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Hui-Lin Li. 'The Woody Flora of Taiwan.' First edition, original cloth, Morris Arbortum Monograph, Livingston Publishing Co, USA, 1963, fine. Acco...

HERBERT A. DAVIDSON. 'Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works.' Original cloth, unclipped dj, Oxford Universoty Press, 2005, fine; With nineteen m...

JAMES H. VEITCH. 'Hortus Veitchii.' A facsimile edition, 169/1000, unclipped dj, Caradoc Doy, London, fine; With twenty-five other books concernin...

H. J. NOTIE. 'The Dapuri Drawings.' Origina cloth, unclipped dj, The Antie Collector's Club and The Bombay Botanic Gardens, 2002, fine; 'Robert Wr...

GEORGE NICHOLSON. 'The illustrated dictionary of gardening. A practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists.'...

SUE TOWNSEND. 'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole.' First edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, soiing to the edge of text bock, soiling on back of ...

SUE TOWNSEND. 'Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years.' First edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Mehuan, London, 1993, fine; With eight other Sue T...

HAROLD N. MOLDENKE. 'Plants of the Bible.' Original cloth, illustrated frontispiece, sporadic foxing to fore edge, owners pencil signature to endp...

THOMAS BEWICK. 'The Watercolours and Drawings of Thomas Bewick and His Workshop apprentices.' First edition, two volumes in cupboard slip case, ed...

L. MESSEL. 'A Garden Flora: Trees and Flowers Grown in the Gardens at Nymans.' Illustrations by Alfred Parsons, Country Life, London, 1918, vg; Wi...

ILLUSTRATION INTEREST. 'The Night Life of Trees.' Tara Publishing Bookcraft Series, Chennai, India, 2006, illustrated throughout, screen printed o...

PIERRE-JOSEPH REDOUTE. 'Roses 2.' First edition, original card boards with dj, dj chipped, cut title page, large colour plates by K. G. Lohse, The...

HORTICULTURE INTEREST. 'Magnolias In Cornish Gardens.' First edition, 174/500, signed by painter Valentine S Paton and writer Jean A Paton, Alexan...

BOTANY INTEREST. 'Wild Flowers of Cyprus.' Paintings by Elektra Megaw, Text by Desmond Meikle, Portfolio edition, full green leather boards, Phill...

BERYL LESLIE URQUHART. 'The Camellia.' Two volumes, original cloth, unclipped dj but chipped around the edges, portfolio, The Leslie Urquhart Pres...

GEOFFREY GRIGSON and HANDASYDE BUCHANAN. 'Thornton's Temple of Flora.' Facsimile, portfolio, original carboard boards with half cloth, foxed end p...

R. M. HEALEY. 'Grigson at Eighty: Tributes from friends and admirers.' 72/75, marbled boards, Rampant ion Press, Cambridge, 1985, fine. Dr Rob Sen...

C. OSCAR MORETON. 'Old Carnations and Pinks.' Original cloth, clipped dj, illustrations complete, George Rainbird Ltd, 1955, near fine. Dr Rob Sen...

DAVID WHEELER. 'By Pen & Spade: An Anthology of Garden Writing from Hortus.' First edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, The Bath Press, Avon, 19...

BOTANICAL and HORTICULTURE . A run of twelve wild flower guides of South Africa by the 'Botanical Society of South Africa': With eleven books conc...

REV W. S. LACH-SZYRMA. 'A Short History Of Penzance, St Michael's Mount, S. Ives, and the Lands End District.' Original gilt embossed cloth, some ...

PAUL BROADHURST. 'Secret Shrines: In Search of the Old Wells of Cornwall.' Signed first edition, 412/500, original clooth, coloure illustrations, ...

D. B. BARTON. 'Copper Mining in Cornwall and Devon.' Second edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, foxing to edge of text block and dj, D. Bradfor...

ILLUSTRATION INTEREST. 'Art in Nature.' Portfolio, original cloth, unclipped dj, colour illustrations throughout, Studio editions, London, 1991; W...

ENID BLYTON. 'The Island of Adventure.' first edition, with decorative original cloth, cloth soiled, foxing to edges of text block and end papers,...

A. A. MILNE. 'When We Were Very Young.' Third edition, original cloth, rubbed and chipped spine, owner inscription to front end paper, some sporad...

ERNEST H. WILSON. 'Aristocrats of the Garden.' Original cloth, split to front hinge, chipped spine, textblock crisp and firm with slight toning to...

V. SACKVILLE-WEST. 'The Dark Island.' First edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, tears to dj, sporadic foxing to textblock edge and leaves, pen ...

ROBERT GRAVES. 'I, Claudius.' Original cloth, unclipped dj, tears and chips to dj, cloth spine foxed, end papers foxed, Arthur Barker, London, thi...

GEORGE BOWN MILLET. 'Penzance Past and Present: A Lecture.' Delivered at the Penzance Institute, Beare and Son, Penzance, 1876. Dr Rob Senior arri...

W. J. BEAN. 'Trees & Shrubs: Hardy in the British Isles.' Eight edition, four vol set with supplement, original cloth, vol II clipped dj, slighlty...

MARY R. MITFORD. 'Sketches of English Life and Character.' First edition, original cloth, spine faded, illustrated by Stanhope. A Forbes, illustra...

BINDINGS. 'Cranford' by Mrs Caskell, illustrated by Hugh Thompson, original pictorial gilt cloth, inscribed title page, MacMillan and Co, London, ...

BINDINGS. 'The Book of Old Sundials & Their Mottoes.' Second edition, original decorative boards, rubbed to top of spine, owner enscribed endpaper...

F. .E HALLIDAY. 'Richard Carew of Anthony.' First edition, original cloth, back board sun bleached to fore edge, Andrew Melrose Ltd, London, 1953,...

BOTANY and HORTICULTURE. Thirty-one works, mostly hardback and all vg, including subjects on illustraters, orchids, specific gardens. (31) Dr Rob ...

STAN BARSTOW. 'A Kind of Love.' First edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, pencil inscription to pastedown, foxing to edge of text block, Michae...

STEPHEN W. MEADER. 'Trap-Lines North: A True Story of The Canadian Woods.' First edition, original coth, clipped dj, rubbed and torn dj, finger ma...

ALASDAIR ALPIN MACGREGOR. 'Somewhere in Scotland.' Original cloth, unclpped dj, owner insription on front endpaer with lable, Robert Hale, London,...

BOTANY. 'The Grevillea Book.' Three volumes, original cloth, unclipped dj, Kangaroo Press, Australia, vg; With eleven other books mostly about the...

Botany. 'Exotica: Pictorial Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants from Tropical and Near-tropic Regions,' by Dr Alfred Byrd Graf, series 4, 11th editioin, t...

LAURIE LEE. 'I Can't Stay Long.' First edition, original cloth, clipped dj, foxing to dj and edge of text block, Andre Deutsch, 1975, vg; 'The Blo...

DAPHNE DU MAURIER. 'Happy Christmas.' Original cloth, unclipped dj, small chips to dj, toning to fore edge of dj, pen inscription to endpaper, Tod...

BOTANY and HORTICULTURE. 'Peonies of Greece.' original cloth, unclipped dj, The Goulandris Natural History Museum, greece, 1984, fine; With sixtee...

'My Garden: An Intimate Magazine for Garden Lovers.' A complete run of fourty-three volumes from 1934-1951, original green goat skin boards with g...

BLANCHE HENREY. 'British Botanical and Horticultural Literature Before 1800.' Three volumes, original cloth, Ord University Press, special edition...

A. WAINWRIGHT. 'A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells.' 50th anniversary edition, seven vols, original cloth, unclipped dj, protective cardboard...

'The Island Series.' Twenty-eight volumes, including a a signed 'Shetland', David & Charles, most vg. Dr Rob Senior arrived in West Cornwall from ...

BOTANY. 'The Rhododendron.' Two vols, folio, original cloth, unclipped dj, tears and chips to vol I dj, The Leslie Urquhart Press, Sussex, 1958, g...

WINIFRED CURTIS. 'The Endemic Flora of Tasmania.' Six vols, folio, original cloth, unclipped dj, painted by Margret Stones, The Ariel Press, 1967....

Twenty-eight 'Natural History' catalogues from the antiquarian book dealer RAYMOND M. SUTTON, JR. Early 2000's; With other catalogues including Ke...

BOTANY and HORTICULTURE. 'Genera Palmarum: A Classification of Palms based on th Work of Harold E. Morre, Jr.' Original cloth, unclipped dj, illus...

F. C. STERN. 'A Study of the GENUS PAEONIA.' First edition, folio, original boards with gilt title, toning to title page and some sporadic foxing,...

CHIANG YEE.' The Silent Traveller in Boston.' Signed, first edition, original cloth, clipped dj, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1959, vg; 'The ...

NEVIL SHUTE. 'The Far Country.' First edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, tear to dj top of spine and bottom of spine, owner inscription to end...

REV W. TUCKWELL. 'Tongues in Trees and Sermons in Stones.' Original decorative gilt boards, George Allen, London, 1891, vg; DOMINIC MARNER. 'St Cu...

RONALD SEARLE. 'The Terror of St Trinians.' Third impression, original cloth, unclipped dj, MAx Parish, 1952; With six other Ronald Searle's, chil...

E. H. M. COX. 'Plant-Hunting in China: A History of Botanical Exploration in China and the Tibetan Marches.' First edition, original cloth, unclip...

DOUGLAS ELLORY PETT. 'The Parks and Gardens of Cornwall.' Signed and inscribed by author, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Alison Hodg...

SUKI URQUHART. 'The Scottish Gardener.' First edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, colour photos throughout, Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2005,fine; With...

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