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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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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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The Lower Tertiary Floras of Southern England. With an Atlas of 34 plates and 54 figures in the text. In Five Volumes.

By: CHANDLER, Marjorie Elizabeth Jane:

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, The Trustees of The British Museum, 1961 1st edition:

Seller ID: 78239

5 volumes. Hardback, tall, approx 12 x 9.5 inches. In grey cloth covers with gilt lettering to spines, blind embossed line-edged boards. Volumes 3 & 4 with original paper dustwrappers. In very good near fine conditions. (DW’s have some rubbing and minor chips to corners.) Slight fading to spines. Else very clean and tight copies. With an Atlas of 34 plates and 54 figures in the text.
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Present-Day Rock Garden Being A Complimentary Volume To Farrer's English Rock-Garden

By: CLAY, Sampson;

Price: £28.00

Publisher: T. C. & E. C. Jack LTD. 1937 1st edition:

Seller ID: 75069

Size 9.5 x 7 inches. Bound in dark green cloth with gold gilt lettering on the spine. With original dustwrapper. In very good condition. (Dw slight loss head of spine, one small tear & a few small nicks.) Small inscription front endpaper. Edges uncut. Inside clean & tight. Pp.xxvi, 681 including List of Illustrations, 56 Photographic plates, (some 2 figures) Appendix 1: Generic Names not placed Alphabetically in the Text. Appendix 11: Genera of Herbaceous Rock-Garden Plants Not Otherwise Mentioned in the text.
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Conifers, Junipers & Yew: Gymnosperms of British Columbia. Pictures Specially Drawn by Mrs. Ivy Abercrombie.

By: DAVIDSON, JOHN:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London. T.Fisher Unwin Ltd. 1927 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 60517

4to. In yellow cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; In removable plastic cover. Slightly rubbed around edges with chips and small pieces missing. Small marks. Stain to spine. Not price clipped). Spine slightly faded. Mild foxing to edges. Pencil inscription to front endpaper, “E.W.Margesson. Bought from Army & Navy Corps Soc. Ltd. 105 Victoria Street. Westminster. S.W.1. 24th february 1927. The book is beautifully illustrated and not at all dear considering the cost of these.” Slight browning to endpape...
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Florigraphia Britannica; Or, Engravings and descriptions of the Flowering Plants & Ferns of Britain. In Four Volumes.

By: DEAKIN, Richard:

Price: £340.00

Publisher: London, R. Groombridge, 1841:

Seller ID: 82134

Four volumes. Hardbacks, 8.5 x 5 inches. In light brown diced calf leather fine bindings, gilt paneled boards, twin maroon leather spine labels lettered in gilt, raised banding and gilt decorations to spines. Marbled endpapers and page edging. In very good conditions. Some rubbing to extremities; spines, edges and corners, some darkening and handling marks to boards, some scratches to vol.1., small crack/split to top of spine on vol.2. Inner hinges cracked between endpapers in vol.1, some glue repairs to inner gatherings in vol.2. Some minor handling marks to pages, else inside pages and plate...
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Image for The British Flora Medica: A History of the Medicinal Plants of Great Britain. A New Edition, Revised, Condensed, and Partly Re-Written. Illustrated by a Coloured Figure of Each Plant.

The British Flora Medica: A History of the Medicinal Plants of Great Britain. A New Edition, Revised, Condensed, and Partly Re-Written. Illustrated by a Coloured Figure of Each Plant.

By: JACKSON, John R.: BARTON, B. H.: CASTLE, T.:

Price: £240.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, 1877 new edition:

Seller ID: 82356

Hardback, 9 x 5.5 inches. Bound in tree calf leather, black leather spine label lettered in gilt, with extensive gilt decoration to spine, and decorative paneled boards. Marbled edges and endpapers. In very good condition. Spine professionally rebacked and relaid. Small chip sto corners, some rubbing to edges. Some light foxing to endpapers. Neat inscriptions to endpaper and title page “Mary Williams,” and “R.E. Williams, ‘87.” Inside pages and plates all very clean, bright and tight. A very clean and tight copy. 447pp. Illustrated with 48 full page coloured plate...
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Elements of Botany, Structural, Physiological, Sytematical, and Medical; Being a Fourth Edition of The Outline of the First Principles of Botany.

By: LINDLEY, John:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Taylor and Walton, 1841 4th:

Seller ID: 78258

Hardback, approx 9 x 5.5 inches. In black pebbled cloth covers, blind embossed decoration to boards, and decorative gilt lettering to spine. Yellow endpapers. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped with some minor rubbing to edges. Some minor rubbing to edges of spine and rear board. Partial split to top rear board edge. Some darkening to endpapers with neat inscription and bookseller label to front “Remnant & Edmonds, London,” small stamp to edge of title page, else inside pages very clean and tight throughout. 292pp + 16pp cat. Illustrated with many b&w diagrams ...
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First Forms of Vegetation. With Numerous Illustrations. Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.

By: MACMILLAN, Rev. Hugh:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co. 1874 2nd:

Seller ID: 85037

Hardback, 7 x 5 inches. Green pebbled cloth with black paneled front board with gilt design, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Brown endpapers. In very good condition. A couple of minor handling marks and some minor rubbing to edges else cover clean and smart. Endpapers clean. Frontis plate clean and bright. Inside pages all very clean and bright. One or two neat notes and inscriptions to page margins. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 438pp. Illustrated with a coloured engraved frontis plate and over 50 B&W text figures.
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Image for A Greene Forest. Reprinted from the Edition of 1567. Or a naturall Historie, wherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne Virtues in all the whole kinde of Stones & Mettals; Next of Plants, as of Herbes, Trees, and Shrubs, Lastly of Brute Beastes, Foules, Fishes, Creeping Wormes, and Serpents, and that Aplphabetically; so that a Table shall not neede. Introduction by W. H. Davies. Limited Edition.

A Greene Forest. Reprinted from the Edition of 1567. Or a naturall Historie, wherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne Virtues in all the whole kinde of Stones & Mettals; Next of Plants, as of Herbes, Trees, and Shrubs, Lastly of Brute Beastes, Foules, Fishes, Creeping Wormes, and Serpents, and that Aplphabetically; so that a Table shall not neede. Introduction by W. H. Davies. Limited Edition.

By: MAPLET, John; DAVIES, W. H.;

Price: £30.00

Publisher: The Hesperides Press. 1930:

Seller ID: 75000

Large, size approx 8 x 10 inches. In green cloth with bevelled boards. Gilt to spine. With original paper dustwrapper. In very good condition. Spine a little faded/lightened to cloth. (Dw, is worn with split to spine and tape repairs to edges, in plastic sleeve.) Some minor foxing to endpapers and inner pages else overall very clean and tight throughout. 185pp.
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Image for British Wild Flowers by Natural Analysis. A New and Easy Method of Studying.. Being A Complete Series of Illustrations of their Natural Orders and Genera Analitically Arranged.

British Wild Flowers by Natural Analysis. A New and Easy Method of Studying.. Being A Complete Series of Illustrations of their Natural Orders and Genera Analitically Arranged.

By: MESSER, Frederick A.;

Price: £10.00

Publisher: David Bogue, London. 1880 1st edition:

Seller ID: 74891

size approx 6 x 9 inches. In Brown/dark maroon silk/cloth covers with embossed border decoration and gilt lettering to front and spine. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped with some minor marks to boards and some minor soiling along bottom edges of cover. Inside owners prize label to front endpaper with origianl bookseller label “G.G. Walmsley, Liverpool.” Some minor foxing to endpapers else inside pages clean and tight throughout. 146pp. B&W Illustrations throughout.
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A Botanical Dictionary: Or, Elements of Systematic and Philosophical Botany. The Third Edition.

By: MILNE, Colin:

Price: £200.00

Publisher: London, H. D. Symonds, 1805:

Seller ID: 82160

Hardback, 8.5 x 9 inches. Acid-patterned polished calf leather boards, with black leather spine label lettered in gilt, gilt banding and decorations to spine, with decorative gilt paneled boards. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good condition. Some wear to cover; corners bumped and chipped, small chips to edges of boards and ends of spine. Bookplate to front “Richard S. Fetherstonhaugh.” Child’s biro graffiti of house on rear side of title page. Small tear to top corner of dedication and preface page, edge of folding table rubbed. A couple of minor handling marks el...
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Früchte und Blumen. ausgewahlt und eingeleitet von Eva Mannering. German language.

By: REDOUTÉ, PIERRE-JOSEPH:

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Ariel Verlag. Frankfurt am Main. 1955 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 73536

Size 12.0 x 16.25 inches. In beige cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly rubbed at ends. Slightly rubbed around edges with small chips and tears. Not price clipped). Slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. Introd.& description 16pp. With 24 beautifully reproduced colour plates of various flowers and fruits. German language edition of a collection of paintings of flowers and fruit by Pierre-Joseph Redoute.
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Roses Selected & introduced by Eva Mannering.

By: REDOUTE, PIERRE-JOSEPH:

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, The Ariel Press, 1954 (3rd.impr.).:

Seller ID: 84800

Paperback, Large folio (30 cm x 40 cm). Soft paper covers with pictorial dustwrapper. In very good condition. (DW very good, not clipped, with protective cover, scratch mark to front, minor slight mark to main wrapper underneath.) Inside pages and plates all very clean, bright and tight. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 24 large full-page colour plates of various roses. Descriptive text 15 pp with B&W illustrations. Stunning Illustrations of Roses.
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Image for British Mosses Their Homes, Aspects, Structure and Uses. With a coloured figure of each species etched from nature. In Two Volumes. New Edition.

British Mosses Their Homes, Aspects, Structure and Uses. With a coloured figure of each species etched from nature. In Two Volumes. New Edition.

By: TRIPP, F. E.:

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, George Bell and Sons, 1888 New Edition.:

Seller ID: 82043

Hardback, 10 x 7 inches. Dark green/black cloth. Gilt lettering and gilt flower designs to spines and fronts. Blind paneled boards, blind embossed decoration to spine. Pale yellow endpapers. In very good condition. Some rubbing to edges and ends of spines. Corners slightly bumped. Bottom corners chipped on v2. Small nick to cloth on edge of spine on v1, a couple of small nicks to edges of spine on v2. Endpapers clean. One or two very minor negligible handling marks, else pages and plates all very clean, bright and tight throughout. 130 & 171pp. Illustrated with 37 coloured plates.
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Forest and Woodland Trees in Britain. Westonburt Arboretum, Tetbury, Gloucestershire.

By: WHITE, John;

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press 1995:

Seller ID: 75886

Size 10 x 8 inches. Green cloth hardback with silver lettering to spine. Illustrated glossy dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper. An excellent clean & tight copy. 217pp. Many colour photos.
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