The journeys and plant introductions of George Forrest.
London: Oxford University Press, 1952. Octavo, folding map, black and white plates. Publisher's cloth, very slight rubbing, inscription, a very good copy. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1952. Octavo, folding map, black and white plates. Publisher's cloth, very slight rubbing, inscription, a very good copy. More
Australia: NewSouth Publishing, 2023. Octavo, paperback, Who gets to collect plants, name them, propagate them, extract their chemicals, sell them and use them? Whose knowledge is it? And what can the people that work with plants, just outside the law, teach us about plant care? In The Plant Thieves, Prudence..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Octavo, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. The flower hunters were intrepid explorers - remarkable, eccentric men and women who scoured the world in search of extraordinary plants, and helped establish the new science of botany. This book not only brings their adventures to life..... More
Kew: Kew Publishing, 2020. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Sir Joseph Banks was a true botanical adventurer and pioneer. Not only did he reveal the flora wonders of the South Seas, New Zealand and Australia to Europan eyes, but he set Kew Gardens on its path to becoming the world's foremost..... More
Kew: HMSO, 1989. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New York: Permanent Wild Life Fund, 1917. Octavo, publisher's cloth, gilt top edge, library stamps of the RAOU, silverfish traces on endpapers, otherwise a good copy. More
London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1932. first edition). Octavo, photographs, signature,, clipped front endpaper, a few spots, publisher's cloth. More
London: Henry Sotheran & Co, 1892. Small folio, 16 chromolithograph plates, text illustrations. Publisher's dark red quarter morocco and crimson buckram, minor shelf wear and a few early spots, a handsome copy. More
London: Ward Lock, 1998. Octavo, colour illustrations, maps, a very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Octavo, colour illustrations, inscribed by the author for William and Wendy Cooper, softcover. Around 1870, Ferdinand von Mueller, the greatest Australian botanist of the nineteenth century, began to advertise in several newspapers across Australia for ‘lady’ plant collectors. Of Mueller’s astounding 3,000-strong network of..... More
London: Pimpernel Press, 2019. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Much has been published on the topic of plant hunting, and almost all of it is about the plant hunters of the so-called 'golden age' that ended with the death of Frank Kingdon Ward in 1958. One might be forgiven for thinking..... More
Wellington: A H & A W Reed, 1968. Octavo, colour photographs, dustwrapper. More
London: Hutchinson, 1983. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. Octavo, , fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, 2016. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs and illustrations, maps. 'The greatest pleasure of naturalists (understated by certain utilitarians) is to discover new species, to point to new islands on the map of nature, and to populate continents that seem to be deserts' - Richard Spruce, 1851..... More
London: Author, (1911. tenth edition). Octavo, advertisements. Handsome publisher's green cloth, gilt blindstamped rhino heads,a fine copy. More
Lavers Hill: Author, 2018. Quarto, paperback, photographs, other illustrations, maps. This volume represents the first in depth biographical study of the life of the often forgotten plant hunter William Purdom and estate owner Reginald Farrer. Both men were born in 1880, the year of the death of Robert Fortune, and..... More
Lansing: ECO Publications, 2001. Octavo, illustrations. More