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BRITISH SNAILS
Written by Arthur Erskine Ellis. Illustrated by R.A. Ellis.
Stock no. 1828942
Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1st thus 1969. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A Guide to the Non-Marine Gastropoda of Great Britain and Ireland Pleistocene to Recent. Reprint of the 1926 first edition. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. 298 pages including index plus plates to rear. Black ink marking and symbol to front pastedown and also front endpaper. Some light surface paper damage to front pastedown. Top edge of text block has minor foxing. Boards are clean as are contents. Green dustwwrapper is scuffed, faded to spine, surface paper loss to spine from removal of a label, top & bottom edge of wrapper has a margin of yellowed tape.

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WILDFOWL OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by Peter Scott; Hugh Boyd. Illustrated by Peter Scott.
Stock no. 1328620
Published by Country Life. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. Colour plates. Spine and corners slightly bumped, spine very slightly faded. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn and creased with a faded spine.

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FLORA OF IRAQ (VOLUME NINE)
Written by C.C. Townsend; Evan Guest; Ali Al-Rawi; N.L. Bor.
Stock no. 1828941
Published by Ministry Of Agriculture Of The Republic Of Iraq. 1st 1968. Good condition.

Gramineae; the grass plant. Green cardwraps. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 588 pages. Covers are edge-worn and creased, split to spine. Name & postcode in ink to half-title page. Possibly SIGNED by N.L. Bor to half-title page with dedication to Mary McCallum Webster. Some corner creasing to contents. Contents are clean.

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A HANDBOOK OF THE LARGER BRITISH FUNGI
Written by John Ramsbottom.
Stock no. 1828940
Published by British Museum. 1965. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Facsimile reprint of the 1923 publication except for a few small corrections. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w line drawings to text. iv and 222 pages including index. Seventh reprint. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Plain white dustwrapper is grubby and browned.

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BRITISH SPIDERS VOLUME III
Written by G.H. Locket; A.F. Millidge; P. Merrett.
Stock no. 1828938
Published by The Ray Society London. 1st 1974. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black cloth boards, gitl title to spine and vignette to front board. 75 b/w text figures and 612 distribution maps. 314 pages including index. ISBN: 0903874024. Boards clean and bright. Text block lightly browned. Small rubber ink-stamp to front pastedown else contents clean. White dustwrapper is just a little grubby.

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HANDBOOK OF THE RUBI OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
Written by W.C.R. Watson. Illustrated by Ruth Ball; A.W. Darnell.
Stock no. 1828937
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Rubus is the genus that includes all brambles or blackberries. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xi and 273 pages including index. Boards clean and bright. Text block lightly browned with some minor foxing. A few instances of annotation in both biro and pencil. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and torn, foxing to vertical edges, spine browned.

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THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE NATURALIST SPECIAL ISSUE: STEPHEN BISHOP'S NEW FLORA OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE PART 1
Written by Stephen Bishop.
Stock no. 1828934
Published by The Gloucestershire Naturalists' society. 1st 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

An occasional publication of the Gloucestershire Naturalists' Society. No. 13; 2000. Cream cardwraps. 322 pages including index. B/w distribution maps and a few b/w illustrations. Light rubbing to cover corners. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean.

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FLORA OF NORFOLK
Written by C.P. Petch; E.L. Swann.
Stock no. 1828932
Published by Jarrold and Sons Limited. 1st 1968. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An account of the distribution and status of the Norfolk flora. Green boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos. 288 pages. Lower edge of spine & corners lightly rubbed. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned, faded to spine, edge-creased, 1.5" closed tear to top front fold.

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FLORA OF MONMOUTHSHIRE
Written by Trevor Evans; Naylor Firth; Stephanie Tyler; George Peterken.
Stock no. 1828928
Published by The Chepstow Society. 1st 2007. Slightly better than very good condition.

Watsonian vice-county 35. With accounts of Geology by Naylor Firth and habitats by Stephanie Tyler and George Peterken. Glazed pictorial boards. 582 pages including index. B/w illustrations and distribution maps. Colour photos. ISBN: 0900278498. Light bump to top of spine. Rear board lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

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MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES (VOLUME ONE)
Written by A.S. Hitchcock; Agnes Chase.
Stock no. 1828927
Published by Dover Publications Inc.. 1st thus 1971. Very good condition.

In two volumes, of which this is volume one only. A definitive encyclopedia of United States grass life. This Dover Edition is an unabridged republication of the second revised edition, as published by the United States Government Printing Office in 1950 as U.S. Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication No. 200. Brown cardwraps. B/w illustrations. 569 pages. ISBN: 0486227170. Spine faded to lilac. Cover edges lightly rubbed, covers a little creased. Contents clean.

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SWANSEA BAY'S GREEN MANTLE
Written by Mary E. Gillham.
Stock no. 1828926
Published by D. Brown & Sons Limited. 1st 1982. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Wildlife On An Industrial Coast. B/w sketches, colour and b/w photos. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 427 pages including index. ISBN: 0905928180. Text block slightly grubby and a few foxspots. Contents are clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned to spine and lightly edge-creased.

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SUPPLEMENT TO THE FLORA OF WILTSHIRE
Written by L.F. Stearn.
Stock no. 1828924
Published by Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. 1st 1975. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A complete list of county botanical records since Grose's Flora of Wiltshire was published in 1957 up to and including 1972. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w frontis plate and a few illustrations. xvi and 150 pages including index. ISBN: 0950196525. Top & tail of spine shelf-worn. Rear corners bumped, vertical edge of rear board has a small knock. Contents are clean. Green pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn with a few small tears and small chips, unevenly faded.

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