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]

Farrer, R. Among the Hills. A Book of Joy in High Places.
Pub. Swarthmore Press.(Headley Bros.). [1911] pp.326 with col. & b/w. tipped-in plates and one folding map. 8vo. Hardback. Neat signature (dated 1925) to ffep. Occ. very light spotting internally o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards with gilt lettering thor. vg.
Reginald John Farrer, was a traveller and plant collector. He published a number of books, although is best known for ‘My Rock Garden’. This is an illustrated volume of Farrer's six-week excursion climbing and studying flora in the Grian, Cottian, and Maritime Alps.
£40.00 [ref: 43041]

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Farrer, R. On the Eaves of the World. Vols. I & II.
1st. Ed. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1917 Two volume set with b/w. photographic plates and fold-out map. Collated and complete. 8vo. Hardbacks. Charming bookplate of Clarence Elliott to Vol. I. Some evidence of previous bookplates removal. A little spine lean. Contents fine. Original blue cloth boards with gilt lettering in vg. condition.
£125.00 [ref: 67118]

Farrer, R. Rainbow Bridge.
Facs. Ed. Pub. Cadogan Books. 1986 pp.383 with map at rear of text. Pages 205-208 have come loose from the book o/w. a vg. copy in sl. creased card covers.
£9.50 [ref: 45670]

Farrer, R. The Dolomites. King Laurin’s Garden.
Rep. Pub. Cadogan Books. 1985 pp. 207 with col. frontis. and one map at rear of text. 8vo. Small ink stamp to inside front cover, historic signs of splash to inside front cover and ffep. Gently sunned spine. Overall a vg. softback copy.
Reginald John Farrer (1880–1920), was a traveller and plant collector. In 1913 he published The Dolomites: King Laurin's Garden, which deals with plant hunting in the Italian Dolomites and at this time Farrer travelled widely in the mountains of Italy, France and Switzerland, walking and climbing with gardener friends, including fellow plantsman E.A. Bowles.
£4.00 [ref: 46119]

Farrer, R. The Dolomites.
Pub. Cadogan Books. 1985 pp. 207 with one map at rear of text. A vg. copy in card covers.
£12.00 [ref: 39151]

Farrer, R. The Rainbow Bridge.
1st. Ed. 3rd. Imp. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1926 pp.xi, 383 with fold-out map. 8vo. Hardback. Contents fine. Original blue cloth boards with gilt lettering in excellent, nr. fine, condition. A most pleasing copy.
Reginald John Farrer, was a traveller and plant collector. He published a number of books, although is best known for ‘My Rock Garden’. He travelled to Asia in search of a variety of plants, many of which he brought back to England and planted near his home village of Clapham, North Yorkshire.
£20.00 [ref: 43037]

Farrer, R. The Rainbow Bridge.
1st. Ed. 3rd. Imp. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1926 pp.xi, 383 with illustrations and map. 8vo. Hardback. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block, prelims. and occ. internally o/w. contents fine. Original blue cloth in nr. fine condition in good dw., chipped, with repair to verso. Very uncommon to find copies with dustwrappers.
‘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.’
£45.00 [ref: 67433]