Acloque, A. Flore de France, Contenant La Description de Toutes les Especes Indigenes.
1st. Ed. Pub. J.-B. Bailliere & Fils. 1894 pp.816 with 2,165 b/w. illus. 8vo. Softback. Minor foxing, o/w. contents fine. Sections uncut. In original paper wrappers, as published, lightly creased, o/w. thor. vg.
£30.00 [ref: 61262]

Acton, Bryan. & Duncan, Peter. Making Mead. A complete guide to the making of sweet and dry Mead, Melomel, Metheglin, Hippocras, Pyment and Cyser.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Amateur Winemaker Publications. 2012 pp.61 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Fine softback.
In addition to mead-making techniques, this practical book provides forty-two recipes for mead and various other honey drinks.
£4.00 [ref: 68919]

Adam, Brother. Bee-Keeping at Buckfast Abbey.
Rep. Pub. Northern Bee Books. 1987 pp. 122 with figs. A new softback.
Brother Adam, was a Benedictine monk, beekeeper, an authority on bee breeding and the developer of the Buckfast bee. "He was unsurpassed as a breeder of bees. He talked to them, he stroked them. He brought to the hives a calmness that, according to those who saw him at work, the sensitive bees responded to." – The Economist, 14 September 1996.
£11.50 [ref: 48600]

Adam, Brother. Bee-keeping at Buckfast Abbey. With a Section on Meadmaking.
4th. Ed. Pub. British Bee Publications. 1987 pp.122 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback in thor. vg. dw.
The secrets of successful apiculture explained by that most famous of beekeepers, Brother Adam.
£30.00 [ref: 64401]

Adam, Brother. Breeding the Honeybee. A Contribution to the Science of Beebreeding.
Rep. Pub. Northern Bee Books. 1987 pp.118 with figs. 8vo. A new softback copy.
£12.50 [ref: 48601]

Adam, Brother. In Search of the Best Strains of Bees. And the Results of the Evaluation of the Crosses and Races.
Fac. Rep. Pub. Northern Bee Books / Dadant & Sons. 2010 pp.206 with plates and photograph frontispiece. 8vo. A new softback.
£12.50 [ref: 48466]

Adam, Brother. In Search of the Best Strains of Bees. And the Results of the Evaluation of the Crosses and Races.
Fac. Rep. Pub. Northern Bee Books. 2010 pp.206 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Fine softback.
£10.00 [ref: 73047]

Adam, P. Saltmarsh Ecology.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cambridge Uni. Press. 1990 pp.xii, 461 with b/w. figs. and illus. 8vo. Signature. Fine hardback in fine dw., gently sunned on spine.
This broad introduction to the ecology of the saltmarsh devotes particular attention to the diversity of saltmarsh vegetation worldwide, its ecophysiological characteristics, and its importance in functioning ecosystems.
£40.00 [ref: 59412]

Adams, Arthur. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang. Crustacea, Part I & II.
1st. Ed. Pub. Reeve, Benham and Reeve. 1848-49 Two parts bound in one with 13 plates (four hand-coloured, nine uncoloured). Large 4to. Hardback. From lib. of Alexander Patience and more recently an academic library. With original wrappers bound in. Contents nr. fine. Period cloth boards with more recent library strengthening and labelling. Scarce.
Arthus Adams was assistant surgeon on board H.M.S. Samarang (an Atholl Class ship of the Royal Navy launched by the East India Company in 1822) during the survey of the Malay Archipelago between 1843 and 1846. Adams edited the ‘Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang and he collaborated with Adam White in the description of Crustacea from the survey.
£325.00 [ref: 62678]

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Adams, B. The Flowering of The Pacific. Being an account of Joesph Banks’ travels in the South Seas and the story of his Florilegium.
1st. Ed. Pub. William Collins. 1986 pp.194 with col. & b/w. illus. 4to. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw with some sunning to spine.
The narrative of ‘The Flowering of the Pacific’ encompasses the entire three-year voyage of HMS Endeavour to her main landfalls at Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, Tierra del Fuego, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia and Java.
£14.00 [ref: 68631]