Polunin, O. & Smythies, B.E. Flowers of South-West Europe. A Field Guide.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Oxford Uni. Press. 1991 pp.xv. 480, with colour photos. and maps and b/w. illus. 8vo. Nr. fine softback.
Describes over 2,400 plants growing in South-western France, Portugal and Spain.
£15.00 [ref: 61224]

Polunin, O. & Smythies, B.E. Flowers of South-West Europe. A Field Guide.
1st. Ed. Pub. O.U.P. 1973 pp.xv, 480 with col. photos. & line drawings. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
The Iberian Peninsula is one of the richest botanical regions of Europe; this book is designed to enable the traveller to identify the majority of the areas wild flowers.
£7.50 [ref: 40268]

Polunin, O. & Stainton, A. Concise Flowers of the Himalaya.
1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. Oxford Uni. Press. 1990 pp.x, 283 with over 690 colour photos., plus 315 b/w. illus. 8vo. Signature to half-title. VG. plus softback.
£12.50 [ref: 58982]

Polunin, O. & Stainton, A. Flowers of the Himalaya.
1st. Ed. Rep. with Corrections Pub. OUP. 1985 pp.xxx, 580 with endpaper maps, col. photos. & line drawings. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw.
This is the first book of its kind for identifying the wild flowers of the Himalaya. There are descriptions of types of climate, geology, soils and altitude effects. There is also an account of where to go plant-hunting in the Himalayas and at what seasons of the year.
£9.50 [ref: 70260]

Polunin, O. and Huxley, A. Flowers of the Mediterranean.
4th. Rev. Imp. Pub. Chatto and Windus. 1972 pp.x, 260 with colour plates and line drawings. With pencilled in notes, comments and underlining. VG. in dw.
£20.00 [ref: 36215]

Polunin, O. and Huxley, A. Flowers of the Mediterranean.
1st. Ed. 2nd. Imp. Pub. Chatto and Windus. 1967 pp.xi, 257 with col. photos., line drawings & text figs. 8vo. Some spotting to top-edge of text block o/w. a fine hardback in vg. dw.
Polunin and Huxley’s classic text to the flora of the Mediterranean, from Spain to Greece, Turkey and Lebanon.
£4.00 [ref: 70279]

Polunin, O. and Huxley, A. Flowers of the Mediterranean.
1st. Ed. 3rd. Imp. Pub. Chatto and Windus. 1990 pp.xi, 260 with 311 col. photos., line drawings & text figs. 8vo. VG. plus softback.
Polunin and Huxley’s classic text to the flora of the Mediterranean, from Spain to Greece, Turkey and Lebanon.
£3.50 [ref: 70292]

Praeger, R. Lloyd. Open-Air Studies in Botany: Sketches of British Wild-Flowers in their Homes.
1st. Ed. Pub. Charles Griffin. 1897 pp.xiii, 266 with 7 b/w. photographic plates and text figs., plus 56-page publisher’s catalogue. 8vo. Hardback. Neat early signature. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block, only very occ. spotting to margins internally o/w. contents fine. Original cloth thor. vg. to nr. fine.
Praeger was instrumental in developing advanced methodologies in Irish botany and was involved in the establishment of 'paleoecology' as a distinct field of study in Ireland.
£65.00 [ref: 64764]

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Preston, C.D. Pondweeds of Great Britain and Ireland. BSBI Handbook No. 8.
1st. Ed. Pub. BSBI. 1995 pp.352 with b/w. illus. and dist. maps. 8vo. Fine softback, with minor spotting to fore-edges of text block and gently sunned to spine.
Covers the genera Potamogeton, Groenlandia, and Ruppia. Also useful for identifying pondweeds elsewhere in Europe.
£12.00 [ref: 68795]

Preston, C.D. & Croft, J.M. Aquatic Plants in Britain and Ireland.
1st. Ed. Pub. Harley Books. 1997 pp.365 with b/w. illus. and dist. maps. Large 8vo. Fine hardback. Out-of-print in hardback.
This is not principally an identification manual, but instead provides a summary of the distribution, habitat and reproductive biology of 200 taxa in 72 genera, with individual distribution maps.
£45.00 [ref: 56305]