Lyte, Charles. Frank Kingdon-Ward. The Last of the Great Plant Hunters.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Murray. 1989 pp.xvi, 218 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Fine hardback nr. fine dw. with some gentle sunning.
A vivid portrait of the intrepid traveller and plant hunter.
£7.50 [ref: 66976]

Lyte, Charles. Frank Kingdon-Ward. The Last of the Great Plant Hunters.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Murray. 1989 pp.xvi, 218 with b/w. map. 8vo. A vg. hdbk. in vg. dw.
£10.00 [ref: 51864]

Lyte, Charles. Sir Joseph Banks. 18th Century Explorer, Botanist and Entrepreneur.
1st. Ed. Pub. David & Charles. 1980 pp.248 with colour and b/w. illus. Royal 8vo. VG. hardback in vg. dw.
£9.50 [ref: 64974]

Lyte, Charles. The Plant Hunters.
1st. Ed. Pub. Orbis. 1983 pp.191 with colour and b/w. photos. and illus. Tall 8vo. Dust marking to top edge of text-block. A thor. vg. hdbk. in thor. vg. dw.
£9.00 [ref: 51841]

MacDonald, Norman. The Orchid Hunters. A Jungle Adventure.
1st. Ed. Pub. Robert Hale. 1940 pp.282 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Hardback. Light spotting to fore-edges of text block and to ends, o/w. contents fine. A little text block lean. Original green cloth boards thor. vg.
An interesting account about the author’s, and one of his friends, orchid hunting adventures in the jungles of Columbia and Venezuela. They sought and brought back rare orchid species.
£35.00 [ref: 67435]

Macqueen Cowan, Dr. J. (Ed.). The Journeys and and Plant Introductions of George Forrest.
1st. Ed. Pub. Oxford Univ. Press. 1952 pp.xi, 252 with col. & b/w. plates and col. folding map. 8vo. Light spotting to fore-edges of text block and to ends, o/w. a fine hardback in good to vg. dw.
George Forrest (1873–1932) was a Scottish botanist, who became one of the first western explorers of China's then remote southwestern province of Yunnan, generally regarded as the most biodiverse province in the country. Altogether, Forrest made seven trips to Yunnan, collecting samples and seeds for the Herbarium and for avid collectors willing to pay for new species to add to their collections. In total, he brought back perhaps 31,000 plant specimens.
£27.50 [ref: 31503]

Mitchell, A.L. & House, S. David Douglas. Explorer and Botanist.
1st. Ed. Pub. Arum Press. 1999 pp.xiii, 241 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Fine hardback in thor. vg. dw.
A biography of the Scottish botanist and plant-hunter. He devoted his attention to North America where he was the first to collect and describe 210 species, not least the tree which bears his name.
£4.00 [ref: 43310]

Morwood, W. Traveller in a Vanished Landscape. The Life and Times of David Douglas, Botanical Explorer.
Pub. Potter. 1973 pp.244 with illus. VG. in good to vg. dw.
£18.00 [ref: 36664]

Musgrave, Toby & Will. An Empire of Plants. People and Plants that changed the World.
1st. Pub. Cassell. 2000 pp.192 with many fine illustrations. Fine copy in similar dw.
For over 300 years , plants have been at the heart of Europe’s trade and power. This book explores the stories of seven plants -tea, tobacco, sugar, opium, quinine, cotton and rubber. These plants changed the destinies of countries from America to China, India to Brazil.
£15.00 [ref: 36403]

O’Brian, P. Joseph Banks. A Life.
Pub. The Harvill Press. 1997 pp.328 with frontis. map. 8vo. Fine softback.
Patrick O’Brian’s well researched and absorbing biography of one of the major figures in the history of natural science.
£10.00 [ref: 68185]