Living trees of the world.
New Bedford: Chanticleer Press, (1970. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
New Bedford: Chanticleer Press, (1970. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
London: J. & W. Rider, 1878-1879. Octavo, Half black calf, marbled edges, illustrations, some spotting, hinge cracked on volume two. More
London: New Holland Publishers, 2011. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. From the Mojave Desert in the USA to the Italian Dolomites, and from South Africa's Cape National Park to the Stirling Ranges of Australia, this book showcases the most spectacular displays of wild blooms on the planet..... More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2010. Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover. Plants are fundamental to life on Earth, they provide the oxygen we breathe, our food and beverages, spices and herbs, fibres, medicines, fuels, dyes and building materials. To enable botanists to identify plants they have been classified by physical features and..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Hounds-tongue, Ragged robin, Costmary, and Pennyroyal all-heal. These plants, whose very names conjure up a bygone world, were among the great variety of flowers and herbs grown in America's colonial and early Federal gardens. In this sumptuously illustrated book, a...... More
London: Linnean Society, 1979. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, dustwrapper. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1978. first edition). Quarto, colour illustrations, maps, owner's stamp, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, colour illustrations, line drawings, maps. The latest publication from the "Botanical Magazine" Monograph series, this is a fully illustrated guide to the heather species that grow naturally in the Northern Hemisphere. Covered in detail are the distribution, classification, and conservation of..... More
Paris: Annales des Science Naturelle, 1852-1869. Octavo, uncoloured plates. Binder's cloth, the University of Melbourne Library embossed stamp on cover (from the library of Dennis Carr), some foxing but a handsome collection of interesting papers, mainly French. More
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. First published in 1939, this beautifully imaginative book is a classic of nature writing. Tracing the evolution of plant life from the appearance of the earliest micro-organisms to the rise of the modern floras, the book is part natural..... More
London: Reaktion Books, 2013. Octavo, laminated boards, colour and black and white photographs and illustrations. The lily is a flower of contradictions. It represents both life and death, appearing at weddings and funerals. In their pure white form, lilies are a symbol of innocence, chastity and purity of heart, but..... More
Boca Raton: Universal-Publishers, 2011. Octavo, colour photographs, paperback. This full-colour book covers the basics involved in the collection, cleaning, and storage of seeds. Learn from an expert how to safely and effectively construct your own materials with household products, overcome pests and environmental factors that may threaten the integrity of..... More