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Banks’ Florilegium. Sotheby’s. Banks’ Florilegium. British Museum (Natural History) Thursday 3rd March 1988.
1st. Ed. Pub. Sotheby’s. 1988 pp.30 with col. and b/w. illus. Small 4to. Fine softback. Importantly, loosely inserted is a copy of the hammer prices realised for each Lot with the currency exchange rates of the day (US Dollar, Deutschmark, French Franc, Yen, Lire and Swiss Franc).
Catalogue for the sale of 120 prints for the Benefit of the Banks Alecto Endeavour Fellowship.

£17.50 [ref: 66852]

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Banks’ Florilegium. Sotheby’s. Banks’ Florilegium. A Sale of One Hundred and Twenty Prints for the Benefit of the Banks Alecto Endeavour Fellowship.
1st. Ed. Pub. Sotheby’s. 1988 pp.30 with 12 col. plates. 4to. Nr. fine softback.
Auction catalogue which comes with the official Sotheby’s ‘Hammer Price’ sheet loosely inserted. Interestingly, the ‘Hammer Price’ sheet details both the price paid and who bought each lot.

£10.00 [ref: 69505]

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Banks’ Florilegium. Sotheby’s. Banks’ Florilegium. British Museum (Natural History) Thursday 3rd March 1988.
1st. Ed. Pub. Sotheby’s. 1988 pp.30 with col. and b/w. illus. Small 4to. Fine softback. Importantly, loosely inserted is a copy of the hammer prices realised for each Lot with the currency exchange rates of the day (US Dollar, Deutschmark, French Franc, Yen, Lire and Swiss Franc).
Catalogue for the sale of 120 prints for the Benefit of the Banks Alecto Endeavour Fellowship.

£17.50 [ref: 66851]

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The Ferns of Great Britain : Sowerby, John E. The Ferns of Great Britain : The descriptions, synonyms, &c. by Charles Johnson.
1st. Ed. Pub. by the Author. 1855 pp.87 with 49 fine part hand-coloured plates as published. 8vo. Neat signature to ffep. Rear internal hinge tender. Occ. spotting and light marking o/w. contents fine. Original blind tooled cloth boards with gilt lettering good to vg.
Preferred coloured issue. Sowerby was part of the notable Sowerby family, who spawned several generations of naturalists, illustrators, botanists, and zoologists.

£75.00 [ref: 42152]

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The Cryptogamic Flora of Leicestershire and Rutland. Sowter, F.A. The Cryptogamic Flora of Leicestershire and Rutland.
1st. Ed. Edgar Backus. 1941 pp.68. Large 8vo. Softback. Informed pencil notes and annotations to contents. Nr. fine softback. Unique copy. Scarce.
£15.00 [ref: 64967]

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Sparrow, Frederick K. Aquatic Phycomycetes. exclusive of the Saprolegniaceae and Pythium.
Uni. Michigan Press, 1943. Pp.xix,785 with numerous figs. Hinges split at front, loose at back. Text good.
£8.00 [ref: 21197]

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The Sense of Pleasure. Spike, J.T. The Sense of Pleasure. A Collection of Still-life Paintings.
1st. Ed. Pub. Skira. 2002 pp.196 with col. illus. throughout.4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
A collection of still-life paintings by some of the lesser known painters of the subject, many examined in close detail. The aim of the book is to illustrate some of the ways that still life paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries expressed the variety, abundance, nourishment, pleasures and mysteries of Nature.

£9.50 [ref: 68625]

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A Reunion of Trees. Spongberg, S.A. A Reunion of Trees. The Discovery of Exotic Plants and their Introduction into North American and European Landscapes.
1st. Ed. Pub. Harvard Univ. Press. 1990 pp.xiv, 270 with col. & b/w. photos. & illus. 4to. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Stephen Spongberg’s vividly written and lavishly illustrated account tells of intrepid and extraordinary explorers who travelled to the far corners of the globe and brought back to Europe and North America a wealth of exotic plant species.

£22.50 [ref: 45066]

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Ascomycetes Supplement, A to C. Spooner, B.M. et al. Ascomycetes Supplement, A to C.
Rep. Pub. The British Mycological Society 1980-1981 Three articles reprinted from the Transactions of the British Mycological Society, with b/w. line drawings. 8vo. Softback in fine condition.
The articles collected in this supplement are: 1. New Records and Species of British Microfungi. (B.M. Spooner 1981); 2. New and interesting Microfungi from the 1978 Exeter Foray. (D.L. Hawksworth and D.W. Minter 1980); 3. The Genus Morenoina in Great Britain. ( J. Pamela Ellis 1980).

£10.00 [ref: 59718]

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Orchids from the Botanical Register 1815-1847. Sprunger, S. (Ed.). Orchids from the Botanical Register 1815-1847. The Texts. The Illustrations.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Birkhauser. 1991 Two vol. set. with col. illus. Large 4to. Fine hardbacks; the illustration volume in dw., as published (with small, light coloured splash mark to bottom of spine, o/w. fine). Housed in vg. plus slipcase with light marking. A superb work. Out of print.
During its brief history, from 1815 to 1847, the Botanical Register was the authoritative botanical journal in England and under John Lindley’s editorship hundreds of new orchid species were introduced to horticulture in this country.

£40.00 [ref: 66831]

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