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1960rif. 016138London: Collins 1960. Illustrated small octavo pp xiv 241 the half-title slightly age-toned a tiny mark on the title page. otherwise exceptionally clean internally green cloth in very good condition; the dustwrapper is not price-clipped it is slightly worn and creased along the top edge and the rear cover is a little rubbed. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn. Collins Hardcover
1824rif. 016250Ave-Maria Lane London: G. and W.B. Whittaker 1824. Third edition with additions. Illustrated with six charming hand-coloured plates 12mo pp xxxii 327 slight age-toning the tissue flimsies facing the plates are a little foxed but the plates are barely affected otherwise extremely clean and sound internally bound in a later half calf and marbled boards a very good copy. Hogg 1771-1841 was originally a schoolmaster. His first florist shop was at Paddington Green. Third edition. Half Leather. Very Good. G. and W.B. Whittaker Hardcover
rif. 016271Stuttgart First edition 1870 - 1893. Three volumes supplement thick octavo pp xxx 316; 680; 1144; x 370 a little foxing and age-toning but otherwise extremely sound and tight a reliable set bound in recent cloth binding a little worn and faded the original wrappers bound in. . Cloth. Good. Hardcover
1822rif. 016247Ave-Maria Lane London: G. and W.B. Whittaker 1822. Second edition with additions. Illustrated with six charming hand-coloured plates 12mo pp xxviii 304 slight age-toning slight off-setting of plates on to text otherwise extremely clean and sound internally bound in a later simple half calf and marbled boards very slightly rubbed with red title label on spine. Hogg 1771-1841 was originally a schoolmaster. His first florist shop was at Paddington Green. Second edition. Half Leather. Very Good. G. and W.B. Whittaker Hardcover
1951rif. 016364London: Collins 1951. Finely illustrated with 12 colour plates and 21 black and white collotype plates all with tissue guards folio pp viii 20 half brown morocco and gray boards very slightly marked the morocco lightly rubbed at the fore-edge. The endpapers are a little foxed which also affect the first preliminary pages. Number 49 of a limited edition of 250 copies specially bound and on hand-made paper; signed by the three contributors - Geoffrey Grigson Handasyde Buchanan and William Thomas Stearn. Very heavy - extra postage will be required. Half-Leather. Very Good. Collins Hardcover
1990rif. 016463Berlin & Stuttgart: J. Cramer 1990. Tall quarto pp xxviii 529 many maps and folding charts illustations ncluding folding panoramas three further folding maps in rear pocket a presentation inscription signed by author on front endpaper. very clean internally cloth very slightly worn. German text English contents page and captions. Dissertationes Botanicae 158. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. J. Cramer Hardcover
1812rif. 015591Berlin: In Taberna Librairia Scholal Realin 1812. Latin text. Octavo with a large folding map hand-coloured in outline. a folding table neatly repared at an early date 30 copper engraved plates not bound in order pp liv 550 a little age-toned but very firm and sound bound in a twentieth century half calf and marbled boards very slightly scuffed. "A fundamental work in plant geography" - Stafleu & Cowan. From the library of the nurseryman Will Ingwersen with his bookplate on the front endpaper. This also contains the signature of Joannes Fraser and many neat manuscript annotations and corrections throughout the text; some place names are underlined lightly in red ink on the map also. The cintents of the plates has been written on the blank leaves at the rear. It seems likely that this is John Fraser the younger a nurseryman and traveller. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good. In Taberna Librairia Scholal Realin Hardcover
1934rif. 015705Tokyo: Shokubutso Bunken Kankokwa 1934. Two volumes pp 120 1200 58 very clean internally original tan half calf faded and a little rubbed. RARE. From the library of the Kew botanist C.E. Hubbard with his signature in both books. Several relevant offprints inserted and an original photograph of a pressed bamboo specimen. The second ever facsimile printing. It is printed on slightly tanned paper and has a good "feel" to it similar to an earlier book. Half-Leather. Very Good. Shokubutso Bunken, Kankokwa Hardcover
1855rif. 015724Paris: Chez l'Auteur Rue de Buffon 1855. First edition. Octavo pp xvi 656 lightly marbled edges extremely clean and bright internally neatly bound in later green cloth. With the bookplate of Kenneth Lazenby a founding member of the Alpine Garden Society. A superb copy. Carrière 1818 - 1896 was a French botanist based in Paris. He was a leading authority on conifers in the period 1850 to 1870 describing many new species and the new genera Tsuga Keteleeria and Pseudotsuga. This was his most important work. First Edition. Cloth. Fine. Chez l'Auteur, Rue de Buffon Hardcover
1973rif. 24357Editions du CNRS 1973-78. 1st edition . Good/No Jacket. Paper covers Covers slightly creased. Editions du CNRS unknown
1972rif. 014851Cape Town: A.A. Balkema 1972. Three volumes. Very well illustrated with black and white photograps and line drawings throughout 24 colour plates large thick quarto pp xvi 2235 top edge slightly age-toned a very very slight suggestion of waving to the page margins top and bottom at start of each volume otherwise very clean and bright internally red cloth in very good condition the dustwrappers are slightly worn and chipped very browned on their spines and that of the second volume is more stretched with tears at the top joint and at the lower fold-over. A stunning work of great depth. Extremely heavy weighing over 8 kilos when packed. Extra postage will be necessary. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/A little worn and stretched. A.A. Balkema Hardcover
1866rif. 015752Chartres: Petrot-Garnier 1866. Octavo pp viii 310 i a little age-toned but otherwise very clean and firm internally. Bound in contemporary quarter leather and paper-covered boards the spine with raised bands and gilt decoration marbled endpapers. The boards are rubbed at the top and bottom margins with a little loss of the surface. The spine is faded and slightly rubbed. The rear free endpaper is missing a corner. A presentation inscription on the title page to 'Monsieur Prevost' signed by the author. From there it went to the French botanist Edmond Bonnet with his small Bibliotheque book label on the front endpaper. From there it moved to the library of the American zoologist Charles Atwood Kofoid with his attractive bookplate and accession numbe of C8999. A scarce book and a very desirable provenance. . First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good. Petrot-Garnier Hardcover
1998rif. 25298Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 1998. 1st edition. Fine/No Jacket. Paper covers Scarcely used. From the Frank White memorial symposium. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew unknown
1997rif. 25202Linnean Society of London / Academic Press 1997. 1st edition. Fine/Fine. Hard covers dust jacket Scarcely used. Hint of tanning to page edges. Linnean Society of London / Academic Press hardcover
1993rif. 25338Missouri Botanical Garden Press 1993. 1st edition. Fine/No Jacket. Hard covers Scarcely used. Missouri Botanical Garden Press hardcover
1996rif. 24945Oxford & IBH 1996. 1st edition. Fine/Fine. Hard covers dust jacket Scarcely used. Oxford & IBH hardcover
1995rif. 25143Missouri Botanical Garden Press 1995 1997. 1st edition. Fine/Fine. Hard covers dust jacket Scarcely used. Includes separate wallet of maps. Missouri Botanical Garden Press hardcover
1952rif. 24943Crown Agents 1952-1975. 1st edition. V.g./No Jacket. Paper covers A partial set of accounts of the following families: Annonaceae Cochlospermaceae Combretaceae Dioscoreaceae Gymnospermae Marantaceae Melastomataceae Menispermaceae Olacaceae Ranunculaceae Rhamnaceae Rhizophoraceae Sapotaceae and Taccaceae. Crown Agents unknown
2005rif. 25039National Museum of Natural History Washington DC 2005. 1st edition. Fine/No Jacket. Paper covers Scarcely used. National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC unknown
1994rif. 25236Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 1994. 1st edition. Fine/No Jacket. Paper covers Scarcely used. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew unknown
2006rif. 24974Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 2006. 1st edition. Fine/Fine. Hard covers dust jacket Scarcely used. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh hardcover
1990rif. 25300Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990. 1st edition. Fine/No Jacket. Hard covers Scarcely used. Kluwer Academic Publishers hardcover
1863rif. 015804London: John van Voorst 1863. 12mo pp xxiv 367 slightly age-toned with two hand-coloured folding maps in front and rear pockets one geological and one botanical green cloth slightly worn. With the signature of Arthur H. Carter 1867-1939 amateur botanist and the later signature of J.E. Lousley. A great association copy as Lousley also wrote a later Flora of Surrey in 1976. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. John van Voorst Hardcover
1868rif. 015803Malvern: Simpkin Marshall & Co 1868. Third edition enlarged and corrected. Small octavo pp viii 166 2 pages of advertisements with a hand coloured frontispiece of a transverse section through the hills a neat signature on the front endpaper otherwise extremely clean internally green cloth with only very slight signs of use a very good copy indeed. . Third edition. Cloth. Very Good. Simpkin, Marshall & Co Hardcover
1839rif. 014817London: Hamilton Adams & Co 1839. Small slim 12mo pp 2 124 a hand-coloured frontispiece map pages age-toned but otherwise very clean and sound a little browning to the frontispiece and title page with the book label of Baronet Bron=mhead of Thurlby Hall on the front endpaper original green polished cloth with gilt decoration on upper cover showing an ornate vase of flowers slight marks and bumps the spine label appears to have been hand-written on paper but is now largely lacking. RARE AND A VERY GOOD COPY. Godfrey Howitt - 1800-1873 - was physician to the Nottingham General Hospital from 1829 to 1839 and was keenly interested in science and literature. He wrote this standard work The Flora of Nottinghamshire and discovered a new species of catchfly which grew on the Castle Rock. Professor John Wilson "Christopher North" of Edinburgh made the "Ettrick Shepherd" in Blackwoods Magazine described his as "Ane o' the best botanists in England an' a desperate beetle hunter." His ardent love for collecting accompanied him to Australia and he bequeathed his natural history collection and library to the Melbourne Museum The Howitt Collection. He also gave £1000 to found scholarships in Natural History in the University. In 1847 he became one of the first physicians to the Melbourne Hospital and had the experience of being paid his fees in gold dust by miners who consulted him professionally. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Hamilton, Adams & Co Hardcover
