Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. Common Weeds of the United States.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Dover. 1971 pp.463 with line drawings and distribution maps throughout. A vg. copy in spine-faded card covers.
Covers 220 important weeds, with illustrations, maps, botanical information and plant lore for each one.
£7.50 [ref: 46211]

Ainsworth, G.C. & Waterhouse, G.M. British County Foray Lists. (Up to the end of 1986).
1st. Ed. Pub British Mycological Soc. 1989 pp.36. 8vo. Nr. fine softback.
£5.00 [ref: 59703]

Ainsworth, G.C. and Sampson, K. The British Smut Fungi. (Ustilaginales).
1st. Ed. Pub. C.A.B. 1950 pp.137 with b/w. figs. Large 8vo. From the library of E.A. Ellis (author of New Naturalist No.46 - The Broads), with his stamp to ffep and dedicated to him by both authors. With a good number of annotations (some dated) to text by Ellis. Contents nr. fine. Original cloth boards in vg. plus condition. Loosely inserted is a brief obituary of E.A. Ellis from ‘The Times’ (1986).
The obituary notes that Ellis’ ‘was an expertise which came from a lifetime of observation rather than from books, and he carried out painstaking research on fungi and ivy’ which is in part shown through the annotations made to this copy of ‘The British Smut Fungi’.
£75.00 [ref: 65796]

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Aitken, R. Botanical Riches. Stories of botanical exploration.
Pub. Lund Humphries. 2007 pp.xi, 243. Beautifully illustrated in colour throughout. Large 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. Out of print.
A super work. Divided into four main sections; ‘Plants of the ancient and classical worlds’ (from the dawn of time to 1450); ‘The great age of maritime exploration’ (from the 1450s to 1750s); ‘Scientific imperialism and exotic botany’ (from the 1750s to the 1900s) and lastly, ‘Living Fossils’ (The 1900s and beyond).
£35.00 [ref: 66828]

Akerele, O. et al. The Conservation of Medicinal Plants.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cambridge Univ. Press. 1991 pp.xvi, 362. 8vo. Fine hardback with gently sunned spine. Out-of-print.
Nearly all cultures, from ancient times to today, have used plants as a source of medicine. In many developing countries, traditional medicine is still the mainstay of health care and most of the drugs and cures used come from plants. In developed countries many people are turning to herbal remedies. However, in the face of increasing demand, a vastly increasing human population and extensive forest destruction, there can be no guarantee that we will continue to benefit indefinitely from this valuable resource.
£22.00 [ref: 65496]

Aladren, M.P. de S.P. (Ed.). Pasion por las flores. Passie voor bloemen. Passion for Flowers. Drawings from the Van Berkhey Collection.
1st. Ed. Pub. Accion Cultural Espanola. 2012 pp.103 with col. illus. Text in Spanish, Dutch and English. 4to. From the lib. of the Linnean Society. Fine softback. Exhibition catalogue. Scarce.
Johannes le Francq van Berkhey (1729-1812) was a man of the Enlightenment. His love for the arts, antiquities, literature and the natural sciences was reflected in his being an artist, collector, writer and lector in Natural History.
£25.00 [ref: 67451]

Alcock, J. An Enthusiasm for Orchids. Sex and Deception in Plant Evolution.
1st. Ed. Oxford Univ. Press. 2006 pp.xi, 302 with col. photos. throughout. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw.
This book abounds with clever explanations for how these exceptionally complex flowers came to be shaped as they are. The reader can explore many aspects of orchid biology and history ranging from how some species avoid inbreeding, to the origins of orchids from an ancestor that belonged to the asparagus family.
£25.00 [ref: 68150]

Alibertis, A. The Orchids of Crete and Karpathos.
1st. Ed. Pub. A. Alibertis. 1998 pp.159 with 263 col. photos.. 8vo. Bookplate. Fine softback.
An illustrated identification guide to the orchids of the Meidterranean islands of Crete and Karpathos. Each species account includes scientific and common names, flowering months, altitude, description, habitat, distribution, observations and several colour photographs taken in the field.
£28.00 [ref: 56238]

Allan, C. Elizabeth Blackadder Prints.
1st. Ed. Pub. Lund Humphries. 2003 pp.128 with col. and b/w. illus. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
A superb collection of the artist’s work showing how her skill as a printmaker developed from 1950s onwards.
£49.50 [ref: 66815]

Allan, M. Darwin and His Flowers. The Key to Natural Selection.
1st. Ed. Pub. Faber. 1977 pp.318 with col. & b/w. photos. and b/w. illus. 8vo. Spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w a fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
What has never been pointed out about Darwin and the ‘Origin’ is that it was through his studies of flowers that he put his Natural Selection theory to the test. For the first time, in this work, the story is knowledgably and sensitively told by Mea Allan. She provides the reader with a profound and delightfully human picture of the man who ‘could not tell a daisy from a dandelion’ but who ended by teaching the botanists.
£7.50 [ref: 71277]