Bentham, G. & Mueller, F. Flora Australiensis : A Description of the Plants of the Australian Territory.
1st. Ed. Pub. Lovell Reeve. 1863-1878 Seven volume set. 8vo. Hardbacks. Ex-Oxford University Lib. Some spotting to title pages and indices; small, neat, library stamps to fore-edges of text blocks o/w. contents fine. Bound in more recent green buckram just very gently sunned in places o/w. in fine condition. A pleasing set of the uncommon first edition.
George Bentham's seven volume Flora Australiensis (1863–1879) was the first continental Flora, and for over a century was the only flora treating the whole of Australia. The work was produced with the “assistance” of Ferdinand Mueller, later von Mueller, the Government Botanist of Victoria from 1853, who loaned his collection, group by group, to Kew, enabling Bentham to compare the specimens with those in British and European herbaria.
£495.00 [ref: 37050]

Bentham, G. et Hooker, J.D. Genera Plantarum. Ad Exemplaria Imprimis in Herbariis Kewensibus Servata Definita. Voluminis Secundi. Pars II. Sistens Dicotyledonum Gamopetalarum Ordines XXXIX, Stylidieas-Plantagineas.
1st. Ed. Pub. Reeve & Co. 1876 pp.viii, 746. 8vo. Hardback. Contents nr. fine. Original cloth boards in thor. vg. / nr. fine condition.
£20.00 [ref: 63022]

Bentham, G. et Hooker, J.D. Genera Plantarum. Ad Exemplaria Imprimis in Herbariis Kewensibus Servata Definita. Voluminis Tertii. Pars I. Sistens Dicotyledonum Monochlamydearum Ordines XXXVI. Nyctagineas-Ceratophylleas et Gymnospermearum Ordines III. Gnetaceas-Cycadaceas.
1st. Ed. Pub. Reeve & Co. 1876 pp.vii, 459. 8vo. Hardback. Contents nr. fine. Original cloth boards in thor. vg. condition.
£20.00 [ref: 63023]

Bentham, George. Revision of the Suborder Mimoseae. The Transactions of The Linnean Society of London Volume XXX. Part the Third.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Linnean Society. 1875 pp.335-669 with five b/w. plates to the rear. 4to. Hardback. From the library of botanist Roger Polhill with his bookplate to front pastedown. Contents fine. More recent black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in fine condition.
£30.00 [ref: 65423]

Beretta, M. and Tosi, A. (Eds.). Linnaeus in Italy. The Spread of a Revolution in Science.
1st. Ed. Pub. Watson Publishing. 2007 pp.xxiii, 340 with b/w. figs. Large 8vo. Signature. Light spotting to text block edges o/w. fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
The essays collected in this book illustrate how the works of a devotedly Protestant scientist gradually conquered Italy, a country that was at least in appearance devoutly Catholic.
£95.00 [ref: 65477]

Berglund, K. Jag tänker på Linné. Han som såg allt. [I Think of Linnaeus. The Man Who Saw Everything].
1st. Ed. Pub. Albert Bonnier. 2007 pp.407 with col. & b/w. photos. & illus. Swedish text. Large 8vo. Minor surface abrasions to spine, small tear to corner of half-title o/w. a fine hardback.
Traces the life and work of Linnaeus with period illustrations and contemporary photographs.
£12.50 [ref: 70820]

Berkeley, Rev. M.J. Handbook of British Mosses. Comprising all that are known to be natives of the British Isles.
1st. Ed. Pub. Lovell Reeve & Co. 1863 pp.xxxvi, 324 with 23 hand-coloured plates, 1 b/w. plate (all with letterpress) plus 16-page Reeve catalogue (not dated). 8vo. Hardback. Neat inscription. Very minor spotting at ends, o/w. contents fine. Original green cloth binding, spine expertly relaid (so well undertaken it is barely noticable), all in excellent, nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy indeed.
£100.00 [ref: 58667]

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Berry, Andre Q. et al. (Eds.). Fenn’s and Whixall Mosses.
1st. Ed. Pub. Clwyd County Council. 1996 pp.xiv, 208 with col. photos., b/w. illus.; folding map in rear pocket. Large 8vo. Pages 4 & 5 blank with photocopied versions loosely inserted. Near fine softback with sunned spine. An illustrated, fold-out, English Nature guide to Fenn’s Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses National Nature Reserve (1996) and an article from Shropshire Wildlife about the Reserve (1991) loosely inserted.
As Britain’s third largest and southernmost lowland raised mire, with a documented history of peat extraction extending over at least four hundred years, the Fenn’s and Whixall Mosses complex is an important part of Britain’s ecological and cultural heritage.
£22.00 [ref: 67053]

Besler, Basilius. The Book of Plants. The Complete Plates.
Pub. Taschen. 2007 pp.441 with colour plate reproductions throughout. Large 4to. Minor spotting to top-edge of text block o/w. a fine hardback in thor. vg. dw. A lovely facsimile of Basilius Besler’s masterpiece.
A magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, Eichstatt, the original Book of Plants is in a class of its own when it comes to the variety and range of flowers engraved. Working under Basilius Besler, a team of at least ten engravers worked on this massive project, translating in situ and specimen drawings faithfully to copper plates. Nearly four hundred years old, the book survived though the gardens did not; they were destroyed by invading Swedish troops in 1634. However, in 1998 a reconstruction of the original garden opened to the public in Eichstatt.
£45.00 [ref: 71429]

Bevis, J. (et al). Flora of the Isle of Wight.
1st. Ed. Pub. Isle of Wight Nat. Hist. and Arch. Soc. 1978 pp.114 with 2 maps. 8vo. Softback. Ex-Lib. Contents fine in vg. softcovers.
£5.00 [ref: 68274]