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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 220 title(s) on 9 pages. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 25 |
| Genera of British plants, arranged according to Engler's "Syllabus Der Pflanzenfamilien" (Seventh Edition), with the addition of the characters of the genera Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1913. Small 8vo, green cloth. Pp. xviii, 122 + publisher's list. USD 24.20 [Appr.: EURO 16.25 | £UK 14.75 | JP¥ 2081] Book number: 03409 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ANONYMOUS Beauties and Wonders of Vegetable Life; or, rambles in parks, forests, conservatories, orchards, gardens, fields and heaths. London, Religious Tract Society. 1870. Marbled boards, morocco spine, worn. Pp. vi, 280 + list of illustrated books, library stamp on title-page, with frontispiece of the Great Locust Trees encircled by natives and numerous engravings in text. USD 44.00 [Appr.: EURO 29.25 | £UK 26.75 | JP¥ 3784] Book number: 3198 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| APGAR, AUSTIN C. Trees of the northern United States, their study, description and determination for the use of schools and private students New York, American Book Company. 1892, First edition. Brown cloth. Pp. 224, with text-figures. USD 9.07 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 780] Book number: 03412 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ARDREY, ROBERT African Genesis: a Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man London, Collins. 1961, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo. Ill.: Ardrey, Berdine. Red cloth with gilt lettering & highlight to spine, chapter headings & numerous other illus, folding colour chart, bibliogr, index, both an anthropological study of origins of man as species and suggestions of traces of the animal in our psychology and what this means for society, no faults, very good. Very Good/No Jacket. USD 18.15 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1561] Book number: 1222 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ARNIM, COUNTESS VON Elizabeth and her German garden London, Macmillan. 1901, Second Edition. 8vo, original green cloth, title with vignettes on cover and spine. Pp 175 + publisher's Literature of the Garden list. This delightful, rambling book about gardens, children, animals, grim Baltic neighbours fired a demand for more books from the author's pen. USD 32.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.25 | £UK 19.5 | JP¥ 2752] Book number: 20421 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ARNOLD, F. H. Flora of Sussex, or, A List of the Flowering Plants and Ferns found in the County of Sussex with Localities of the Less Common Species London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton & Kent. 1907, Second Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Arnold, Marian. Red textured cloth with gilt-stamped lettering, patterned eps, pp xxii 154, drawn colour frontisp with tissue guard, colour folding map in ffeps, 6 drawn b/w plates, appendix, index, sl sunning to top edge, some penicl marginalia ticking off species seen by a previous owner c. 1937, otherwise very good. Very Good/No Jacket. USD 24.20 [Appr.: EURO 16.25 | £UK 14.75 | JP¥ 2081] Book number: 1079 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ARNOLDO, FR.M (A.N. BROEDERS) Gekweekte en nuttige planten van de Nederlandse Antillen Curacao 1971. 4to, original cloth. Pp 279, with plate showing drawings of botanical terms and 67 plates containing 245 photographs of plants. A major botanical reference work for the Leeward Islands. USD 66.55 [Appr.: EURO 44.25 | £UK 40.25 | JP¥ 5723] Book number: 2143 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BARK, EVELYN No time to kill London, Robert Hale. 1960, First Edition reprinted. 8vo, pictorial hard-back. Pp 192, with 21 illustrations. Foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester. Insights into the work of the Red Cross, in war and peace, by one of its senior officers. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1548] Book number: 20644 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BEEDHAM, GORDON Identification of the British Mollusca Amersham, Hulton. 1972, First. (ISBN: 0717505936) . Paperback, photographic wrappeers. Pp 236, with many accurate, scientific drawings. An invaluable book for the student of snails, slugs, mussels and clams, not to mention the octopus. Fine. USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 | £UK 13.5 | JP¥ 1892] Book number: 22660 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BIRKENHEAD, J. Ferns and fern culture: their native habitats.....cultivation in pots, baskets, rockwork, walls.....Selections of ferns suitable for warm, cool and cold greenhouses....for Wardian cases, dwelling-houses and outdoor ferneries. Insect pests etc Manchester, John Heywood. 1892, First Edition. Original green cloth, gilt title and ferns on front cover. Pp. 128 + horticultural advertisements, with engravings in text. The author, a fern nurseryman in Manchester, has given us a very typical Victorian production. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30 | £UK 27.25 | JP¥ 3870] Book number: 3248 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BLOND, GEORGES The Elephants London, André Deutsch. 1962. 8vo, black cloth. Pp. 180, with photographic plates. Translated by Frances Frenaye. USD 14.52 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 | £UK 9 | JP¥ 1249] Book number: 03391 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BLUNT, WILFRED The compleat naturalist: a life of Linnaeus London, Collins. 1971, First. (ISBN: 000211142x) . 8vo, green cloth, pictorial dust-wrapper. Pp 256, with two hundred illustrations, including thirty-two pages of colour. Including an appendix by Dr. William T. Stearn. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 49.75 | £UK 45.25 | JP¥ 6450] Book number: 22065 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BOELSCHE, WILHELM Aus Urtagen der Tierwelt Dresden, Carl Reissner. 1922, First Edition. Small 4to, original marbled boards, cloth spine. Pp 186 + publisher's list. Subtitle:"Stunden im Zoologischen Garten." From the series, "Das Leben der Tiere in Einzeldarstellungen." Wilhelm Boelsche wrote in an attractive and professional style about the world of plants and animals. USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 | £UK 13.5 | JP¥ 1892] Book number: 2296 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BOLSCHE, WILHELM Love-life in nature: the story of the evolution of love. London, Jonathan Cape. 1931. Large 8vo, black cloth. Pp. 1124. Translated from the German. Edited by Norman Haire. The author, disciple and exponent of the ideas of Haeckel, in his turn the exponent of Darwin, has the gift, unisual in a German, of writing about the sciences in a literary and aesthetic setting. USD 18.15 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1561] Book number: 03513 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BOULTON, SIR HAROLD A century of wood preserving London, Philip Allan. 1930, First Edition. Purple cloth. P)p. x, 150, with three folding plates. USD 24.20 [Appr.: EURO 16.25 | £UK 14.75 | JP¥ 2081] Book number: 03380 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BOUVE, T.T. (PRESIDENT) Louis Agassiz: memorial meeting of the Boston Society of Natural History, January 7th 1874 Boston 1874. 8vo, modern cloth, original covers bound in. Pp 39. Tributes to the great Swiss-born (Neuchatel) ichthyologist and Harvard professor from Emerson and R.C. Waterston. USD 60.50 [Appr.: EURO 40.25 | £UK 36.75 | JP¥ 5203] Book number: 2144 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BOWLES, E.A. A handbook of crocus and colchicum. London, Bodley Head. 1952. Gilt lettered green cloth, illustrated dust wrapper. Pp. 222, with colour frontispiece and numerous colour plates of crocuses. The classic monograph on the crocus, by the great horticulturalist E.A. Bowles. USD 16.50 [Appr.: EURO 11 | £UK 10 | JP¥ 1419] Book number: 3211 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BOYLE, ELEANOR VERE Sylvana's Letters to an Unknown Friend London, Macmillan. 1900, First Edition. 20 x 13 cm. 8vo, purple cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, top edge gilt. Pp. 190, with illustrations. Presentation copy "For Mr Chancellor in memory of One we loved, from EVB Christmas 1900". USD 102.85 [Appr.: EURO 68.25 | £UK 62.25 | JP¥ 8845] Book number: 3156 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BRAUNTON, ERNEST The Garden Beautiful in California: a practical manual for all who garden. Los Angeles, Cultivator Publishing. 1915, First Edition. Dark green cloth. Pp. 205, with portrait of the author and many photographic plates. USD 18.15 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1561] Book number: 3267 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BROWN, MICHELE The Royal Animals London, W. H. Allen. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0491029136) Cloth with dust jacket, 4to. 4to red cloth, dj (tiny hurt to spine), pp 96, illus throughout incl colour, very good. Very Good/Very Good. USD 12.10 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.5 | JP¥ 1041] Book number: 1136 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BURBIDGE, F.W. Horticulture London, Edward Stanford. 1877, First Edition. Small 4to, green cloth. Pp. 288, with 15 engravings. In the series British industries edited by G. Phillips Bevan. Burbidge was the author of several horticultural classics. USD 30.25 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.5 | JP¥ 2601] Book number: 3351 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BURKHARDT, FREDERICK (EDITOR) Charles Darwin's letters. A selection 1825-1859 Cambrdge, Cambridge University Library. 1998, Canto. (ISBN: 0521566770) . 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Pp XXV, 253, with frontispiece portrait of Darwin and map showing voyage of the Beagle. Presentation copy to Graham Storey from Fred Burkhardt, the editor. USD 22.50 [Appr.: EURO 15 | £UK 13.75 | JP¥ 1935] Book number: 21825 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BURTON, ROBERT The anatomy of melancholy London, Chatto and Windus. 1881, A New Edition. Thick 8vo, red morocco. Pp XX, 748 + 34p publisher's list. Robert Burton (1577-1640) scholar of Christ Church, Oxford and parish priest, has given us one of the most fascinating books in literature, describing, with his characteristic semi-serious humour, a far-off world of forgotten lore. Many have succumbed to the unique charm of this book: Milton, Sterne, Dr Johnson, who said it was the only book that ever took him out of his bed two hours sooner than he intended to rise, Charles Lamb, who modelled his style on the "Anatomy." Full title - The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is. With all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes & severall cures of it...by Democritus Junior. With a Satyricall Preface conducing to the following discourse.. USD 185.00 [Appr.: EURO 122.75 | £UK 111.75 | JP¥ 15909] Book number: 20263 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| CARSON, RACHEL The sea around us London, Staples. 1952, Sixth Impression. 8vo, green cloth. Pp 230, with illustrated endpapers. USD 18.15 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1561] Book number: 3348 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| CARTER, G.S. Structure and Habit in Vertebrate Evolution London, Sidgwick & Jackson. 1967, First Edition. Blue cloth, dust-wrapper. Pp. xi, 520, with nearly 300 figures. "Biology Series Monographs.". USD 16.94 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 | £UK 10.25 | JP¥ 1457] Book number: 3148 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. |
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