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A Geographical Atlas of World Weeds
Book ID: 45978More details Price: USD $49.50 USD $44.55
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Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi
Book ID: 46499More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46
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An Illustrated Manual of California Shrubs
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, no date. 8th printing, ca 1970s reprint of the 1939 edition. Green cloth. pp (xii), 663. Illustrated, index. Fine in fine jacket. Now out of print. 1.5 kg 0520008472
Book ID: 46770More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
CACTI: a gardener's handbook for their identification and cultivation. With a biography of the author by Beatrice Borg
Poole, Dorset, England: Blandford Press, 1976. A later printing of the 1970 fourth edition. Octavo, green cloth. pp 512 + plates. Index. Fine in fine jacket. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 46218More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
CANADA'S ROYAL GARDEN: Portraits and Reflections. With wood engravings by Gerard Brender à Brandiis
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Viking, 1994. Inscribed by Illustrator; Green boards. Colour photos. Fine in fine jacket, and inscribed by Gerard Brender à Brandiis. Beautiful photos of Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens, with nice woodcuts. 1.5 kg parcel; Oblong quarto; Signed by Illustrator
Book ID: 54081More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
Complete Trees of North America: Field Guide and Natural History
Edition: First Edition
New York: Van Nostrand, 1980. Dark blue boards. pp xii, 948. Illustrated, index. Fine in VG jacket. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 45965More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
Essai sur la Flore de la Guinée Française:Produits forestiers, agricoles et industriels
Edition: First Edition
Paris: Augustin Challamel, 1906. Tall octavo, original printed paper covers. pp [2], 392, [2] + 80 plates + folding map. General index and index of tribes. New paper spine with label; front cover has light soiling and small chip to lower inner corner; rear cover has creased tears and corner torn away (no text loss); thin brittle fly leaves front and rear are tanned, with small rubber stamp at front, chips at rear; otherwise a VG copy, text clean, tight and unworn, the whole now protected with a plastic wrapper. Flora of French Guinea (now Guinea). Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required
Book ID: 45343More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
FERNS
Edition: First printing
London: Pelham Books, 1974. Squarish octavo, green cloth. pp 264 + colour plates. Line drawings, index. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket has a two inch repaired tear, VG otherwise. "This is the first definitive book to appear on this subject since the height of the Victorian fern craze. It is devoted not only to the ferns of the British Isles and other varieties, but also to the ferns of the other temperate regions of the world, including the North American continent and Australasia, and their varieties." Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 45963More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76 -
FLORA OF THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS. Part I: Systematics of the Vascular Plants. Part 2: Cytological Aspects of the Vascular Plants
Edition: First Edition
Ottawa: Research Branch, Canada Deptartment of Agriculture, 1968. Two volumes, octavo, orange cloth. pp (xiv), (660, (2); (x), (149). Colour and b&w photos in text. Indexed. Fine copies, no owner names. Dust jacket of Part 1 has a short tear and nicks at top of spine, the jackets are otherwise fine. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.
Book ID: 32919More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
Flora : Over 20,000 Plants and Their Cultivation Requirements
Toronto: Firefly Books, 2003. Thick folio, glossy pictorial boards. pp 1584. Colour illustrations, glossary, index. LACKS THE CD; front free endpaper has a small abrasion near centre and two short tears to top edge; else fine. Enclosed in a glossy pictorial chemise with handle. Note: 6.5 kg parcel, extra postage WILL be required. This will be very expensive to send outside of North America. Published at CAD 159.95 155297779x
Book ID: 46860More details Price: USD $59.95 USD $53.96 -
FUNGAL FAMILIES OF THE WORLD
Cambridge, MA: CABI, 2007. Tall quarto, glossy printed boards. pp (4), xiv, 456. Illustrated, colour photos. Fine copy. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Book ID: 45977More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
Genes Involved in Plant Defense
Edition: First printing
New York: Springer, 1994. Printed cloth. pp 364, Index. Fine copy. 1.5 kg parcel. ; Octavo 0387823123
Book ID: 49843More details Price: USD $39.95 USD $35.96 -
Great flower books, 1700-1900: a bibliographical record of two centuries of finely illustrated flower books
London: Witherby, 1990. Re-issue of the 1956 original. xii, 189. Index. Reproduction in colour and b&w. Fine in fine jacket. 2 kg parcel. ; Large quarto 085493202x
Book ID: 51019More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Great flower books, 1700-1900: a bibliographical record of two centuries of finely illustrated flower books
Edition: First of this edition
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. Black cloth. pp (xii), 189, [3]. 52 colour plates. Index. Fine in fine jacket. "The Blibliography Edited by Patrick W. Synge and compiled byW.T. Stearn, Sabine Wilson and Handasyde Buchanan, with a Foreword by S. Dillon Ripley". First published in 1956, this new edition is slightly expanded. 2 kg parcel; Large quarto 0871132842
Book ID: 52543More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
LIBELLUS DE RE HERBARIA 1538. THE NAMES OF HERBES 1548. Facsimiles with introductory matter by James Britten, D. Dayton Jackson, & W. T. Stearn
Edition: First Edition
London: The Ray Society, 1965. Octavo, dark blue cloth. pp (x), (277). Small private owner name rubber stamped on front free endpaper; book has a musty odour (will disappear over time), but no damp stains; else fine. Dust jacket has edge nicks, VG. Reprints "the first two printed books relating to the British flora which have any claim to originality." Turner, a clergyman, physician, herbalist, and naturalist "has long been honoured as the 'father of British botany' ".
Book ID: 35222More details Price: USD $22.00 USD $19.80 -
Lichens of the Alaskan Arctic Slope
Edition: First Edition
University of Toronto Press, 1979. Green printed cloth. [16], 314 pp, indexed, photos and map in text at front. Partially removed label of the University of Toronto Press Design Department on front free endpaper, else a VG+ copy, no owner names or text marks.; Octavo. 0802054285
Book ID: 25573More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
Pandora's Picnic Basket: The Potential and Hazards of Genetically Modified Foods
Edition: First printing
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Octavo, brown boards. pp (x), 277. Index. Fine copy. Jacket has nicks at head of spine, else fine. A qualified scientist's examination of the pros and cons. 0198506740
Book ID: 47186More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
Plant
Edition: First US Edition
New York: DK, 2005. Folio, glossy pictorial boards. pp 512. Colour illustrations, index. Fine in fine jacket. Illustrations of about 2000 plants, gives the origin and natural habitat of each and the conditions for growing in a garden, and indicates which plants are under threat in the wild. 3.5 kg parcel 075660589x
Book ID: 46859More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
PLANTES FOURRAGÈRES PRAIRIES ET PÂTURAGES. Avec Gravures a l'aquarelle de Norman Criddle
Ottawa: Ministère Fédéral de l'Agriculture, 1913. Olive cloth gilt lettered. 160 pp + 27 chromolithographed botanical plates (grasses, clovers, etc.). Small shallow chip to front free endpaper, else a fine, especially fresh copy. No owner names. The plates are often removed and framed. Text is in French. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.; Quarto
Condition: Near Fine
Book ID: 24009More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
Sedum of North America North of the Mexican Plateau
Edition: First Edition
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1975. Thick octavo, green cloth. pp (743), illustrations in text. Green endpaper lightly sunned at margins; crease to half-title leaf, light foxing to top page edges, binding a little skewed, else fine, no owner names or text marks. Pale green jacket has slightly sunned spine, VG otherwise. 2 kg parcel 0801409500
Book ID: 30804More details Price: USD $39.95 USD $35.96