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1899Best.-Nr. 7346Glasgow: Peter Ewing 1899. 2nd edition. Poor/No Jacket. Hard covers no dust jacket Original cloth with title in black on front cover.Disbound front cover loose. 166 pp. Glasgow: Peter Ewing hardcover
1843Best.-Nr. 7451London: printed for the author 1843. 3rd edition; Part 1 only. Fair/No Jacket. Publisher's cloth Author's inscription and Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club stamp on ffep. Cover loose hinges broken. iv 259 pp. London: printed for the author hardcover
1883Best.-Nr. 7447London: Bernard Quaritch 1883. Second edition corrected and enlarged. V.g./No Jacket. Hard covers A sound copy with no inscriptions. Folded vice-county map at rear detached from end papers. London: Bernard Quaritch hardcover
1835Best.-Nr. 7450London: Longman Rees Orme Brown Green and Longman 1835. 4th edition. Fair/No Jacket. Publisher's cloth Spine missing; author's inscription "For the library of the Linnean Society" on ffep. xvi 288 pp. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman hardcover
1900Best.-Nr. 7473Leeds: printed by Taylor Brothers for the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 1900. 1st edition. V.g./No Jacket. Three fascicles of the Transactions of the Y.N.U. The original Transactions parts 1-3 loose in wrappers. Some corner wear. 230 1 pp. Leeds: printed by Taylor Brothers for the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 6325Columbia University Press 1969. 1st edition. Good /No Jacket. Hard covers no dust jacket Hinge starting before half-title page otherwise little used. xii 1062 pp. 301 figs. Columbia University Press hardcover
1976Best.-Nr. 6458National Botanic Gardens Kirstenbosch 1976. Journal of S. African Botany Supplementary volume no. 11. V.g./No Jacket. Hard covers no dust jacket Slight corner wear otherwise little used. 3 684 pp. National Botanic Gardens, Kirstenbosch hardcover
1972Best.-Nr. 6486National Botanic Gardens Kirstenbosch 1972. Journal of S. African Botany Supplementary volume no. 8. V.g./No Jacket. Hard covers no dust jacket Inscribed by the author on ffep. Slight edge wear. 194 pp. National Botanic Gardens, Kirstenbosch hardcover
1890Best.-Nr. 6481Calcutta: Bengal Secretarial Press 1890. 1st edition. V.g. Loose fascicles Last page with a few small marginal tears. 196 pp. A remarkably well preserved set of the unbound fascicles of Prain's monograph which was published in the Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens Calcutta. Calcutta: Bengal Secretarial Press unknown
1943Best.-Nr. 5615C.W.K. Gleerup Lund 1943. 1st edition. V.g. /No Jacket. Paper covers Discreet owner's signature on cover; inscribed by the author on title page. Pages partly uncut. 432 pp. C.W.K. Gleerup, Lund unknown
1978Best.-Nr. 5607Trustees of the Natal Publishing Trust Fund 1978. 1st edition. Fine/V.g. Hard covers dust jacket Slight edge wear to jacket. Inscribed by the author on t.p. "To Dr O. Hilliard with love & thanks from Janet M. Gibson". Trustees of the Natal Publishing Trust Fund hardcover
1943Best.-Nr. 4469Botanisches Museum Universität Zürich 1943. Mitteilungen aus dem Botanischen Museum CXLII Serie Botanik No. 14. V.g. /No Jacket. Paper covers Some tears repaired to spine. As well as consituting the fourth part of the monograph Convolvulaceae - Asteraceae this also contains the complete index to genera on pp. 495-507. Offprint. Botanisches Museum, Universität Zürich unknown
1962Best.-Nr. 4121Thomas Nelson 1962. 1st edition. V.g. /No Jacket. Hard covers dust jacket The original edition with the rare loosely inserted leaflet 'first list of corrections to the Atlas of the British Flora'. Jacket badly torn and incomplete; all overlays present. xxiv 432 pp. Thomas Nelson hardcover
1988Best.-Nr. 2298Nauka Leningradskoe Otdelenie 1988. 1st edition. Good/No Jacket. Publisher's green cloth gilt title A well-preserved copy with light tanning to pages. Owner's signature on t.p. The first author made extensive collections in Turkmenia from his base in the Botanical Institute at Ashgabat. This is a typical Russian 'key flora' where there are no generic descriptions other than in the keys to genera and likewise the species entries contain only telegraphic information on life-form height distribution flowering time and habitat requirements. Also includes card-bound xerographic reprint of E.G. Chernyakovska's 'Ocherk rastitel'nosti Kopet-Daga' an overview of the vegetation of the Kopet mountains published in 1927 in 'Izvestiya Glavnogo Botanicheskogo Sada' Newsletter of the Main Botanic Garden Moscow pp. 253-266 including map of her explorations. Nauka, Leningradskoe Otdelenie hardcover
1978Best.-Nr. 522EP Publishing 1978. Facsimile reprint. V.g. /V.g. Hard covers dust jacket As the original edition has long been out of print this facsimile serves a useful purpose in making available a wide range of distribution maps of critical taxa mainly Hawkweeds Eyebrights and the like as a supplement to the original ground-breaking Atlas of the British Flora which excluded microspecies. EP Publishing hardcover
1892Best.-Nr. 2131I.N. Kushnerev & Ko. Moskva Moscow 1892. Good /No Jacket. Printed boards no dust jacket A well-used copy of the rare first edition of a popular Russian flora. The author was Piotr Feliksovich Maevsky 1851-1892. Significant edgewear to cover internally sound with minimal tanning of paper. Owner's signature and oil spot on ffep M. Kirshbaum another on end paper V. Rikovshky with oaktree bookplate of Heino Ross. Spine sl. frayed at top edge some insect damage to glued areas. The text contains keys to genera and species generic descriptions and Russian and Latin names of genera and species summaries of distribution by local government region and habitat flowering times and selected line drawings mostly showing both the whole plant and flowers or fruits. A compact yet comprehensive flora which went through several editions a third edited by B. Fedchenko in 1902 and another in 1917 an 8th with a slightly different title in 1954 and a 9th edited by B.K. Shishkin in 1964. Bookseller's ticket at rear Librairie W. Klotschkoff St. Petersbourg Liteiny n. 55. I.N. Kushnerev & Ko., Moskva (Moscow) hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 541Archipel Drukkerij Buitenzorg 1937. Fair /No Jacket. Paper covers Front wrapper detached with numerous tears and abrasions contents tight if sl. dusted. Extracted from the "Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg" ser. 3 vol. 14 3-4 Dec. 1937. Printed on quality paper except for the cover which is highly acidic and hence has suffered from the effects of high humidity. An excellent regional monograph treating 165 species of Ixora with keys synonymy Latin descriptions and specimen citations. The species index is followed by an alphabetical list of collectors of specimens. Archipel Drukkerij Buitenzorg unknown
1984Best.-Nr. 493Editions du Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Geneve 1984 1986. 1st edition. As new/No Jacket. Publisher's green cloth with gold-blocked device olive and lettering on spine no d.w. Nearly new; owner's signature vol. 1 only. Includes green plastic insert with key to territories and map. Tabular summary and synonymic checklist of the flora of the countries bordering the Mediterranean plus Crimea. Vol. 4 has also been published; vol. 2 is not yet available. Editions du Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Geneve hardcover
1967Best.-Nr. 302Bronder Offset Rotterdam 1967. Good /No Jacket. Original paper covers Cairo-born Fatima Sa'ad has produced here a 'proefschrift' for her degree of Doctor of Natural Science at the University of Utrecht supervised by Professor J. Lanjouw. A monograph of south-west Asian Convolvulus it has been reproduced from a typescript an IBM electric font it would appear and illustrated with some very fine art-work by the author. It contains some very useful critical comments and the general part which introduces the volume includes some interesting snippets such as the fact that the ground-up roots of Macaronesian endemic Convolvuli are the source of a fragrant powder known as "bois de rose". Some slight creasing to the corners of the front cover but overall in good condition. 288 pp. Bronder Offset Rotterdam unknown
1965Best.-Nr. 269Editions de l'Academie de la Republique Populaire Roumaine 1965. Revue Roumaine de Biologie serie de Botanique tome 11. V.g./No Jacket . Paper covers Collection of papers in English French and German delivered at the first Flora Europaea Symposium in Romania with list of the 56 participants. Paper covers in fine condition sl. darkened with age; text nearly new in appearance. This meeting was remarkable for having been organised at the height of the 'Cold War' and was a very successful reunion of eastern and western European scientists. It was held under the aegis of the Flora Europaea organisation whose geographical area stretched from the Azores to the Urals and from Spitzbergen to Malta. Editions de l'Academie de la Republique Populaire Roumaine unknown
1919Best.-Nr. 028290Gresham 1919. Book. Illus. by Fitch< J.N. Drawings by. Good. Hardcover. Complete in six volumes. Original publisher's blue cloth hardbacks gilt titles to spine. Condition: good for age; cloth with light marking cut page edges dusty bindings firm no inscriptions. Internally clean with all 64 fine colour plates by John Nugent Fitch present depicting c.350 species. A classic early 20th-century flora combining Horwood's accessible botanical text with Fitch's celebrated illustrations. Scarce as a complete set in original cloth. Overseas buyers please note 7kg unpacked. Gresham Hardcover
1940Best.-Nr. 028153Emanuel Friedman & Co Jerusalem 1940. Book. Good. Hardcover. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Good Olive tree boards depicting a train of 2 camels 1 goat and 2 people with rubbed cloth spine. circa 1940s. 4.5 x 7" Containing twelve colour postcard sized photos and with 11 well preserved pressed flowers interspersed with protective tissue. . Emanuel Friedman & Co, Jerusalem Hardcover
2004Best.-Nr. 27211Frances Lincoln 2004. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author. 384 pages. only very light rubb to corner tips. Frances Lincoln Paperback
1926Best.-Nr. 73034Shanghai: Chung Hwa Book Co. Ltd. n.d. 1926. 6¾" x 4" pp. 4 xi 1 335 1; bespoke contemporary red cloth with the owner's name in gilt on upper cover H. L. Caldwell and gilt-stamped spine; very good sound and clean. Not found in OCLC. Chung Hwa Book Co., Ltd., n.d. unknown
2024Best.-Nr. __1946226890Oscar Riera Ojeda Pub Ltd 2024. Hardcover. New. 197 pages. 10.75x8.25x1.00 inches. Oscar Riera Ojeda Pub Ltd hardcover
