Nimis, P.L. (Ed.). Contributions towards a checklist of Mediterranean Lichens. Bocconea - 6.
1st. Ed. Pub. Herbarium Mediterraneum Panormitanum. 1996 pp.294 with b/w. figs. 8vo. Repaired surface graze to rear cover o/w. a fine softback.
Contents include: Catalogue of lichenized and lichenicolous fungi of Morocco; Checkist of Tunisian lichens; Checklist of the lichens of Israel; Preliminary catalogue of lichenized and lichenicolous fungi of Mediterranean Turkey and a Checklist of Ukranian lichens.
£30.00 [ref: 67520]

Nisbet, J. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for Landowners, Land Agents, and Foresters.
New Ed. Pub. William Blackwood & Sons. 1905 Two volume set with b/w. illus. and figs. 8vo. Ex-Gloucester Public Library. Ffep. of Vol. 2 removed, o/w. contents fine. More recently bound in cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine all in nr. fine condition.
‘Although based on the sixth edition of The Forester (1894), the book[s] now published is in reality a new work, in which is incorporated, in a condensed and improved form, the essence of all the other books I have written on Forestry....together with much original matter dealing with conditions in the United Kingdom’.
£20.00 [ref: 61389]

Noltie, H. J. Indian Botanical Drawings. 1793-1868. From the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG. Edinburgh. 1999 pp.100 with col. & b/w. illus. 4to. Fine softback in fine dw. Out of print.
The links between the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and India go back for two centuries. Medics who studied botany in the Garden as part of their training laid the foundations of our knowledge of the Indian flora. This study entailed the making of dried herbarium specimens and writing plant descriptions. The botanists also commissioned Indian artists to make paintings of the plants to supplement the specimens and written descriptions. Much of this material was sent back to Britain and a selection of 62 of these spectacular illustrations was conserved and exhibited in Inverleith House in 1998, as part of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of Indian Independence.
£32.50 [ref: 67453]

Noltie, H. J. The Dapuri Drawings. Alexander Gibson & The Bombay Botanic Gardens.
Pub. Antique Collectors’ Club. 2002 pp.240 with colour illus. Royal 4to. A fine hdbk. in fine dw.
£25.00 [ref: 49421]

Noltie, H.J. Botanical Art from India. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Collection.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG Edinburgh. 2017 pp.127 with 86 col. & b/w. plates. Large 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. A beautifully produced book.
The links between the RBG Edinburgh and India go back for more than 250 years; surgeons who studied botany at the Garden as part of their medical studies laid the foundation of western knowledge of the Indian flora. This book tells the story of these collections through the reproduction of a selection of drawings that are both scientifically accurate and stunningly beautiful.
£20.00 [ref: 68859]

Noltie, H.J. Indian Forester, Scottish Laird. The Botanical Lives of Hugh Cleghorn of Stravithie.
1st. Ed. RBG. Edniburgh. 2016 pp.xii, 324 with b/w. photos. & illus. 8vo. Fine hardback.
Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn (1820–1895) was one of the many remarkable Scottish surgeons who worked for the East India Company, but who used an official posting as a base for research upon India's rich flora, and recording it visually in drawings made by Indian artists. His particular interest was in useful plants, which led to the major work in the field of forest conservancy for which he is best remembered.
£22.00 [ref: 71846]

Noltie, H.J. Lilian Snelling: The rhododendron and primula drawings.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG. Edinburgh. 2020 pp.104 with col. and b/w. illus. and b/w. photos. Landscape 4to. Fine softback.
A beautifully illustrated book of the work of Lilian Snelling, a woman regarded as the most important British botanical artist of her time. From 1915 to 1921, Snelling worked at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. This book tells her story and reproduces her drawings and paintings.
£7.50 [ref: 66777]

Noltie, H.J. Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah and Govindoo. Vol.1. - The Life and Work of Robert Wight, Vol.2. - Botanical Drawings by Rungiah & Govindoo: The Wight Collection. and Vol.3. - Journeys in Search of Robert Wight.
Pub. R.B.G. Edinburgh. 2007 Three volume set with b/w., colour and other figs. 4to. Softback. All three volumes are in fine condition. In a slipcase which is also in fine condition.
This trilogy forms the second in a series of illustrated works devoted to collections of botanical drawings made by Indian artists for Scottish surgeon-botanists, held in the library of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. In the central volume are reproduced some 200 of the drawings commissioned between 1826 and 1853 by Robert Wight (1796-1872) from the artists Rungiah and Govindoo. The first volume documents Wight's life and work as an East India Company surgeon and his major contributions to taxonomy and economic botany. The third volume is a travelogue, describing the author's journeys in search of Wight in Britain and India.
£37.50 [ref: 71860]

Noltie, H.J. Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah and Govindoo. Vol.1. - The Life and Work of Robert Wight, Vol.2. - Botanical Drawings by Rungiah & Govindoo: The Wight Collection. and Vol.3. - Journeys in Search of Robert Wight.
Pub. R.B.G. Edinburgh. 2007 Three volume set with b/w., colour and other figs. All three volumes are softbacks in fine condition with very gently sunned spines. In a slipcase in fine condition.
This trilogy forms the second in a series of illustrated works devoted to collections of botanical drawings made by Indian artists for Scottish surgeon-botanists, held in the library of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. In the central volume are reproduced some 200 of the drawings commissioned between 1826 and 1853 by Robert Wight (1796-1872) from the artists Rungiah and Govindoo. The first volume documents Wight's life and work as an East India Company surgeon and his major contributions to taxonomy and economic botany. The third volume is a travelogue, describing the author's journeys in search of Wight in Britain and India.
£37.50 [ref: 68868]

Noltie, H.J. The Cleghorn Collection. South Indian Botanical Drawings 1845 to 1860.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG Edinburgh. 2016 pp.vii, 176 superbly illustrated with col. & b/w. illus. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback with very gently sunned spine.
Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn (1820–1895) was a Madras-born Scottish physician, botanist, forester and land owner. Sometimes known as the father of scientific forestry in India. More than 200 of the drawings from the Cleghorn Collection are reproduced here, in colour, for the first time. These include drawings from nature, copies based on European prints, and Nature Prints made from herbarium specimens. They are the work of several South Indian artists and of pupils of the pioneering Madras School of Art.
£45.00 [ref: 67934]