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ATLAS OF FERNS OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by A.C. Jermy; H.R. Arnold; et al.
Stock no. 1828965
Published by Botanical Society Of The British Isles; British Pteridological Society. 1st 1978. Very good condition.

Large format. Yellow cardwraps. B/w distribution maps. 101 pages. ISBN: 0901158011. Covers grubby and lightly worn to corners, small split to base of spine. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean.

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THE ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BLOW-FLY (MUSCA VOMITORIA LINN) A MONOGRAPH
Written by Benjamin Thompson Lowne.
Stock no. 1828964
Published by John Van Voorst. 1st 1870. Good condition.

Dark green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Ten hand-coloured plates. vi and 121 pages. Boards a little marked, rear board has a small nibble to lower edge exposing board, rear edge of spine has slight loss of cloth. Stop & tail of spine shelf-worn. Corners lightly bumped. Joints starting to crack. Name & date in ink to front endpaper. Plate I is detached. All plates are present. Foxing throughout and a few grubby marks. A few annotations.

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THE DRAGONFLIES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
Written by Cyril O. Hammond. Illustrated by A.E. Gardner.
Stock no. 1828959
Published by Curwen Books. 1st 1977. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A comprehensive illustrated work on the British Odonata. Enlarged illustrations of all the British species in colour and an illustrated key to the aquatic larval stages. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w distribution maps. 115 pages including index. ISBN: 0902068067. Foxing to text block and endpapers. Occasional foxspot to contents. Else contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and scuffed.

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INDEX OF COLLECTORS IN THE WELSH NATIONAL HERBARIUM
Written by S.G. Harrison.
Stock no. 1828958
Published by National Museum of Wales. 1st 1985. Very good condition.

This list of collectors whose specimens are represented in the Welsh National Herbarium is intended to provide details of sources for the specimens on herbarium sheets, in boxes or packets, or in bound volumes (the old-fashioned hortus siccus). It does not include most of the cultivated material, carpological and seed collections, timbers, slides, economic and spiritual collections, and miscellaneous curiosities. Brown cardwraps. 140 pages. ISBN: 0720002958. Covers unevenly faded. Rear cover a little grubby. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean.

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SIMPSON'S FLORA OF SUFFOLK
Written by Francis W. Simpson.
Stock no. 1828956
Published by Suffolk Naturalists' society. 1st 1982. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos. xiv and 537 pages including index. ISBN: 0950815403. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased with very slight fading to spine (hardly noticeable).

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DISTRIBUTION OF BRYOPHYTES IN THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by M.F.V. Corley; M.O. Hill.
Stock no. 1828954
Published by British Bryological Society. 1st 1981. Very good condition.

A census catalogue of their occurrence in Vice-Counties. Brown card wraps. 160 pages including index. ISBN: 095076390X. Light creasing to front cover. Contents clean.

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THE FLORA OF ANGUS (FORFAR, V.C. 90)
Written by Ruth Ingram; Henry J. Noltie.
Stock no. 1828953
Published by Dundee Museum & Art Gallery. 1st 1981. Very good condition.

Blue pictorial card wraps. Colour frontis. 270 pages including index. ISBN: 0900344458. Spine & top rear edge lightly browned, front cover has a few minor foxspots, spine is lightly creased from reading wear. Lower front corner bumped, giving rise to lightly creased lower corner of contents. Contents clean.

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TRANSACTIONS OF THE PAISLEY NATURALISTS' SOCIETY VOL. II
Written by Charles A. Hall.
Stock no. 1828952
Published by Alexander Gardner. 1st 1915. Good condition.

Lists of Renfrewshire Plants, Macro-Lepidoptera, Fresh-water Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, Mammals and Other Papers. Introductory notes by the editor Rev. Charles A. Hall. Blue cloth boards, title label to spine. Map of Renfrew to front endpapers. xvi and 120 pages. Title label to spine is rubbed with loss. Boards are marked and grubby, browned to spine. Board corners bumped. Text block browned. Name & date in ink to fly-leaf. Endpapers a little grubby. A few grubby marks to cotents. A good working copy.

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THE STUDENT'S HANDBOOK OF BRITISH MOSSES
Written by H.N. Dixon. Illustrated by H.G. Jameson.
Stock no. 1828951
Published by Wheldon & Wesley. 1st thus 1970. Almost very good condition.

Facsimile of the 3rd Edition published by V.V. Sumfield 1924. A practical handbook with an index of black and white plates. Dark green cloth boards; gilt lettering to spine. xlviii and 582 pages including index plus b/w plates to rear. Light marks/stains to boards. Text block browned with some minor foxing. Contents otherwise clean.

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WELSH FERNS: CLUBMOSSES QUILLWORTS & HORSETAILS
Written by G Hutchinson; B.A. Thomas.
Stock no. 1828947
Published by National Museum of Wales. 7th 1996. Very good condition.

7th edition. A descriptive handbook. White pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations and distribution maps. 265 pages including index. ISBN: 0720004357. Covers lightly scuffed, spine lightly creased through reading use. Name & postcode in ink to title page. Contents clean.

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AN ILLUSTRATED FLORA OF NORTH CYPRUS VOLUME 2: SEDGES, GRASSES AND FERNS
Written by D.E. Viney.
Stock no. 1828945
Published by A.R.G. Gantner. 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pictorial cardwraps. B/w line drawings. xv and 167 pages including index. ISBN: 3904144049. SIGNED by the author (with personal dedication) to title page. Second corrected printing. Cover corners lightly rubbed. Rear cover a little scuffed. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean.

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VICE-COUNTY CENSUS CATALOGUE OF THE VASCULAR PLANTS OF GREAT BRITAIN THE ISLE OF MAN AND THE CHANNEL ISLANDS
Written by C.A. Stace; R.G. Ellis; D.H. Kent; D.J. McCosh.
Stock no. 1828943
Published by Botanical Society Of The British Isles. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition.

Cream cardwraps. xxi and 405 pages including index. ISBN: 0901158305. Corners of covers lightly rubbed. Contents clean.

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