London: The Basilisk Press, 1977. Quarto. sixteen coloured tipped-in plates. Publisher's quarter polished calf and linen boards, slipcase, a fine copy. The Basilisk Press, founded by Charlene Gary, produced a number of fine private press titles including William Stearn's, The Australian flower paintings of Ferdinand Bauer,1976. More
New York: Chanticleer Press, (1970. reprint). Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Sydney: J. & W. Rider, 1878-1879. Octavo, Half black calf, marbled edges, illustrations, some spotting, hinge cracked on volume two. More
London: 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
Sydney: 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
London: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, colour illustrations, text illustrations, 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
Noumea: Universitaire Pers Leiden, 1975. Octavo, inscription, softcover. More
Sydney: Auckland Institute and Museum, 1975. Large octavo, text illustrations, wrappers. More
London: Bloomsbury Books, 1999. Large octavo, colour photographs, inscrition fine copy in dustwrapper. "The Tulip" is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has made men mad. Greed, desire, anguish, devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip from a wild..... More
Bloomington: 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
Sydney: Lothian, 1987. Octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations, signature, softcover. More
Sydney: Author, 1984. Octavo, publisher's cloth, More
New York: Universal-Publishers, 2011. Octavo, colour photographs,softcover. 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 your..... More