IBRA/ Northern Bee Books., 2017. Rev. Ed. Rep.. pp.196 with b/w. illus. 8vo. A new softback. This is a clear and practical guide to both the anatomy and dissection of the honeybee and is written in a style which makes the subject understandable by those without formal training in zoology or entomology. It is a classic of the beekeeping world.

International Bee Research Association., 1994. 1st. Ed. Rep.. pp.xvii, 158 plus 20 b/w. plates and illus. within text. 8vo. Neat name and address stamp to fore-edge of text block and endpapers. Nr. fine hardback.

Portugal. [], 2015. 1st. Ed.. pp.120 with colour photos. throughout. Landscape 4to. Trilingual in English, Portuguese, German. Fine hardback. Scarce. Published posthumously, this is a fascinating account, backed up by many years of research, of the Author’s belief that camellias were first brought back to Europe by Portuguese mariners, and that Portugal remains to this day the European home of camellias.

Gustav Fischer. -, 19261963. 1st. Ed.. Eight parts bound in four hardback and one softback volume. With illustrations throughout. Large 8vo. With Eric Duffey’s (distinguished Arachnologist) signature to each volume and his occasional pencil translations / notes. Contents fine. Hardbacks bound in green cloth with gilt lettering, all in nr. fine / fine condition. Softback in original covers in nr. fine condition With several additional articles and typed notes explaining the work. Scarce.

Buchanan’s Kenya Estates Ltd. , 1961. 1st. Ed.. pp.xxvii, 654 with 31 colour plates, b/w. photos. and illus. and fold-out map. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback. This is a comprehensive record of indigenous Kenyan trees and shrubs (very largely those of six feet tall and more).

Gardening Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. ACC Art Books 2018. pp.232 with colour illus. throughout. Small 4to. New hardback in new dw. RRP £30.00. Wordsworth was as passionate about his gardens at Dove Cottage and Rydal Mount as he was about the untamed world that surrounded them. With contemporary horticultural illustrations throughout, this book traces his interest in the natural world to his childhood fondness for gardening, before examining the references to flowers in his verse.

Fine illustrated and antiquarian Botany . 2nd French Edition Pub. Lyon. 1653. Two volumes comprising 2,752 woodcuts, a number of which were made especially for this work. Hardback. Folio. All edges marbled. Contents complete with some pagination errors to Tome 1. Several leaves at the beginning of each volume repaired at blank gutter. Old water-marking (common in herbals) to both volumes, more extensive in Tome 2, nevertheless the contents overall are in thoroughly very good condition. Bound in contemporary full-leather, professionally restored in places, all in thoroughly very good condition. The second, and last, French edition of Dalechamp's famous herbal - this edition being the most complete one in the French language. Prov: We know that this copy was at one point owned by Sir Frank Crisp (b. 1843 - d. 1949) the English lawyer and microscopist. After 1919, the books went into the library of Sir Edwin Hartland (b. 1848 - d. 1927) and after his passing away in 1936, they were donated to Gloucester… Read More

Botany Trees, shrubs and forestry . 3rd. Ed. Rep. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1954. pp.xvi, 686 with frontis. plus 39 b/w. photographic plates and figs. throughout 8vo. Hardback. Ex-Lib. Light spotting to ends o/w. contents fine. Original cloth in nr. fine condition with some spotting and sunning to spine.

Dulau., 1945. New. Ed.. pp.99 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Inscription to ffep. A vg. hdbk in vg. dw.

Lewis., 1993. 1st. Ed.. pp.461 with b/w. photos. and figs. 8vo. Fine hardback. Reviews research concerning metal exposure of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial invertebrates.

Botany Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Oxford Univ. Press. 1998. pp.xii, 257 comprehensively illustrated with col. & b/w photos., maps & figs. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. Out-of-print. An overview of the landscapes, vegetation types and plants of the five regions which uniquely experience mild, rainy winters and dry, warm summers. Includes a chapter on planning trips to each region.