Baker, Richard St. Barbe. Among the Trees. Vol II.
Ltd. Ed. Pub. Puncknoll. 1941 pp.xvi, 100 plus many b/w. photographic plates. 4to. Hardback. Lower fore-corners very gently bumped o/w. a fine hardback. Limited to 500 copies. Attractively bound in half vellum and cream cloth boards.
Written following the success of his first book - ‘Among the Trees’. As such it is a standalone and complimentary volume. A beautifully produced meditation on trees.
£60.00 [ref: 45217]

Baker, Richard St. Barbe. Green Glory. The Story of the Forests of the World.
1st. Ed. Pub. Lutterworth Press. 1948 pp.239 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback in vg. dw. Signed by the author to title page. With five ‘Men of the Trees’ stamps tipped in to ffep. A unique copy.
Environmentalist Richard St. Barbe Baker’s work touched the lives of many people. The stamps relate to St. Barbe’s proposal to plant a band of trees across Africa to stop the southern advance of the Sahara.
£35.00 [ref: 61068]

Baker, Richard St. Barbe. Men of the Trees. In the Mahogany Forests of Kenya and Nigeria.
1st. English Ed. Pub. Allen & Unwin. 1932 pp.xvii, 282 with b/w. plates. 8vo. Hardback. With very charming dedication from author dated 25th. Jan. 1934 to half-title. Light spotting to ends and occ. internally o/w. contents fine. Some text block lean. Original cloth boards in vg. plus condition with some sunning to spine.
The charming dedication reads ‘Frederic Lee, with sincere regards from his fellow Man of the Trees, Richard St Barbe Baker, Ashbridge Club, Leicester, 25th Jan 1934’.
£28.00 [ref: 65214]

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Baker, Richard St. Barbe. Trees. A Book of the Seasons.
1st. Ed. 2nd. Imp. Pub. Lindsay Drummond. 1940 pp.48 plus b/w. photos. throughout. 4to. Author’s inscription to half-title ‘To Lady Grogan, with all good wishes from a friend of Sir Hugh, Richard St Barbe Baker, 15th October 1941’. Contents exceptionally clean and fine. More recently rebound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. A super copy.
Baker, famously known as the "Man of the Trees," was a lifelong advocate for forest preservation and this volume contains forty eight tree studies by the author.
£40.00 [ref: 67119]

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Baker, T. and Leston, G.L. Land and Engineering Surveying. For Students and Practical Use.
29th. Ed. Pub. The Technical Press. 1945 pp.xii, 248 with b/w. plates (one folding) & text figs. 8vo. With ownership insc. of ‘Milner White’ to ffep. Contents fine. Original cloth boards thor. vg.
A textbook for students beginning with a chapter on practical geometry.
£10.00 [ref: 67746]

Baldock, D. W. Bees of Surrey.
1st. Ed. Pub. Surrey Wildlife Trust. 2008 pp.303 with colour photos. and dist. maps. 8vo. Beekeeper’s bookplate. Fine hardback in fine dw.
This wonderful book covers all 222 different species recorded in Surrey to date illustrating nearly 100 of them in a series of superb colour photographs. In addition to information on the status and distribution of each species the book also contains chapters on the behaviour of bees, where to find them and how to identify them.
£15.00 [ref: 64207]

Baldwin, R. Marine Life of Arabian Seas.
Pub. SeaWords. 2005 pp.v, 209 with excellent colour photography throughout. A thoroughly vg. copy in dw. wich is a little bumped at corners. Text duplicated in English and Arabic. Scarce.
£20.00 [ref: 46836]

Balfour, J.H. and Sadler, J. Flora of Edinburgh. Being a list of plants found in the vicinity of Edinburgh.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Adam and Charles Black. 1871 pp.vii, 188 with b/w. folding map. Small 8vo. Hardback. Tick marks to margins and occ. underlining to text. Original green cloth boards vg plus. Scarce second edition.
A list of the ferns, mosses hepaticae, lichens and characeae were added to this edition.
£50.00 [ref: 67114]

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Balick, M.J. (et al). Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Belize. With Common Names and Uses.
1st. Ed. Pub. New York Botanical Garden Press. 2000 pp.ix, 246 with b/w. figs. Small 4to. Owner’s details in pencil to half-title. Fine softback.
Contains 3,408 native and naturalised vascular plants in 1,219 genera and 209 families. For each species the following information is provided: synonyms, references, uses (locally and regionally), habit, voucher and type specimens. Cultivated plants are treated separately at the end of each family.
£75.00 [ref: 67635]

Ball, Caroline. Heritage Apples.
1st. Ed. Pub. Bodleian. 2019 pp.250 with colour illus. throughout. Small 4to. New hardback. RRP £25.00.
This book features apples from Robert Hogg and Henry Graves Bull’s ‘Herefordshire Pomona’ (Pub. 1876-85) that are still cultivated today. After an overview of the fruit’s cultivation Caroline Ball profiles 90 examples. Accompanying her selection with Victorian watercolours, she details each apple’s flavour, texture and use, and offers horticultural notes.
£22.50 [ref: 71340]