Parkinson, D. and Waid, J.S. (Eds.). The Ecology of Soil Fungi. An International Symposium.
Pub. Liverpool Uni. 1960 pp.xi, 324 with figs. and tables. Some scattered foxing to fore-edges. In boards which are lightly marked in places. A vg. copy.
£15.00 [ref: 42787]

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Parris, B.S., & Beaman, R.S. and J.H.. The Plants of Mount Kinabalu. 1. Ferns and Fern Allies.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG Kew. 1992 pp.165 with col. frontis. and four col. plates. Large 8vo. Fine softback. From the library of Prof. Grenville (Gren) Lucas OBE, much loved botanist and conservationist with inscription from one of the authors: ‘To Gren Lucas, with great appreciation for making this possible, John Beaman 5th Feb. 1992’. Gren is thanked formally in the Acknowledgements.
Mount Kinabalu, in Borneo, has an extremely rich and diverse flora. This volume lists over 600 species of ferns and fern allies, with notes on ecology and altitudinal range, and a list of material examined.
£22.50 [ref: 66959]

Parsons, W.T. & Cuthbertson, E.G. Noxious Weeds of Australia.
1st. Ed. Pub. Inkata Press. 1992 pp.xii, 692 with colour photos. Small 4to. A vg. hardback in good dw., with some loss and repair.
A comprehensive description for each of the plants declared as a noxious weed, proclaimed plant or pest plant under legislation anywhere in Australia.
£70.00 [ref: 58905]

Patnaik, N. The Garden of Life. An Introduction to the Healing Plants of India.
1st. Ed. Pub. Aquarian 1993 pp.195 with colour illus., throughout. Small 4to. Fine softback, gently sunned on spine. Out-of-print.
A beautifully illustrated and practical guide to the sacred, medicinal, culinary or aromatic use of over sixty Indian plants, both familiar and exotic.
£4.00 [ref: 57299]

Paton, J.A. & Holyoak, D.T. The Bryophyte Flora of the Isles of Scilly.
1st. Ed. Pub. ERCCIS. 2005 pp.iv, 25 with 8 colour images. Large 4to. Softback. VG. plus. Scarce.
£30.00 [ref: 52201]

Patrick, Rev. W. A Popular Description of the Indigenous Plants of Lanarkshire, with An Introduction to Botany, and a Glossary of of Botanical Terms.
1st. Ed. Pub. Daniel Lizars. 1831 pp.xxxiv, 399. Hardback. Small 8vo. Occ. spotting and marking o/w. contents fine. Half-calf and marbled boards showing some light rubbing to extremities o/w. fine.
£65.00 [ref: 68306]

Paul, A.M. (Ed.). The Bulletin of the British Pteridological Society Volume 4, No. 1 to No. 6.
1st. Ed. Pub. British Pteridological Society. 1990-1995 Six parts (complete volume) with b/w. photos. 8vo. Fine softbacks.
The history of this journal is such that in 1973, ‘A more permanent format was felt to be appropriate and the BPS Bulletin was launched “to serve chiefly the non-scientific membership, and to supply all information of interest to our members.”’ (taken from the BPS website).
£10.00 [ref: 65955]

Pavord, A. The Tulip.
1st. Pub.Bloomsbury. 1999 pp. 439 with many plates. One large slit to front of dw. o/w. vg.
This is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has made men mad. Greed, desire, anguish, devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip from a wild flower of the Asian steppes to the world wide phenomenon it is today.
£18.00 [ref: 37983]

Peace, T.R. Pathology of Trees and Shrubs. With special reference to Britain.
1st. Ed. Pub. Oxford. 1962 pp.xx, 723 with 16 b/w. plates and 103 text figs. Large 8vo. Nr. fine hardback. A super copy.
Of all the published texts on the diagnosis of disease in trees and shrubs none has stood the test of time better than T.R. Peace's classic descriptive work. Remains to this day the most comprehensive survey of tree diseases. It remains one of the most comprehensive surveys of tree diseases, covering causal agents such as fungi, bacteria, viruses, and environmental deficiencies.
£32.50 [ref: 53379]

Peacock, M. The Paper Garden. Mrs. Delany {Begins Her Life’s Work} at 72.
1st. UK. Ed. Pub. Bloomsbury. 2011 pp.397 with col. illus. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw. with a hint of sunning to spine.
After an eventful life in Georgian society Mrs. Delany, at the age of 72, picked up a pair of scissors and created a new art form: the mixed media collage and in so doing, created 985 botanically correct cut-paper flowers which are now housed in the British Museum.
£20.00 [ref: 67434]