Cox, P.A. and Banack, S.A. (Eds.). Islands, Plants, and Polynesians. An Introduction to Polynesian Ethnobotany.
1st. Ed. Pub. Dioscorides Press. 1991 pp.228 with b/w. tables and figs. Large 8vo. Ownership insc. in pencil to ffep. Fine hardback in dw. showing some sunning in places.
Essys on anthropology, linguistics, botany and horticulture are united in this collection, which aims to preserve the knowledge of plants and their uses that were part of traditional Polynesian lore.
£22.00 [ref: 65826]

Craig, R.T. The Mammillaria Handbook, with descriptions, illustrations, and key to the species of the Genus Mammillaria of the Cactacea.
1st. Ed. Pub. Abbey Garden Press. 1945 pp.xiv, 390 with 304 b/w. photographs. Large 8vo. Hardback. Contents fine. Original cloth boards thor vg.
£15.00 [ref: 15383]

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Cribb, P. & Butterfield, I. The Genus Pleione. A Kew Magazine Monograph.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG / Helm / Timber Press. 1988 pp.94 with col. & b/w. illus. and photos. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
A comprehensive listing of hybrids registered to date is provided, together with a cultivation calendar which experienced growers and novices will find invaluable. Highly authoritative, richly illustrated, The Genus Pleione is a book professional botanists, orchid growers and alpine gardeners should not be without.
£25.00 [ref: 71056]

Cullen, J. (Ed.). Handbook of North European Garden Plants. With Keys to Families and Genera.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cambridge Univ. Press. 2001 pp.vii, 640 with b/w. figs. 8vo. Nr. fine softback. In-print at £72.99.
Abridged version of the six-volume European Garden Flora, this handy single volume is a digest that considers familes and genera, but not species. It provides a means for the accurate identification of over 190 families and 2,220 genera of flowering plants cultivated out-of-doors in gardens in north-west Europe and in other geographical regions with a similar climate, including parts of North America.
£15.00 [ref: 68811]

Darlington, A. The Pocket Encyclopaedia of Plant Galls in Colour.
Rev. Ed. Pub. Blandford Press. 1975 pp.191 with col. photos. & illus. and b/w figs. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw.
A useful field guide to the commoner varieties of parasitic growths on plants. Includes the life histories of many of the causers of plant galls.
£8.50 [ref: 70864]

Darlington, A. The Pocket Encyclopaedia of Plant Galls in Colour.
1st. Ed. Pub. Blandford Press. 1968 pp.191 with colour photos. and illus. throughout. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw.
A useful field guide to the commoner varieties of parasitic growths on plants. Includes the life histories of many of the causers of plant galls.
£10.00 [ref: 61242]

Darlington, Arnold. The Pocket Encyclopaedia of Plant Galls in Colour.
Pub. Blandford. 1968 pp.191 with colour photographs. Previous owner’s neat signature on ffep. o/w. a fine hdbk. in fine dw.
£15.00 [ref: 48902]

Dawson, W.R. Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of The Linnean Society of London. Part I.- The Smith Papers.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Linnean Society. 1934 pp.114. 4to. Fine softback with some gentle sunning to spine.
The Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Sir James Edward Smith, M.D., F.R.S., First President of the Society.
£18.00 [ref: 68020]

Dawson, W.R. Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of The Linnean Society of London. Part IV.- Calendar of the Ellis Manuscripts.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Linnean Society. 1948 pp.104. 4to. Fine softback with some gentle sunning to card covers.
The Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of John Ellis, F.R.S.
£22.00 [ref: 68021]

de Bary, Dr. A. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns. Translated & Annotated by F.O. Bower & D.H. Scott.
1st. Ed. Pub. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1884 pp.xvi, 659 with 241 b/w. woodcuts. Large 8vo. Hardback. TEG. Remains of label to front paste down, inscription to ffep., signature to half-title. Some spotting to ends, occ. underlining and informed annotations o/w. contents fine. Original quarter leather over cloth boards showing some rubbing to extremities o/w. vg.
£75.00 [ref: 69653]