Lyte, Charles. The Plant Hunters.
1st. Ed. Pub. Orbis. 1983 pp.191 with colour and b/w. photos. and illus. Tall 8vo. Dust marking to top edge of text-block. A thor. vg. hdbk. in thor. vg. dw.
£9.00 [ref: 51841]

L’Heritier De Brutelle. Geraniologia, seu Erodii, Pelargonii, Geranii, Monsoniae et Grieli historia Iconibus illustrata.
Pub. Boerhaave Press. 1978 With 44 b/w. plates after Redoute et al. Limited Ed. copy no. 61. Folio. Hardback. Contents nr. fine. Bound in green cloth boards, thor vg. Scarce.
Large-format black and white illustrations of Geranium and Pelargonium species. A facsimile of the original published between 1787-88.
£85.00 [ref: 34911]

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Mabberley, D. J. The Plant-Book. A portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Camb. Univ. Press. 1997 pp.xvi, 858. 8vo. Previous owners label to front board, o/w. a fine hdbk.
£22.00 [ref: 53730]

Mabberley, D.J. Botanical Revelation. European encounters with Australian plants before Darwin.
1st. Ed. Pub. NewSouth. 2019 pp.xi, 372 with col. & b/w. illus. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. The dustwrapper folds out to reveal, on the reverse, a facsimile map of New South Wales which was released in 1825. Out of print.
A ground-breaking analysis of early European understanding of Australia's flora. Combining science, horticulture, art and economics, this lavishly illustrated book reveals the motives and complex networks that led to the international spread of knowledge and cultivation of hundreds of Australian plants in Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
£70.00 [ref: 68883]

Mabberley, D.J. The Plant Book. A Portable Dictionary of the Higher Plants.
Pub. Cambridge. 1987 pp.xii, 706 some highlighting to text o/w. a vg. copy in card covers with dw.
£20.00 [ref: 41731]

Mabey, R. Beechcombings. The Narratives of Trees.
Pub. Chatto & Windus. 2007 pp.xiii,289 with colour plates. A nr. fine copy in dw.
£8.00 [ref: 40827]

Mabey, Richard. The Cabaret of Plants. Botany and the Imagination.
Pbk. Ed. Pub. Profile Books. 2018 pp.374 with colour photos. &| illus. 8vo. Fine softback.
'The Cabaret of Plants' celebrates the idea that plants are not simply 'the furniture of the planet', but vital, inventive, individual beings, worthy of respect - and that to understand this may be the best way of preserving life on Earth.
£6.00 [ref: 72417]

Mabey, Richard. The Cabaret of Plants. Botany and the Imagination.
1st. Ed. Pub. Profile Books. 2015 pp.374 with colour illus. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw. RRP £20.00.
'The Cabaret of Plants' celebrates the idea that plants are not simply 'the furniture of the planet', but vital, inventive, individual beings, worthy of respect - and that to understand this may be the best way of preserving life on Earth.
£10.00 [ref: 63764]

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Macdonald, James et al. (Eds.). Exotic Forest Trees in Great Britain. Forestry Commission Bulletin No. 30.
1st. Ed. Pub. HMSO. 1957 pp.vii, 167 with plates and figs. 4to. Some browning and minor marking to covers. Small address labels. VG. plus softback.
£5.00 [ref: 63003]

MacDonald, Norman. The Orchid Hunters. A Jungle Adventure.
1st. Ed. Pub. Robert Hale. [1940] pp.282 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Hardback. Light spotting to fore-edges of text block and to ends o/w. contents fine. A little text block lean. Original green cloth boards thor. vg.
An interesting account about the author’s, and one of his friends, orchid hunting adventures in the jungles of Columbia and Venezuela. They sought and brought back rare orchid species.
£25.00 [ref: 67435]