Forty, Michelle & Rich, Tim. (Transcribers and Editiors). The Botanist. The Botanical Diary of Eleanor Vachell. (1879-1948).
Pub. National Museum Wales. 2005 pp.227 with a b/w. illus. 4to. Printed sheets in publisher’s wrapper. Fine in thor. vg. card covers. Loosely inserted is a three-page booklet with two obituaries of Eleanor Vachell written by H.A. Hyde and J.E. Lousely. Out-of-print. Scarce.
Eleanor Vachell was a highly regarded amateur botanist. This diary predominantly tells the story of her botanical adventures with her friends during their quest to paint every British plant in the wild. She nearly completed it too, missing only 13 of approx. 1,800 species.
£40.00 [ref: 68369]

Graustein, J.E. Nuttall’s Travels into the Old Northwest. An unpublished 1810 diary.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Chronica Botanica Co. 1950-51 pp.vii, 88 with b/w. illus. plates. Royal 8vo. A vg. softback, with bump to top right hand corner.
‘A fascinating insight into this fairly unknown English botanist and zoologist.’
£30.00 [ref: 51929]

Grierson, M., et al. An English Florilegium. Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, Fruits, Herbs. The Tradescant Legacy.
1st. Ed. Pub. Thames and Hudson. 1987 pp.240 with 52 colour plates depicting 150 plants. Crown folio. A fine hdbk. in nr. fine dw.
William Stearn introduces this work with an absorbing account of the John Tradescants, the remarkable father and son gardeners and plant hunters. In artwork commissioned for this book, Mary Grierson illustrates 150 of the plants that the Tradescants knew, grew and in some cases, introduced to 17th Century England. Christopher Brickell supports this with extensive notes describing the plates and setting the plants in their botanical and horticultural context.
£40.00 [ref: 49374]

Harvey, A.G. Douglas of the Fir. A Biography of David Douglas, Botanist.
1st. Ed. Pub. Harvard. 1947 pp.x, 290 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Neat inscription dated 1948 to half-title. Front-turn in of dw. attached to ffep. Contents fine. Original cloth nr. fine just lightly rubbed on tips
An intrepid plant hunter, David Douglas listed 215 plants, not least the Douglas Fir, named in his honour.
£20.00 [ref: 67156]

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Hepper, F.N. and Friis, I. The Plants of Pehr Forsskal’s ‘Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica’. Collected on the Royal Danish Expedition to Egypt and the Yemen 1761-63.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG. in assoc. with Botanical Museum, Copenhagen. 1994 pp.xii, 400 with b/w. figs. 8vo. Nr. fine softback. Out-of-print. Very scarce.
Pehr Forsskål was a member of the Royal Danish Expedition to Egypt and the Yemen, 1761-1763. He died in the Yemen, but his plants and notes were brought back to Europe by Niebuhr, the sole survivor of the expedition. This book gives a history of the expedition, provides a list of all Forsskål's collections with their location, references to them, and present and former identifications.
£40.00 [ref: 65246]

Hooker, Joseph Dalton. Himalayan Journals; Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains, &c.
New Rev. Ed. Pub. John Murray, London. 1855 Two volumes with b/w. wood engravings. 8vo. Hardbacks. Endpapers darkened, only very occ. light spotting o/w. contents fine. Cloth boards with gilt lettered leather spine labels in thor. vg. / nr. fine condition. A very pleasing set indeed.
£200.00 [ref: 66966]

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Huxley, Leonard. Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. Based on Materials Collected and Arranged by Lady Hooker.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Murray. 1918 Two volume set with portrait frontis. to each volume and one fold-out map as published. 8vo. Hardbacks. With bookplate of A. Logan Turner, an eminent Scottish surgeon, to front pastedowns of both volumes. Small lib. stamp (possibly that of a private library) to title page and p.41 of both vols. Cords stretched at p.340 in Vol. I., o/w. contents fine. Original navy blue bindings with gilt armorials to front boards and gilt lettering to spine in thor. vg. / nr. fine condition. With a copy of John Murray’s original, 4-page, illustrated pre-publication advertisement for the ‘Life and Letters’ loosely inserted. Also comes with a lengthy article on Sir Joseph Hooker, in support of the publication of ‘Life and Letters’, from The Spectator (dated August 17, 1918) loosely inserted. Unique set.
£175.00 [ref: 66967]

Huxley, Leonard. Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. Based on Materials Collected and Arranged by Lady Hooker.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Murray. 1918 Two volume set with portrait frontis. to each volume, b/w. illus. and one fold-out map. 8vo. Hardbacks. Ex-Lib. Minor spotting to ends o/w. contents fine. With publisher’s errata for Vol. 1. Original navy blue bindings with gilt armorials to front boards and gilt lettering to spine in thor. vg. condition.
£65.00 [ref: 68190]

Illingworth, J. & Routh, J. (Eds.). Reginald Farrer. Dalesman, Planthunter, Gardener.
1st. Ed. Pub. Univ. of Lancaster. 1991 pp.x, 102 with b/w. photos. and illus. Large 8vo. Nr. fine softback.
A monograph published to coincide with an exhibition prepared as a tribute to the life and work of Reginald Farrer, field botanist, traveller, writer, plant collector and rock garden enthusiast.
£5.00 [ref: 58093]

Kingdon Ward, F. Plant Hunter’s Paradise.
Rep. Pub. Waterstone. 1985 pp.347. 8vo. Nr. fine softback.
This book is an accout of an expedition to Northern Burma (Myanmar) in 1930. Exercising his phenomenal memory, Kingdon Ward retraces his steps along a bridle path where, eight years earlier, he had seen a rare orchid. To his delight he found the plant and introduced Paphiopedilum to the Western World.
£3.50 [ref: 47653]