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Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. 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 and one fold-out map as published. 8vo. Hardbacks. With bookplate of A. Logan Turner, an eminent Scottish surgeon, to front pastedowns of both volumes. Small lib. stamp (possibly that of a private library) to title page and p.41 of both vols. Cords stretched at p.340 in Vol. I., o/w. contents fine. Original navy blue bindings with gilt armorials to front boards and gilt lettering to spine in thor. vg. / nr. fine condition. With a copy of John Murray’s original, 4-page, illustrated pre-publication advertisement for the ‘Life and Letters’ loosely inserted. Also comes with a lengthy article on Sir Joseph Hooker, in support of the publication of ‘Life and Letters’, from The Spectator (dated August 17, 1918) loosely inserted. Unique set.
£175.00 [ref: 66967]

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Plants and Their Names. Hyam, R. and Pankhurst, R. Plants and Their Names. A Concise Dictionary.
1st. Ed. Pub. Oxford Univ. Press. 1995 pp.x, 545. 8vo. ‘Damaged’ stamp to title page - only apparent damage is very gently bumped corners o/w. a fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
A reference source for 16,000 of the more commonly occuring scientific and vernacular names for herbs, shrubs, trees, and ferns. It also offers a host of unusual facts and beliefs.

£10.00 [ref: 68307]

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Welsh Timber Trees. Hyde, H.A. Welsh Timber Trees. Native and Introduced.
4th. Rev. Ed. Pub. National Museum of Wales. 1977 pp.xi, 165 with b/w. photos. & text figs. 8vo. Hardback, bound with additional pages for notes. Ink inscription has been crossed out on ffep. o/w. contents fine. Cloth boards nr. fine. Errata slip tipped-in.
The first in a series of projected museum publications dealing with the botany of Wales.

£7.00 [ref: 46331]

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Welsh Ferns. Hyde, H.A. & Wade, A.E. Welsh Ferns. A Descriptive Handbook.
1st. Ed. Pub. National Museum of Wales, 1940 pp.x, 131 with b/w. plates & figs. 8vo. Ex-Lib. Contents fine. Printed boards with cloth spine, thor. vg.
A comprehensive and clearly written handbook which will enable the beginner, by means of the keys, descriptions and illustrations, to identify all the ferns to be seen growing in Wales.

£10.00 [ref: 67726]

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Welsh Flowering Plants. Hyde, H.A. & Wade, A.E. Welsh Flowering Plants. A Handbook to the Collection in the Welsh National Herbarium.
1st. Ed. Pub. National Museum of Wales. 1934 pp.vii, 179 with b/w. plates and figs. 8vo. Ex. Marlborough College Lib. Light spotting to fore-edge of text block and to ends o/w. nr. fine softback.
£3.50 [ref: 63235]

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Welsh Flowering Plants. Hyde, H.A. & Wade, A.E. Welsh Flowering Plants. A Handbook to the Collection in the Welsh National Herbarium.
2nd. Ed. Pub. National Museum of Wales. 1957 pp.vii, 209 with b/w. plates and figs. 8vo. D.L. Hawksworth’s stamp to ffep. and Clive Lovatt’s small label. Nr. fine hardback.
£4.00 [ref: 64483]

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Flora of Central Zimbabwe. Hyde, M.A. and Clement, E.J. Flora of Central Zimbabwe.
Typescript. c.1997-2002 Running to hundreds of pages. 4to. Fine condition.
An interesting, never completed and unpublished typescript. With a separate folder comprising notes and letters all relating to the development of this manuscript.

£40.00 [ref: 67942]

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Reginald Farrer. Illingworth, J. & Routh, J. (Eds.). Reginald Farrer. Dalesman, Planthunter, Gardener.
1st. Ed. Pub. Univ. of Lancaster. 1991 pp.x, 102 with b/w. photos. and illus. Large 8vo. Nr. fine softback.
A monograph published to coincide with an exhibition prepared as a tribute to the life and work of Reginald Farrer, field botanist, traveller, writer, plant collector and rock garden enthusiast.

£5.00 [ref: 58093]

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Myxomycetes in Kent. Ing, B. Myxomycetes in Kent.
Rep. Pub. Kent Field Club. 1967 pp.122-132. 8vo. Name to front cover, o/w. a fine softback. Two page ‘Additional Records of Kent Myxomycetes’ by Bruce Ing, published in 1969 loosely inserted.
£7.50 [ref: 59713]

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A Census Catalogue of British Myxomycetes. Ing, Bruce. A Census Catalogue of British Myxomycetes.
1st. Ed. Pub. The British Mycological Soc. 1968 pp.24. Large 8vo. Hardback. From the collection of Ted Blackwell, highly regarded Fungus Recorder for Herefordshire with his occ. annotations to introductory pages. Contents fine. Also comes with a 3-page article entitled ‘New Species of Comatricha and Paradiachea’ from British Mycological Society. 50 (4) . Also loosely inserted is a copy of a 4-page article ‘A New Species of Licea from Malaysia’ by A. Nawawi from Brit. Myc. Soc. 60 (1), (1973).
£9.00 [ref: 72443]

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