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The Hillier Dictionary of Trees and Shrubs. The Hillier Arboretum.

By: N/A

Price: £3.00

Publisher: David and Charles. 1981 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 73359

Size 6.0 x 8.5 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Yellow endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Price clipped). Neat inscription to front endpaper, dated 1982. Else a very clean and tight copy. 323pp. With colour photographs and b/w line drawings. Alphabetically described trees and shrubs with colour photographs.
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Image for Villa Gardening: Being Plain instructions for the proper laying-out, planting and management of small gardens; with lists of trees, shrubs, and plants most suitable.

Villa Gardening: Being Plain instructions for the proper laying-out, planting and management of small gardens; with lists of trees, shrubs, and plants most suitable.

By: "PRACTICAL HAND":

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, “The Bazaar” Office, n.d. ca1875:

Seller ID: 82755

Hardback, 8 x 5 inches. MAroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front with decorative “plant-pot” vignette. In very good condition. Some rubbing to corners with small nick to top end of spine. Some light rubbing to boards. Endpapers clean, small bookseller label to front “Farmer & Sons, Kensington.” Inside pages and plates all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very clean and tight copy. 82pp. Adverts to endpapers (undated.) Illustrated with 13 full-page b&w plates and 8 B&W figures within text.
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Image for Buffon's Natural History. Containing A Theory of the Earth, A General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c. From the French. With Notes by the Translator. In Ten Volumes, PLUS, Six Volumes, Natural History of Fish, Insects and Reptiles. Complete in Sixteen Volumes.

Buffon's Natural History. Containing A Theory of the Earth, A General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c. From the French. With Notes by the Translator. In Ten Volumes, PLUS, Six Volumes, Natural History of Fish, Insects and Reptiles. Complete in Sixteen Volumes.

By: (BUFFON) BARR'S BUFFON:

Price: £1,200.00

Publisher: Printed for the Proprietor, (Sold by H.D. Symonds) 1797 & 1808:

Seller ID: 83634

Complete in 16 Volumes (10 + 6.) Hardback, 8 x 5 inches. In fine tree calf leather bindings, with later leather spines and labels. Plain endpapers. In very good conditions. Modern spines. Some bumps to corners of boards, Some minor rubbing to edges. Modern bookplate to endpapers “K.I. Beynon.” Neat penned inscription top edges of title pages “Mary Hutchinson 1813.” Some minor marks to endpapers and prelims, some minor darkening and foxing to frontis in vol.1., some handling marks and minor spots to pages but overall very clean and tight pages. Some handling marks and a ...
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Under the Acorns. A Selection of Nature Essays. (SIGNED & LIMITED EDITION)

By: (CHOLERTON, P. & C.) JEFFERIES, RICHARD:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Horizon Handmade Books. 1982.LIMITED EDITION (650):This No.373. SIGNED BY PETER CHOLERTON.:

Seller ID: 78947

Hardback, brown cloth with gilt lettering, in illustrated paper dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition. (Near fine dustwrap.) Signed by Peter Cholerton and numbered 373/650. With cover letter signed by Carol Cholerton. 6 col.& mount.plates. 128pp.(incl.bibl.).
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The Georgicks of Virgil, Pub. Virgilii Maronis Georgicorum, Libri Quatuor. With an English Translation and Notes. Illustrated with Copper Plates.

By: (VIRGIL) MARTYN, JOHN:

Price: £200.00

Publisher: Dublin, E. Exshaw, C. Wynne, Oli. Nelson, 1744:

Seller ID: 82193

Hardback, 8 x 5 inches. Bound in polished full calf leather, with gilt and raised banding and maroon leather spine label lettered in gilt. In very good condition. Corners bumped, marks and darkening to boards. Lacks free endpapers. Inscription to insides of boards. Some minor darkening to page edges else pages all very clean and tight. Small torn corner to bottom of last index page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 117, 127, 132 + 95pp + index. Illustrated with 3 B&W engraved folding plates, (2 of atlas/world maps and 1 of plough,) and 6 engraved coloured plates of plants and flowers (4 a...
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Woodland, Moor and Stream. Being the Notes of a Naturalist. Second Edition.

By: A NATURALIST:

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Smith Elder & Co. 1890 (2nd.).:

Seller ID: 83913

Hardback, Demy 8vo. approx 7.5 x 5 inches. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and small vignette to front. Black endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor handling marks to cover, corners bumped and slightly rubbed, some rubbing and small nicks to ends of spine, with small nick to cloth on rear spine edge. Some minor darkening and small foxing spots to prelims and title page, some minor spots to inside pages. No penned inscriptions or marks, else a very clean and tight copy. 224pp.
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Wild Flowers of Clevedon Signed Copy.

By: A.E.L.:

Price: £38.00

Publisher: Clevedon, George James Caple, 1877 1st:

Seller ID: 82727

Small hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to front. Pale yellow endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to corners, some light patchy fading to rear board. Authors dedicatory inscription to front endpaper “E.M. Newcome, with A.E.L.’s Kind regards, August 23rd 1887.” Title page darkened, else inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. 67pp.
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Hints On The Culture of Ornamental Plants in Ireland. Third Edition.

By: ADAIR, John:

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Dublin, E. Ponsonby, 1878 3rd:

Seller ID: 84004

Hardback, 7 x 5 inches. Red pebbled cloth with gilt paneled boards and lettering to front. Yellow endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor darkening and light soiling to cloth, front spine edge rubbed, some rubbing to edges and corners. Title page heavily darkened, some darkening to endpapers. Last index page also darkened, else inside pages all very clean, bright and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 136pp. Not illustrated.
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Early Printing Leaf from a Herbal by Adam Lonicer, “Kreuterbuch” Four nice Woodcuts with old handcolouring.

By: Adam Lonicer

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Frankfurt; Egenolff’s Erben 1582:

Seller ID: 83575

Unmounted. Page Size 19.5cm x 30cm GERMAN Text. In good condition. Some rubbing & slightly marked on edges, with two nicks. A few minor marks. Double sided leaf. With hand colouring to illustrations.
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Nature Studies New Edition.

By: ALLEN: WILSON: FOSTER: CLODD: PROCTOR:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1893 new ed:

Seller ID: 80291

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Maroon cloth with silver lettering to spine. Brown endpapers. In very good condition. Slight fading to spine with some minor rubbing to ends. Some light foxing to pages. Else a very clean and tight copy. 342pp + 24pp cat. Illustrated with B&W figures within text.
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(arranged by): Miniature Flowers and Vases. Introd.by N.Streatfeild.

By: ASHBERRY,ANNE

Price: £6.00

Publisher: C.A.Pearson 1955 (1st.).:

Seller ID: 54499

Bound in original green cloth with dustwrapper. Lacks free front endpaper. Else vg in vg/g dw (dw: trifle marked, sm. tear). 129 photo.plates. 190pp. Signed by A.Ashberry on title-page.
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Birds and Beasts in Africa Depicted by the Chief Scout...

By: BADEN-POWELL, LORD:

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co. 1938 1st:

Seller ID: 79270

Hardback, approx 8 x 6 inches. In cream cloth with red lettering and black figure illustrations to front and spine. In original illustrated dustrapper. In very good condition with very good rare dustwrapper. (DW; edges rubbed, small chips to corners, tears/loss at ends of spine, some darkening to rear. In protective sleeve. NOT price clipped.) Some slight darkening to spine and edges of cloth on cover, else cloth & printing bright. Neat inscription to front endpaper “Sylvia Read, 1938, Raymond.” Slight darkening to rear of frontis plate, some mild foxing spots to title page and...
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Fruit Growing. Modern Cultural Methods.

By: BAGENAL, N. B.;

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Ward, Lock & Co. 1946:

Seller ID: 75063

Size approx 6 x 9 inches. In green cloth with black lettering to front and spine. With original illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper. (DW edges rubbed, corners chipped w/some minor loss. Spine rubbed. In protective sleeve.) Inside neat owners inscription to front endpaper. The odd minor foxing spot else a very clean and tight copy. Colour plates bright and vivid. 8 nice colour plates of the various fruits. 60 photo.ills.,& many diagrams. 399pp.
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Image for Greenhouse & Stove Plants, Flowering and Fine-Leaved, Palms, Ferns, and Lycopodiums, with full details of the propagation and cultivation of 500 Families of Plants, embracing all the best kinds in cultivation, suitable for growing in the greenhouse, intermediate house, and stove.

Greenhouse & Stove Plants, Flowering and Fine-Leaved, Palms, Ferns, and Lycopodiums, with full details of the propagation and cultivation of 500 Families of Plants, embracing all the best kinds in cultivation, suitable for growing in the greenhouse, intermediate house, and stove.

By: BAINES, Thomas:

Price: £28.00

Publisher: London, John Murray, 1885:

Seller ID: 80802

Hardback, 9 x 6 inches. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, blind embossed on front. Black/navy endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to corners and ends of spine. Neat inscription to top of title page “W.J. Smith. 1890.” A couple of faint spots to page edges else inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. 362pp + 2pp cat.
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Sea-Coast Gardens and Gardening

By: BARDSWELL, Frances A.:

Price: £24.00

Publisher: London, Sherratt & Hughes, 1908 1st:

Seller ID: 82723

Hardback, 9 x 6 inches. Blue/grey cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. Top page edges gilt. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to corners and edges, some slight fading to spine. Some darkening and mild foxing to endpapers/halftitle. Two neat inscriptions to front one dated 1909, and the other “Robert Cooke, Athelhampton 1961.” Some light foxing to some inside pages else a very clean and tight copy. 145pp + 12pp cat. Illustrated with 16 B&W photo plates. From the Library at Athelhampton House, Dorset.
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Dog Days. With Drawings in Colour and Black & White.

By: BARKER, K.F.:

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann, 1938 1st:

Seller ID: 83847

Hardback, Lg.4to; 11 x 8.5 inches. Green cloth with dark green lettering to front and spine. 12 full colour plates of the various dogs & many b/w pencil sketches, mostly full-pg; In very good condition. Spine faded, some minor handling marks to cover. Neat inscription to front endpaper “Diana Baker.” Some minor light foxing to blank endpapers, with minor mark to contents page. Else pages and plates all very clean and tight. 146pp. Illustrated with 12 full colour plates and many sketch drawings in B&W.
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Image for British Pyralid and Plume Moths. Containing a descriptive history of all the British species of moths of the families Pyralidae, Pterophoridae, and Orneodidae. With 405 Figures.

British Pyralid and Plume Moths. Containing a descriptive history of all the British species of moths of the families Pyralidae, Pterophoridae, and Orneodidae. With 405 Figures.

By: BEIRNE, Bryan P.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. 1954 2nd (best) edition, with new colour plates by S.N.A.Jacobs.:

Seller ID: 83200

Hardback. Size 7 x 5 inches. In blue pebbled-cloth covers with gilt to spine and front with gilt vignette to front. In original illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW Minor rubbing to edges, Small chip head of spine. Faint crease on front cover. In protective sleeve.) Not price clipped. Cloth spine lightly tanned. Inside a clean and tight copy. 208, 16 col plates, 189 text figs.
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British Pyralid and Plume Moths. Containing a descriptive history of all the British species of moths of the families Pyralidae, Pterophoridae, and Orneodidae. With 405 Figures.

By: BEIRNE, Bryan P.

Price: £80.00

Publisher: London Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. 1952 1st edition:

Seller ID: 83201

Hardback. Size 7 x 5 inches. In blue pebbled-cloth covers with gilt to spine and front with gilt vignette to front. In original illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW Minor rubbing to edges, small removed label mark & written number lower spine. Small mark lower front cover. In protective sleeve.) Not price clipped. Last blank page has been written on. Inside a clean and tight copy. 208, 16 col plates, 189 text figs.
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Image for A History of British Quadrupeds, Including the Cetaceae. Second Edition. Revised and Partly Re-Written by the Author and assisted by Robert F. Tomes and Edward R. Alston. Illustrated by 160 Woodcuts.

A History of British Quadrupeds, Including the Cetaceae. Second Edition. Revised and Partly Re-Written by the Author and assisted by Robert F. Tomes and Edward R. Alston. Illustrated by 160 Woodcuts.

By: BELL, THOMAS:

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, John Van Voorst, 1874 2nd:

Seller ID: 83960

Hardback, Tall 8vo. approx 9 x 6 inches. Black cloth with very fine ‘zig-zag’ pattern/texture, blind paneled boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Black endpapers. In very good condition. Corners bumped and slightly nicked at top end. Two small nicks/chips to cloth at bottom end and one to top end of spine. Some minor light rubbing to boards. Front hinge cracked between endpapers, small previous owners labels to corner of endpaper “A.J. Wise.” Small chip to top inside edge of loose front endpaper. Some minor foxing to blank endpaper sides, inside pages all very clean, brigh...
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Beningfield’s Orchards. The paintings of Gordon Beningfield. Text by Bett Beningfield and Robin Page. Signed copy.

By: BENINGFIELD, BETTY / PAGE, ROBIN:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Bird’s Farm Books. 2004 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 83780

Hardback, approx 10 x 9 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. With glossy illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). No penned inscriptions. Else a very clean and tight copy. 144pp. With colour plates and illustrations in text. Beautifully illustrated book on Orchards, their fruits and inhabitants.
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