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Traveller in a Vanished Landscape. 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]

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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]

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Joseph Banks. 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]

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The Wood and the Trees. Pim, Sheila. The Wood and the Trees. A biography of Augustine Henry.
1st. Ed. Pub. Macdonald. 1966 pp.256 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Thor. vg. hardback in thor. vg. dw.
Augustine Henry, the Irish plantsman and sinologist, is best known for sending over 15,000 dry specimens and seeds and 500 plant samples to Kew Gardens in the United Kingdom

£8.50 [ref: 70251]

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Samuel, H.J. Wild Flower Hunter. The Story of Ellis Roan.
Pub. Constable. 1961 pp.151 with some text illus. plus colour frontis. A thor. vg. copy in sl. foxed dustwrapper.
£7.50 [ref: 43352]

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Wild Flower Hunter. Samuel, H.J. Wild Flower Hunter. The Story of Ellis Rowan.
1st. Ed. Pub. Constable. 1961 pp.151 with b/w. illus. Royal 8vo. A vg. hdbk. in vg. dw., darkened in places.
£7.00 [ref: 51898]

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Plantae Wilsonianae: Sargent, Charles Sprague (Ed). Plantae Wilsonianae: An Enumeration of the Woody Plants Collected in Western China for the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University During the Years 1907, 1908, & 1910 by E.H. Wilson.
Rep. Pub. Dioscorides Press, Oregon. 1988 Three volume set. 8vo. Light spotting to top edges of text-blocks o/w. fine hardbacks in fine dws. Out-of-print.
Reissue of this classic work on the Chinese flora, first published between 1913 and 1917, and listing 2,716 species.

£49.50 [ref: 65287]

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Seeds of Fortune. Shephard, S. Seeds of Fortune. A Gardening Dynasty.
1st. Ed. Pub. Bloomsbury. 2003 pp.xix, 300 with colour plates and b/w. illus. Large 8vo. Fine hardback in thor. vg. dw. Out-of-print.
A captivating account of adventure, big business and Veitch family intrigue in the horticultural world.

£10.00 [ref: 61222]

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Short, Philip. In Pursuit of Plants. Experiences of nineteenth & early twentieth century plant collectors.
1st. Ed. Pub. Timber Press. 2003 pp.xvi, 351 with some beautiful reproduced plates. Hardback. Fine in fine dw.
A fascinating insight into the hardships and endurance required by the early plant hunters in the search for their quarry.

£30.00 [ref: 36451]

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Shulman, N. A Rage for Rock Gardening. The story of Reginald Farrer, gardener, writer and plant collector.
Pub. Short Books. 2002 pp. 126. Fine hardback with dw.
£4.00 [ref: 43052]

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