Farrer, R. The Rainbow Bridge.
1st. Ed. 3rd. Imp. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1926 pp.383 with 16 b/w. photos. & illus. and folding map plus 16-page publisher’s catalogue. Neat early insc. to ffep. Light spotting to fore-edges of text block and to ends o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards thor. vg.
‘This volume contains the continuation and completion of Mr. Farrer’s fascinating account (begun in ‘On the Eaves of the World) of his adventurous journey in Western China in search of new species of Alpine plants.’
£12.00 [ref: 40295]

Farrer, R. The Rock Garden.
Pub. Nelson, Jack. nd pp.xi, 118. VG. Showing very light wear at spine ends.
£20.00 [ref: 43050]

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Farrer, Reginald. Among the Hills. A Book of Joy in High Places.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Swarthmore Press.(Headley Bros.). 1927 pp.326 with col. & b/w. plates and one folding b/w. map. 8vo. Hardback. Charming signatures (one dated Xmas 1944) to front paste down & ffep. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block and to ends o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards with gilt lettering vg. plus.
Highly respected plant collector Reginald Farrer is probably best known for his book 'My Rock Garden'. This book is an illustrated volume of Farrer's six-week excursion climbing and studying flora in the Grian, Cottian, and Maritime Alps.
£28.00 [ref: 72234]

Farrer, Reginald. In Old Ceylon.
1st. Ed. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1908 pp.ix, 351 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Hardback. Charming inscription, dated Christmas 1908, to front paste down. Some light spotting internally o/w. very clean indeed and fine. Original cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy.
Highly respected plant collector Reginald Farrer is probably best known for his book 'My Rock Garden'. In this work he provides a vivid first hand account of the history, topography, society, and climate of Ceylon (as Sri Lanka was then known).
£150.00 [ref: 72242]

Farrer, Reginald. The Sundered Streams. The History of a Memory that had no Full-stops.
1st. Ed. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1907 pp.399 plus 16-page publisher’s adverts, dated January 1907. 8vo. Hardback. Light foxing to paste-down and title, o/w. contents in fine condition. Some spine lean. Original black cloth boards, with gilt lettering showing some light wear to spine, lightly shelf rubbed, o/w. in vg. condition. Scarce.
Reginald Farrer was a plant hunter & botanist, traveller, flower painter and author. Alongside the large number of books he had published recounting his travels, plant collecting and gardening, he was also the published author of several novels which upon their review, received much praise.
£250.00 [ref: 43044]

Farrer, Reginald. The Ways of Rebellion.
1st. Ed. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1908 pp.319 plus 2-page publisher’s adverts. 8vo. Hardback. Very minor amount of foxing, o/w. contents in fine condition. Neat inscription in pencil to ffep. Some spine lean. Original black cloth boards in thor. vg. condition. Scarce.
Reginald Farrer was a plant hunter & botanist, traveller, flower painter and author. Alongside the large number of books he had published recounting his travels, plant collecting and gardening, he was also the published author of several novels which upon their review, received much praise.
£150.00 [ref: 43046]

Fauconnet, G.P. Flower-Name Fancies. English Rhymes by Hampden Gordon.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Lane The Bodley Head. 1918 pp.63 with b/w. illus. Text in English and French. 4to. Hardback. A little spotting to top-edge of text block and to endpapers o/w. contents fine. Original decorated cloth binding in vg. plus condition.
Fanciful, visual puns by the French painter and theatre designer.
£50.00 [ref: 70089]

Faust, M.A. & Gulledge, R.A. Identifying Harmful Marine Dinoflegellates.
1st. Ed. Pub. Dept. of Systematic Biology-Botany, Nat. Mus. of Nat. Hist. 2002 pp.144 with 48 b/w. plates.Large 8vo. Fine softback.
A taxonomic identification guide of 48 harmful marine dinoflagellate species present in the world’s oceans. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium Volume 42.
£20.00 [ref: 67552]

Feinbrun-Dothan, Naomi. Flora Palaestina. Part Three. Ericaceae to Compositae. Text and Plates.
1st. Ed. Pub. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. 1977 - 1978 Two volumes with 757 b/w. plates of fine botanical line drawings & 2 maps. Large 8vo. Ex-British Natural History Museum. Nr. fine hardbacks.
£50.00 [ref: 68407]

Ferrao, C. & Soares, J.P.M. (Eds.). Theatrum Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae (Theatre of the Natural Things of Brazil). Brasil - Holandes. Dutch - Brazil.
1st Ed. thus Pub. Editora Index. 1993 Two vol. set with colour plates throughout. 8vo. Text in English and Portuguese. Gently sunned spines o/w. fine hardbacks in fine slipcase. From the library of Prof. Grenville (Gren) Lucas OBE, much loved botanist and conservationist with, loosely inserted, an invitation from the Brazilian Ambassor & Kew Gardens to a reception to launch ‘Theatrum Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae’ held at Kew Gardens in June 1994.
A very pleasing reprint of the four volumes of ‘Theatrum Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae’ originally published in 1660 which depcited local people, mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, marine life, plants and fruit. Beautifully illustrated with most paintings by the Dutch artist Albert Eckhout.
£48.00 [ref: 67921]