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ORNITHOLOGY. 'Coloured Figures of the Eggs of the British Birds,' by Henry Seebohm, original cloth with gilt embossed title and spine, spine rubbe...

ORNITHOLOGY. 'The Hasndbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa: The Birds of the Western Paleartic,' nine vols, Stanley Cram...

A. D. Hall. 'The Genus Tulipa.' First edition, original cloth, forty colour illustrations by H. C. Osterstock, The Royal Horticultural Society, 19...

GILBERT WHITE. 'The Natural History of Selborne.' Second edition, original decorative gilt cloth, rubbed spine, graphite signature on title page, ...

WILLIAM BORLASE. 'The Natural History of Cornwall.' New edition, facsimilie, inclipped dj, carboard slip, E & W Books, London, 1970. Dr Rob Senior...

GEOFFREY GRIGSON. 'The Cornish Dancer.' First edition, unclipped dj, Secker & Warburg, London, 1982; 'Angles and Curcles,' First edition, unclippe...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'The Timeless Land,' by Deny's Val Baker, First edition, clipped dj, Adams & Dart, 1973; 'Cornish Harbours,' by Roland Roddis, ...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'Historical Atlas of West Penwith,' compiled by I. S. Maxwell, Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield, 1976. Dr...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'British and Foreign Trees and Shrubs in Cornwall,' by Edgar Thurston, first edition, original cloth, clipped cloth, Royal Inst...

CORNWALL. 'The Birds of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly,' signed by author R. D. Penhallurick, published by Headland pub, bound by Cramp of Cornw...

CORNWALL INTEREST. Books, leaflets and booklets covering natural history, the culture of, geology and history of Cornwall. Dr Rob Senior arrived i...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'England's Riviera: The Land's End District and its Antiquities,' by J. Harris Stone, rebound with original clith boards, Kegan...

JOSEPH KNIGHT F.H.S, 'Horticultural Essays On The Natural Order Of Proteeae', hardback with cardboard slip, 1st edition, limited edition handsigne...

REGINALD FARRER. 'In Old Ceylon.' First edition, original decorative gilt cloth, leaves uncut with foxing, Edward Arnold, London, 1908; 'The Dolom...

V. SACKVILLE-WEST. 'Collected Poems.' Volume one, original cloth, published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London, 1933; 'Sol...

V. SACKVILLE-WEST. 'The Garden.' First edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Micheal Joseph Ltd, 1946; 'In your Garden,' first edition, original ...

V. SACKVILLE-WEST. 'Aphra Behn.' First edition, origina cloth, unclipped dj, stamp and price to end paper, Gerald Howe Ltd, London, 1927; 'Nursery...

YORKSHIRE INTEREST. 'Yorkshire Painted & Described,' by Gordon Home, original decorative cloth, colour illustrations, Adam & Charles Black, Lomdon...

J. G. MILLAIS. 'Magnolia.' No 24/500, original cloth, unclipped dj, b+w illustrations, The Minerva Press, 1972; 'The Gardens of Britain,' In assoc...

RHODODENDRON INTEREST. 'The Rhododendron Species,' by H. H. Davidian, four volumes, sun blached spines, B. T. Batsford Ltd and Timber Press, Londo...

JOHN E. BRYAN. 'Bulbs.' Two volumes, unclipped dj, illustrations throughout, Christopher Helm, London, 1986; LEO JELITTO and WHLHELM SCHACHET. 'Ha...

BOTANICAL INTEREST. Thirteen books published for The Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, of the seprate genus of plants in matching dj's. (13) Dr Rob Sen...

WILLIAM TURNER, 'A New Herball, Part I, II and III', cardboard slip, facsimile, 1995; 'A Garden Of Pleasant Flowers', facsimile 1976; 'A Medieval ...

GRAHAME STUART THOMAS. 'Perennial Garden Plants or The Modern Florilegium.' Signed, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, sun bleached dj, ...

BOTANICAL INTERTEST. 'Mesembs: The Titanopsis Group,' by Steven A Hammer, Little Sphaeroid Press, California; With a number good quality books on ...

R. C. CAMBIE & J. ASH, 'Fijian medicinal plants', 1994; DIETRICH FROHNE & HANS JURGEN PFANDER, 'Poisonous Plants' 2nd edition; JEAN H. LANGENHEIM,...

PYEK et al, 'Endemic Plants Of The Altai Mountain Country', 2008; GEOFFREY HERKLOTS, 'Flowering Tropical Climbers', first edition, cardboard case,...

Lepidopterology interest: IAN J. KITCHING & JEAN-MARIE CADIOU, 'Hawkmoths Of The World', first edition, unclipped dj, 2000; A. R. PITTAWAY, 'The H...

GARDEN INTEREST: ROY STRONG, 'Successful Small Gardens', first edition, 1994; DEREK McCULLOCH 'Gardening Guyed', and four other books on gardens (...

HORTICULTURAL AND BOTANY INTEREST: 'Furor Hortensis, Essays On The History of the English Landscape Garden - in memory of H. F. Clark', edited by ...

GERTRUDE JEKYLL & LAWRENCE WEAVER. 'Gardens for Small Country House.' Original cloth, colour photographic frontispiece, Country Life, 1914. Dr Rob...

F. EDWARD HULME. 'Familiar Wild Flowers.' First edition, eight volumes, original decorative cloth, colour illustrations, rubbed spines, Cassell an...

JOSEPH HARRISON. 'The Floricultural Magazine.' Four volumes I-IV, contemporary half morocco over boards, morocco spine labels, many hand coloured ...

FLORENCE and ELLA DU CANE. 'The Flowers and Gardens of Japan.' First edition, original decorative cloth with gilt titles, toning to spine, toning ...

BOHNS CLASSICAL LIBRARY. 'The Natural History of Pliny,' six volumes, original embossed cloth, spines sun bleachex, rubbed and toning, Henry G. Bo...

T. E. LAWRENCE - 'Seven Pillars Of Wisdom: A Triumph', 1st published for general circulation, original cloth with gilt title, slightly sun-bleache...

LAURA KNIGHT, 'Modern Masters Of Etching', foxing to the edges of leaves and original boards, etchings good, 1932. Dr Rob Senior arrived in West C...

ART INTEREST. 'The Shining Sands: Artists in Newlyn and St Ives,' by Tom Cross, unclipped dj, Halsgrove, 2008; 'Fred Yates: C'est votre passion, M...

Poets Of The Great War - six books of selected poetry, published in 2014, together with five other books of selected poetry, including Ted Hughes ...

H. RIDER HAGGARD. 'Montezuma's Daughter.' First edition, original boards, sun bleached spine. clean tight text block, Longmans Green and Co, 1893;...

E. A. Bowles. 'My Garden in Spring.' First edition, original decorative cloth, illustrations complete, spordic toning to edge of leaves, T. C. & E...

TASCHEN. 'The Garden at Eichstatt,' and 'The Lilies,' folio, colour illustrations throughout, both vg. Dr Rob Senior arrived in West Cornwall from...

THOMAS BEWICK. 'Bookplates by Beilby & Bewick,' Britiush Libray & Oak Knol Press, first edition, 1999; 'John Bewick: Engraver on Wood 1760-1795,' ...

WILLIAM BOLITHO. 'Nugae. A Rhyming Medley.' Original boards with gilt family coat of arms on front board, quarter roan, rubbed spine, two letters ...

Approximately forty Giles Annuals, together with a Giles Puzzle and other Giles books. Condition: please request a condition report if you requir...

FOLIO SOCIETY - P. G. WODEHOUSE 'Jeeves & Wodehouse', two cardboard cases containing eleven books in total, 2000, vg. Condition: please request a...

FOLIO SOCIETY - EVELYN WAUGH, 'Sword Of Honour, 1990; 'From The Strand', CHARLES DARWIN, 'The Voyage Of The Beagle', 2003; W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, 'C...

FOLIO SOCIETY - MERVYN PEAKE, The Titus Books Trilogy, 1970, vg. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional informati...

FOLIO SOCIETY - KENNETH GRAHAME, 'The Wind In The Willows' 1995, AXEL MUNTHE, 'The Story Of San Michele', 1991, and twenty-one other Folio Society...

FOLIO SOCIETY. Sixteen volumes of Thomas Hardy including Tess d'Urbervilles, The Woodlanders, and Jude the Obscure etc. Dr Rob Senior arrived in W...

FOLIO SOCIETY - HARPER LEE, 'To Kill A Mockingbird', 1996; ALBERT CAMUS, 'The Plague' 1987; T. E LAWRENCE, 'Revolt In The Desert, and nineteen oth...

FOLIO SOCIETY - CHARLES DICKENS, 'My Early Times', 1988; RICHARD HAKLUYT 'The Tudor Venturers' 1970 and eighteen other folio books. Condition: pl...

FOLIO SOCIETY WITCHCRAFT INTEREST - 'The Witches Of Salem', 1982; JACOBUS SPRENGER & HEINRICH KRAMER 'Malleus Maleficarum' 1968, both vg. Conditi...

FOLIO SOCIETY - ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Forty Seven titles, vg. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regar...

FOLIO SOCIETY - HERMAN MELVILLE 'Moby Dick' 1974; 'Beowulf', 1974, and nineteen other folio books, vg (21). Condition: please request a condition...

FOLIO SOCIETY - H. RIDER HAGGARD, 'African Adventures' Trilogy, 1995; ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, 'The Lost World', 1977, and fourteen other folio society...

FOLIO SOCIETY - 'East Of The Sun West Of The Moon', illustrated by KAY NIELSEN, 2000; Five other Folio Society books; and other books. Condition:...

JOHANNES BLAEU. 'Glamorganensis comitatus vulgo Glamorganshire,' engraved, hand coloured, two large coat of arms, accompanied latin text to verso,...

MAPS. Plymouth. 'Report of the Commissioners…upon the boundaries and Wards of certain Boroughs and Corporate Towns.' framed and glazed, 1837, 23.5...

JOHN SPEED. 'Merionethshire Described 1610.' Hand coloured copper engraved, Englisg text to verso, framed and glazed, 1627, aprox 41cm x 35.5cm. ...

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