Macmillan, D. Elizabeth Blackadder.
1st. Ed. Pub. Scolar Press. 1999 pp.128 with col. and b/w. illus. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
A beautifully illustrated book exploring the development of the artist’s work as a painter and printmaker.
£30.00 [ref: 66816]

Macnair, Janet. Plants of Montgomeryshire. The Field Records.
1st. Ed. Pub. Montgomeryshire Field Society & North Wales Naturalists’ Trust, 1977 pp.82 with frontis. portrait of the author, line drawings and folding map. 8vo. Softback. Address label. Nr. fine.
Janet Macnair was a devoted amateur botanist whose dedication created this record of the plants of Mongomeryshire over a period of more than thirty years. She also contributed to the Atlas of the British flora.
£5.00 [ref: 63180]

Macqueen Cowan, Dr. J. (Ed.). The Journeys and and Plant Introductions of George Forrest.
1st. Ed. Pub. Oxford Univ. Press. 1952 pp.xi, 252 with col. & b/w. plates and col. folding map. 8vo. Light spotting to fore-edges of text block and to ends, o/w. a fine hardback in good to vg. dw.
George Forrest (1873–1932) was a Scottish botanist, who became one of the first western explorers of China's then remote southwestern province of Yunnan, generally regarded as the most biodiverse province in the country. Altogether, Forrest made seven trips to Yunnan, collecting samples and seeds for the Herbarium and for avid collectors willing to pay for new species to add to their collections. In total, he brought back perhaps 31,000 plant specimens.
£27.50 [ref: 31503]

Macvicar, Symers M. [and Cuthbert, Nicholas Martin]. A Key to British Hepaticae.
Handwritten transcript of original. early 1900s pp.22. Small 4to. A handwritten transcription of Macvicar’s much respected ‘A Key to British Hepaticae’ which first appeared in the ‘Journal of Botany’ in 1901. Contents fine, bound in stiff card covers in nr. fine condition. Comes with an original copy of the fascinating (12-page) Associates’ Card for the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union (for 1932) which details who did what within the Union. 16mo. Softback in nr. fine condition.
We believe the transcription was undertaken by Nicholas Martin Cuthbert (1877-1952), a methodist preacher, polymath and conductor of the York Choral Society. The transcription then came into the possession of Herbert Stansfield (b.1860), choir master at York Minster (from 1893) and a member of the York and District Field Naturalists’ Society, then remained in the family until we purchased it.
£85.00 [ref: 59581]

Maeterlinck, M. Old-Fashioned Flowers and other Open-Air Essays.
1st. Ed. Pub. George Alllen. 1906 pp.vii, 115 with six col. plates. 8vo. Hardback. TEG. Very charming period bookplate of Ethel Dewhurst. Some spotting to text pages o/w. contents fine. Original quarter cloth boards with gilt lettering in good conditon, extremities rubbed and bumped, spine showing sunning.
Maurice Maeterlinck was a symbolist poet and esssayist who is famed for his essay on "The Intelligence of Flowers", and his "Life of the Bee". He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911.
£6.00 [ref: 70091]

Maggs, K. The Orchids of East Surrey and the Kent Border.
1st. Ed. Pub. North Downs Press. 1987 pp.64 with many b/w. line drawings & dist. maps. 8vo. Nr. fine softback.
A very useful and easily absorbed guide to identification of orchids in East Surrey and the Kent Border.
£10.00 [ref: 69503]

Mallory, C. and Aiken, S. Common Plants of Nunavut.
1st. Ed. Pub. Nunavut Dept. of Education. 2004 pp.200 with colour photos. throughout. 8vo. Softback. Bilingual with text in English and Inuktitut. Thor. vg.
Explore the fascinating world of Nunavut's varied plant life in this richly visual, informative book. Through photographs and a broad range of information including traditional knowledge about plant use compiled through interviews with Inuit elders readers will learn about the appearances, adaptations, life cycles, and habitats of the diverse array of plants that live in the North.
£20.00 [ref: 65170]

Mancoff, D.N. Flora Symbolica. Flowers in Pre-Raphaelite Art.
1st. Ed. Pub. Prestel. 2003 pp.96 with col. illus. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
An introduction to the work of the Pre-Raphaelites and their use of floral symbolism.
£20.00 [ref: 66319]

Mancoff, D.N. Sunflowers.
1st. Ed. Pub. Thames & Hudson. 2001 pp.112. Fully illustrated in col. and b/w. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. with a hint of sunning to the spine.
A survey of the chronology of the sunflower in art, amply demonstrating that its representation doesn’t begin and end with Van Gogh. The final chapter shows the continuing relevance of the flower for artists into the late twentieth century.
£4.50 [ref: 66303]

Mani, M.S. Plant Galls of India.
1st. Ed. Pub. Macmillan India. 1973 pp.ix, 354 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. Some spotting to ends o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards in thor. vg. condition.
The first compendium on the plant galls of the Indian region, the result of almost forty-five years of exploration and study.
£28.00 [ref: 65230]