Holway, T. The Flower of Empire. An Amazonian Water Lily, the Quest to make it Bloom, and the World it Created.
1st. Ed. Pub. Oxford Uni. Press. 2013 pp.xii, 306 with colour and b/w. illus. 8vo. A new hardback in new dw.
Based on original research, this is the first book written on the remarkable story of the Victoria Regia Water Lily in the broader context of Victorian England.
£18.99 [ref: 54440]

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. A 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]

Howard, Sarah. A Year in the Life of Westonbirt.
1st. Ed. Pub. Frances Lincoln. 2009 pp.112 packed with stunning colour photography. Large 4to. A new hdbk. in new dw. RRP. £16.99.
A celebration of the beauty and longevity of one of the greatest tree collections in the world - Westonbirt Arboretum - this is the first illustrated book on Westonbirt for nearly twenty years.
£14.50 [ref: 51629]

Huss, J. et al. Broadleaf Forestry in Ireland.
1st. Ed. Pub. COFORD. 2016 pp.xii, 496 with colour photos and b/w. text figs. Small 4to. New hardback in new dw.
Provides a comprehensive suite of silvicultural and management guidelines to grow high quality trees to meet market demands. The material is presented in an accessible, easily understood and well illustrated format.
£65.00 [ref: 60949]

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 Slime Moulds of Cheshire.
1st. Ed. Pub. Uni. of Chester Press. 2011 pp.x,76 with colour photos. and dist maps. 8vo. New softback.
A detailed catalogue of all the species ever recorded in the district. The records date back into the 19th century but are mostly concentrated in the last 40 years.
£11.99 [ref: 59370]

Ing, Bruce. Biodiversity in the North West: The Slime Moulds of Lancashire and Cumbria.
1st. Ed. Pub. Uni. of Chester Press. 2020 pp.viii, 76 with colour photos. 8vo. New softback.
A companion volume to ‘The Slime Moulds of Cheshire’, this is 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: 59369]

Ing, Bruce. The Fungi of North East Wales: A Mycota for Vice-Counties 50 (Denbighshire) and 51 (Flintshire).
1st. Ed. Pub. Uni. of Chester Press. 2020 pp.ix, 301 with colour photos. 4to. New softback.
A detailed account of all the groups of organisms that now and in the past have been considered to be fungi, which have been recorded in North East Wales. The records began in the late eighteenth century but the systematic recording started in 1969, when the author first came to the area.
£19.99 [ref: 59372]