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Botany Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub.The Linnean Society of London. 2020. pp.123 with col. illus. throughout. Landsape 8vo. Fine softback. This book tells the story of the world’s oldest existing natural history society, founded in 1788 on the collections of the great Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus.

L.M.B.C., 1931. pp.vii, 147, with 14 plates. Some foxing to contents and some stains to boards. Overall a good-vg. copy.

L.M.B.C., 1900. pp.viii, 42 with 7 plates. Contents very clean. In original boards which have picked up some marking. Overall a vg. copy.

Northern Bee Books. , 2014. Facs. Ed.. pp.iv, 32 with 30 colour reproductions of plates. A new softback. Geoff Hopkinson has added text to explain what is being shown in the plates. Originally the plates were 12�� x 18�� and they have been reproduced here at approximately half their original size. A fascinating insight into the understanding of bee anatomy in 19th century Italy. The set of 30 chromo-lithographed plates presented here were first printed in Milan in 1875. The original microscopic drawings were by Count Gaetano Barbo, and the lithographer was Fenghi. These colourful illustrations were subsequently used extensively by writers of the period.

La Librairie Illustree. [c.], 1900. pp.379 with b/w. illus. throughout. 8vo. Hardback. TEG. Contents fine. Half leather over marbled boards with matching end-papers in fine condition. Describes a series of experiments to demonstrate the different properties of plants.

Touring Club Italy., 1958. pp. 275 with colour and b/w. photographs. Text in Italian with scientific names. VG. in buff colour boards.

Botany Illustrated . 1st. Ed. Pub. Electa. 1999. pp.303 with col. illus. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback. The history of still life painting.

Botany Foreign floras . 1st. Ed. Pub. Ediciones Leonesas. 1984. pp.295 with 4 folding maps, colour photos. and b/w figs. Spanish with latin names. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback. An excellent guide to the vegetation of the High Cantabrian Mountains.

Franckh., 1986. pp. 128 with many colour photographs. Text in German. VG. in card covers.

White and Cochrane., 1811. pp.xvi, 366 with a few illustrations in the text. Inscription to ffep. dated 1956. Bound in original calf boards with new spine and gilt lettering. Binding in very good condition. Foxing to end-papers with contents beautifully clean and in fine condition. Volume 1 [of 2]. Overall a very good copy.

Botany Fungi . Pub. Patrick Leonard. 2006. pp.13 with col. codes. A4 stapled softback. Fine. Covers all species in the checklist of the British & Irish Basidiomycota.

History of gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Country Life. 1961. pp.184 with frontis. portrait and b/w. illus. 8vo. Inscriptions to ffep. VG. hardback in good to vg. dw. A biography of Jane Loudon, the first professional lady gardener and writer on the subject of gardening.

Natural history New Naturalists . 1st. Ed. Pub. Collins. 1994. 8vo. Fine softback.

Natural history New Naturalists . 1st. Ed. Pub. Collins. 1994. pp.367 with colour & b/w. photos and illus. 8vo. Fine softback. No inscriptions.

Collins., 1994. 1st. Ed.. 8vo. A beautiful copy. Most copies of this work have a degree of fading on the spine of the dw. - not the case with this copy. A fine hardback in fine dw. Not price clipped.

Collins., 1994. 1st. Ed.. 8vo. A fine hdbk. in fine dw. Not price-clipped.

Natural history New Naturalists . 1st. Ed. Pub. Collins. 1994. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw., gently sunned on spine. No inscriptions. Price clipped.

Collins., 1973. 1st. Ed.. 8vo. A near fine copy in nr. fine dw. Price clipped.

A vg. copy in vg. dw.

Collins., 1973. 1st. Ed.. 8vo. Signature. Nr. fine hardback in fine dw. Not price clipped.