Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques. Portraits of Plants. Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (1533-1588)
1st. Ed. Pub. Oregon Press. [1984] Unpaginated with 59 paintings of flowers, fruits and butterflies. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Le Moyne accompanied Rene de Laudoniere as artist and cartographer on an 1564 expedition to a French Huguenot settlement in Florida; the botanical illustrations reproduced in this volume are a result of the expedition.
£20.00 [ref: 68572]

Le Sueur, F. Flora of Jersey. With notes on the occurence of species recorded for the other Channel Islands.
1st. Ed. Pub. Societe Jersiaise. 1984 pp.xlii, 243 with colour plates, b/w. photos. and dist. maps. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. With insc., signed by the author, dated May 1986, Jersey, to half-title.
All plants reliably recorded as growing wild in Jersey are included, many of which are rare or absent on the mainland of Britain.
£30.00 [ref: 67110]

Le Sueur, F. and McClintock, D. Wild Flowers of Herm. A checklist of the Flowering Plants and Ferns on Herm and its off-islets.
1st. Ed. Rep. La Societe Guernesiaise. 1961 pp.16 with map. 8vo. Nr. fine softback. Letter from the Hon. Secretary of La Societe Guernesiaise loosely inserted.
£17.50 [ref: 63231]

Leach, S.J. et al. (Eds.). Botanical Links in the Atlantic Arc.
1st. Ed. Pub. BSBI. 2006 pp.336 with 52 col. photos., b/w. figs. Large 8vo. From the library of Ron Porley (author of ‘Fungi’ in the New Naturalist series). Fine hardback.
Comprises 45 papers and posters presented at the symposium ‘Botanical Links in the Atlantic Arc’ held in 2003. The symposium gave botanists the opportunity to celebrate the wild plants of the Atlantic coastal regions of Europe, and to consider a whole range of topics concerning their distribution, autecology, conservation and management.
£18.00 [ref: 64878]

Lebrun, J.-P. and Stork, A.L. Tropical African Flowering Plants. Ecology and Distribution Vol.1.- Annonaceae-Balanitaceae.
1st. Ed. Pub. Conseratoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Geneve. 2003 pp.797 with b/w. dist. maps. 4to. Authors’ signatures and their dedication to title page. Nr. fine softback. Loosely inserted is a clear plastic sleeve with a message from the editor explaining that due to a technical error pages 27 and 777 are defective - the corrected versions are loosely inserted in the sleeve. In-print at £145.00.
A development, in English, of the authors' Enumeration des plantes a fleurs d'Afrique tropicale (1991-97), this important work now provides ecological notes, summarised from floras, catalogues and species descriptions, and simple distribution maps. It is noted that rainforest species are undercollected.
£100.00 [ref: 65422]

Lee, J.R. The Flora of the Clyde Area. A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Occurring Wild or Established within the Drainage Area of the River and Firth of Clyde.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Smith. 1933 pp.xvi, 391. 8vo. Hardback. Owner’s name to ffep. Old stain to blank margin of pp.289 to rear paste-down o/w. contents fine. A little text block lean. Original cloth boards thor. vg.
£6.50 [ref: 50131]

Lees, Edwin. The Botanical Looker-Out. Among the Wild Flowers of England and Wales, at all Seasons, and in the most interesting localities.
2nd. Rev. Enl. Ed. Pub. Hamilton, Adams. 1851 pp.xvii, 564 with 6 plates (incl. frontis.). 8vo. Very charming period bookplate to front paste down. Internal hinges tender. Spotting to frontis. and very minor spotting internally, o/w. contents fine. Original decorated blue binding with vertical split the length of the spine o/w. good to vg.
£20.00 [ref: 72313]

Lees, Frederic Arnold. The Flora of West Yorkshire. With a sketch of the Climatology and Lithology in connection therewith.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. EP Publishing. 1978 pp.xi, 843. 4to. Hardback. Address label. Light spotting to endpapers o/w. fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Originally published in 1888. It includes a new foreword and bibliography of the author by M. Seaward, editor of ‘The Naturalist’.
£9.50 [ref: 63244]

Lees, Frederic Arnold. The Flora of West Yorkshire. With a sketch of the Climatology and Lithology in connection therewith.
1st. Ed. Pub. Lovell Reeve & Co. 1888 pp.x, 843 with colour-printed map (West Riding). 4to. Hardback. Tape repairs to endpapers, newspaper article about F. Arnold Lees (dated 1943) mounted to ffep. Occ. informed, period annotations to margins, handwritten note initialled F.A.L. (dated Sept. 1895) mounted to p.136. Some play in the binding, extremities lightly bumped and rubbed. Overall a good to very good copy.
The note appears to be handwritten by F. Arnold Lees and relates to Brassica muralis.
£40.00 [ref: 63237]

Leet, J. Flowering Trees and Shrubs. The Botanical Paintings of Esther Heins.
1st. Ed. Pub. Harry N.Abrams. 1987 pp.148 with 68 full-page col. illus. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Esther Heins became one of the foremost botanical painters working in America and this book contains 68 exquisite examples of her work.
£15.00 [ref: 66827]