Rare books from Acanthophyllum Books

I.N. Kushnerev & Ko., Moskva (Moscow), 1892. Printed boards, no dust jacket. Good /No Jacket. A well-used copy of the rare first edition of a popular Russian flora. The author was Piotr Feliksovich Maevsky (1851-1892). Significant edgewear to cover, internally sound with minimal tanning of paper. Owner's signature and oil spot on ffep (M. Kirshbaum?), another on end paper (V. Rikovshky?) with oaktree bookplate of Heino Ross. Spine sl. frayed at top edge, some insect damage to glued areas. The text contains keys to genera and species, generic descriptions and Russian and Latin names of genera and species, summaries of distribution (by local government region) and habitat, flowering times, and selected line drawings mostly showing both the whole plant and flowers or fruits. A compact yet comprehensive flora which went through several editions, a third (edited by B. Fedchenko) in 1902 and another in 1917, an 8th (with a slightly different title) in 1954 and a 9th (edited by B.K. Shishkin) in 1964.… Read More

London: the author, 1813. 1st edition. Publisher's boards. Good /No Jacket. Donor's inscription "A present from Rev. H. Pritchard Dinas Hall Anglesea (sic) to Owen Price, 1881" on t.p. A nicely preserved copy with untrimmed edges, title blind-inscribed (by hand) on spine. xvi, 151, xiv, plate facing p. xv, 153-255 pp. The first Welsh local flora, particularly noted for its appendix of Welsh names of plants.

Cambridge University Press, 1996-2018. 1st edition. Pictorial hard covers. V.g./No Jacket. An exceptional set, being inscribed to Philip Oswald by the authors (in vol. 5) and with a loose slip of his corrections to that volume. Vols. 3 and 4 are similarly inscribed, but without corrections. Vol. 2 contains CUP's delivery note with his review copy, published in 2014. The first author died in 2016, the flora being completed with the help of a team that included Philip Oswald (who owned this complete set). Vol. 1 has the loosely inserted invitation to a celebration of the completion of the project, held on 28 June 2018. The Flora is a tour de force, and includes full treatment of apomictic genera such as Hieracium.

Women's Printing Society Ltd., printed for private circulation, 1894. 1st edition. Publisher's maroon cloth. Good/No Jacket. Front hinge of vol. 1 separating, vols. 2 & 3 sound. Bookplates of Robert Alfred Cunliffe. Each volume contains an index. There is a curious lack of information on the title pages, which name neither the publisher nor the place of publication, which suggests that it was privately published by his wife Frances Joanna Bunbury. The date (1894) is taken from the BL catalogue entry for vol. 2; neither vol. 1 nor vol. 3 is dated. An abbreviated version of this book was published in

New York Botanical Garden, 1967-2014. 1st edition. Some paper covers, some hard covers. Fine/No Jacket. An almost complete run of the first 100 volumes of the Monograph series to date, lacking only ….