Gordon-Craig Gallery. Fine Botanical Paintings. Contemporary Botanical Works from the Gordon-Craig Gallery. Summer 2000.
1st. Ed. Pub. Gordon-Craig Publications. 2000 pp.104 with colour illus. throughout. Large 4to. Fine hardback.
A collection of botanical paintings by thirty-six contemporary botanical illustrators.
£10.00 [ref: 68627]

Grabandt, Kees (Comp.). Weeds of Crops and Gardens in Southern Africa.
1st. Ed. Pub. Seal Publishing. 1985 pp.xiii, 134, xvii with colour plates of illus. 4to. Owner’s insc. Nr. fine hardback.
Excellent illustrations with supporting text providing for each weed, their origin, description, distribution, characteristics, reproduction, notes and information on how to control them.
£12.00 [ref: 64498]

Graham, R. and Roy, R. Slipper Orchids. The Art of Digby Graham.
1st. Ed. Pub. Croom Helm. 1982 pp. 109 with 37 superb botanical illus. from watercolours by Digby Graham. DW. lightly sunned to spine area, o/w. a vg. copy.
£20.00 [ref: 34678]

view all images for this item

Gram, E., Weber, A. and Dennis, R.W.G. Plant Diseases. in Orchard, Nursery and Garden Crops.
Pub. Macdonald. 1952 pp.618 with 10 col. plates and b/w. text figs. 4to. Hardback. Contents fine. Original cloth boards spotted on rear o/w. nr. fine.
Translated from the Danish by Evelyn Ramsden.
£12.00 [ref: 46163]

Grasset, E. Plants and Their Application to Ornament. A Nineteenth-Century Design Primer.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Chronicle Books. 2008 pp.104 with col. illus. throughout. Large 4to. Fine hardback.
This reproduction of ‘Plants and Their Application to Ornament’, first published in 1897, presents each of twenty-four different flowering plants in three arts-and-crafts-style colour plates. A realistic botanical illustration is followed by two stylized plates detailing the plant motif's application to various decorative patterns and household objects.
£90.00 [ref: 66832]

Graustein, J.E. Nuttall’s Travels into the Old Northwest. An unpublished 1810 diary.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Chronica Botanica Co. 1950-51 pp.vii, 88 with b/w. illus. plates. Royal 8vo. A vg. softback, with bump to top right hand corner.
‘A fascinating insight into this fairly unknown English botanist and zoologist.’
£30.00 [ref: 51929]

Gray, Asa. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany, and Vegetable Physiology, Being a Fifith and Revised Edition of The Botanical Text-Book.
5th. Rev. Ed. Pub. Ivison and Phinney. 1858 pp.xii, 555 with over 1300 text illus. 8vo. Hardback. Signature, dated 1859, to ffep. Minor spotting to ends, text underlining and margin annotations in pencil o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards with blind decoration good to vg.
Asa Gray’s important 19th century textbook which became a foundation for botanical education in the United States.
£45.00 [ref: 71911]

Gray, L. (Ed.). Flowering Plants. A Concise Pictorial Guide.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG Kew. 2011 pp.288 with col. illus. throughout. 8vo. Fine softback. In-print at £19.99.
This book graphically illustrates over 100 of the most important plant families that shape our lives and environment, taken from the classic reference Flowering Plant Families of the World by V. H. Heywood, R. K. Brummitt, A. Culham and O. Seberg. Both as an illustration of the breathtaking beauty of plants and as an introduction to the science behind flowering plants, this concise pictorial guide provides a handy reference.
£9.50 [ref: 67984]

Green, I.P. et al. The Flora of The Bristol Region. Wildlife of the Bristol Region: 1.
1st. Ed. Pub. Pisces. 2000 pp.vi, 276 with some colour photos. and b/w. dist. maps throughout. Small 4to. Fine hardback in thor. vg. dw.
£16.00 [ref: 61493]

Greene, E.L. & Egerton, F.N. (Ed.). Landmarks of Botanical History.
1st. Ed. Pub. Stanford. 1983 Two volume set with b/w. illus. 8vo. A fine hardback set in nr. fine dws.
The first detailed history in English of western European botany and botanists from antiquity to the eighteenth century.
£70.00 [ref: 56537]

view all images for this item