Badham, Charles David. A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Lovell Reeve. 1863 pp.xvi, 152 with 12 fine hand coloured plates to rear plus 16-page Lovell Reeve catalogue. 8vo. Hardback. Contents fine. Original gilt decorated boards nr. fine.
£175.00 [ref: 38481]

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Barla, J.-B. Flore Mycologique Illustree. Les Champignons des Alpes-Maritimes. Avec l’indication de leurs proprietes utiles ou nuisibles.
New Ed. Pub. Libreria Basso, Alassio. 1996 pp.80, 81-110 plus 64 full-colour plates. Hardback. Folio. Bound in quarter leather over marbled boards. Fine condition. Scarce.
This is both a very pleasing reproduction of the original work published in 1888, with the addition of a 28-page section which makes the text more accessible to current readers. Contributors to the new section include Marcel Bon and Massimo Candusso.
£150.00 [ref: 58847]

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Bentham, G. and Hooker, J.D. Genera Plantarum. Ad exemplaria imprinis in Herbariis Kewensibus servata definita.
1st. Ed. Pub. L. Reeve & Co. 1862-1883 Seven parts bound in three volumes: pp.xv, 1040; viii, 1279; xi, [i], 1258. Large 8vo. Hardbacks. Ex-Newcastle University lib. Vol. II title page removed. Contents thor. vg. to nr. fine. Green cloth bindings in vg. condition. Scarce.
“This nineteenth-century botanical tour de force comprises an unillustrated, formal descriptive account (in Latin) of all families and genera of seed plants then known, arranged on a modified version of the Candollean system and including synonymy, notes on distribution and special features and limited but pointed critical commentary.” (Frodin).
£300.00 [ref: 61126]

Blaikie, Francis. On the Conversion of Arable Land into Pasture and on other Rural subjects.
1st. Ed. Pub. J. Dawson. 1817 pp.47. 16mo. Sewn softback. Contents very clean. Internal stitching given way in places. Original printed wrappers in vg. condition. Scarce.
Francis Blaikie, (1771-1857) agriculturist and land agent was born in Roxburghshire, Scotland and made his way to England in 1802. He was employed by Lord Chesterfield, then in 1816 he moved to Holkham Hall, Norfolk to work as Land Steward to Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester and to whom this work is dedicated.
£95.00 [ref: 59942]

Boutcher, William. A Treatise on Forest-Trees: Containing not only the best Methods of their Culture hitherto published, but a variety of new and useful discoveries, the result of many repeated experiments.
1st. Ed. Pub. R. Fleming, Edinburgh. 1775 pp.4, xlviii, 259 plus 3-page postscript. 4to. Hardback. Neat, early, signature to title-page. Contents thor. vg. to nr. fine with intermittent minor spotting. Does not contain the engraved title (present in a small number of copies) and not signed by the author. More recent handsome quarter cloth over marbled boards, lightly marked o/w. fine. A very pleasing copy.
William Boutcher was a nurseryman at Comely Garden, Edinburgh. His ‘A Treatise on Forest-Trees’ ‘was the best eighteenth-century work published on the subject and, in the opinion of Edlin, it still contains ‘much of interest and practical application in present-day forest nurseries’.’ (Henrey).
£160.00 [ref: 64606]

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Bromfield, William Arnold., (Hooker, Sir W.J. & Salter, T.B. (Eds.)). Flora Vectensis. Being a systematic description of the Phaenogamous or Flowering Plants and Ferns indigenous to the Isle of Wight.
1st. Ed. Pub. William Pamplin. 1856 pp.xxxv, 678 with map. 8vo. Hardback. Contemporary binding of green full-calf leather, richly decorated on spine and boards - spine professionally relaid, all in near fine condition. All edges marbled with matching marbled end-papers. Contents beautifully clean and in fine condition. Association copy, with dedication of ‘To the Rev. John Vernon, with the best wishes of the Author’s Sister’ neatly written on ffep. With the ‘Botanico-Topographic’ map which shows some wear at folds, still in vg. condition. Scarce, especially so with the map.
This work was published in two formats, one with the map, the other without.
£995.00 [ref: 53745]

Cavanilles, Antoni-Josep. Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum Quae Aut Sponte in Hispania Crescunt aut in Hortis Hospitantur.
Facs. Pub. Generalitat Valenciana. 1995 Six volume set with 600 fine b/w. botanical engravings. Folio. Softbacks with dws. Repaired tear to Vol. V. dw. and card cover o/w. all vols. in nr. fine to fine condition.
A very well produced facsimile of Cavanilles sumptuous work illustrating plants growing in Spain, either naturally or in gardens, originally published in 1793.
£300.00 [ref: 65514]

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Culpepper [Culpeper], Nicholas. The English Physician Enlarged. With three hundred and sixty nine medicines made of English Herbs that were not in any Impression until this.
Pub. London for Bruce, J et al. 1787 pp.xii, 348. Hardback. Crown 8vo. Some darkening and light marking to contents, very largely at ends, o/w. contents thor. vg. Bound in contemporary full calf leather, showing some quite minor wear to extremities, o/w. thor. vg. With ownership inscription of Charles Brand (1806-1870) of Ravenscraig [Farmhouse nr. Peterhead, Aberdeenshire].
£300.00 [ref: 62673]

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Culpepper [Culpeper], Nicholas. The English Physitian Enlarged; with Three Hundred, Sixty and Nine Medicines made of Englifh Herbs.
Pub. George Sawbridge, Ludgate Hill. 1681 pp.[xiv], 285 plus 17 page index and 1 page George Sawbridge catalogue. Crown 8vo. Contents in thor. vg. condition. More recently, handsomely rebound in full-calf leather with gilt lettering to spine, all in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy.
£525.00 [ref: 53192]

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Curtis, William. The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed. Vols. I & II.
1st. Ed. Pub. for W. Curtis. [1787]-1788 Two volumes bound as one with 72 fine hand-coloured engraved plates and two-page index to rear. 8vo. Hardback. Early signature to ffep. Minor worm trail to two plates (not touching images), their text pages and two page-index. Contents nr. fine. Contemporary patterned calf boards, rebacked retaining original backstrip, with new spine label, neat repairs to corners and rear and in vg. plus condition.
A pleasing opportunity to obtain the first two volumes of this magnificent work.
£925.00 [ref: 65513]

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