Parham, J.W. Plants of the Fiji Islands.
Rev. Ed. Pub. Suva Govt. Printer. 1972 pp.xv, 462, xxix. with colour frontis., b/w. photos. and line drawings. Large 8vo. Ownership insc. in pencil to ffep. Fine hardback.
The ‘Plants of the Fiji Islands’ is based on ‘Fijian Plant Names’, published in 1942 and its purpose, like the latter, was to assist and encourage a wider public interest in and knowledge of, the indigenous plants of the Fiji Islands.
£22.00 [ref: 65824]

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Parris, B.S., & Beaman, R.S. and J.H.. The Plants of Mount Kinabalu. 1. Ferns and Fern Allies.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG Kew. 1992 pp.165 with col. frontis. and four col. plates. Large 8vo. Fine softback. From the library of Prof. Grenville (Gren) Lucas OBE, much loved botanist and conservationist with inscription from one of the authors: ‘To Gren Lucas, with great appreciation for making this possible, John Beaman 5th Feb. 1992’. Gren is thanked formally in the Acknowledgements.
Mount Kinabalu, in Borneo, has an extremely rich and diverse flora. This volume lists over 600 species of ferns and fern allies, with notes on ecology and altitudinal range, and a list of material examined.
£22.50 [ref: 66959]

Phillips, E.P. The Genera of South African Flowering Plants. Botanical Survey of South Africa. Memoir No. 10.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cape Times. 1926 pp.702. 4to. Hardback. Ownership inscription on ffep. (dated Kenya 13/1/30). Minor spotting to ends o/w. contents fine. Original printed boards in thor. vg. condition.
Produced to meet the demand for a handy account of South African Phanerogams.
£15.00 [ref: 50120]

Pickering, H. Wild Flowers of Mombacho Nicaragua. Flores Silvestres del Mombacho.
1st. Ed. Pub. Botanical Research Inst. of Texas. 2006 pp.217 with colour photos. throughout. 8vo. Ownership insc. in pencil to half-title. Fine softback with gently sunned spine. Bilingual in English and Spanish.
Covers the whole of Volcan Mombacho including both the evergreen, humid forest above 800m and the dry, deciduous forest below this level.
£14.50 [ref: 65877]

Polunin, I. Plants and Flowers of Malaysia.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Times Editions. 1991 pp.159 with colour photographs throughout. 8vo. Light spotting to top-edge of text block, o/w. a fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
This book compares some of the rare and common plants of this incredibly rich flora. The main vegetation types, both natural and human influenced, are described in the first part of the book, and in the second 170 species are studied in detail with full colour photos and extended captions.
£5.00 [ref: 35911]

Polunin, I. Plants and Flowers of Malaysia.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Times Editions. 1992 pp.159 with colour photographs throughout. 8vo. Light spotting to top-edge of text block, o/w. a fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
This book compares some of the rare and common plants of this incredibly rich flora. The main vegetation types, both natural and human influenced, are described in the first part of the book, and in the second 170 species are studied in detail with full colour photos and extended captions.
£5.00 [ref: 46740]

Polunin, O. Flowers of Greece and the Balkans.
1st. Ed. Pub. Oxford. 1980 pp.xvi, 592 plus 64 pages. A total of 80 pages of colour illus. and 28 pages of line drawings. VG. plus in same dw.
£50.00 [ref: 40269]

Polunin, O. Flowers of Greece and the Balkans. A Field Guide.
1st. Ed. Pub. OUP. 1980 pp.xv, 592 with a total of 80 pages of colour illus. and 28 pages of line drawings, endpaper maps. 8vo. Small mark to prelims o/w. a fine hardback in vg. plus. dw.
Almost 3000 species of flowering plants are named or described, and keyed.
£16.00 [ref: 41246]

Pooley, E. Mountain Flowers. A Field Guide to the Flora of the Drakensberg and Lesotho.
1st. Ed. Pub. Flora Publications Trust. 2003 pp.320 with over 1,300 colour photos, and dist. maps throughout. 8vo. Presentation copy from the author to Peter and Stella Hitchins. Fine hardback. Out-of-print in hardback.
Peter Michael Hitchins (1940-2019) was a well-known South African conservationist and founder of the Game Rangers Association of Africa.
£22.50 [ref: 61523]

Pooley, Elsa. Flowers, Grasses, Ferns and Fungi. Southern African Green Guide.
Pub. Southern. 1998 pp.64 with colour photographs. 8vo. A fine softback, with a few neat annotations in ink.
£15.00 [ref: 49296]