Avray Tipping, H. English Gardens.
Pub. Country Life. 1925 pp.lxiv, 375 profusely illustrated with over 500 photographs and drawings. Spine ends showing wear and boards blemished in places. AEG. Contents in fine condition. Folio.
‘This volume illustrates and describes fifty-two English gardens as they are in our own times. Some of them are new creations, but many have links more or less strong with the past, so that, despite alterations arising from passage of time and change of taste, we can get, through them, a glimpse of what Tudor, Stuart and Hanoverian gardening was like.’.
£175.00 [ref: 38283]

Avray Tipping, H. The Garden of To-Day.
1st. Ed. Pub. Martin Hopkinson Ltd. 1933 pp.288 with b/w. photos. and illus. 8vo. Minor spotting to fore-edge of text block, o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards nr. fine.
Tipping (1855–1933) was a French-born British writer on country houses and gardens, a garden designer, and Architectural Editor of Country Life magazine for 17 years. This work is divided into four chapters ‘Garden Making and Garden Features’, ‘The Garden’s Four Seasons’, ‘Trees and Shrubs’ and ‘Perennials, Annuals and Bulbs’.
£150.00 [ref: 66949]

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Axelrod, Dr. H. African Cichlids of Lakes Malawi and Tanganyika.
3rd. Ed. T.F.H. 1975 pp.288 with colour photographs throughout. A vg. copy in spine-faded illus. boards.
£10.00 [ref: 41500]

Axelrod, H.R. & Burgess, W.E. Saltwater Aquarium Fishes.
3rd. Ed. Pub. T.F.H. 1987 pp.384 with very many illus. A vg, copy in illus. boards.
£2.00 [ref: 21797]

Aziz, L. Hummingbirds. A Beginner’s Guide.
1st. Ed. Pub. Firefly Books. 2002 pp.64 with colour photos., throughout. 4to. Nr. fine softback.
With chapers on physical make-up, behaviour and ecology, all superbly illustrated with fine colour photographs.
£4.00 [ref: 57115]

Babey, G. New Forest Painters. A Celebration of the New Forest National Park. Wildlife Art Series.
1st. Ed. Pub. Langford Press. 2011 pp.132 with illustrations throughout. Royal 4to. New hardback in new dw. Title Number 23 in the series. RRP £38.00. Last two copies.
Featuring works by Barry Peckham, Barry Miles, Janet Langford, Richard Tratt, Peter Frost and Hilary Tratt. This collection of superb paintings has been chosen to convey the wonderful diversity of wildlife and habitat within the New Forest boundaries.
£29.50 [ref: 54586]

Babington, C. Flora Bathoniensis: or A catalogue of the Plants indigenous to the vicinity of Bath.
Pub. E. Collings. 1834 pp.iv, 62 with uncut index. Small 8vo. Very minor spotting, some neat, historical notes to two pages of text, o/w. contents fine. Minor rubbing to contemporary marbled boards. More recent, sympathetic, spine. Overall a thor. vg. copy. Comes with a facsimile of ‘A new Map of the Country twelve miles Round Bath from a late Survey’ that accompanied the copy of Flora Bathoniensis held in Bath Reference Library.
£40.00 [ref: 47405]

Babington, C.C. Flora of Cambridgeshire: or A Catalogue of Plants Found in the County of Cambridge, with References to Former Catalogues, and the Localities of the Rare Species.
1st. Ed. Pub. van Voorst. 1860 pp.lvi, 327. Small 8vo. Some tick marks to text in pencil otherwise text in very clean condition. Fold-out map at front of book with 3 small spots of foxing. Scattered foxing to end-papers. Original boards in thoroughly vg. condition.
£75.00 [ref: 45915]

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Babington, Charles, C. Flora Bathoniensis: Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Indigenous to the Vicinity of Bath.
Pub. E. Collings. 1834 pp.vi, 62, (i), plus index. Small 8vo. Hardback. Contents fine. Original cloth with gilt lettering in good to vg. condition.
£30.00 [ref: 68527]

Bacon, Lionel. Alpines.
Rep. Pub. Garden Book Club. 1975 pp.246 with b/w. photos. & line drawings. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback in vg. plus dw.
A comprehensive survey of the cultivation of alpine and rock plants.
£3.00 [ref: 67740]