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| to select author names starting with A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z back to page 1 of full catalog (starting with NO authornames) | This selection contains 137 title(s) on 6 pages. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 25 |
| AESCHIMANN, D. & BURDET, H.M. Flore de la Suisse: le nouveau Binz Editions du Griffon, Neuchatel, 1994, 2nd edition.Plasticated covers.2 88006 506 1.V.g./No Jacket.A pocket-sized flora of Switzerland and adjacent areas.Silk bookmark bound in; measuring scales and graph-paper design on end papers.lxxi, 603 pp. In French. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 | JP¥ 2964] Book number: 4339 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| AKEROYD, JOHN A beginner's guide to Ireland's wild flowers Sherkin Island Marine Station, 2008, 1st edition.Paper covers.978 1 870492 23 2.Good /No Jacket.A handy pocket guide to 162 common wild flowers of Ireland, arranged by family but with a synoptic illustrated key to families, a useful glossary and concise introductory material.The individual species descriptions are highly diagnostic, and each family is introduced with a description and 'fact file' of distinctive attributes.Lacking is any reference to distribution within Ireland, but as virtually all the species treated are widespread this is unimportant.Stain (plant juice?) affecting notes pages at rear, otherwise as new.208 pp. GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.66 | JP¥ 1037] Book number: 4443 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| AKEROYD, JOHN (ED.) The wild plants of Sherkin, Cape Clear and adjacent islands of West Cork Sherkin Island Marine Station, 1996, 1st edition.Pictorial hard covers.1 870492 86 2.As new /No Jacket.Bookplate of David McClintock.Two letters from the publisher loosely inserted.Otherwise as new.180 pp. In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 | JP¥ 2964] Book number: 4819 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| ALLEN, DAVID ELLISTON, ASSISTED BY LARCH S. GARRAD AND MARJORIE DEVEREAU Flora of the Isle of Man Manx Museum & National Trust, 1984, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 901106 23 2.Fine /V.g. Spine of jacket sunned, otherwise scarcely used.A highly detailed flora of the Isle of Man, including much information on infraspecific taxa and a characteristically detailed account of Rubus microspecies.Rather scarce in such fine condition.Xiv, 250 pp. In English. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 | JP¥ 3705] Book number: 3034 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| ANDERSON, PENNY & SHIMWELL, DAVID Wild flowers of the Peak District Moorland Publishing, 1981, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 86190 017 0.Fine/Fine.A unique ecological flora of one of England's most diverse upland areas.192 pp. numerous monochrome photographs, maps and diagrams. In English. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 | JP¥ 3705] Book number: 2831 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BAKER, JOHN G. Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles J.Cramer, 1970, Historiae naturalis classica.Hard covers, no dust jacket.V.g./ No Jacket .19* + [50] + 557 pp.; fine (remains of label on spine).Modern reprint of a classic flora. In English. GBP 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 101 US$ 149.94 | JP¥ 13338] Book number: 473 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BALLANTYNE, G.H. Wild flowers of Kinross Scottish Wildlife Trust, Kirkcaldy, 1985, 2nd edition (first published 1977).Paper covers.V.g./ No Jacket .Paper covers with buckram strip around spine concealing staples; crease in rear cover, otherwise fine.Reproduced from typescript, this checklist of the flora of Kinross (which includes the botanically interesting wetland, Loch Leven) was written by the Botanical Society of the British Isles' local recorder, an expert in the genus Rubus, whose microspecies are treated in full.Foreword by E.F.B.Spragge; index.Now superseded by the author's Wild Flowers of Fife and Kinross (2002). In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 474 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BELLAMY, DAVID; ILLUSTRATED BY MARJORIE LYON The Queen's hidden garden: Buckingham Palace's treasury of wild plants David & Charles, 1984, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 7153 8590 9.V.g./ V.g.An unusual Urban flora of a particularly well protected site in the heart of London.Famous for its chamomile lawn, which to an untutored eye looks just like a normal lawn, the grounds of the palace are also a haven for 475 species of wild plants including 50 found nowhere else in the centre of London.The book also gives a potted history of the garden and house and some advice on maintaining a wild element in a garden.As with many of Bellamy's books, there is also a lot of botany.224 pp. 64 colour plates and 40 monochrome illustrations of plants and insects.In English. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 | JP¥ 1778] Book number: 2355 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BOBROV, E.G., TZVELEV, N.N. (EDS.) Flora of the USSR: alphabetical indexes to volumes I-XXX (1-30) Science Publishers Inc. Enfield (N.H.) and Plymouth (U.K.), 2004, English translation of 1964 Russian edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.1 57808 334 6.Good/V.g. This is a facsimile of the index to Latin names in the Russian edition ""Flora SSSR"" (Flora of the USSR), with the very useful features (for non-Russian readers) of translations of the introductory material and maps, though the index to authors (in facsimile) does not transliterate the names of all Russian authors (though the index itself gives the abbreviations in Latin script).For libraries owning some or all of the JSP English translations, as well as those with the original Russian edition, this index will prove invaluable.In English, Latin, Russian. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 US$ 49.98 | JP¥ 4446] Book number: 2489 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BOISSIER, E. & REUTER, G.F. Pugillus plantarum novarum Africae borealis Hispaniaque australis [new plants from North Africa and southern Spain] Ferd.Ramboz et Socii, Genevae, 1852, Printed 1851, second issue (published 1852).Rubbed original printed boards, spined stripped.Fair/No Jacket.Bookplate of C.& M.Lacaita and sons, Selham, Sussex; later owner's signature on pastedown.Cover rubbed at extremities, p.129-130 loose, pages somewhat tanned.Latin diagnoses and descriptions of more than 50 new species of plants discovered by Edmond Boissier during his expedition to Spain and North Africa, plus a few other collectors (e.g.Welwitsch from Portugal).Boissier's work in Iberia and N.Africa is less well known than his later Flora Orientalis; sadly he lost his wife Lucile (later commemorated by the beautiful Anatolian alpine Omphalodes luciliae) during this earlier trip.134 pp. In Latin. GBP 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 101 US$ 149.94 | JP¥ 13338] Book number: 2813 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BONNIER, GASTON (TRANSLATED AND ADAPTED BY ETHEL MELLOR) British Flora J.M.Dent & Sons, 1925.Hard covers, no wrapper.Good /No Jacket.Good, owner's signature (twice), beginning to split at front hinge.Essentially a huge key, firstly to families (paginated in roman numerals) and then to genera and species.2300 text figures illustrate the couplets.A very underrated Flora.Glossary, index to Latin and English names.xxxiv, 315 pp. map (of botanical regions of the British Isles) at end.In English. GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 US$ 14.99 | JP¥ 1334] Book number: 1880 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BOULOS, LOUTFY & EL-HADIDI, M. NABIL The weed flora of Egypt American University in Cairo Press, 1984, 1st edition.Paper covers.977 424 038 3.V.g./No Jacket.Cover faded towards spine.Egyptian price sticker on rear cover.xv pp. 178 leaves.In English. GBP 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 45 US$ 66.64 | JP¥ 5928] Book number: 5424 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BRAMWELL, DAVID & BRAMWELL, ZOE Flores silvestres de las Islas Canarias Editorial Rueda, Alcorcon, 1990, 1st edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.84 7207 062 X.New /No Jacket.A flora of the Canary Islands, in effect a new edition of the Bramwell's English-language ""Wild flowers of the Canary Islands"" but considerably updated.Keys, descriptions and habitat notes; richly illustrated with colour photographs.xiv, 376 pp. In Spanish. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 US$ 49.98 | JP¥ 4446] Book number: 4293 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BUTCHER, ROGER W., STRUDWICK, FLORENCE E. Further illustrations of British plants L.Reeve & Co. 1930, 1st edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.Fair /No Jacket.Spine partly detached, binding loose, owner's initials on ffep.vii, 476 pp. In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 5152 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BUTLER, KEN & CROSSAN, KEN Wild flowers of the North Highlands of Scotland Birlinn, Edinburgh , 2009, 1st edition.Paper covers.978 1 84158 832 2.New /No Jacket.A beautifully photographed guide to the flowers of northernmost mainland Scotland.Foreword by Prince Charles.189 pp. In English. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 6118 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| CADBURY, D.A., HAWKES, J.G. & READETT, R.C. A computer-mapped flora: a study of the county of Warwickshire Academic Press, 1971, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 12 333360 1.V.g./Fair.V.g.in rather tatty dust wrapper.A pioneering attempt to map the habitats as well as the distribution of plants in the county of Warwickshire using the latest plotting devices to draw the maps.Now mainly of interest as a milestone in the history of computer-assisted book production, this flora treats an area of England better known for its industry rather than its countryside.Maps apart, the text presents a fairly conventional account of the flora.In English. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 | JP¥ 3705] Book number: 479 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| CLAPHAM, A.R., TUTIN, THOMAS GASKELL & WARBURG, E.F. Excursion flora of the British Isles Cambridge University Press, 1959, 1st edition.Hard cover with self-adhesive plastic cover.Good/ No Jacket .The pocket-sized version of ""C.T.W."" incorporating Dandy's revised nomenclature of 1958.A masterpiece of concision, published to the high standards of post-war Cambridge U.P.Owners' signature, a few folded corners to pages, good. In English. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 24.99 | JP¥ 2223] Book number: 481 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| CLAPHAM, A.R., TUTIN, THOMAS GASKELL & WARBURG, E.F. Excursion flora of the British Isles Cambridge University Press, 1981, 2nd edition.Soft cover. Good /.The revised edition, bringing the treatment more into line with 'Flora Europaea'.In English. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 | JP¥ 1186] Book number: 482 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| CLAPHAM, A.R., TUTIN, T.G., WARBURG, E.F. Excursion flora of the British isles Cambridge University Press, 1959, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./V.g. The original post-war pocket flora, in very good condition for its age.Condensed from the ""C.T.W."" edition of 1952 it is still a useful field guide despite a few scientific name changes (not all for the better).xxxiii, 579 pp. In English. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 | JP¥ 741] Book number: 2918 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| CLAPHAM, A.R., TUTIN, T.G. & WARBURG, E.F. Excursion flora of the British Isles Cambridge University Press, 1964, Reprint of 1959 edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./Good.Slight edgewear to jacket; internally near fine.xxxiii, 577 pp. In English. GBP 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.75 US$ 23.32 | JP¥ 2075] Book number: 5163 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| CLAPHAM, A.R., TUTIN, THOMAS GASKELL & WARBURG, E.F. Excursion flora of the British Isles Cambridge University Press, 1968, 2nd edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 521 04656 4.V.g./V.g. Discreet former owner's signature on ffep.The revised edition, bringing the treatment more into line with 'Flora Europaea'.xxxv, (1), 586 pp. In English. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 | JP¥ 1186] Book number: 6084 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| CLAPHAM, A.R., TUTIN, T.G., WARBURG, E.F. Flora of the British isles Cambridge University Press, 1952, 1st edition.Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, no dust jacket.V.g./No Jacket.V.G./-, hardly used, a few neat handwritten annotations (eg.p.188).First modern Flora of the UK, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel isles.In English. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 1051 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| CLAPHAM, A.R., TUTIN, T.G. & WARBURG, E.F. Flora of the British Isles Cambridge University Press, 1962, 2nd edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./Good.Slight edgewear to jacket; internally near fine.xlviii, 1269 pp. In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 | JP¥ 2964] Book number: 5173 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Flora of North America north of Mexico vol. 5 only: Caryophyllidae, part 2 Oxford University Press, New York, 2005, 1st edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.978 0 19 522211 1.New /No Jacket.This volume covers the families Caryophyllaceae, Polygonaceae and Plumbaginaceae.Eyebrows raised to see Armeria derived from the Gaelic 'ar mor' (by the sea, or as they would have it 'at the seaside').xxii, 656 pp. maps on end papers. In English. GBP 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 67.25 US$ 99.96 | JP¥ 8892] Book number: 5926 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| O'CONNOR, IRENE An introduction to Quinault Valley rain forest The author, 1962, 1st edition.Paper covers.Fine /No Jacket.Flora of a small area of western N.America.39 pp. In English. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 5145 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. |
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