Ahmadijian, V. & Hale, Mason E. Eds’. The Lichens.
1st. Pub. Academic Press. 1971 pp.xiv, 697 with many text figs. A very good copy in chipped dw.
£70.00 [ref: 36783]

Berry, A.Q. et al. (Eds.). Fenn’s and Whixall Mosses.
Pub. Clwyd Archaeology Service. 1996 pp.xiv, 208 with colour photos. A thor. vg. sbk. Map inserted in pocket at rear. Also, with two guides to Fenn’s and Whixall Mosses pub. by English Nature.
£35.00 [ref: 48221]

Berry, Andre Q. et al. (Eds.). Fenn’s and Whixall Mosses.
1st. Ed. Pub. Clwyd County Council. 1996 pp.xiv, 208 with colour photos. Royal 8vo. Ex. Buxton Field Club Lib. copy. Near fine softback. Scarce.
£18.00 [ref: 51948]

Birkenhead, J. Ferns and Fern Culture.
Pub. John Heywood. [1897] pp. 128 with small engravings. A vg. copy in blue cloth illustrated boards.
£35.00 [ref: 41776]

Bower, F.O. The Ferns (Filicales). Treated comparatively with a view to their natural classification. Volume I, II & III.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cambridge. 1923-28 Three volumes with b/w. illus. 4to. Ex-lib. Faint, scattered foxing to endpapers o/w. contents clean and bright. Most of original spines of vols. I and II relaid, edges of all volumes repaired. A vg. repaired ex-lib. hdbk. set. in original green cloth boards.
Contents. Volume 1 - Analytical examination of the criteria of comparison; Volume 2 - The Eusporangidae and othe relatively primitive ferns; Volume 3 - The Leptosporangiate ferns.
£50.00 [ref: 53622]

Braithwaite, R. The British Moss-Flora.
1st. Ed. Pub. L.Reeve & Co. 1887-1905 Three volume set with 128 plates. Crown 4to. Hardbacks. Contents in fine condition. Fore edges of text block with marbled decoration matching end-papers. Contemporary binding of half-calf leather with raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, over green cloth, all in fine condition. An exceptionally nice set.
Volumes 1 & 2 consider Acrocarpi whilst Volume 3 focusses on Pleurocarpi.
£250.00 [ref: 53825]

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Braithwaite, R. The Sphagnaceae; or Peat-Mosses of Europe and North America.
Pub. David Bogue. 1880 pp.91 with 24 b/w. plates at rear of text. Boards stained, rubbed on corner, heaviest to the front top corner. Spine pulled and showing wear. Binding still very firm. Some foxing to contents, which are in very good condition. A good to vg. copy.
£50.00 [ref: 46220]

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British Pteridological Society. The Occasional Paper of the British Pteridological Society, No. 1.
Facs. Ed. Pub. British Pteridological Society. 2008 pp.16 with fold-out illus. and chart at rear. 8vo. A fine softback.
This is a facsimile copy of the original published in 1875 with notes by Michael Hayward and includes a description of the Dryopteris affinis, D. filix-mas and D. oreades complex as well as a Nature Print.
£15.00 [ref: 53568]

Britten, James. European Ferns. With coloured illustrations from Nature.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. 1879-81 pp.vii, xliv, 196 with 30 colour plates. 4to. Some scattered foxing to parts of contents, largely to text pages. Short closed tear to one page. O/w. contents thor. vg. Original green cloth, highly decorated in gilt and black to front board & spine, all in vg. condition.
‘It is an elegant volume and one of the most attractively covered of all the fern books. It also has a fascinating introduction covering a number of interesting aspects of ferns’ (Hall and Rickard).
£140.00 [ref: 53605]

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Campbell, Douglas Houghton. The Structure & Development of the Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae).
1st. Ed. Pub. Macmillan. 1895 pp.viii, 544 with b/w.illus. Royal 8vo. Some very faint, scattered foxing to endpapers. A thor. vg. hdbk. in original, gilt illus., green cloth boards.
£25.00 [ref: 53616]