Galbraith, D. A Field Guide to the Flora of South Georgia.
1st. Ed. Pub. South Georgia Heritage Trust. 2011 pp.72 with colour photos throughout. 8vo. New softback.
A handy photographic identification guide to the 26 native plants that inhabit the fragile ecosystem of South Georgia, together with information on the island, its habitats and botanical exploration. The most distinctive introduced plants are also covered, and the threats posed by such species are reviewed.
£17.95 [ref: 60703]

Gardner, M.F. (et al). Threatened Plants of Central and South Chile. Distribution, Conservation and Propagation.
1st. Eng. Ed. Univ. Austral de Chile/RBG, Edinburgh. 2006 pp.187 with col. photos. and dist. maps. Large 8vo. Ownership insc. in pencil to ffep. Fine softback. Just 500 copies printed.
The result of a three year intensive study by the RBG Edinburgh and the University of Valdivia of some of Chile's most threatened plant species. The major part of the book gives up to date information on the distribution, habitat, identification, conservation and propagation of 46 threatened species.
£9.00 [ref: 65875]

Garlick, C. Fruit & Flowers. An Introduction to Botany.
1st. Ed. Pub. C.W. Daniel. 1924 pp.406 with b/w. illus. througout. 8vo. Hardback. A little spotting to fore-edge of text block and to endpapers o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards good to vg. with some wear to top inch of spine.
A beautifully written and highly informative introduction to botany. Constance Garlick was a Teacher of Botany at University College School London and a leading member of the Hampstead Scientific Society.
£30.00 [ref: 71907]

Garver, T.H. Flora. Contemporary Artists and the World of Flowers.
1st. Ed. Pub. Univ. of Washington Press. 1995 pp.76 with col. illus. 4to. Fine softback.
A catalogue for an exhibition of late twentieth century American flower painting.
£12.00 [ref: 66308]

Gbehounou, G. Seed ecology of Striga hermonthica in the Republic of Benin. Host specificity and control potentials.
Pub. by the Author. 1998 pp.126 with b/w. dist. maps, figs., and tables. Large 8vo. Gently bumped to top corner, o/w., a fine softback.
Striga plants are root parasites which withdraw so much water from their hosts they induce drought symptoms, causing serious yield loss and even crop failure in those parts of the world where they are indigenous or endemic.
£15.00 [ref: 58915]

Gell, Paul and King, Ronald. Flowers from a Painter’s Garden. The watercolours of Paul Gell.
1st. Ed. Pub. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1983 pp.68 with col. illus. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. Title page signed by Paul Gell.
A collection of distinctive and decorative watercolours of the author’s garden flowers with accompanying botanical and historical notes. Paul Gell (1918-1996) was a painter of figurative and still life subjects, as well as some fine abstracts in the 1950s. He painted initially in oils, then favoured acrylic as the medium became popular in the 1960s and 1970s, and finally devoted much of his later work to the painting of flowers in watercolour.
£22.50 [ref: 68855]

Genaust, H. Etymologisches Worterbuch Der Botanischen Pflanzennamen. [Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names].
3rd. Rev. Ed. Pub. Nikol. 2005 pp.vii, 701. German text with Latin names. Large 8vo. Fine hardback in vg. dw.
Third completely revised and expanded edition.
£12.50 [ref: 67555]

Gent, G. et al. The Flora of Northamptonshire, and the Soke of Peterborough.
1st. Ed. Pub. Robert Wilson. 1995 pp.335 with colour and b/w. photos. and dist. maps. 8vo. Fine hardback in thor. vg. dw.
£35.00 [ref: 62814]

Gent, G. et al. The Flora of Northamptonshire. and The Soke of Peterborough.
1st. Ed. Pub. Robert Wilson. 1995 pp.335 with col. photos. & dist. maps. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw.
A description of the flowering plants of this English county, the first to be published since the 1930s. Covering 1831 species with notes on habitat type, distribution, occurrence and historical information with latest dates recorded at various locations for rarer species. Over 600 species, including some rare species with interesting distribution patterns, are mapped, while some 77 species that can be found throughout the vice-county are listed.
£25.00 [ref: 47994]

Germishuizen, G. Transvaal Wild Flowers. Paintings by Anita Fabian.
1st. Ed. Pub. Macmillan. 1982 pp.292 with more than 130 superb colour plates of illus. 4to. Neat ownership insc. Some cockling to contents, o/w. a fine hardback in vg. dw. with tide mark to bottom.
£12.50 [ref: 64514]