Lancaster, R. Travels in China.
1st. Pub. ACC. 1989 pp. 517 with colour plates throughout. VG. in vg. dw. With dedication from author.
£90.00 [ref: 33306]

Lancaster, R. Travels in China. A Plantsman’s Paradise.
1st. Ed. Pub. Antique Collectors’ Club Ltd. 1989 pp. 516 with colour and bw plates. A nr. fine copy in same dw. With dedication from the author.
Dedication reads - ‘For Piers Trehane, what a great date it has been. Here’s to the next time, with best wishes. Roy Lancaster. 24th September 1990’. Piers Trehane was a very highly influentual person in the field of horticultural nomenclature.
£65.00 [ref: 41419]

Lancaster, R. Travels in China. A Plantsman’s Paradise.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Antique Collectors’ Club Ltd. 1989 pp. 516 with colour and b/w. plates. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
A most enjoyable and detailed account of the well-known author's many journeys through China.
£17.50 [ref: 64729]

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Lancaster, Roy. Plant Hunting in Nepal.
1st. Ed. Pub. Croom Helm. 1981 pp.194 with col. photos. & line drawings. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw., with very gently sunned spine. A charming, dated, dedication from Roy Lancaster to title page.
‘For three months in the autumn of 1971 a group of horticultural botanists travelled through a little known area of East Nepal collecting seeds of plants suitable for cultivation in Western gardens. As a result many new and interesting seeds were introduced, several for the first time, and the plants are now to be found in some of the most famous gardens and collections in Europe.’.
£12.50 [ref: 34147]

Landmann, G. and Bonneau, M. (Eds.). Forest Decline and Atmospheric Deposition Effects in the French Mountains.
1st. Ed. Pub. Springer. 1995 pp.xxiv, 461 with figs. and tables. Large 8vo. Small ownership stamp. Nr. fine hardback.
This volume summarises and assesses the results of a multidisciplinary research programme on forest decline and air pollution.
£50.00 [ref: 63857]

Lanfranco, Guido G. Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of Malta.
1st. Ed. Pub. Progress Press. 1977 pp.viii, 83, [i] plus 65 pages of b/w. illus. plates. 8vo. Small address label. Thor. vg. softback. Scarce.
Features 600 illustrations within the plates.
£19.50 [ref: 62950]

Lang, D. Britain’s Orchids.
1st. Ed. Pub. WildGuides. 2004 pp.192 with col. photos & dist. maps. 8vo. Fine hardback.
A comprehensive photographic guide to the orchids of Britain and Ireland, covering 60 species.
£22.00 [ref: 47576]

Lang, D. Britain’s Orchids. A guide to the identification and ecology of the wild orchids of Britain and Ireland.
1st. Ed. Pub. WildGuides. 2004 pp.192 with col. photos. and dist. maps. 8vo. Fine hardback.
A comprehensive photographic guide to the 51 species of orchid recorded in Britain and Ireland, including all the varieties and sub-species, as well as 9 species of uncertain or doubtful provenance.
£6.00 [ref: 68353]

Lang, D. Orchids of Britain. A Field Guide.
1st. Ed. Pub. OUP. 1980 pp.213 with 49 col. photos. & dist. maps. 8vo. Fine hardback in thor. vg. dw.
A practical guide to the forty-nine species of wild British orchid, the result of twenty-eight years of field work.
£12.50 [ref: 40142]

Lange, Jakob E. Flora Agaricina Danica.
Pub. Edizioni Candusso, Giovanna Biella. 1993 Two volume set with 200 colour plates. Hardbacks. Text in Italian and English. Bound in green leather. Top corner of the front board of Vol. 2 ever-so-slightly bumped, o/w. a fine, as new set.
‘Flora Agaricina Danica is as thorough as it is beautiful. Lange illustrated nearly all the Danish Agaricales pictured within from life, often receiving more exotic species through the post from Colleagues’ (Chronophobia). G.C. Ainsworth wrote of the work ‘[the illustrations] are both scientifically invaluable and superb examples of modern printing’.
£175.00 [ref: 59548]

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