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  • Ended 15 Oct 2021 19:12 BST

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CHARLES JOHNSON. 'The Ferns of Great Britain'. First edition, original brown cloth boards with gilt titles, 49 hand coloured illustrations by JOHN...

MEA ALLAN. 'The Tradescants: Their Plants, Gardens, and Museum 1570-1662'. Uncorrected proof, original cloth boards, Michael Joseph, London, 1964;...

ELSA FELSKO. 'Portraits of Wild Flowers'. Unclipped dj, original cloth, 140 plates after watercoours, Bruno Cassirer, Oxfors, 1958, vg; Together w...

ELEANOUR SINCLAIR ROHDE. 'The Old Gardening Books'. First edition, original boards, untrimmed edges, some foxing, Martin Hopkinson & co, London 19...

MILES HADFIELD. 'Gardening in Britain.' First edition, original cloth, clipped dj, foxing to the fore edge of text block, Hutchinson, London, 1960...

W. ROBINSON. 'The Parks, Promenades & Gardens of Paris.' Original decorative gilt boards, illustrations complete, chipped spine, fold out engravin...

NARAYAN P. MANANDHAR. 'Plants and People of Nepal.' 4to, unclipped dj, original cloth, Timber Press, Oregon, USA, 2002, vg. Dr Rob Senior arrived ...

BOTANICAL & HORTICULTURAL INTEREST. Ten hardbacks including the two volume 'Botanical Garden' by Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix, plus specialist on...

GEORGE MACKAY BROWN. 'In the Margins of a Shakespeare'. Signed by author and illustrator, wood-engravings, number 125 of 220, original boards and ...

HERON BOOKS- 'The Greatest Masterpieces of Russian Literature'. Including Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. (30) Dr Rob Senior arrived in West Cornw...

COLIN N. FRENCH et al. 'Flora of Cornwall: Atlas of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Cornwall'. 1st edition, original cloth, clipped dj, 8vo, map...

EMMET J. JUDZIEWICZ et al. 'American Bamboos'. 1st edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Smithsonian Instituion Press, Washington and London, 199...

A. B. FREEMAN-MITFORD. 'The Bamboo Garden'. 1st edition, original cloth with gilt decortation, illustrations complete, cloth marked, motting throu...

WANG DAJUN and SHEN SHAP-JIN. 'Bamboos of China'. Original cloth, unclipped dj, iustrations throughout, Christopher Helm, London, 1987, vg; plus f...

E. J. LOWE. 'Our Native Ferns'. Two volumes, many coloured plates, original cloth, inscribed and dated by previous owner, slight split on front bo...

DONALD R. HODEL. 'CHAMAEDOREA PALMS: The Species and Their Cultivation'. Original cloth, unclipped dj, The International Palm Society, Allen Press...

JEROME K. JEROME. 'Three Men in a Boat'. First edition, original cloth, spine cloth loose, front board wrinkled, illustrations complete, J. W. Arr...

SIR ROBERT SITWELL. 'On The Making of Gardens'. Number 822 of 100, original green cloth with gilt to spine and front board, colour fronispiece and...

GEORGE E. BIRD. 'Hangchow Holidays.' Half bound in leatherette with cream paper boards, paper slightly bubbled on front board, name inscribed in p...

BOTANY. 'Flora of Nealand'. Five volumes, original cloth, unclipped dj's, P. D. Hasselberg, Wellington, 1982 1976 1980 1988 2000 (respectively), a...

MAPS- 'The Oarsman & Anglers Map of the River Thames from the source to London Bridge.' Scale 1" to 1, lithographed folding strip map, red ink ins...

LEWIS CARROLL. 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.' Original green pictorial cloth, spine chipped rubbed and faded, title page torn, illustrations ...

F. HAMILTON DAVEY. 'Flora of Cornwall Being an Account of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Found in the County of Cornwall Including The Scily Isles...

SUE LEWINGTON. Five signed and eleven unsigned books. (16) Dr Rob Senior arrived in West Cornwall from his native Yorkshire in the early 1960’s wh...

JASON HILL. 'The Contemplative Gardener.' First edition, original cloth, clipped dj, spine dj chipped top and bottom and faded, Faber and Faber, L...

GRAHAME GREENE. 'Loser Takes All.' Firts edition, unclipped dj, original cloth, cloth chipped, William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1955, vg: 'Travels W...

SHIRLEY HIBBERD. 'The Ivy, Its History, Uses, and Characteristics.' Higley decorative original boards, slightly rubbed, gilt edged text block, ill...

'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.' Original cloth with gilt title and spine, fading to top of front board and spine, colour illustrations by Willy Pogany...

ADOLPHUS H. KENT. 'Veitch's Manuak of The Coniferae.' Original gilt embosed boards, illustrations complete, title page half torn and loose, bookpl...

JESSIE M KING. 'Corners of Grey Old Gardens.' First Edition, coloured illustrations by Margaret Waterfield complete, paper on board with protectiv...

SIMON MILLS et al. 'Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine.' Churchill Livingstone, 2000; With ninteen books concerning h...

HORTICULTURE INTEREST. Eighteen volumes on the cultivation and growing of particular plants, all hardbacks with dj's, all with photos throughout, ...

E. H. Wilson. 'Plantae Wilsonae.....' Reprint edited by Charles Sprague Sargent, three volumes, original cloth, unclipped dj's, dj's slightly fade...

AGNES ARBER. 'Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter In The Hiftory Of Botany 1470-1670.' First Edition, Original cloth, Illustrations com...

WARREN R. DAWSON. 'A Leechbook or Collection of Medical Recipes of the Fifteenth Century.' First edtion, original gilt cloth, unclipped print on p...

ARTHUR RACKHAM. 'Tales From Shakespeare.' First edition, written by Charles & Mary Lamb, original red cloth with gilt title, spine faded, illustra...

G. W. SEPTIMUS PIESSE. 'The Art of Perfumery, and the Methods of Obtaining the Odours of Plants.' First edition, leather gilt embossed spine, fron...

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. 'Sonnets of the Portuguese.' Limited to one thousand copies, original gilt cloth, decorations by Adrian J. Orio, Georg...

HORTICULTURE INTEREST. Thirty-four books including Charles Elliot, Melrose, Andrew Young etc. Almost all in fine condition. Dr Rob Senior arrived ...

GEORGE SCHNEIDER. 'The Book of Choice Ferns.' Five vols, original pictorial cloth, rubbed ends to spines, coloure plates and wood block engravings...

'I Walked By Night: Being the Life and History of the King of the Norfolk Poachers.' Cheap edition, edited by Lilias Rider Haggard, original boarr...

R. D. Meikle. 'The Flora of Cyprus'. First edition, two volumes, original cloth, Robert Maclehose and Company, Glasgow, 1977, vg. Dr Rob Senior ar...

Dr ELSPETH BECKETT. 'Illustrated Flora of Mallorca.' Hardcover, coour illustrations throughout, Editorial Moll, Mallorca, 1993, fine; With twenty-...

H. RIDER HAGGARD. 'A Gardener's Year.' First edition, original cloth, slight fading to cloth, bookplate on pastedown, Longmans Green and Co, Londo...

H. RIDER HAGGARD. 'Joan Haste.' First edition, original boards, insription on endpapers, some toning to leaves, twenty four publishers adverts, Lo...

H. RIDER HAGGARD. 'Cleopatra.' First edition, original dark blue cloth with gilt embossed title, spine rubbed, pastedown and endpapers taped, owne...

H. RIDER HAGGARD. 'Rural England.' Two voumes, original cloth, spine ends rubbed, watermarks to edges of front leaves, inscribed endpaper, Libray ...

H. RIDER HAGGARD. 'The Days of My Life'. Signed and inscribed by author, first edition, two vols, original cloth, gilt spine title, rubbed spine, ...

H. RIDER HAGGARD. 'Jess.' First edition (?), half leather, marbled boards, chips and rubbing to spine, toned leaves, textblock and binding firm, J...

JOHN HUNT. 'The Acsent of Everest.' Original cloth, uncipped dj, toning on title page, toning to the edge of pages, hodder & Stoughton, 1953, fine...

JOHN BETJEMAN. 'Ghastly Good Taste or, a depressing story of the rise and fall of English Architecture.' Original cloth, clipped dj, folding illus...

A. E. Housman. 'A Shropshire Lad.' Wood Engravings by Agnes Miller Parker, original cloth, clipped dj, inscribed endpaper, sporadic foxing, George...

GEORGE MACKAY BROWN. 'Epiphany Tales.' 94/145, signed by illustrator Rosemary Roberts, printed letterpress on Somerset wove paper, The Celtic Cros...

KAREL CAPEK. 'Krakatit.' First edition in English, original cloth, unclipped dj, slight tear and repair to top of dj on front board, soiled edges ...

'Shire Discovering Series'. Twenty-three booklets, mostly fine; With five 'Dichfield's Litlle Wonder Books', and some others. Dr Rob Senior arrive...

Cassell's 'Flora: The Gardener's Bible.' An A-Z in two volumes, colour illustrations throughout, with protective carboard case, Cassell, London. D...

'Wheldon and Wesley' book catologues mostly Natural History; With other catalogues including 'Mike Park', 'Summerfield', and 'Daniel Lloyd'. Dr Ro...

R. A. Lidstone. 'A Practical Manual for Foil Epee and Sabre.' First edition, original cloth, cloth stained and bumped, some text underlined, H. F....

J. H. FABRE. 'The Works of.....' Thirteen works, all in original green cloth, all early 20th century, Hodder & Stoughton, London. Dr Rob Senior ar...

JOHN SQUIRE. 'A Book of English Cheeses.' Signed by editor and illustrater, first edition, 158/220, original cloth, soiled spine, enscribed pasted...

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