de la Bedoyere, Charlotte Portrait of a Woodland. Biodiversity in 40 acres.
1st. Ed. Pub. Search Press. 2004 pp.175 with many fine coloured photographs. 4to. New hardback in new dw., just a little of-mint.
This book deals with one persons obsession with 40 acres of woodland and shows how biodiversity can be enhanced.
£15.00 [ref: 49135]

de Sampaio, A.J. Flora do Rio Cumina (E. do Para - Brasil). Resultados botanicos da Expedicao Rondon a Serra Tumuc-Humac en 1928.
Pub. Archivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. [c.1933] pp.206, [i] with 19 b/w. photos, 1 map and 3 illustrations. Small folio. Hardback. Occ. spotting o/w. contents fine. Bound in green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine in nr. fine condition. Scarce.
Alberto Jose de Sampaio was born in Campos, Brazil in January 1881. In 1912 he became Professor and Head of Botany at the National Museum, Brazil. In 1928, he was chosen as botanist for the expedition of Marshal Rondon to Serra Tumuc-Humuc resulting in the publication of this work.
£75.00 [ref: 67937]

de San Pio Aladren, M.P. (Ed.). Mutis. And the Royal Botanical Expedition of the Nuevo Reyno de Granada.
1st. Ed. Pub. Villegas Editores / Lunwerg Editores. 1992 Two vol. set with col. & b/w. illus. throughout both volumes. Small folio. Fine hardbacks in nr. fine slipcase.
The Royal Botanical Expedition to New Granada took place between 1783 and 1816 in the territories of New Granada, covering present-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Venezuela, Peru and northern Brazil and western Guyana. The expedition was headed by José Celestino Mutis, a Spanish priest, who was also a botanist, mathematician and teacher. Altogether Mutis led the expedition for over 25 years during which they explored some 8,000 km2. He developed a meticulous methodology that included harvesting of botanical samples in the field together with detailed descriptions, including data about the surrounding environment of each species and their medical or industrial uses.
£150.00 [ref: 67952]

de San Pio Aladren, M.P. and Sherwood, S. Old and New South American Botanical Art. The Mutis and Shirley Sherwood Collections.
1st. Ed. Pub. Real Jardin Botanico, Madrid. 2010 pp.175 with col. illus. throughout. 4to. Fine softback.
The catalogue of an exhibition which juxtaposed sixty-two 18th Century drawings of South American botanical specimens with a similar number of contemporary works from the Shirley Sherwood collection.
£50.00 [ref: 67932]

Dean, G. Flowering Legacy. The Biography of Pauline Dean.
1st. Ed. Pub. Botanical Publishing. 2009 pp.174 with col. illus. throughout. Large 8vo. Fine softback.
A biography of Pauline Dean, the botanical artist, winner of eight gold medals at the RHS.
£10.00 [ref: 66800]

Dean, Pauline. Portfolio of a Botanical Artist.
Pub. Botanical Publishing. 2004 pp.157 with many colour illus. Royal 4to. A fine hdbk. in illus. boards.
£25.00 [ref: 49419]

Dean, Pauline. Portfolio of a Botanical Artist.
1st. Ed. Pub. Botanical Publishing. 2004 pp.157 with 56 full-page col. plates. Royal 4to. Gently sunned spine o/w. a fine hardback.
Pauline Dean is a well established RHS Gold Medal Botanical Artist, having had her work published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine and The New Plantsman, and included in the books Treasures of the RHS and Shirley Sherwood's Contemporary Botanical Artists. This book outlines how her Botanic Art career progressed, and includes 56 full page colour reproductions of some of her paintings
£10.00 [ref: 68588]

DeLaurentis, D. and Holt, H.P. The Art of the Garden. Collecting Antique Botanical Prints.
1st. Ed. Pub. Schiffer Publishing. 2006 pp.288 with colour illus. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
A guide to both the history and development of print-making and a useful reference guide to collecting botanical prints.
£60.00 [ref: 66276]

Dennis, R.W.G. British Ascomycetes.
Rev. Ed. 2nd. Imp. Pub. J. Cramer. 1981 pp.40, [iv], xxvi, 585 with 31 b/w. figs. & 44 col. plates. Hardback. Occ. informed annotation to text, o/w. contents fine. Yellow cloth boards thor. vg.
Second impression wth Supplement containing additional species received at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, by the end of 1980.
£75.00 [ref: 72455]

Dennis, R.W.G. Fungi of the Hebrides.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG, Kew. 1986 pp.383. Large 8vo. Fine softback. From the library of Prof. Grenville (Gren) Lucas OBE, much loved botanist and conservationist and inscribed by the author on half-title page.
£55.00 [ref: 66694]