Coats, Alice M. The Treasury of Flowers.
1st. Ed. Pub. Phaidon Press Ltd. 1975 pp.30 plus 118 full page colour and b/w. plates. Thor. vg. hdbk. in vg. dw.
The object of this book is to bring to light some of the forgotten treasures of the small sized flower book, considering works like Curtis’s Botanical Magazine.
£15.00 [ref: 27457]

Codd, L.E. The South African Species of Kniphofia. Bothalia : Vol. 9, Parts 3 and 4.
1st. Ed. Pub. Botanical Research Institute, South Africa 1968 pp.363-513 with 27 col. plates plus b/w. photos. & dist. maps. Small 4to. Softback. Contents fine. Card covers nr. fine with initials to top corner of front cover.
A detailed and very well illustrated insight into the Red Hot Pokers of South Africa.
£19.50 [ref: 69506]

Cole, S. and Waller, M. Britain’s Orchids. A field guide to the orchids of Great Britain and Ireland.
1st. Ed. Pub. Princeton Univ. Press. 2020 pp.288 with col. photos, illus. & dist. maps. 8vo. Fine softback. In-print at £20.00.
Covering more than fifty species as well as hybrids and variants, this is an engaging, intuitive and in-depth identification guide to all the orchids of Britain and Ireland at all stages of development, from first emergence through to setting seed.
£10.00 [ref: 69518]

Colebourn, P. Hampshire’s Countryside Heritage. 2 : Ancient Woodland.
1st. Ed. Pub. Hampshire County Council. 1983 pp.74 with colour photos. and b/w. drawings. 4to. Small address label to front cover. Nr. fine softback.
£10.00 [ref: 62996]

Collett, Col. Sir Henry. Flora Simlensis. A handbook of the flowering plants of Simla and the neighbourhood.
2nd. Imp. Pub. Thacker, Spink and Co. 1921 pp.lxviii, 652 with 200 illustrations in the text and fold-out map. 8vo. Ownership insc. in pencil to title page and bookplate to front pastedown. Pencil annotations to map. Light spotting to ends o/w. a fine hardback in publisher’s green cloth with gilt lettering.
£23.00 [ref: 65879]

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Colston, A. & Perring, F. Insects, Plants and Set-Aside.
Pub. BSBI. 1995 pp.vii, 55 with a number of figs. Royal 8vo. Spine lightly sunned, o/w. vg. softback.
£10.00 [ref: 33297]

Comber, J.B. Orchids of Java.
1st. Ed. Pub. Bentham-Moxon Trust/RBG Kew. 1990 pp.407 with col. photos. throughout. 4to. Small number of tiny spots to top-edge of text block o/w. a fine hardback in fine dw.
This volume contains an account of all the known orchids to be found wild in this most important island of Indonesia. Altogether 130 genera are listed, and a total of 731 species described.
£28.00 [ref: 64817]

Commonwealth Forestry Bureau. Forestry Abstracts. Vol. 22 No. 3. Compiled from World Literature.
Pub. C.A.B. 1961 pp.345-497 plus 8 page Author Index. 8vo. Thor. vg. softback.
Includes a review article entitled “A Summary of Information on the Control of Loranthaceae in Forestry”.
£6.00 [ref: 58600]

Compiled by the Living Collections Department. The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Inventory of Living Collections 1996.
Pub. Harvard College. 1996 pp.vi, 159 with plans of the arboretum and illustrated with line drawings. 4to. Near fine softback, in very lightly marked covers.
An alphabetical list by genus, species, infraspecific taxon, and cultivar name being an inventory of the living collections of the The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University as it stood in 1996.
£30.00 [ref: 50140]

Conly, G. & M. New Zealand Pohutukawa.
1st. Ed. Pub. Grantham House. 1988 pp.88 with col. illus. Small 4to. Fine hardback with very gently sunned spine.
‘For many generations, Maori and Pakeha have loved and honoured the scarlet blossoms of the pohutukawa, the Christmsd tree of Aotearoa. Of all this country’s great native trees, it is perhaps the best known and the most fascinating.’
£12.00 [ref: 67460]