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GENTIANS
Written by David Wilkie. Illustrated by John Nash.
Stock no. 1603831
Published by Country Life Limited. 1950. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Revised edition. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w photos. Colour frontis by John Nash. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Edge fading to cloth on boards. Scattered foxing. Wrapper is edge torn and chipped with a little loss and a few grubby marks.

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FLORA OF HERTFORDSHIRE
Written by John G. Dony.
Stock no. 1806949
Published by Hitchin Urban District Council. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The wild plants of the county of Hertford and the adjoining areas included in Watsonian vice-county 20. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Colour frontis. B/w photos and distribution maps. A few light marks to boards. Initials in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Pictorial wrapper is edge-torn with loss especially affecting title to front panel.

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AUTUMN SONGS WITH MUSIC
Written by Cicely Mary Barker; Olive Linnell. Illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker.
Stock no. 2106107
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1926. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

From Flower Fairies of the Autumn. Grey paper boards with blue titles, blue cloth spine. Pictorial onlay to front board. 12 poems with accompanying tipped-in colour plates and music by Linnell. A lovely book. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Fading to base of spine. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and a few page margins. Wrapper has some edge-tears and chips, with a little loss; browned; creased; some grubby marks.

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THE CULTURE OF THE CHRYSANTHEMUM
Written by W. Wells.
Stock no. 1205149
Published by W. Wells. 4th 1910. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth, black titles. 4th edition. B/w photos. 124 pages. Endpapers lightly browned else contents very good. Corners bumped and rubbed.

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FLORA OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Written by H.J. Riddelsdell; G.W. Hedley; W.R. Price.
Stock no. 1804541
Published by The Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club. Circa 1948. Very good condition.

Phanerograms, vascular cryptograms, charophyta. Blue cloth, silver title to spine. Two fold-out maps to text, four maps in pocket inside back cover. B/w plates. clxxxii and 667 pages including index. Boards a little marked. Front hinge pulled. Some pencil annotation else a very nice copy.

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BRITISH PLANT LIFE (NN 10)
Written by W.B. Turrill.
Stock no. 1803108
Published by Bloomsbury Books. 1st thus 1989. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Originally published by Collins. New Naturalist Series. Cream boards. 315 pages. B/w illustrations of plants of specific interest. ISBN: 1870630831. Text block a little grubby, contents fine. Pictorial wrapper is a little grubby, has a few small nicks at edges and is lightly rubbed at corners.

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FLOWERS OF THE HIMALAYA
Written by Oleg Polunin; Adam Stainton. Illustrated by Ann Farrer.
Stock no. 822679
Published by Oxford University Press. 2000. Fine condition.

Pictorial card wraps. Colour photos. B/w illustrations. 580 pages + 2 page colour map of the region. ISBN: 0195641876. Slight remains of label to inside of front cover.

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FLORA DELLE ALPI
Written by Luigi Fenaroli.
Stock no. 822617
Published by Giunti. 1st 1998. As new condition in a fine dustwrapper.

E Degli Altri Monti D'Italia. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Text in Italian. ISBN: 8809213750.

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THE SOUTH AFRICAN ACACIAS
Written by J.D. Carr.
Stock no. 806283
Published by Conservation Press. 1st 1976. Very good condition.

Green leatherette, gilt titles. Colour and b/w photos. B/w illustrations. Prelims and endpapers foxed. Boards marked at edges.

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CROTALARIA IN AFRICA AND MADAGASCAR
Written by R.M. Polhill.
Stock no. 806269
Published by A.A. Balkema. 1st 1982. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The rattlepods or klapper bossie of the legume genus Crotalaria are common throughout the tropics. This book provides a comprehensive review of the genus for the whole continent covering some 500 species. Large format. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9061910900. Wrapper covered in self-adhesive clear film.

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THE FLORA OF LIVERPOOL
Written by Joseph Dickinson.
Stock no. 597717
Published by John Van Voorst. 1st 1851. Very good condition.

Purple cloth. Gilt title to spine. 166 pages. Bound with Supplement to the Flora of Liverpool 1855, 28 pages. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Spine and cover edges browned. Bookplate to front pastedown. Title page browned else contents very good.

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FLORA OF HAMPSHIRE
Written by Frederick Townsend.
Stock no. 597555
Published by Lovell Reeve. 1904. Slightly better than very good condition.

Olive green cloth, gilt titles. One colour and one b/w plate. Large folding linen-backed colour map. Top edge gilt. Includes the Isle of Wight. Second edition. Endpapers lightly browned. Corners bumped.

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