Allan, M. Basic Honey Processing. Beekeeping in a Nutshell. No. 5.
1st. Ed. Pub. BBNO/NBB. [nd.] pp.[7]. 4to. Nr. fine softback.
‘Beekeeping in a Nutshell’ is the low cost series, written by experts, which answer all your beekeeping questions.
£1.50 [ref: 70375]
Allan, M. Cleaning and Marketing Honey. Beekeeping in a Nutshell. No. 6.
1st. Ed. Pub. BBNO/NBB. [nd.] pp.[8]. 4to. Nr. fine softback.
‘Beekeeping in a Nutshell’ is the low cost series, written by experts, which answer all your beekeeping questions.
£1.50 [ref: 70377]
Allan, M. Darwin and His Flowers. The Key to Natural Selection.
1st. Ed. Pub. Faber. 1977 pp.318 with col. & b/w. photos. and b/w. illus. 8vo. Spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w a fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
What has never been pointed out about Darwin and the ‘Origin’ is that it was through his studies of flowers that he put his Natural Selection theory to the test. For the first time, in this work, the story is knowledgably and sensitively told by Mea Allan. She provides the reader with a profound and delightfully human picture of the man who ‘could not tell a daisy from a dandelion’ but who ended by teaching the botanists.
£7.50 [ref: 71277]
Allan, M. Darwin and his Flowers.
Pub. Faber and Faber. 1977 pp. 318 with numerous colour and b/w. photographs and illus. A vg. copy in same dw.
It was through his studies on flowers that Darwin put his theory of Natural selection to the test. From Darwin’s own accounts of his work with plants, and from the mass of original material he left plus the unpublished letters, Mea Allan gives us a profound and delightful picture of this great man.
£35.00 [ref: 37301]
Allan, M. Darwin and His Flowers. The Key to Natural Selection.
1st. Ed. Pub. Faber. 1977 pp.318 with colour and b/w. photographs; b/w. illus. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
What has never been pointed out about Darwin and the ‘Origin’ is that it was through his studies of flowers that he put his Natural Selection theory to the test. For the first time, in this work, the story is knowledgably and sensitively told by Mea Allan. She provides the reader with a profound and delightfully human picture of the man who ‘could not tell a daisy from a dandelion’ but who ended by teaching the botanists.
£9.50 [ref: 64894]
Allan, M. E.A. Bowles & his Garden. at Myddleton House 1865-1954.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Faber. 1975 pp. 264 with plates. VG. in dw.
£18.00 [ref: 31911]
Allan, M. E.A. Bowles and his Garden at Myddelton House 1865-1954.
Pub. Faber and Faber. 1975 pp. 264 with 46 b/w. and colour plates throughout. A vg. copy in same dw.
£18.00 [ref: 38571]
Allan, M. Starting Out. Beekeeping in a Nutshell. No. 1.
1st. Ed. Pub. BBNO/NBB. [nd.] pp.[8]. 4to. Nr. fine softback.
‘Beekeeping in a Nutshell’ is the low cost series, written by experts, which answer all your beekeeping questions.
£1.50 [ref: 70371]
Allan, M. The Tradescants. Their Plants, Gardens and Museum 1570-1662.
1st. Ed. Pub. Michael Joseph, 1964 pp.345 with colour frontis., and b/w. illus., plus fold-out genealogical table. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Includes John Tradescant the elder’s Plant List from 1634 and the ‘Musaeum Tradescantianum’ from 1656.
£20.00 [ref: 71868]