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THE FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS (2 VOLUMES)
Written by J. Hutchinson.
Stock no. 2136439
Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1959. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Volume I Covers Dicotyledons. Volume II covers Monocotyledons. Arranged according to a new system based on their probable phylogeny by J. Hutchinson. B/w illustrations. Marks to covers. Foxing. Names and dates in ink to front endpapers. Wrappers are both browned with foxing and marks. Some tears and chips; a bit of loss.

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FLOWERS OF THE HOLY LAND
No author listed.
Stock no. 2136373
Circa 1908. Very good condition.

Wood effect covers, what appears to be a leather spine. 12 leaves of card with mounted pressed plant specimens. The accompanying captions are in Hebrew, German, French and English. Some scuffing and wear to spine. Browning and some foxing throughout. Inscriptions in ink to verso of front endpaper. Pressed flowers appear very good still; a couple of the tissue-guards have come loose, but still present. A lovely item!

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A NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH GRASSES
Written by E.J. Lowe.
Stock no. 1823253
Published by Groombridge & Sons. 1st 1868. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine, blind design to spine & boards. 74 colour plates. Cloth boards lightly bubbled, a few stains, lightly browned, rubbed at edges. Board corners bumped and worn. Text block browned. Front endpapers grubby and creased. Name in ink to front fly. Rear endpapers also grubby & creased, small chip to vertical edge, rear joint cracked. Hinges are pulled but binding is tight. All 74 plates present. Light foxing and browning to contents.

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FERNS (NN 74)
Written by Christopher N. Page.
Stock no. 1823173
Published by Collins. 1st 1988. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 74. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. 21 colour photos and over 160 photos and diagrams in b/w. ISBN: 0002193833. Boards clean and bright. Minor grubby mark to base of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine (as is usual) else clean and bright.

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WILD FLOWERS (NN 5)
Written by John Gilmour; Max Walters.
Stock no. 1823042
Published by Collins. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 5. Green cloth, gilt titles. 45 colour photos, 27 b/w photos and 3 line drawings. Foxing to endpapers and prelims. Text block browned. Pictorial dustwrapper is browned, tape mark to top of rear panel, spine & front cover (one mark), top of spine chipped obliterating '5' of the title, and tiny chip to top front edge.

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NATURAL HISTORY IN THE HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS (NN 6)
Written by Frank Fraser Darling.
Stock no. 1823040
Published by Collins. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist series no. 6. 303 pages. Abundant in knowledge, lucidity and ease of style. 46 colour photos, 55 b/w photos, and 24 maps & diagrams. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Cloth boards mottled to lighter green. Text block & endpapers browned. One or two hinges pulled. Price-cut dustwrapper is foxed to verso, edge-worn and a 1" chip to top of spine, rear panel is foxed.

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WOODLANDS (NN 100)
Written by Oliver Rackham.
Stock no. 2135915
Published by Collins. 1st 2006. Nearly fine condition.

The 100th volume in the New Naturalist series. Leather bound edition to mark the 100th volume of the New Naturalist Library. Limited to 100 copies. All edges gilt. ISBN: 0007202431. This is Copy No. 52, SIGNED by author on bookplate to front endpaper. Bookplate has small red smudge mark to one edge. Slip case is near fine.

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RED KITE COUNTRY A CELEBRATION OF THE WILDLIFE AND LANDSCAPE OF MID WALES
Written by Lolo Williams. Illustrated by Colin Woolf; Mike Read.
Stock no. 2135818
Published by Wildearth. 1st 2004. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Red cloth with gilt title to spine. Foreword by Williams. Watercolours & sketches by Woolf. Photographic images by Read. ISBN: 1903657091. Some spotting to covers. Pale foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with some edge-creasing; couple of chips to top of spine.

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PLANT DISEASE A NATURAL HISTORY (NN 85)
Written by David Ingram; Noel Robertson.
Stock no. 1822373
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 1999. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 85. Colour and b/w photos. Green cloth boards. ISBN: 0002200740. Dustwrapper spine is lightly faded (as is normal), a few light creases.

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THE HERITAGE TREES OF SCOTLAND
Written by Donald Rodger; Jon Stokes.
Stock no. 2135406
Published by The Tree Council. 1st 2003. Very good condition.

Card wraps. Colour photos. ISBN: 0904853039.

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COMMERCIAL ORCHIDS
Written by Lakshman Chandra De; Promila Pathak; A.N. Rao; P.K. Rajeevan; et al.
Stock no. 2135354
Published by De Gruyter Open Ltd. 1ST 2014. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 9783110426380. Some knocks along cover edges; corners are bumped. Sticky label to rear cover. Contents are still excellent!

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THE PINEAPPLE: BOTANY, PRODUCTION AND USES
Written by Garth M. Sanewski; Duane P. Bartholonew; Robert E. Paull.
Stock no. 2135352
Published by Cabi. 2018. Slightly better than very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour photos. 2nd edition. ISBN: 9781786393302. A few small slight knocks along cover edges. Contents are still excellent!

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