Exell, A.W. Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of S.Tome (with Principe and Annobon). [With the] Supplement to the Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of S. Tome (with Principe and Annobon).
1st. Ed. Pub. BM(NH). 1944-56 Two volumes with some line drawings. 4to. Hardback and softback respectively as published. Ownership insc. to ffeps. Spines gently sunned o/w. fine condition.
£50.00 [ref: 66054]

Exell, A.W. Supplement to the Catalogue of Vascular Plants of S. Tome (with Principe and Annobon).
Pub. British Museum. 1956 pp.[vi], 58 with three figures. Sm. 4to. Softback. Nr. fine.
£18.00 [ref: 60875]

Fahy, E. Metropolitan Flowers.
1st. Ed. Pub. Met. Museum of Art. 1982 pp.111 with col. illus. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. with very gently sunned spine.
A marvellous selection of flower paintings from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
£8.50 [ref: 68624]

Faideau, F. La Botanique Amusante. Recreations Scientifiques En Plein Air Et Dans L’Appartement.
Pub. La Librairie Illustree. [c.1900] pp.379 with b/w. illus. throughout. 8vo. Hardback. TEG. Contents fine. Half leather over marbled boards with matching end-papers in fine condition.
Describes a series of experiments to demonstrate the different properties of plants.
£75.00 [ref: 61285]

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Fairchild, David. Exploring for Plants. From the notes of the Allison Vincent Armour Expeditions for the United States Department of Agriculture, 1925, 1926 and 1927.
1st. Ed. Pub. Macmillan, New York. 1930 pp.xx, [ii], 591 with b/w. photo. frontis., and b/w. photographs throughout. 8vo. Hardback. With a handwritten letter (dated Feb. 13th 1931) and a further handwritten note to Dr. A.J. Brooks, both from David Fairchild (on his headed paper) to the ffeps. Pages 463 to 468 neatly reattached, we presume by Brooks. Contents exceptionally clean and fine. Original green cloth boards with gilt lettering nr. fine. A wonderful, unique copy.
David Fairchild (1869-1954) is one of the most famous plant hunters in history and was responsible for the introduction of around 200,000 plants and varieties of crops into the USA. His legacy also lives on in the form of the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami. Dr. A.J. Brooks was Director of Agriculture at Cape St. Mary, The Gambia. In the handwritten letter Fairchild warmly thanks Brooks for helping ‘transplant from the Gambia to America some most interesting trees, vines and forage crop plants and the Borassus Palm.’. Fairchild visited Brooks at Cape St. Mary, with Fairchild being very impressed with Brooks’ garden which he said was very much like his own plant introduction gardens. This and their joint travels in the Gambia are elaborated on between p.461 to p. 475 in ‘Exploring for Plants’. In the handwritten note to Brooks, Fairchild lists 8 plants and trees that ‘are growing now here in South Florida’. Five of these eight specimens are also discussed within the same part of the book.
£475.00 [ref: 65008]

Falk, Steven J. Warwickshire’s Wildflowers. The wildflowers, shrubs & trees of historic Warwickshire.
1st. Ed. Pub. Brewin Books. 2009 pp.viii, 344 with colour photos. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Provides a fully updated checklist of Warwickshire’s 1,778 native and naturalised plants.
£15.00 [ref: 62966]

Farjon, A. World Checklist and Bibliography of Conifers.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG Kew. 1998 pp.298 with line drawings. 4to. Nr. fine softback.
A checklist of families, genera, species and intraspecific taxa with synonymy, indication of distribution, ecology (for families and genera only) and conservation status (species and lower ranks), of the conifers of the world.
£20.00 [ref: 70757]

Farjon, Aljos. Ancient Oaks in the English Landscape.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG, Kew. 2017 pp.348 with 190 colour photographs, colour & b/w. illus., and tables. 4to. Fine hardback. Loosely inserted is an article from The Times (2018) reporting on the fate of the 1,000 year old Buttington Oak on Offa’s Dyke.
England has more ancient native oak trees than the rest of Europe combined. In this book Farjon combines history with science and tells the story of how ancient oaks have shaped the English landscape over the past 1,000 years.
£25.00 [ref: 65791]

Farmer, R.E. Seed Ecophysiology of Temperate and Boreal Zone Forest Trees.
1st. Ed. Pub. St. Lucie Press. 1997 pp.xiii, 253 with b/w. figs. within text. Small 4to. Light spotting to top-edge of text block, o/w. a fine hardback.
Written for the student of North American trees interested in the importance of seed production, dispersal and germination, with a focus on seed function and natural regeneration of forests.
£35.00 [ref: 60917]

Farrer, R. Alpine and Bog-Plants.
1st. Ed. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1908 pp.xii, 288. Two letters from previous owner tipped onto front paste down and fep. Overall a vg. to fine copy.
£40.00 [ref: 43053]