Cox, Peter & Hutchinson, Peter. Seeds of Adventure. In Search of Plants.
1st. Ed. Pub. Garden Art Press. 2008 pp.415 with many colour photos. 4to. Half-title signed by both authors. Top corner a little bumped o/w. a fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
This book captures the thrills of two great friends, Peter Cox and Peter Hutchinson, as they searched for hardy plants. It also records the difficult times shared whilst travelling on 16 journeys to India, Nepal, Bhutan and China.
£48.00 [ref: 66991]

Davidson, L. Marion. Gates of the Dolomites.
2nd. Ed. Pub. John Lane. [c.1912] pp.xvii, 355, 24 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Ownership stamp to ffep. A thor. vg. hdbk. in original brown cloth boards.
£18.00 [ref: 52398]

Desmond, Ray. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. Traveller and Plant Collector.
Rep. Pub. Antique Collectors’ Club. 2006 pp. 286 with many fine illus. Fine copy of this excellent book.
£27.50 [ref: 36012]

Dorr, L.J. Plant Collectors in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. A biographical and bibliographical guide to individuals and groups who have collected herbarium material of algae, bryophytes, fungi, lichens, and vascular plants in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG Kew. 1997 pp.xlvi, 524, illustrated with portraits of plant collectors to margins. 8vo. Fine hardback with CD-Rom in sleeve attached to rear pastedown. In print at £99.99.
A thoroughly researched book, the result of a collaboration between Malagasy botanists and several of the world’s major Herbaria.
£65.00 [ref: 65454]

Ellis, Gwynn. Plant Hunting in Wales.
Rep. Pub. National Museum of Wales. 1972-1974 pp.46 with b/w. illus. Large 8vo. Softback. Address label. Inscription by author. Staining to lower corner and to margins, gentle sunning to spine o/w. thor. vg.
A fascinating, well-illustrated insight into the history of plant hunting in Wales.
£6.00 [ref: 63222]

Fairchild, D. The World Grows Round My Door. The Story of the Kampog, A Home on the edge of the Tropics.
1st. Ed. Pub. Charles Scribner. 1947 pp.xii, 347 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Hardback. Contents fine. Original cloth boards thor. vg.
David Grandison Fairchild was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans, pistachios, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherries.
£40.00 [ref: 67431]

Farrer, R. Alpine and Bog-Plants.
1st. Ed. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1908 pp.xii, 288. Two letters from previous owner tipped onto front paste down and fep. Overall a vg. to fine copy.
£40.00 [ref: 43053]

Farrer, R. Among the Hills. A Book of Joy in High Places.
Pub. Swarthmore Press.(Headley Bros.). [1911] pp.326 with col. & b/w. tipped-in plates and one folding map. 8vo. Hardback. Neat signature (dated 1925) to ffep. Occ. very light spotting internally o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards with gilt lettering thor. vg.
Reginald John Farrer, was a traveller and plant collector. He published a number of books, although is best known for ‘My Rock Garden’. This is an illustrated volume of Farrer's six-week excursion climbing and studying flora in the Grian, Cottian, and Maritime Alps.
£40.00 [ref: 43041]

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Farrer, R. On the Eaves of the World. Vols. I & II.
1st. Ed. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1917 Two volume set with b/w. photographic plates and fold-out map. Collated and complete. 8vo. Hardbacks. From the library of Will Ingwersen with his bookplate in both vols. Contents generally very clean and in very good plus condition. More recently rebound in green cloth with gilt letttering to spine, all in nr. fine condition.
Reginald John Farrer, was a traveller and plant collector. He published a number of books, although is best known for My Rock Garden. He travelled to Asia in search of a variety of plants, many of which he brought back to England These two volumes are an account of a plant hunting expedition to a northerly province of China on the Kansu-Tibet border.
£175.00 [ref: 64237]

Farrer, R. On the Eaves of the World. Vols. I & II.
1st. Ed. 2nd. Imp. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1926 Two volume set with b/w. photographic plates and fold-out map. Collated and complete. 8vo. Hardbacks. Charming inscriptions to ffeps. (dated Christmas 1932). Some spotting to fore-edges of text block, very occ. light spotting internally o/w. contents fine. Original blue cloth boards with gilt lettering in very bright, nr. fine condition.
£80.00 [ref: 67437]

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