Harrison, C. & Luscombe, D. Bedgebury Florilegium. Celebrating 100 years of the Bedgebury National Pinetum.
1st. Ed. Pub. Kew. 2025 pp.103 with colour and monochrome illus. throughout. 8vo. New hardback. RRP. £18.00.
Today, Bedgebury is home to nearly 12,000 tree specimens and is a centre for conifer science and conservation. At the heart of the book are the botanical paintings by the Bedgebury National Pinetum Florilegium Society.
£16.00 [ref: 71342]

Heath, A. & R. Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana. Including the Okavango Delta.
1st. Ed. Pub. Kew. 2008 pp.593 with 2,000 colour photographs. Large 8vo. New hardback. RRP £84.99.
Includes over 500 flowering herbaceous plants, trees, shrubs, ferns, grasses, sedges and their allies.
£49.99 [ref: 58194]

Heller, T. (et al). Field Guide to the Plants of the Falkland Islands.
1st. Ed. Pub. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2019 pp.xiii, 404 with 500 colour photos. Large 8vo. New softback. RRP £80.00.
‘Field Guide to the Plants of the Falkland Islands’ is the output from a collaboration between scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Falklands Conservation. With recent additions to the flora, there are now 181 vascular plant species recorded as native to the Islands, including one natural hybrid, as well as 14 vascular plant species that are endemic to the Falklands and therefore found nowhere else. This new comprehensive feld guide covers over 300 species, including both native and non-native, from 14 broad habitat types.
£72.00 [ref: 58202]

Hermans, J. & C. (et al). Orchids of Madagascar.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Kew Publishing. 2007 pp.398 pages, with colour plates, b/w. photos and line drawings. 4to. New hardback (with very minor spotting to top-edge of text block) in new dw. RRP £150.00.
A new edition of a now classic work, with much additional information on distribution, habitat and flowering times. The number of colour photographs has been greatly increased to cover over 250 orchids, and line drawings of new species added in an appendix.
£90.00 [ref: 47784]

Hermans, J. et al. Orchids of Madagascar
2nd. Rev. Ed. Pub. Kew 2009 pp.398 pages, with colour plates, b/w. photos and line drawings. 4to. A new hardback in new dw. RRP £97.00.
A new edition of a now classic work, with much additional information on distribution, habitat and flowering times. The number of colour photographs has been greatly increased to cover over 250 orchids, and line drawings of new species added in an appendix.
£92.00 [ref: 50144]

Holyoak, D.T. The Distribution of Bryophytes in Ireland. An Annotated Review of the Occurrence of Liverworts and Mosses in the Irish Vice-Counties, Based Mainly on the Records of the British Bryological Society.
1st. Ed. Pub. Broadleaf Books. 2003 pp.564 with CD-ROM. 4to. New hardback. RRP £55.00.
Accompanied by a CD-ROM which contains all of the vice-county records from the text of the book in a searchable format, allowing lists to be generated for each vice-county, locality, year, collector, or publication.
£35.00 [ref: 55341]

Hooker, Joseph Dalton. Joseph Hooker’s Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya.
1st. Ed. Fac. Pub. Kew Publishing. 2017 pp.ix,14 plus 30 colour plates with accompanying text. Small folio. New hardback. RRP £25.00
Joseph Hooker’s plant hunting trip to Sikkim-Himalaya between 1848 and 1851 resulted in a much celebrated collection of Rhododendrons. Walter Hood Fitch was chosen to bring Hooker’s line drawings of these wonderful plants to life through the production of colour lithographs for inclusion in Hooker’s ‘Rhododendrons of Sikkim Himalaya’ (published 1849-1851). This superb facsimile edition is reproduced from an original held at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. All three parts of the original book are brought together, with all 30 plates beautifully reproduced alongside Hooker's original descriptions.
£23.50 [ref: 57095]

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Hoppe, Ansgar. A Field Guide to the Flowers of the Alps.
Pub. Pelagic Publishing. 2013 pp.192 with colour photos. Small 8vo. A new softback. Last two copies.
Simple and reliable identification of more than 500 mountain flowers, by flower colour and flower shape.
£19.99 [ref: 49323]

Ing, Bruce. Biodiversity in the North West: The Mildews of Cheshire, Lancashire and Cumbria.
1st. Ed. Pub. Uni. of Chester Press. 2020 pp.viii, 68 with colour photos. 8vo. New softback.
A detailed catalogue of all the species ever recorded in the region. The records date back to the nineteenth century but are mostly concentrated in the last sixty years, up to the present.
£10.99 [ref: 59371]

Ing, Bruce. Biodiversity in the North West: The Puffballs, Earthballs and Other Gasteroid Fungi of Cheshire, Lancashire, Cumbria and the Isle of Man.
1st. Ed. Pub. Uni. of Chester Press. 2024 pp.viii, 55 with colour photos. 8vo. New softback.
After a short introduction to the biology of the fungi, the physical and biological environment of the North West and the Isle of Man is described. The main part of the book is a detailed catalogue of all the species recorded in the region, with information about their ecology, distribution and abundance.
£10.99 [ref: 68140]