Kingdon Ward, Capt. Frank. In Farthest Burma. The record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet.
1st. Ed. Pub. Seeley, Service & Co. Limited. 1921 pp.311 with photographic frontis., two maps (one folding), 16 further plates of photographs plus 8-page Publisher’s adverts. 8vo. Hardback. Very minor amount of spotting o/w. contents exceptionally clean, short closed tear to fold of map, o/w. contents fine. Original illustrated black cloth boards showing very minor shelf wear and very gently sunned to spine, o/w. fine. A most pleasing copy.
£600.00 [ref: 43023]
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Kingdon-Ward, Frank From China to Hkamti Long.
1st. Ed. Pub. Edward Arnold. 1924 pp.317 with photographic frontis., a further 19 photographs, fold-out map and 16-page publishers catalogue. 8vo. Hardback. With the signature of Frank Kingdon-Ward on a separate piece of card, loosely inserted. Lightly bumped on corners, otherwise original cloth binding in fine condition. Very minor amount of foxing, o/w. contents in fine condition.
£495.00 [ref: 34931]
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Lange, Jacob E. Flora Agaricina Danica.
1st. Ed. Pub. Recato, Copenhagen. 1935 Complete set. Five volumes bound as three, with 200 fine colour chromolithographed plates. Large 4to. Hardbacks. English text with Latin names. Contents in fine condition. Typed copies of the Indexes loosely inserted in Volume 3. Handsomely bound in period blue cloth; red title labels with gilt lettering to spines, all in fine condition. A very pleasing set indeed.
‘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’.
£1,600.00 [ref: 35042]
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Lightfoot, The Revd. J. Flora Scotica: Or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean Method of the Native Plants of Scotland and the Hebrides.
1st. Ed. Pub. for B. White, London. 1777 Two volume set with printed title-pages, two illustrated title-pages and 35 fine copper engraved plates (9 being fold-out). 8vo. Hardbacks. Some spotting, o/w. contents fine. Marbled fore-edges. Early quarter calf binding with gilt floral decoration in good to vg. condition - externally the hinges show some wear, internally they are fine.
The “only professedly complete work on the plants of Scotland until 1821” (Henrey). The work begins with a section on the fauna of Scotland, a sketch of ‘Caledonian Zoology’ as Lightfoot called it in his Preface. The author of this part of the work was Thomas Pennant. Five of the fine copper engraved plates are ornithological depicting an Osprey, Hooded Crow, Knot, Sand-piper, Long-legged Plover, Black Headed Gull and Black Gull. The remainder are fine botanical.
£495.00 [ref: 61127]
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Loudon, J.C. Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum; or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain, Native and Foreign, Hardy and Half-Hardy, Pictorially and Botanically Delineated, and Scientifically and Popularly Described; with their Propagation, Culture, Management and Uses...
Pub. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, London, 1838 Eight volumes bound in six with 412 b/w. engraved plates (19 of which are fold-out). 8vo. Hardbacks. AEG. Some spotting to text volumes, largely confined to ends and some spotting to plates, o/w. contents fine. Plates bound systematically. All title-pages present. Handsomely bound in green half moroco leather over green cloth boards, showing just light shelf wear, o/w. in thor. vg. to nr fine condition. With period bookplate of Richard Pemberton.
£600.00 [ref: 62675]
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Lowe, E.J. A Natural History of British Grasses.
3rd. Ed. Pub. John C. Nimmo. 1891 pp.viii, 245 with 74 fine colour plates. Small 4to. Hardback. Signature to end-paper. Minor spotting, mainly to fore-edges of text block, o/w. contents fine. Original gilt decorated green cloth boards in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy indeed.
£145.00 [ref: 62934]
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Maratti, Giovanni Francesco. Flora Romana. D. Joannis Francisci Maratti : Opus postulum nunc primum in lucem editum.
1st. Ed. Pub. Joseph Salviucci, Rome. 1822-1823 Two volume set. 8vo. Softbacks. Very minor spotting, edges untrimmed as published and a little dusty in places. Contents clean and fine. Original printed covers thor. vg.
Maratti’s (1723-1777) ‘Flora Romana’ was published posthumously by Maurizio Benedetto Olivieri. Maratti was an expert in the flora of the region and he was appointed director of the Botanical Garden of Rome in 1748 where he worked for almost 30 years.
£150.00 [ref: 61982]
Maund, Benjamin. The Botanic Garden. Consisting of highly finished representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, cultivated in Great Britain; with their classification history, culture, and other interesting information.
1st. Ed. Pub. Simpkin and Marshall. 1825-[1850] Thirteen volume set with 312 fine hand-coloured plates depicting 1,248 flowering plants. Small 4to. Hardbacks. Some minor spotting and offsetting, o/w. contents fine. Quite superbly bound in contemporary green morocco, richly gilt decorated, all in near fine condition, just lightly rubbed in places. Provenance: The Plesch copy, being from the library of Arpad Plesch (1889-1974) with his leather bookplate to Volume 1. A superb set.
Benjamin Maund (1790-1863) was a pharmacist, botanist, printer, bookseller and a fellow of the Linnean Society. He produced ‘The Botanic Garden’ from his press in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Dedicated to Queen Victoria, and released as a periodical, ornamental plants are depicted with great delicacy. ‘A delightful work, not only full of useful and practical information, but illustrated with most charming plates carefully engraved and coloured’ (Great Flower Books). Arpad Plesch was Hungarian and he amassed the magnificent botanical library of the Stiftung für Botanik, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, which was featured in Douglas Cooper’s book ‘Great Private Collections’.
£7,500.00 [ref: 58909]
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Parkinson, John. Theatrum Botanicum. The Theater of Plantes.
1st. Ed. Pub. London. 1640 pp.xx, 1755, [i] with 2714 fine woodcut illus. With printed title and engraved allegorical title by Marshall incorporating a portrait of the author. Folio. Hardback. Printed title, engraved title and last leaf of index laid down. Woodcut portrait of John Parkinson to verso of engraved title. Errata leaf in facsimile on period paper. Only minor indications of age including four minor paper flaws, upper corner of p.537/8 removed (only partial loss of pagination number), five neat repairs, o/w. contents exceptional and very pleasing indeed. Later full-calf binding neatly refurbished and rebacked retaining original spine (gilt lettered morocco label) in nr. fine condition. A super copy.
A magnificent work and arguably the most detailed herbal in the English language.
£4,995.00 [ref: 62801]
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Smith, Sir J.E. and Sowerby, James. English Botany; or, Coloured figures of British Plants with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth.
2nd. Ed. Pub. for C.E. Sowerby. [1832]-1846 Twelve volume set with 2,754 fine hand coloured copper engraved plates. Each vol. with seperate Latin and English plant names as published. 8vo. Hardback. Contents very clean with only very occ. quite minor spotting, a little more so to the text sections of two vols. Contemporary cloth binding, internally very sound, externally showing rubbing and some wear, more so to five of the twelve vols.
A magnificent work. ‘“English Botany” is of value even to the present day as a work of reference, and as an illustrated flora of our country it has never been surpassed.’ (Henrey).
£1,400.00 [ref: 66447]
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