Coppins, B.J. Checklist of Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland.
Pub. British Lichen Society. 2002 pp.vii, 87. 4to. Minor spots to fore-edge of text block o/w. a fine softback.
Includes all validly published taxa recognized as occuring in the British Isles. Aims to provide an updated list to that in the Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland (Purvis et al.) in preparation of a revised edition of that standard work.
£6.00 [ref: 67508]
Coppins, B.J. Checklist of Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland.
Pub. British Lichen Society. 2002 pp.vii, 87. 4to. Fine softback from the collection of Ted Blackwell, highly regarded Fungus Recorder for Herefordshire, with his informed annotations and corrections to text. Contained in a plastic folder with, loosely inserted, an obituary of Tom Chester and an article from the April 2008 issue of British Wildlife on Goldeneye Teloschistes chrysophthalmus.
Includes all validly published taxa recognized as occuring in the British Isles. Aims to provide an updated list to that in the Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland (Purvis et al.) in preparation of a revised edition of that standard work.
£6.00 [ref: 72433]
Correll, D.S. Native Orchids of North America, North of Mexico.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Stanford Univ. Press. 1978 pp.xv, 399 with 147 b/w. full-page illus. Large 8vo. Spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Treats 200 species and varieties of orchids native to the United States and Canada.
£15.00 [ref: 22860]
Correvon, H. Nos Arbres.
1st. Ed. Pub. Librairie Horticole. 1906 pp.vii, 305 with b/w. photos. Small 4to. Softback. Contents nr. fine. In original paper wrappers in thor. vg. condition.
The three major parts of this work consider historical french trees, forests and reforestation and then details the trees found in woods, parks and avenues.
£20.00 [ref: 61263]
Correvon, H. and Robert, P. The Alpine Flora. Translated into English and Enlarged by E.W. Clayforth.
Pub. Atar. Corraterie. nd. pp.436 with colour plates. Scattered light foxing to prelims and first few pages of text, previous owner’s bookplate to front paste-down o/w. contents clean. Boards lightly marked in places. Overall a near. vg. copy.
£10.00 [ref: 46240]
Cottrell Watson, H. Topographical Botany. Being local and personal Records towards shewing the Distribution of British Plants traced through the 112 Counties and Vice-Counties of England, Wales and Scotland.
2nd. Corr. & Enl. Ed. Pub. Quaritch. 1883 pp.xlvii, 612 with colour fold-out map. Original green cloth boards a little bumped & a little foxing in some places. New end papers. Overall vg.
£30.00 [ref: 30110]
Coutts, M.P. (Ed.). Decline in Sitka Spruce on the South Wales Coalfield.
1st. Ed. Pub. Forestry Commission. 1995 pp.viii, 121 with b/w. text figs. 4to. Fine softback.
£25.00 [ref: 50466]
Cowen, D.V. Flowering Trees and Shrubs in India.
2nd. Rev. Ed. Pub. Thacker & Co. 1952 pp.xvi, 142 with colour and b/w. illus. 4to. Faint scattered foxing o/w., a thor. vg. hardback in good dw.
£15.00 [ref: 57245]
Cowles, F. An Artist’s Journey.
1st. Ed. Pub. Collins. 1988 pp.128 with 48 col. plates. 4to. Fine hardback fine dw. From the library of Prof. Grenville (Gren) Lucas OBE, much loved botanist and conservationist with an inscription to the half-title, ‘For Gren Lucas, with warm thoughts and admiration, Fleur Cowles’.
A collection of Fleur Cowles’s idiosyncratic paintings together with a series of brief essays on the many artists who have inspired her as a painter and collector.
£20.00 [ref: 67935]
Cowley, J. The Genus Roscoea.
1st. Ed. Pub. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2007 pp.198 with col. photos. & illus., line drawings and dist. maps. Large 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw.
Native to the Himalayas, Burma and China, Roscoeas are orchid-like hardy gingers and one of the outstanding gems of the plant world. This account of the genus provides detailed botanical descriptions and historical information for each of the 20 known species.
£40.00 [ref: 71853]