Lansdown, R.V. Water-Starworts (Callitriche) of Europe. BSBI Handbook No 11.
1st. Ed. Pub. BSBI. 2008 pp.180 with b/w. line drawings & dist. maps. 8vo. Very minor spotting to fore-edges of text block, spine gently sunned o/w. a fine softback.
Provides guidance on the identification of all species, subspecies and varieties of water-starwort that have been reliably recorded in the wild in Europe.
£15.00 [ref: 68799]

Latimer, Jonathan. Orchards. Through the Eyes of an Artist. Wildlife Art Series.
1st. Ed. Pub. Langford Press. 2005 pp.175 with colour illus. throughout. Large 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. with very gentle sunning to spine. Title No. 6 in the Wildlife Art Series. From the library of ornithologist, artist, illustrator, author and editor Robert Gillmor MBE with the dedication ‘To Robert with very best wishes, Jonthan Latimer’.
This work celebrates the wonderfully diverse nature of orchards in Britain. Over a two-year period, artist Jonathan Latimer travelled across the country in a bid to document orchards through the season.
£40.00 [ref: 65256]

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Laursen, G.A. & Seppelt, R.D. et al. Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams. Fungi, Lichenicolous Fungi, Lichenized Fungi, Slime Molds,Mosses & Liverworts.
1st. Ed. Pub. Univ. of Alaska Press. 2009 pp.xxii, 218 with col. photos. & b/w. figs. 8vo. Fine softback with gently sunned spine.
The first field guide to cryptogams of the interior of Alaska. It provides a basis for understanding the vast diversity of taxa, speciation, edibility, relative abundance and utility, as well as the ecological roles played by these organisms.
£19.50 [ref: 67566]

Lawesson, J.E. et al. An Updated and Annotated Check List of the Vascular Plants of the Galapagos Islands.
1st. Ed. Pub. Univ. of Aarhus Botanical Institute. 1987 pp.74. 8vo. Inscription in pencil. Fine softback with gentle sunning to spine. Folded A4 sheet of Errata and Supplementary Records, loosely inserted. Scarce.
This work ‘presents for the first time, an overall evaluation of the distribution and status according to the IUCN red data categories of all known native and endemic plants. The introduced or alien species found in Galapagos have also been included, as they play a more important role than ever before’.
£60.00 [ref: 66357]

Lawley, M. The Mosses and Liverworts of Shropshire.
1st. Ed. Pub. Mark Lawley. 2013 pp.v, 133 with col. & b/w. photos. Landscape 8vo. Signature to verso of front cover. Fine softback.
Including a bryological travelogue of good localities, changes to the county’s bryoflora, annotated checklist of species, Shropshire’s bygone bryologists.
£15.00 [ref: 67569]

Lawrence, G.H.M. (Ed.). 20th Century Botanical Art & Illustration. 1968-1969. Catalogue [of the] 2nd International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Hunt Botanical Library. 1968 pp.267 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Minor bumps for fore-edges of boards which are also gently sunned to spine o/w. a fine hardback.
Contains brief biographies of the featured artists together with examples of their work. Catalogue for 20 October 1968 to 15 April 1969.
£5.00 [ref: 70281]

Laws, B. Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. David & Charles. 2011 pp.223 with colour and b/w. illus. throughout. Large 8vo. Fine hardback.
A guide to the plants that have had the greatest impact on human civilization. Entries range from crops like rice and wheat that feed whole populations, to herbs and spices that are highly prized for their medicinal qualities.
£10.00 [ref: 61618]

Le Maout, Emm. & Decaisne, J. (Trans. by Mrs. Hooker). A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical. In Two Parts. Part I. Outlines of Organography, Anatomy, and Physiology. Part. II. Descriptions and Illustrations of the Orders.
1st. Ed. 2nd. Thou. Pub. Longmans, Green & Co. 1876 pp.xii, 1066 with line drawings throughout. Large 8vo. Hardback. With errata bound in. Intermittent spotting to contents o/w. fine. Original decorated cloth boards rubbed on corners with more recent sympathetic gilt lettered spine in nr. fine condition.
This printing contains ‘The orders arranged after the method followed in the universites and schools of Great Britain, its Colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders by J.D. Hooker’.
£120.00 [ref: 65509]

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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 Strange, R. A History of Herbal Plants.
1st. Ed. Pub. Angus and Robertson. 1977 pp.xxi, 304 with b/w. illus., throughout. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw., very gently sunned on spine.
Arranged alphabetically under the botanical names of the plants, this is a world-wide, historical survey of some seven hundred and fifty herbs used by man through the ages.
£7.50 [ref: 56535]