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Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Royal College of Physicians. 2012. pp.vii, 165 with colour photographs. Crown 4to. New hardback. This book records those plants in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians which are named after doctors, apothecaries, doctors of divinity, botanists, kings and gardeners.

Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Little Brown. 2015. pp.127 with colour photos. throughout. 8vo. New softback. The Royal College of Physicians celebrated their 500th anniversary in 2018. As part of the celebrations this book was produced. Its focus is on the Royal College of Physicians Medicinal Garden, talking about its history, the important plants grown in it and the doctors and others involved the gardens' development.

Oakeley. , 2011. pp.86 with colour photographs throughout. Small 8vo. A new softback. Eighty nine species and a few hybrids with notes on their cultivation, habitats, and cultural requirements with 165 wonderful photographs for their easy identification.

Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Henry Oakeley. 2016. pp.41 with b/w. illus. 8vo. New softback. An ‘A to Z’ of rhymes (witty) and wisdom (useful) on medicinal plants and people. Illustrated with beautiful 16th & 17th century woodcuts. A perfect present.

Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Royal College of Physicians. 2013. pp.40 with colour photographs throughout. 8vo. New softback. Takes you on a tour of the garden, with notes on 60 of the plants it contains, considering their historical & current uses.

Entomology Butterflies and moths . 1st. Ed. Pub. Pisces. 2000. pp.vi, 177 with some colour photographs, b/w. illus. and dist. maps. Fine hardback. in nr. fine dw. Latest edition. Out-of-print. Presents detailed descriptions of all the butterflies found in the county. Each species is illustrated, and the distribution, habitat and food plant, major sites, population trend and size, flight period, and earliest and latest dates are all detailed for the period 1990-1999.

Acorn Books., 1998. 1st. Ed.. pp.288 with colour and b/w. illus. and dist. maps. 4to. Ownership insc. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw. Out-of-print. A detailed and very well illustrated work on Africa's 33 endemic robin species. It contains individual accounts for each species accompanied by a watercolour plate.

Acorn Books., 1998. 1st. Ed.. pp.288 with colour and b/w. illus. and dist. maps. 4to. Ownership insc. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw. Inscribed ‘For Peter, In memory of Zululand days’ and signed by Terry Oatley to title page. Out-of-print. A detailed and very well illustrated work on Africa's 33 endemic robin species. It contains individual accounts for each species accompanied by a watercolour plate.

Gov. Office., 1932. pp.vi, 137. Ex-Lib. with usual markings. Rough-cut pages. A vg. copy in card covers.

Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000. 1st. Ed.. pp.xiv, 477 with colour photos., throughout. Large 8vo. Bookplate. A fine softback. Out-of-print. A comprehensive guide for the quick and accurate identification of North American waders.

Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000. 1st. Ed.. pp.xiv, 477 with colour photos., throughout. Large 8vo. Fine softback. Out-of-print. A comprehensive guide for the quick and accurate identification of North American waders.

Ornithology Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. John Wiley. 1984. pp.x, 315 with tables & figs. 8vo. Hardback. Signature to ffep. Spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. contents fine. A little spine lean. Illus., boards in fine condition. This book reviews research into the ecological and evolutionary factors behind growth patterns in animals and applies these findings systematically to the growth and development of birds.

Ornithology Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Cambridge Uni. Press. 1986. pp.xii, 290 with b/w. illus., maps and figs. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback. Reviews the effects of agricultural development on bird populations in Britain.

P.A. O’Connor & Learnex., 1983. 1st. Ed.. pp.xii, 203 with b/w. photos., and illus. throughout. Small 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.

Cambridge Uni. Press., 1983. 1st. Ed.. pp.xvi, 324 with b/w. photos., illus., figs., and tables. 8vo. Bookplate. Neat label to ffep. Faint foxing to top of text block, o/w., a fine hardback in fine dw. Out-of-print in hardback. Describes the results of a long-term study of the ecology, evolutionary genetics and sociobiology of the Arctic Skua. The study was undertaken to understand how natural and sexual selection act to maintain all three forms of skua in its populations.

Acropolis Books Ltd., 1991. Rev. Ed.. pp.310 with many fine coloured photos. A near fine hdbk. in same dw. The authors describe the basic creative principles and techniques of their four season gardens - both public and private combining horticulture and architecture in a fully integrated, dynamic design.

Botany Illustrated . 1st. Ed. Pub. Rizzoli. 2002. pp.[96] with col. illus. throughout. Small 4to. Nr. fine hardback. PublisherÂ’s illustrated flyer for this book loosely inserted. The cyanotype print is a visually arresting printing method whose fame dates back to the pioneering nineteenth-century botanist Anna Atkins. Photographer Zeva Oelbaum revisits the beauty of the natural world, and pays homage to this botanist and this little-used and compelling process.

pp.64 with b/w. photographs. A vg. copy in sl. tatty card covers.

State of Iowa., 1946. 1st. Ed.. pp.86 with b/w. photos. 8vo. A vg. softback.

E. H. Taylor. [c.], 1970. 1st. Ed.. pp.23. 16mo. A nr. fine softback.