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INDIAN BOTANICAL DRAWINGS 1793-1868
Written by Henry J. Noltie.
Stock no. 1330520
Published by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. 1st 1999. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

From the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Plain black cardwraps, tall slim format. 100 pages. Colour illustrations and photos. ISBN: 1872291236. Dustwrapper has faint name written to top of front panel and is slightly grubby to rear panel with white barcode label to base.

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BRITISH FERNS AND THEIR ALLIES
Written by Thomas Moore.
Stock no. 1208919
Published by George Routledge & Sons. Circa 1888. Very good condition.

An Abridgment of The Popular History of British Ferns. Comprising The Ferns, Club-Mosses, Pepperworts, and Horsetails. Full calf boards, five raised bands to spine and green title block with gilt title. Marbled text block and endpapers. B/w illustrations to text. 12 hand-coloured plates printed in colours by Evans. iv and 187 pages including index plus plates to rear. Gilt vignette of crestof Ladies College Guernsey to front and rear board. Calf boards are rubbed, scuffed and marked. Binding is tight. Large prize plate to front pastedown. College stamp to fly-leaf and verso of rear endpaper. A few foxspots and light browning, most plates affected by foxing.

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THE CHANGING FLORA OF GLASGOW: URBAN AND RURAL PLANTS THROUGH THE CENTURIES
Written by J.H. Dickson; P. MacPherson; Keith Watson.
Stock no. 1830670
Published by Edinburgh University Press. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Data-gathering for this book started in 1984 and continued well into the late 1990s. A detailed listing of 1,500 species. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w distribution maps and illustrations, a few colour photos. xii and 402 pages. ISBN: 0748613978. Boards clean. Title page has been REMOVED. Top edge of text block lightly foxed. Contents clean. Binding glue visible on joints. Pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed.

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HUTCHINSON'S POPULAR BOTANY: THE LIVING PLANT FROM SEED TO FRUIT (2 VOLUMES)
Written by A.E. Knight; Edward Step.
Stock no. 1830607
Published by Hutchinson & Co.. Very good condition.

The Fascinating Story of the World's Plants Told in a Popular Manner. Three-quarter red leather bindings. Red cloth boards. Gilt title to spine. Red speckled text block. Volume I with 351 b/w photos and illustrations plus 9 coloured plates. Volume II with 370 b/w illustrations and photos plus 9 coloured plates. Light rubbing to leather. A few marks to boards. Browning to edges of pastedowns. Small nibble to vertical edge of front endpaper. Hinges pulled with creasing to volume I. A few minor grubby margin marks. Insect damage to rear joint of both volumes. All colour plates present.

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BOTANY FOR MATRICULATION (THE UNIVERSITY TUTORIAL SERIES)
Written by F. Cavers.
Stock no. 1830401
Published by University Tutorial Press Ltd.. Circa 1909. Good condition.

Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w diagrams. viii, 568 pages plus 16 pages publisher adverts to rear. Second impression. Spine edges are worn, torn and frayed. Boards scuffed and edge-rubbed. Text block browned. Joints cracked but still holding to binding. Hinges pulled. Some annotation to contents and a few marks.

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ALIEN GRASSES OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by T.B. Ryves; E.J. Clement; M.C. Foster. Illustrated by G.M.S. Easy.
Stock no. 1830119
Published by Botanical Society Of The British Isles. 1st 1996. Very good condition.

Green pictorial card wraps. 181 pages. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0901158275. Top & tail of spine and corners lightly rubbed. Text block slightly grubby. Large barcoded label of previous seller to rear cover. Contents otherwise clean.

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THE REDOUTE ALBUM
Written by Martyn Rix; Alison Rix. Illustrated by Pierre-Josephe Redoute.
Stock no. 1329826
Published by Studio Editions. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 60 beautiful full-page colour illustrations. 128 pages. ISBN: 1851703985. Spine and corners are rubbed. Contents are fine. Dustwrapper is faded to spine and just a little worn at spine and corners.

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THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF WILD FLOWERS
Written by W.J. Stokoe.
Stock no. 1329803
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Circa 1959. Good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Observers book No. 2. Small format. Green boards with dark green titles. Describing 200 british species with 220 illustrations 100 of which are in full colour. Printer's code is 614.659. Damp staining to edges of wrapper (front and rear and also affecting inside flaps) and also to page edges throughout.

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THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF GARDEN FLOWERS
Written by Arthur King. Illustrated by Joan Lupton.
Stock no. 1329802
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Observer book no. 25. From the larger work The Book of Garden Flowers by G.A.R. Phillips. Small format. Green boards, dark green titles. With 100 colour and 100 half-tone illustrations. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Textblock is just a little grubby. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and slightly faded to spine.

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MOSSES & LIVERWORTS (NN 97)
Written by Ron Porley; Nick Hodgetts.
Stock no. 1329769
Published by Collins. 1st 2005. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist Series. Green cloth. 179 colour and b/w photographs. ISBN: 0002202123. Wrapper spine is very slightly faded, light damp stain to lower edge of wrapper spine and some grubby marks to rear panel. Light foxing to top edge of textblock.

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WOODS & PEOPLE: PUTTING FORESTS ON THE MAP
Written by David Foot.
Stock no. 1329706
Published by The History Press. 1st 2010. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of the twentieth-century forest creation, and the Eureka moment in the 1980s that challenged foresters and conservationists to work together on new ideas. Green boards, gilt title to spine. 192 pages (including index). ISBN: 9780752452784. Some very minor spotting to endpapers else contents fine. Slight bumping to spine. Dustwrapper is price-cut and foxed on verso.

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NEPENTHES OF SUMATRA AND PENINSULAR MALAYSIA
Written by Charles Clarke.
Stock no. 1829902
Published by Natural History Publications (borneo). 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Carnivorous pitcher plants in their natural environment. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour photos. x and 326 pages including index plus publisher adverts to rear. ISBN: 9838120502. Light shelf-wear to base of spine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine. Else a superb copy, looks unread!

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