Ramsbottom, J. Edible Fungi. King Penguin No. 13.
1st. Ed. Pub. King Penguin. 1943 pp.35 with 16 colour plates and several text figs. 8vo. Fine hardback with decorative boards.
£25.00 [ref: 64976]

Ramsbottom, J. Poisonous Fungi. King Penguin No. 23
1st. Ed. Pub. King Penguin. 1945 pp.31 with 16 colour plates and text figs. 8vo. Signature, dated 1947, to ffep. Some light spotting to fore-edges of text block, ends and occ. internally o/w. contents fine. Decorated boards vg. plus showing some wear to top of spine.
King Penguin No. 23. A brief historical account of poisonous fungi.
£19.50 [ref: 71654]

Ramsbottom, John. A Handbook of the Larger British Fungi. Based on the Guide to Sowerby’s Models of British Fungi in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History) by Worthington George Smith.
6th. Rep. Pub. British Museum. 1961 pp.iv, 222 with 141 b/w. text figs. 8vo. Ex-Lib. Signatures to front endpapers. Fine hardback.
£5.00 [ref: 70832]

Raven, Charles. John Ray, Naturalist. His Life and Works.
Rep. Pub. Cambridge Univ. Press. 2009 pp.xix, 502 with portrait frontis. 8vo. Fine softback.
John Ray, the seventeenth-century naturalist had the deepest respect for intellectual integrity, honest exploration of nature, and the role of theology and scientific endeavour. This superb biography reassesses the pivotal contributions of this brilliant but undervalued scientist and examines Ray's profound influence on the development of science.
£30.00 [ref: 71850]

Rawle, E.J. Annals of the Ancient Royal Forest of Exmoor. Compiled chiefly from documents in the record office together with some account of the Forest Laws and Charters and Officers.
1st. Ed. Pub. Barnicott and Pearce. 1898 pp.xii, 163. Demi 4to. Scattered foxing to end-papers and a little to text also, o/w. contents fine. Original boards, showing rubbing on corners and edges, o/w. in vg. condition.
£70.00 [ref: 49789]

Ray, John and Linnaeus, Carl. Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum Editio Tertia 1724. [With] Carl Linnaeus- Flora Anglica 1754 & 1759.
Fac. Ed. Pub. Ray Soc. 1973 pp.xi, 90, 482, 111 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. with gently sunned spine.
For many years after its publication in 1690 John Ray’s Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum was the most consulted book about British Plants. It was the pocket companion of apothecaries, physicians and country gentlemen and naturalists. Linnaeus gained most of his knowledge of the British flora from the 3rd edition of Ray’s work.
£10.00 [ref: 67141]

Ray, John and Linnaeus, Carl. Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum Editio Tertia 1724. [With] Carl Linnaeus- Flora Anglica 1754 & 1759.
Fac. Ed. Pub. Ray Soc. 1973 pp.xi, 90, 482, 111 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Some spotting to top-edge of text block o/w. a fine hardback in fine dw., with very gently sunned spine.
For many years after its publication in 1690 John Ray’s Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum was the most consulted book about British Plants. It was the pocket companion of apothecaries, physicians and country gentlemen and naturalists. Linnaeus gained most of his knowledge of the British flora from the 3rd edition of Ray’s work.
£10.00 [ref: 71928]

Ray, John [with an introduction by William T Stearn]. Dictionariolum trilingue. Editio Prima 1675.
Facs. Ed. Pub. The Ray Society. 1981 p.23, [v], 91. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw., with gently sunned spine.
John Ray (1627-1705) was 'the supreme British Naturalist of the 17th century'. This three language dictionary (English, Latin and Greek) lists vocabulary under 32 subject headings including the names of birds, mammals, fish, insects, herbs, trees and shrubs, ailments, diseases, clothes, food and drink, domestic utensils, agricultural, carpentry and horticultural tools and rooms of houses.
£4.50 [ref: 71923]

Rayner, J.F. A Standard Catalogue of English Names of our Wild Flowers. To which are added The Ferns and their Allies.
1st. Ed. Pub. H.M. Gilbert. [1927] pp.51 plus index. 8vo. Nr. fine softback.
£12.50 [ref: 70835]

Rayner, M.C. & Neilson-Jones, W. Problems in Tree Nutrition.
1st. Ed. Pub.Faber & Faber. 1944 pp.184 with 27 plates. A vg. copy in sl. chipped dw.
This book is a record of researches undertaken to solve problems incidental to the raising of trees in an area in which even the least exacting of tree species failed to grow under ordinary cultural methods.
£10.00 [ref: 36510]