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THE ORCHIDS OF IRELAND
Written by Tom Curtis; Robert Thompson.
Stock no. 1823738
Published by National Museums Northern Ireland. 1st 2009. Slightly better than very good condition.

Green pictorial boards. Colour photos and illustrations, b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0900761504. Corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Contents fine.

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THE CACTI OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
Written by Lyman Benson. Illustrated by Lucretia Breazeale Hamilton.
Stock no. 2139157
Published by Stanford University Press. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Brown cloth with black title block, gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w photos. Some diagrams. ISBN: 0804708630. Wrapper has some light edge-creasing.

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THE PLANT KINGDOM
Written by Harold C. Bold.
Stock no. 2139128
Published by Prentice-Hall Inc.. Circa 1977. Very good condition.

4th edition. Card wraps. B/w photos and diagrams. Prentice-Hall Foundations of Modern Biology Series. ISBN: 013680389X. Some creasing/wear along cover edges. Nicks to top of spine. Page edges are browned. 2nd printing of this edition.

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HOW FLOWERS WORK: A GUIDE TO PLANT BIOLOGY
Written by Bob Gibbons. Illustrated by Vanessa Luff.
Stock no. 2139125
Published by Blandford Press. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green boards with gilt title to spine. Colour photos. B/w diagrams. ISBN: 0713712783. Wrapper has 1" closed tear to base of spine.

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INTRODUCTION TO FUNGI
Written by John Webster.
Stock no. 2139122
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0521076404. Browning to outer page edges. Some edge-creasing to wrapper, which has a few marks.

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I FUNGHI DAL VERO 2 VOLUME
Written by Bruno Cetto.
Stock no. 2139103
Published by Arti Grafiche Saturnia. 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards with gilt titles. Text is in Italian. Numerous colour photos throughout. 2nd volume in the Series. Browning to outer page edges. Wrapper has small nick to top edge of front panel; browned.

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MANUAL OF CULTIVATED CONIFERS HARDY IN THE COLD- AND WARM-TEMPERATE ZONE
Written by P. Den Ouden; B.K. Boom.
Stock no. 2139082
Published by Martinus Nijhoff. 1965. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w photos. 526 pages. Small mark to front cover. Light browning to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with a couple of small nicks.

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THE MAMMILLARIA HANDBOOK
Written by Robert T. Craig.
Stock no. 1823719
Published by EP Publishing Limited. 1977. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

With descriptions, illustrations, and key to the species of the genus mammillaria of the Cactaceae, a single group of cacti. Originally published in 1945, republished in 1963. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xiv and 390 pages including index. ISBN: 0854093303. Light browning to endpapers else contents clean. Price-cut green pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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LEXICON OF SUCCULENT PLANTS
Written by Hermann Jacobsen.
Stock no. 1823714
Published by Blandford Press. 1st thus 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Short descriptions, habitats and synonymy of succulent plants other than Cactaceae. First English Edition. Mushroom coloured cloth boards, red and black titles. B/w photos. 664 pages including index. ISBN: 071370652X. Lower edge of boards grubby as is the lower text block. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn.

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NAME THAT SUCCULENT
Written by Gordon D. Rowley. Illustrated by Gordon D. Rowley.
Stock no. 1823707
Published by Stanley Thornes (Publishers) Ltd.. 1st 1980. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Keys to the Families and Genera of Succulent Plants in Cultivation. A reappraisal of the complex world of succulent plant classification. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w diagrams. 268 pages including index. ISBN: 0859504476. A nice copy, dustwrapper has a vertical crease to front panel (minor).

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LA FOCE: A GARDEN AND LANDSCAPE IN TUSCANY
Written by Benedetta Origo; Morna Livingston; Laurie Olin; John Dixon Hunt.
Stock no. 2139028
Published by University Of Pennsylvania. 1st USA 2001. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Larger format. Green cloth with gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0812235932. Browning to outer page edges and page margins. Wrapper is edge-creased with a little fading to edges of spine.

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THE GASTEROMYCETES OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES AND CANADA
Written by William Chambers Coker; John Nathaniel Couch.
Stock no. 2138678
Published by Dover Publications Inc.. 1974. Very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w photos. Together with a supplementary article: The Gasteromycetae of Ohio: Puffballs, Birds'-Nest Fungi and Stinkhorns by Minnie May Johnson. This is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1928 by The University of North Carolina Press. Some browning.

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