Humphrey, S.J. Botanical Art. With Scientific Illustration.
1st. Ed. Pub. Crowood Press 2018 pp.174 with col. & b/w. illus. throughout. Fine softback.
The author explains the techniques of the botanical artist and introduces ideas for scientific illustration, so that the illustrator has a fuller understanding when rendering the natural world.
£10.00 [ref: 68591]

Humphreys, L.R. Tropical Pasture Utilisation.
Pub. Cambridge University Press. 1991 pp.ix, 206 with b/w. photographs and text figs. throughout. A thor. vg. copy in illus boards.
This book sets out to examine the problems involved in the utilisation of tropical and subtropical pastures and to explain how pastures may be managed to meet the requirements of both plants and animals for growth and replacement.
£35.00 [ref: 45778]

Hunt, D.R. (Ed.). Orchids from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine.
1st. Ed. Pub. Curwen Books. 1981 pp.125 with 31 finely reproduced colour plates (5 being fold-outs). Large 8vo. Bookplate of Sybil B. Spencer with her signature. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a fine hardback in fine dw.
A superb collation of all the orchid plates and text published in the Magazine between 1971 and 1981. All illustrations are by either Margaret Stones or Christabel King. Sybil Beatrice Spencer born Sybil Beatrice Armitage (1908 – 1994) was a British gardener. With her husband and son she created the York Gate Garden. After the deaths of her son and her husband she cared for the garden for twelve years leaving it to a charity to be shared by visitors.
£22.50 [ref: 71863]

Hunt, P.F. The International Book of Orchids.
1st. Pub. Marshall Cavendish. 1979 pp. 173 with col. photos. and col. & b/w. illus. 4to. Spotting to top-edge of text block, inscription to ffep o/w. a fine hardback in good to vg. dw.
£4.00 [ref: 33378]

Hunt, P.F. & Grierson, M. The Country Life Book of Orchids.
Pub. Country Life Books. 1978 pp.128 with colour and b/w. illus. Crown folio. A vg. hdbk. in good slipcase.
Beautifully illustrated, using artwork from the end of the 19th Century alongside that of contemporary artists. Deals with orchid structure, then looks at orchids from around the world.
£15.00 [ref: 49375]

Hutchinson, G. & Thomas, B.A. Welsh Ferns. Clubmosses, Quillworts and Horsetails.
7th. Ed. Pub. National Museums & Galleries of Wales. 1996 pp.265 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Fine softback. Most up-to-date edition.
Fully updated, revised and rearranged edition. All taxa recorded from the British Isles have been included. Other features include updated Welsh names, and an expanded glossary and bibliography.
£12.50 [ref: 65168]

Hutchinson, H.R. The Lindley Library. Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, Manuscripts and Drawings.
1st. Ed. Pub. R.H.S. 1927 pp.viii, 487. Royal 8vo. Hardback. With bookplate of R. G. Lazenby. A near fine copy.
£17.50 [ref: 53862]

Hutchinson, J. The Families of Flowering Plants. Vol. 1 Dicotyledons, Vol.2 Monocotyledons.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Clarendon Press. 1959 Two volume set with 450 text illus. Large8vo. Nr. fine hardbacks in good dws. with some loss and wear to extremities. Charming provenance - From the library of E.A. Ellis (author of New Naturalist No.46 - The Broads) with his stamp and a signed handwritten note (dated 1959) to ffep stating ‘purchased from the author’.
£32.50 [ref: 65583]

Huxley, Anthony & Taylor, William. Flowers of Greece and the Aegean.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Hogarth Press. 1989 pp.vi, 185 with colour photos. and b/w. illus. 8vo. Softback. Some spotting and marking to fore-edges. VG.
£5.00 [ref: 63019]

Huxley, Leonard. Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. Based on Materials Collected and Arranged by Lady Hooker.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Murray. 1918 Two volume set with portrait frontis. to each volume, b/w. illus. and one fold-out map. 8vo. Hardbacks. Ex-Lib. Minor spotting to ends o/w. contents fine. With publisher’s errata for Vol. 1. Original navy blue bindings with gilt armorials to front boards and gilt lettering to spine in thor. vg. condition.
£65.00 [ref: 68190]